Greening Signs with Ottawa
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OTTAWA - Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan
Murray announced today that the club has signed Cornell forward
Colin Greening to a one-year entry-level contract.
Greening, 24, was the Senators’ seventh-round pick (204th
overall) in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. A native of St. John’s,
N.L., he recently concluded his collegiate hockey career with the
Eastern College Athletic Conference’s Cornell University Big
Red after his team was defeated by the University of New Hampshire
in the National Collegiate Athletic Association East Regional
semifinals on March 26. In 34 games with Cornell this season,
Greening set new collegiate career highs in assists (20) and points
(35) while matching a career high with 15 goals.
In four seasons at Cornell, the 6-2, 211-pound centre appeared in
each of the school’s 137 games, recording 118 points by
scoring 55 goals and adding 63 assists. Following his senior year,
Greening was selected the ECAC hockey-student athlete of the year
and was recognized with the Lowe’s Senior CLASS award, which
is presented annually to the most outstanding senior
student-athlete in NCAA men’s division I hockey.
Prior to his arrival at Cornell, where he was a co-captain in his
sophomore and junior seasons before being anointed captain for his
senior season, Greening played one season for the Nanaimo Clippers
of the British Columbia Hockey League, where he scored 27 goals and
35 assists in 56 games. He has attended the last four
Senators’ summer development camps, where he was recognized
as the hardest working player in 2007.
