Terry Flanagan (ice hockey) explained

Terry Flanagan
Played For:New Hampshire Wildcats
Birth Date:17 October 1956
Draft:Undrafted
Career Start:1975
Career End:1979

Terry Flanagan (October17, 1956December29, 1991) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach.

Flanagan played four years with the New Hampshire Wildcats men's ice hockey team, and was an assistant coach at Bowling Green State University for seven seasons before succumbing to cancer.[1]

Two major awards are named in Flanagan's honour: The Terry Flanagan Award is presented annually by the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) to honour an assistant coach's career body of work;[2] and the Terry Flanagan Memorial Award was an annual award presented by the now defunct Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) to the player who best demonstrated perseverance, dedication and courage while overcoming severe adversity as voted by the coaches of each CCHA team.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Notre Dame Athletics | the Fighting Irish.
  2. Web site: AHCA Awards.
  3. Web site: Henderson and Odegard Recipients of CCHA Major Awards.