Brady Murray, who would have been a junior at the University of North Dakota next year has left the program to play professional hockey in Switzerland.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/11699006.htm
The impact of this extends further than just Grand Forks. Murray is the first major player to leave college early this offseason for professional hockey despite the NHL still not having a collective bargaining agreement. Murray would have most likely gone to the NHL this season if it was an option, but it is interesting to see him leave for a European professional league. Teams who felt they may steal an extra year out of their top players because there was no NHL to bolt to may now have to worry about their stars going to Europe instead.
For North Dakota, they lose a very talented player, but Murray has proven to be replaceable. He missed much of last season with injury problems and talented forwards like Drew Stafford, Travis Zajac, and Rastislav Spirko stepped up.
This signing also shows that this offseason may end up with some big stories of players leaving college to play elsewhere afterall.
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maize... try this for your links...
(a href="http://WHATEVER")link text(/a)
except replace the parentheses with the appropriate greater and less than symbols. your links will then look sweet like everyone elses'.
otherwise, keep it going, man.
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