Beaver Hockey, A Family Affair

Over the years, Beaver hockey has proven to be a family affair. Moms and dads take their kids to the games, and in turn, those kids take their kids to games. It's alo a family affair on the ice. Since Ed Johnson convinced the BSU Administration to start a hockey team back in the 1940's, thirty families have sent multiple players to play for the Green and White. The list is quite honestly, longer than I thought it would be. A few weeks back, Colleen and Ernie Beitel emailed the Paul Bunyan Net Mailbag, asking this question: [blockquote]Wondering how many sets of brothers have played for the Beavs? [/blockquote] Well, here's your answer (based on my research...but when we are dealing with a team that's played since the '40's, some things aren't in the record books.) Here is the list of brothers that have played for the Beavers all-time (sorted alphabetically) Dick Arf F 64-66, 25 games played Jeff Arf F 75-79, 122 games played Jon Beaton G 93-96 Did Not Play Mike Beaton G 93-96 41 games played Omer Belisle F 91-95, 123 games played Ted Belisle F 97-01, 90 games played Brad Belisle F 20-present (son of Omer, nephew of Ted) Terry Begstrom D 65-69, 80 games played Tim Bergstrom F 64-65, 12 games played Nick Chiodo 97-98 Did Not Play Wade Chiodo F 01-04, 70 games played Blane Comstock G 67-71 86 games played Willard Comstock G 72-73 2 games played Tim Donaghue F 90-91, Did Not Play Mike Donaghue D 94-98, 127 games played Jared Echternach F 91-92 8 games played Tyler Echternach F 91-92 6 games played Gerry Fitzgerald F 14-18 139 games played Leo Fitzgerald F 14-18 126 games played Myles Fitzgerald 14-18 114 games played Dennis Gibbons D 82-85 99 games played Mike Gibbons D 75-79 106 games played Bryan Grand F 67-70 59 games played Wendell Grand F 66-68 18 games played Ryan Kalbrener F 99-00 12 games played Shane kalbrener F 97-01 101 games played Dan Kimball F 83-87 133 games played Joe Kimball F 87-88 Did Not Play Ben Kinne F 08-13 146 games played Bob Kinne 13-14 26 games played Kurt Knott F 00-03 40 games played Todd Knott F 97-02 72 games played Dave Kvarnlov F 72-74 48 games played Lyle Kvarnlov F 72-74 69 games played Mark Lescarbeau F 125 games played Tim Lescarbeau F 82-86 101 games played Todd Lescarbeau F 83-87 110 games played Bruce Matatall F 95-98 103 games played Craig Matatall F 92-96 123 games played Aaron McClellan F 94-98 51 games played Jeff McClellan D 88-89 Did Not Play Bill McDonald D 59-60 4 games played Jim McDonald F 59-60 4 games played Bill Methven F 00-04 126 games played Bryce Methven D 00-04 140 games played Eric Monsrud F 91-96 114 games played Scott Monsrud F 80-84 87 games played Craig Nyhus D 73-75 57 games played Steve Nyhus D 75-76 3 games played Don Sauer F 86-88 6 games played Rob Sauer F 87-88 2 games played Bill Schmitz F 75-79 118 games played Bob Schmitz F 80-81 Did Not Play Frank Serratore G 80-81 10 games played Tom Serratore F 84-87 69 games played Lukas Sillinger F 21-Present 46 games played Owen Sillinger F 18-Present 110 games played Bob Smith D 86-89 72 games played Ron Smith F 85-88 82 games played John Taylor F 73-74 29 games played Milt Taylor F 75-76 Did Not Play John Wilson F 79-80 1 game played Scott Wilson D 94-98 35 games played That's thirty families, with 63 players. Sixteen of those 63 players, were able to play at the same time as a brother. Eight of those families had brothers play at the D1 level. Playing hockey with your brothers (not related by blood), is special. Playing with those brothers that ARE related by blood...even better!