Star BU hockey player kicked off team after arrest
December 13, 2011
BOSTON (AP)—A Boston University hockey star has been kicked off the teamafter his arrest on charges that he groped and tried to kiss a female student.
Corey Trivino of Toronto, Canada, was released on personal recognizanceafter pleading not guilty Monday to charges including indecent assault andbattery.
Trivino, a 2008 draft pick of the New York Islanders, is the leading goalscorer in Hockey East, with 13 in 15 games. On Tuesday, BU coach Jack Parkersaid the 21-year-old Trivino was “no longer associated” with the ninth-rankedteam.
Prosecutors said late Sunday at a BU dorm, the woman asked Trivino and agroup he was with to be quiet during mandatory quiet hours. They said Trivinothen forced his way into her room, tried to kiss her and repeatedly groped her.Prosecutors said the woman resisted and demanded Trivino leave, but Trivinodidn’t go until she phoned for help, when he ran out of the room.
Prosecutors said campus police found Trivino in an elevator shortlyafterward, and he was visibly drunk.
Trivino’s attorney, William Sullivan, said there were “some inaccuracies”in the prosecution’s account of the incident, but he didn’t want to get intospecifics.
Trivino has been in trouble at BU before—last year, Parker suspendedTrivino for the early part of the 2010-2011 season for unspecified violations ofteam rules.
On Tuesday, Sullivan referred to unnamed “issues” Trivino has to dealwith.
“We’re looking to address those,” Sullivan said. “There’s more importantthings in a young man’s life than just hockey. I met with his parents, who arehere. I met with Corey. And we’re going to address these issues. … He’s veryupset, but he understands we’re going to have to deal with some of thesethings.”
“This is a good kid,” Sullivan said.
The court ordered Trivino to leave his dorm by Monday afternoon. Sullivansaid Trivino will stay enrolled at the school, but called the situation “day byday,” and cited possible academic sanctions.
BU’s dean of students Kenneth Elmore said the school would quicklyinvestigate what happened, and Trivino can attend classes until any officialsuspension or expulsion.
Neb-Omaha goalie Dayn Belfour wants own identity
December 9, 2011
OMAHA, Neb. (AP)—Dayn Belfour walks and talks like his father.
He does not, however, play goalie like newly inducted Hockey Hall of FamerEd Belfour.
That’s not a knock against Dayn. Few men have worked between the pipes theway “Eddie the Eagle” did in a 16-year NHL career highlighted by a Stanley Cupand two Vezina Trophies.
Dayn, however, won’t stop trying.
The 22-year-old, first-year walk-on at the University of Nebraska-Omaha isamong three goalies competing to win the No. 1 job that’s still open even as theMavericks (8-7-3) near the second half of the season.
Dayn has modest statistics in limited playing time and probably would goabout his business drawing little notice if it weren’t for that last name, whichhas alternately opened doors for him and been a curse.
“I’ve got one of the greatest names in hockey history, and I wear itproudly,” Dayn said. “Hopefully, I can one day accomplish everything my fatherdid and then some.”
UNO coach Dean Blais said there’s nothing wrong with Dayn wanting to chasethe dream. But he recommended a dose of reality two years ago when Daynconsidered going overseas to play professionally after spending five seasons inthe junior ranks.
“I advised Eddie to have him to go to school,” Blais said. “Obviously, hewasn’t Eddie Belfour. He wasn’t as good as his dad. There are only a few ofthose guys who come along every so often, right?”
Dayn said his father didn’t push him into hockey. He couldn’t help but wantto play after being around the NHL since he was a child. Chris Chelios is hisgodfather and Jeremy Roenick is one of his dad’s best friends.
He started out as a defenseman, because he wanted to be like Chelios. Thenhe played forward, because he wanted to be a goal-scorer like Roenick. And then,at about age 12, he wanted to be like his father.
“I asked my dad for goaltending equipment for Christmas,” Dayn said. “Heknew what I was getting myself into.”
Blais and his junior coaches said being a goalie with the name Belfour mighthave allowed Dayn to get a tryout that he wouldn’t have gotten otherwise. Beyondthat, they said, he’s earned everything he’s gotten through hard work.
Dayn’s name certainly drew the attention of Ernie Sutherland, the assistantgeneral manager of the Winkler Flyers, who recruited Dayn out of Ontario to playfor the Manitoba Junior Hockey League team. Sutherland was Ed Belfour’s coachwhen he played for Winkler in the `80s.
“Our evaluation of him was he was a goalie who deserved to be where hewas,” Sutherland said of Dayn. “I took one look at him and said to myself thatI want that kid in Winkler.”
Mark Thiessen, Ed Belfour’s teammate at Winkler and Dayn’s coach there, saidDayn made him do a double-take the first day he was on the team.
The team was on a bus, and Thiessen heard a familiar voice coming from theback.
“Dayn started talking, and I turned to Ernie and said, `Is that Eddie backthere?”’ he said. “He sounded just like Ed did years and years ago. And thento see Dayn on the ice. Just the way he goes about things is the same asEddie.”
Dayn played three years in Winkler, and for part of that time the fanscomplained that he was given an unfair advantage over a local kid on the teambecause he was Ed Belfour’s son (and the elder Belfour also was part owner ofthe team).
North Dakota, Minnesota State-Mankato and Bemidji State showed some interestin Dayn, but were wary of his academic situation. Dayn is a solid student, buthe was ineligible his first year of college because of an NCAA rule thatrequired him to finish high school in four years. He needed five years becausehe moved a number of times.
The Belfour name helped Dayn in this instance, because Blais was anassistant coach at North Dakota when Ed helped lead UND to the nationalchampionship in 1986-87. Blais also remembered Dayn from scouting Winkler.
“I thought he had a little bit of hot and cold in him,” Blais said. “Whenhe was hot, he was very, very good, capable of getting the shutout or one goal.Sometimes he’d have 45 saves, too. I’d seen him other games where he’d give upthree or four weak ones. If you can play good one time, you can play that wayall the time. Knowing Eddie, if Dayn was anything like him, the kid is going tohave pretty good fundamentals.”
Dayn said his father has always talked about goaltending technique andtraining and mentored him on other aspects of the games. Dayn also has watchedevery bit of video of his father that he can find.
Ed Belfour, who lives near Dallas and didn’t respond to a message seeking aninterview, attended a couple UNO games early in the season, but Dayn didn’t playin either.
Dayn has appeared in four games, started three and has a 2.30 goals-againstaverage and .899 save percentage.
Blais said Dayn is under consideration to start one or both games in thisweekend’s Western Collegiate Hockey Association series at North Dakota.
Dayn is ready for the inevitable comparisons when he shows up in Grand Forkswith “Belfour” stitched to the back of his sweater with the No. 29, the samenumber his father wore at UND.
“One of these days I’ll make a name for myself,” Dayn said. “I want to beknown as Dayn Belfour one day, not just Eddie’s boy.”
