Badger Hockey Names Captains
January 03, 2003 | Men's Hockey
The UW men's hockey team has announced the team's captains for the remainder of the 2002-03 season. Coaches and players voted this past week, ranking their choices (1-2-3) for a captain and two assistants. Players received three points for a first-place vote, two points for a second-place vote and one for a third-place vote.
Senior winger Brad Winchester (Madison, Wis.) accumulated the most points and was voted team captain with senior defenseman Brian Fahey (Glenview, Ill.) and junior blueliner Dan Boeser (Savage, Minn.) serving as assistants.
Winchester, a second-round draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers, is currently tied for second on the team in goals scored with 5-3=8. He is the team's career leader in goals, assists and points with 35-41=76. He is the first `hometown boy ' to serve as the Badgers' captain since Barry Richter during the 1992-93 season. Defenseman Alex Brooks was an assistant captain for the 2000-01 campaign.
Fahey entered this season as the team's leader in games played. He has 134 contests under his belt and has missed just four games in his career at the UW. Boeser returned to the lineup in November following a series of radiation treatments (September) after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkins B-cell lymphoma over the summer. He then sustained a hand injury just three games into the season during an Oct. 18 game vs. Alabama-Huntsville. He then missed the following nine games. Boeser was one of the league's top offensive defensemen a year ago as a sophomore, scoring 5-23=28. This season, he has 0-2=2.
The Badgers rotated the team captainship during the first half of the season among the upperclassmen before voting on permanent captains for the second half of the season.
