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Article: MACDONALD SEES OPPORTUNITY ON THE ICE RINK IN LOWELL NEW UMASS COACH WANTS TO DUPLICATE TOURNAMENT SUCCESS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2001
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LOWELL - Blaise MacDonald knows a good opportunity when he sees
one. And he usually makes the most of it.
After building the Niagara men's ice hockey program from scratch
in 1996 and leading it to the second round of the NCAA tournament in
2000, McDonald was hired as the coach at the University of
Massachusetts at Lowell on April 6.
A Billerica native, MacDonald, who served as an assistant at UMass-
Lowell from 1988 to 1990 under Billy Riley Jr., enthusiastically dove
into his new job feet first, wanting to return home to his roots
while trying to elevate the UMass-Lowell program to the upper echelon
of Hockey East, the nation's hockey equivalent of the land of the