Rapid City Rush secures MVP Goalie
Published on June 4, 2008 under Central Hockey League (CHL)
Rapid City Rush News Release
Acadia University Axemen Lanny Ramage joins Rush as team's first goalie.
"I am extremely excited to begin my professional career with the Rush," said Ramage. "The organization will be top notch in the CHL and I am thrilled to call Rapid City home."
Ramage has played in 73 games throughout his career at Acadia and has earned a saves percentage greater than 89%. During the 2007-â08 season Ramage played 1273 minutes with 603 shots and 531 saves for a saves average of 0.881. While at Acadia Ramage racked up 29 wins, 33 losses, and 10 ties.
"Lanny played a large role in our team's success this past season and has been a great competitor and exciting goalie over his five year career at Acadia," said Head Coach Darren Burns. "He was a very well respected member of our team and is an excellent competitor. There is no doubt that he will be a great addition to the Rush and we are very excited about his future in Rapid City."
Ramage was most recently named MVP Award winner at the Fred G Kelly Awards Dinner by the Department of Varsity Athletics.
"We are very fortunate to get of goalie of Lanny's caliber. After being a starter for four years in the Western Hockey League with the Portland Winterhawks and having a great college career at Acadia in the CIS, Lanny brings a tremendous amount of experience as he enters his first season of professional hockey, said Head Coach Joe Ferras. "Lanny has always been known as a goalie with incredible work ethic and this will bode well as he enters into his professional career with the Rapid City Rush. Lanny is the first piece of the puzzle to what will be a tremendous goal-tending tandem for Rapid City."
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