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INCH: D is for Darling. Scott Darling.

Inside College Hockey, a Web site that (obviously) covers Division I college hockey, annually releases its "A to Z" listing of players to watch in college hockey. (The list is typically released at the end of the summer, with one to two players featured daily.) In doing so, INCH keeps with the theme of Cookie Monster, Sesame Street's resident epicurean.

Today's letters are D and E. "D" is for Darling, and it's good enough for INCH.

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Former Maine goalie Mike Morrison, who played for the Black Bears from 1998 to 2002, has been signed by the AHL's Albany River Rats and will open the 2009-2010 season with the Florida Everblades of the ECHL. Morrison played the past two seasons in Europe.

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New England Hockey Journal reports that Boston College and Boston University will play an outdoor game at Fenway Park on Jan. 9, eight days after the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers meet in the NHL's Winter Classic on New Year's Day at the venerable ballpark.

Funny, I just got an e-mail from Hockey East about an Aug. 20 press conference at Fenway Park, which will include the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Sports Group, Hockey East and representatives from BU, BC, Northeastern and New Hampshire.

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Wednesday = Twitterrific! Here are five to follow and five I follow (@rlenzi):

@INCH - Insidecollegehockey.com I may have posted this before, but here's a refresher.

@nateewell - insidecollegehockey.com editor and Washington Capitals PR maven.

@nytimesslapshot - the New York Times' hockey blog, with an interesting entry on "How Twitter Can Distort A Hockey Story"

@NHLBruins - Self-explanatory.

@NHL - again, self-explanatory, but the official feed of the NHL.

And, of course, follow the Press Herald sports department @PPHSports.

 

Rachel is in her fifth year as a sports reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. A former college soccer and softball player, she covered sports at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Colorado before joining the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram staff in June of 2004.

Rachel takes over coverage of the University of Maine hockey team and was introduced to Maine hockey as a seventh-grader in Annapolis, Maryland, after reading a 1988 Sports Illustrated story about Shawn Walsh's impact on the program. Nearly 20 years later, she still has the four-page article in her possession.

She and her husband, Tommy (who also works for Maine Today Media) are avid sports fans who root for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Kansas Jayhawks. After a year of marriage, their next step in life is to find a bigger house!

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