Bill Text: MN SR78 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Draft
Bill Title: A Senate resolution congratulating the University of Minnesota-Duluth men's hockey team, 2011 national champions
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-27 - Referred to Rules and Administration [SR78 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-SR78-Draft.html
1.1A Senate resolution
1.2congratulating the University of Minnesota-Duluth men's hockey team,
1.32011 national champions.
1.4WHEREAS, NCAA athletics are followed by millions of sports fans, as the nation's most
1.5talented amateur athletes and most storied programs compete for glory; and
1.6WHEREAS, while much of our national sports media is consumed with "March Madness,"
1.7hockey fans turn their eyes each year to a colder, bolder kind of tournament; and
1.8WHEREAS, the University of Minnesota-Duluth men's hockey team traveled to
1.9Bridgeport, Connecticut where they defeated two of the NCAA's best Division I teams, first
1.10shutting out Union College 2-0, then erupting for four second-period goals to dispatch Yale,
1.11the tournament's top seed, 5-3; and
1.12WHEREAS, the Bulldogs returned to the "State of Hockey" as one of the "Frozen Four,"
1.13primed to compete for the NCAA championship at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul; and
1.14WHEREAS, in the semifinal, defense and goaltending sealed the crease and saved the day
1.15as UMD withstood a third period barrage of shots from Notre Dame, preserving a 4-3 victory to
1.16advance to the championship game against the University of Michigan; and
1.17WHEREAS, three regulation periods found the Bulldogs and Wolverines tied at two, but
1.18Kyle Schmidt's goal at 3:22 into overtime secured the victory and, with it, the first national
1.19hockey title for UMD; and
1.20NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Minnesota
1.21that it congratulates the University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs on winning the 2011 NCAA
1.22Division I men's hockey championship.
1.23BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is directed to prepare
1.24an enrolled copy of this resolution, to be authenticated by the Secretary's signature and that of
1.25the Chair of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, and transmit it to the University
1.26of Minnesota-Duluth.
1.2congratulating the University of Minnesota-Duluth men's hockey team,
1.32011 national champions.
1.4WHEREAS, NCAA athletics are followed by millions of sports fans, as the nation's most
1.5talented amateur athletes and most storied programs compete for glory; and
1.6WHEREAS, while much of our national sports media is consumed with "March Madness,"
1.7hockey fans turn their eyes each year to a colder, bolder kind of tournament; and
1.8WHEREAS, the University of Minnesota-Duluth men's hockey team traveled to
1.9Bridgeport, Connecticut where they defeated two of the NCAA's best Division I teams, first
1.10shutting out Union College 2-0, then erupting for four second-period goals to dispatch Yale,
1.11the tournament's top seed, 5-3; and
1.12WHEREAS, the Bulldogs returned to the "State of Hockey" as one of the "Frozen Four,"
1.13primed to compete for the NCAA championship at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul; and
1.14WHEREAS, in the semifinal, defense and goaltending sealed the crease and saved the day
1.15as UMD withstood a third period barrage of shots from Notre Dame, preserving a 4-3 victory to
1.16advance to the championship game against the University of Michigan; and
1.17WHEREAS, three regulation periods found the Bulldogs and Wolverines tied at two, but
1.18Kyle Schmidt's goal at 3:22 into overtime secured the victory and, with it, the first national
1.19hockey title for UMD; and
1.20NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Minnesota
1.21that it congratulates the University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs on winning the 2011 NCAA
1.22Division I men's hockey championship.
1.23BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is directed to prepare
1.24an enrolled copy of this resolution, to be authenticated by the Secretary's signature and that of
1.25the Chair of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, and transmit it to the University
1.26of Minnesota-Duluth.
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Cal R. Ludeman Secretary of the Senate |
Amy T. Koch Chair, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration |
| 1.30 1.31 |
Roger J. Reinert State Senator, District 7 |
