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Hawk Tawk
Mag-E-Zine
Volume 7 • Issue 7 • March 2022
Bite-Sized
Black Hawks
Sixty Seasons of Trivia,
Facts, & Forgotten Players
Also in this issue…
Events & Reminders
Page 3
Business of Hockey
Page 5
TAWK
TO US
During each edition of the Hawk Tawk Mag-E-Zine, we look forward to your feedback about season ticket topics.
We respond in this space. Email your questions and observations to parish@waterlooblackhawks.com.
The Black Hawks reserve the right to print first and last names, as well as editing questions to meet space
limitations.
Question: What’s going on with this Tommy Hawk situation? I’ve heard he is suspended, which seems
ridiculous. I think Tommy is great, and I can’t imagine Black Hawks games without him. –Scott D.
Answer: We love Tommy too. At this time, we have been advised not to talk about what’s happening
regarding Tommy Hawk beyond the information which has been posted at waterlooblackhawks.com.
Question: What is the USHL playoff format this year? –Darryl W.
Answer: This year, 12 of the USHL’s 16 teams will skate in the Clark Cup Playoffs, six from each
conference. As in past years when the USHL has had this number of qualifiers, the two top teams in each
conference will receive a first round bye, with best-of-three series pitting Seed 3 vs. Seed 6 and Seed 4 vs.
Seed 5. This year, the second round will also be best-of-three, followed by five-game series in the
Conference Championship and Clark Cup Final rounds. Information about Waterloo Black Hawks playoff
tickets will be released in early April.
Have you heard about the…
Give an assist to local charities this season. Each month, we’ll introduce a new organization doing good
work in the Cedar Valley. Our goal is for 100 Black Hawks fans to make a small contribution ($16.50), then
see how all of those small gifts make big difference. This month’s charity is the Husome Strong
Foundation. Visit waterlooblackhawks.com to help.
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Events & Reminders
We look forward to seeing you at the rink!
Saturday, March 12th • Home vs. Omaha Lancers, 6:05 p.m.
Spring break will be starting this weekend for students in many Cedar Valley school districts. Celebrate it at
Young Arena by cheering on the Black Hawks. And if you know college students who are back home for
their spring break, let them know that Saturday is a College Night, with $10 tickets for college students with
ID. All fans age 21 and older can enjoy 2-for-1 Bud Light through the end of the first period.
Friday, March 18th • Home vs. Tri-City Storm, 7:05 p.m.
The Fleet Farm Friday Night series continues. One lucky fan in attendance will go home with a $50 Fleet
Farm gift card. During “Decades Night,” the Black Hawks will use music, movie clips, and trivia to celebrate
pop culture you loved from decades of the past. Those who were alive in the 1990s and earlier can enjoy 2-
for-1 Coors Light Tallboys through the end of the first period.
Saturday, March 19th • Home vs. Tri-City Storm, 6:05 p.m.
The drink special is 2-for-1 Busch Light Tallboys through the end of the first period. So you’ve got that going
for you. Which is nice. It’s Caddyshack Night, presented by Fox Ridge Golf Course. Join us to celebrate
the quintessential golf movie just as the weather gets warm enough to hit the links. Don’t expect a giveaway
though…”You’ll get nothing and like it!”
Friday, March 25th • Away at Sioux City Musketeers, 7:05 p.m.
All season ticket holders are invited to a watch party at Young Arena to cheer on the Hawks as they visit the
Sioux City Musketeers. The game will be on the rink’s video board and in the Coors Light Cold Zone.
Sunday, March 27th • Home vs. Lincoln Stars, 3:05 p.m.
The Black Hawks salute classic children’s program Sesame Street, presented by U.S. Bank. After the
game, all fans are invited to skate with the team and meet the players for autographs, presented by Tyson
Fresh Meats. Enjoy a bottomless Mimosa and Bloody Mary Bar in the Coors Light Cold Zone.
Saturday, April 2nd • Home vs. Dubuque Fighting Saints, 6:05 p.m.
Join us to celebrate 60 seasons of hockey in Waterloo. The Black Hawks are welcoming back players from
the past to help commemorate this anniversary. During the game, the team will wear special jerseys
presented by Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity. After the final horn, the sweaters will be auctioned to
help provide decent, affordable housing in a four-county area of northeast Iowa.
FUTURE EVENT - Tuesday, April 12th • Skaters as Waiters at Texas Roadhouse
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February Recap
At Their Best on Home Ice
During February, the Black Hawks earned nine of 10 possible points from five games played at Young
Arena. Waterloo was 4-0-1 in those games, including four nights when the Hawks scored at least four
goals. Overall, the team was 4-3-1.
Garrett Schifsky led the Hawks’ offensive efforts with nine points and five goals in eight games. Patrick
Geary produced a team-high seven assists. Tucker Ness topped Waterloo with a +5 plus/minus differential.
In net, Emmett Croteau notched three of the team’s victories and delivered a save percentage of .910.
Early in the month, Daniel Sambuco made his team debut after a trade from the Madison Capitols. Besides
a goal and an assist in February, he also showed his versatility by playing defense on multiple occasions.
Waterloo also welcomed goaltender Jakub Tichy who played briefly during the third period of the Hawks’
February 26th win against the Des Moines Buccaneers.
John Waldron also returned to the lineup after a mid-January injury. The veteran forward exploded for four
goals and two assists during the final weekend of the month. That showing was enough to earn Waldron
the USHL’s Forward of the Week Award for the first time in his league career. It is just the fourth time this
season a Black Hawk has been a Player of the Week.█
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Business of Hockey
Joe Greene is president of business operations for the
Black Hawks. He joined the organization in 2015.
Our game on February 26th was a lot of fun for everyone except the Des Moines
Buccaneers.
Of course, it was great to get the win. Seeing the home team score nine goals
might only happen once every couple of years. The free Chick-fil-A sandwiches
were assured before the second period was five minutes old. Waterloo even had
the opportunity to welcome new goalie Jakub Tichy during a low-pressure third
period debut.
For the players, the season ticket holders, and the casual fans, the evening was all the better with 3,200
people in the building. That last Saturday in February was our biggest crowd since before the coronavirus.
Let’s do it again!
As a season ticket holder, there’s a good chance you have rain check tickets which can be redeemed. If
you’ve missed some games this winter, there are eight nights left to bring out friends, family, or even distant
acquaintances. Two things we ask: stop in or call for redemption at least 48 hours ahead of the game and
make sure you give the tickets to people who will show up.
If you’ve been to all 22 home games (and were even here on that night when Omaha wasn’t), there’s still a
way you can bring some friends for free. Renew your season tickets now, and you’ll receive four
complimentary buddy tickets per seat as a ‘thank you’ for your support.
Help us fill up Party Town at this crucial time of year, and let’s make some new Black Hawks fans in time for
the playoffs.█
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Feature Bite-Sized
Black Hawks
Sixty Seasons of Trivia, Facts, & Forgotten Players
As the Black Hawks prepare to
celebrate this milestone year for
Waterloo hockey on April 2nd,
Hawk Tawk is providing 60
nuggets of information about the
team and players, past and
present. Thanks to the Cedar
Valley’s rich hockey history, this
list could easily have included 600
entries or 6,000. We hope you’ll
enjoy reading through this feature,
and that it will both stir some fond
memories and offer something
you didn’t know about your
Hawks forward Jake Schneider celebrates like Boeser. favorite team.
1. Before this season began, current Black Hawks forward Jake Schneider listed former Black Hawks
forward Brock Boeser as his favorite NHL player. Boeser currently plays for the Vancouver Canucks.
2. Former Hawks defenseman Brehdan Engum scored his first USHL goal on Thanksgiving in 2018. It was
the goal which started that year’s Teddy Bear Toss.
3. In 2009/10, veteran forward Derek Arnold had no goals through January 9th, spanning 29 appearances.
He scored 20 goals during his final 30 games that season.
4. The Black Hawks played for the Clark Cup in 1980. The best-of-three championship series against the
Hennepin Nordiques included two ties.
5. The last tie game in team history was a 2-2 contest against the Twin Cities Vulcans on December 10,
1995. The USHL instituted shootouts the next season.
6. Twin brothers Chris and Peter Ferraro each scored a goal on their 19th birthday when the Black Hawks
defeated the Rochester Mustangs 6-3 on January 24, 1992.
7. Defenseman Adam Cardona’s grandfather, Yvon Lambert, played in nearly 700 NHL games and won
multiple Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s.
8. Remember John Siemer? He had 13 points in 33 games for the Hawks back in 2010/11. Seven of those
13 points came in one game against the Chicago Steel on March 23, 2011.
9. How about Mario Puskarich? In his 2009 debut as a Hawks affiliate, he had a goal and three assists
during an 8-7 win against Sioux Falls. He would play in just two more Waterloo games and only 31 for the
Tri-City Storm.
10. Forward Paul Weisgarber terrorized the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders in 2006/07 and 2007/08. In 20
regular season and playoff meetings, Weisgarber scored six goals, including one that earned Waterloo the
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2006/07 Anderson Cup and another that was the winning
goal in a 2008 playoff series-clinching game.
11. Since the USHL switched to all-junior rosters in 1979,
there have been 26 Black Hawks who have recorded at
least 100 regular season points. Six of them (Tom
Bissett, Jason Blake, Joe Pavelski, Craig Smith, J.T.
Brown, and Vinnie Hinostroza) have gone on to reach the
NHL.
12. Jacob Jeannette’s father, Jeremy, spent two seasons
playing for the Madison Capitols. His USHL career
included 50 points in 85 regular season games.
13. Defenseman Ben Stadey played in 171 games over
four seasons before his #23 was retired in 1995.
14. During the 1996 playoffs, Waterloo was supposed to
meet the Fargo-Moorhead Bears, but the Bears went out
of business before the series. Sioux City had missed the
playoffs, but the Musketeers were quickly rounded up to
replace Fargo-Moorhead. Sioux City won the best-of-
seven series in five games.
15. On November 9, 1985, the Black Hawks demolished
the Thunder Bay Flyers 18-3. The 18 goals are a record
Jacob Jeannette is a USHL legacy.
for the USHL’s junior era.
16. The highest-scoring night in Waterloo hockey history
was a 20-1 victory against the Sioux City Musketeers on December 29, 1972.
17. Did you know…? Before he became the Black Hawks goalie with the most junior-era victories, Cal
Petersen served as an emergency back-up for several games in 2010 when he was just 15.
18. Former USHL referee and supervisor of officials Scott Brand served as Waterloo’s interim head coach in
the spring of 1996. Of the nine games in which he held that title, he was ejected or suspended during four
of them.
19. Carolina Hurricanes prospect Jack Drury had a Gordie Howe Hat Trick when he was a USHL rookie. On
April 1, 2017, he scored a goal, added an assist, and dropped the gloves with Cedar Rapids RoughRider
Dalton Messina during a 6-1 Hawks win.
20. You’ve heard the phrase “Give Blood, Play Hockey”…that’s was U.S. hockey legend Herb Brooks did
during a game in Waterloo on January 29, 1967. Brooks was cut by a skate requiring 24 stiches to his ear.
21. John Loquai played in 29 games for the Hawks in 2002/03. In the years that followed, he gave up
hockey to become a competitive speed skater.
22. Among current Black Hawks, only Owen Baker and Tyler Kostelecky list hunting as one of their hobbies.
23. Long before the Golden Knights joined the NHL, the Black Hawks were regulars in Vegas. Waterloo
traveled there for exhibition games in 1971, 1972, and 1975.
24. For part of two seasons, Scott Murphy and Mike Brown served as Waterloo co-head coaches. Murphy
and Brown were both ejected from a game on February 20, 1982, perhaps the only time in hockey history
that one team has had two head coaches ejected on the same night. The game against Sioux City ended in
a 4-4 tie.
25. The Hawks have had some tough years, but none as bad as the 1986/87 Omaha Lancers, who finished
0-48-0. Their 48th and final loss was in a 4-1 game against Waterloo on March 8, 1987.
26. Waterloo’s next regular season win against the Des Moines Buccaneers will be the 100th in the all-time
series.
27. The only team the Hawks have currently beaten at least 100 times is the Sioux City Musketeers.
28. Waterloo has played more postseason games against the Chicago Steel (18) than any other opponent.
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29. Current Hawks forward Ray Fust played for Switzerland during the 2021 World Junior Championships.
30. On March 18, 2006, Sioux City goalie Jerry Kuhn fought Black Hawks goalie Joe Grossman. Back at
Young Arena almost exactly a year later, Kuhn fought Ryan Rondeau. Waterloo won both games. Kuhn
lost both fights.
31. Waterloo and Dubuque played the last USHL game before the coronavirus ended the league’s 2019/20
season. The Hawks lost at Mystique Ice Center 3-0 on March 11, 2020.
32. Nick Swaney is the most recent Black Hawk to score 50 career USHL goals, recording #50 on
December 2, 2016 against the Tri-City Storm.
33. Swaney scored in his very first USHL game, March 15, 2014, versus the Dubuque Fighting Saints.
34. Garrett Schifsky spent part of his adolescence in Lincoln, Nebraska. He still lists the Nebraska
Cornhuskers as his favorite football team.
35. Waterloo’s last win at McElroy Auditorium was on November 12, 1994, in a 6-4 contest against the North
Iowa Huskies.
36. The Huskies became the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders; on October 1, 1999, Waterloo won the first-ever
meeting with Cedar Rapids, 6-2.
37. In what was arguably the worst trip home in team history, the Black Hawks lost in Des Moines 10-2 on
February 4, 1984. Waterloo’s bus was caught in a winter storm and didn’t arrive back at McElroy Auditorium
until 1:30 p.m. the next day.
38. During a different trip to Des Moines on February 26, 1983, Hawks forward Mike Duffey scored six
goals. Waterloo lost the game 7-6 in overtime.
39. Tough circumstances dogged the Black Hawks in 2001/02. In one October stretch, Waterloo was
shutout in four consecutive games. In a separate February sequence, the Hawks were held without a goal
in three straight.
40. Waterloo was rarely shutout when Paulie Johnson was on the ice. The top scorer during the Hawks’
senior era recorded two goals in his first appearance for Waterloo on March 1, 1964. That performance
included the game-winning goal, shorthanded, in an exhibition against the Cincinnati Wings, the CPHL
affiliate of the Detroit Red Wings.
41. Forward Tyler Kostelecky was named to the Minnesota High School All Hockey-Hair Team in 2017.
42. Ronnie Hein’s dramatic, series-clinching, overtime
goal against the Lincoln Stars during the 2016 playoffs
was initially ruled “no goal,” although both teams and all
1,341 fans in attendance knew the puck had gone in.
43. Waterloo met the St. Paul Vulcans in the 1984
playoffs. Due to facility problems, neither team played a
true home game in the series. The game in Minnesota
was played at Augsburg College. Waterloo’s “home”
game was actually in Dubuque.
44. February 22, 1980 was the day the United States beat
the Soviet Union for the Miracle on Ice. It was a less
auspicious day for the Hawks, who lost to St. Paul 6-4.
45. No Black Hawks goalie has won more playoff games
in one season that Stephon Williams in 2012. His 10 wins
helped Waterloo reach the Clark Cup Championship
Series.
46. Williams’ most memorable moment in those playoffs
came in the Western Conference series against the
Lincoln Stars when he turned away 50-goal scorer Kevin
You can’t see it here, but Tyler Kostelecky’s hair made a
big impression at one point in his hockey career. Roy in the second period as the goalie glove came off his
left hand.
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Hawk Tawk Mag-E-Zine Volume 7 Issue 7, March 2022 Page 847. Aside from only the Black Hawks goalies, every Waterloo player in the lineup had a point on February 1,
1968 when the Hawks beat the Rochester Mustangs 13-8.
48. Forward Gavin O’Connell is committed to the University of Minnesota-Duluth. His dad played for UMD’s
conference rival, St. Cloud State.
49. Former Black Hawks forward Jordan Samuels-Thomas is currently a referee in the American Hockey
League.
50. On November 26, 1972 – the Sunday after Thanksgiving – the Hawks edged the Chicago Warriors 4-3
at Chicago Stadium, home of the Blackhawks.
51. The ice at McElroy Auditorium had to be removed after Game Two of the 1978 championship series.
Games Three through Seven were all played at Municipal Auditorium in Sioux City. The Hawks won Game
Three, then lost three-in-a-row, before celebrating the championship with a Game Seven victory.
52. Peter Ferraro is the only junior era Black Hawk to score four goals in a playoff game. He did it March
12, 1992 during an 8-4 win against the St. Paul Vulcans.
53. Jason Blake recorded 100 points (50 goals, 50 assists) in 1993/94. His 100th point was the overtime-
winning goal on the final day of the regular season.
54. In 2012/13, three Black Hawks (Taylor Cammarata, Justin Kloos, and Zach Stepan) had more than 70
points. The Hawks have not had another 70-point scorer in a single season since then.
55. Jack Williams’ cousin is recently retired NHL goalie Ben Bishop.
56. Robbie Beydoun earned a shutout in his first regular season game for the Black Hawks on September
30, 2016. The game was against the Fargo Force, who had traded Beydoun to Waterloo before the season
began.
57. On New Year’s Eve in 2012, the Black Hawks tied a USHL record with eight power play goals during a
10-2 win against the Lincoln Stars.
58. Mike LaBianca was the first great junior player to skate for the Black Hawks. During the transitional
1978/79 season, he had 73 points in 46 regular season games and represented the United States that
winter during the World Junior Championships.
59. At one time or another, the Black Hawks have travelled for international games in Switzerland, France,
Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
60. Brandon Montour’s final game as a Waterloo Black Hawk was on Thanksgiving in 2014. He spent the
remainder of that season playing for the University of Massachusetts. █
Goalie Jack Williams is one of several Black Hawks with family ties to the NHL.
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