Description
The winner gets to bring two friends and join Bruins Great Rick Middleton at Ferncroft Country Club in Middleton, MA for a round of golf.
The date will be mutually convenient dependent on Rick Middleton's schedule.
About Rick Middleton
Richard "Nifty" Middleton is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player for the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League.
Middleton was traded to the Boston Bruins for Ken Hodge on May 26, 1976. Rangers head coach and general manager John Ferguson Sr. was confident that his team had enough young talent to justify making Middleton expendable. What the Bruins got was a player who was ten years younger and a swifter skater than Hodge. The transaction became even more one-sided in favor of the Bruins when head coach Don Cherry developed Middleton's defensive skills to make him a solid two-way player. Hodge played only a single season more before his career ended, while Middleton became a great star in Boston, scoring a hat trick in his first game as a Bruin (October 7, 1976 versus Minnesota) and nearly nine hundred points in a Bruins uniform over the next twelve years. Generally paired with centre Barry Pederson, Middleton had five straight seasons of at least forty goals and ninety points and led the Bruins to perennial glittering records. His leadership was apparent in being named co-captain (with Ray Bourque) to succeed Terry O'Reilly in 1985, a position he held until he retired, wearing the "C" during home games. Regarded as one of the best one on one players of all time and currently ranks #2 all time in career shooting percentage (19.7) among players with 400+ goals.
Middleton scored 25 shorthanded goals for Boston--a Bruins' team record that was equaled and later surpassed by Brad Marchand in 2018-19.
On November 29, 2018 the Boston Bruins retired Middleton's #16 before a game against the New York Islanders at TD Garden.
About Ferncroft Country Club
Known for its Robert Trent Jones, Sr. designed course that hosted the LPGA Boston Five Classic from 1980-90, Ferncroft Country Club is one of Massachusetts' finest private golf clubs. A full-service club with outstanding food, social and children?s activities, tennis courts, swimming pool and fitness center, Ferncroft CC's commitment to the country club experience extends far beyond the golf course. In 2016 Ferncroft CC completed a $5 million capital expansion that includes a new building with golf lockers, event space and a roof deck lounge three stories up.
Set on an idyllic 287 acres, Ferncroft offers lush greens and a warm golf club atmosphere conveniently located just nineteen minutes north of downtown Boston where Route 1 meets I-95 on the North Shore.
Item Special Note
*Golf outing will be scheduled at a mutually convenient time dependent on Rick Middleton's schedule.
*The golf outing will be valid through the 2019 golf season.