theconradwaite

Article in Duquesne’s student paper about Sean Sean Moloney touched lives of many during time coaching Duq hockey.

It is with a heavy heart that I share the news that beloved goaltending coach Sean Moloney passed away on Friday, January 19th. Sean has coached with me at Duquesne for over half a decade and had an outstanding and immeasurable impact on our program, especially with our goaltenders. Sean had an incredible legacy of coaching stops, at the collegiate level with Chatham & Lebanon Valley at the NCAA D3 level, in the ACHA with Robert Morris University, at Indiana University of PA and the former W&J team, in the NAHL with the Keystone Ice Miners, and with countless schools, teams programs and clinics. Services have not been announced yet, but I believe the family is planning on something over the weekend of February 3rd & 4th, to allow his extended family and members of the hockey community time to travel. I will share any details when they are finalized. Our team will be honoring Sean this Saturday at 8pm before our game at Alpha Ice Complex against IUP. I know a lot of his former players, fellow coaches and more will be in attendance. We are also going to host a Teddy Bear Toss at the game, with donations to go toward a local children’s charity. For years Sean loved volunteering to dress up as Santa around the holidays and he spent the last few seasons lobbying for our program to host one of these events. I can think of no better way to honor him, than to have the first one in his memory. Those that knew him, know how much he cared about and gave of himself to others. It would be wonderful to see many from the local hockey community out at the rink Saturday night to support these causes near and dear to Sean’s heart and celebrate his life and legacy. -conrad

@Danner27 I came on here last week/weekend because I was hoping to find the midam schedule and results posted. I happened to find this thread because it was fresh, and mentioned ACHA hockey. I created an account and spoke up because you levied accusations against and disparaged our program without any evidence. You can give your opinion on our results, success, wins/losses all you want, I’m not going to take time to debate those things with strangers on the internet. But I will defend unfounded attacks on myself and the program. I’ll admit, I did debate the benefits of responding vs leaving it alone, but honestly I figured one of two things would likely result from a response. 1. You would provide details or evidence that I don’t know about, and I’d be better off with the knowledge so myself and our program don’t make those mistakes again. Which would be great, because I’ll take any opportunity to learn or get better. 2. You would prove in your response that the claims are baseless, and as a result they would not go unchallenged to anyone reading this thread. There was of course the third possibility that you might actually acknowledge or apologize for the claims, but even I knew that was unlikely. At the end of the day, I’m perfectly comfortable with anyone reading this thread t drawing their own conclusions. I appreciate the response, and good luck! -conrad

It’s in the first post of the thread that I quoted. He said that RMU & DUQ are the biggest offenders locally. -conrad

@Danner27 as the Head Coach & head of Duquense’s club hockey program for the last 7 years I was fascinated to hear that unbeknownst to me our team is “run by local politics”, and has “lots of PAHL & PIHL parent involvement and elbow rubbing”. I am curious though, can you provide a single example, shred of evidence to back up this claim, or even a detail about our program that would explain what any of that actually means? Further, you choose to disparage the way we run our program and recruit, but I challenge you to find a single player I’ve talked to since taking over, that I tried to convince to come to Duquesne for the hockey and hockey alone. I know you can’t, because I’m the one that has talked to every player interested in Duquense over the last number of years, and they all get the same first question from me: “what do you want to study?” Next we talk about academics & school size/fit to see if Duquesne makes sense for them. All of that long before we talk hockey, because I don’t want to recruit players for hockey and hockey alone. And the funny thing is, that philosophy is definitely one of the reasons why we struggle to compete with the top teams at our level. But I’m just not willing to compromise our ethics for short term success. On top of that, nearly every single player I talk to hears from me at some point “look, if you decide during your college search that Duquense isn’t a good fit for you anymore, that’s fine. College is one of the biggest decisions you will make in your life, you don’t need added pressure from myself or any other coaches where to go. If I can help you find the best fit for you, I’m more than happy to do it.” And I’ve always stood by that. So again, please provide a single example to back up your claim about our program. One. I’d love to hear it, because if there is any validity to anything you say, I want to know about it. But since I’m quite certain you don’t have any example or proof, I would appreciate an apology and clarification of your comments. thank you. -conrad