Columnist Writes About Dinner with Hockey Coach, Players

Sarah Smiley, a columnist for the Bangor Daily News wrote Monday about the dinner she and her three sons shared with UMaine men’s ice hockey coach Tim Whitehead and student-athletes Nick Pryor and Kyle Beattie. The Black Bear hockey representatives were part of the “Dinner with the Smileys project,” in which Sarah Smiley invites special guests to her house while her husband is away on a deployment with the U.S. Navy. Sarah Smiley wrote that Whitehead invited the family a few days later to watch a practice and meet the rest of the team.

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