{"id":72334,"date":"2016-08-19T17:11:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T21:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72334"},"modified":"2016-08-19T11:20:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:20:30","slug":"colgate-alum-conte-71-hired-by-las-vegas-expansion-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72334","title":{"rendered":"Colgate alum Conte (\u201871) hired by Las Vegas expansion team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=72335\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72335\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-72335\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/colgate-raider.jpg\" alt=\"colgate raider\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/colgate-raider.jpg 276w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/colgate-raider-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Former Colgate men&#8217;s ice hockey alternate captain David Conte &#8217;71 has been hired by the National Hockey League&#8217;s expansion franchise in Las Vegas as a Special Advisor to Hockey Operations<\/div>\n<div>\nLas Vegas will begin play in the NHL for the 2017-18 season. The franchise will continue to build its front office during the 2016-17 season before preparing for their first NHL Draft in June as well as an expansion draft prior to hitting the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Conte is set to join the expansion franchise after spending 31 seasons with the New Jersey Devils, leaving following the 2015 season. He spent 22 seasons with the Devils as their Director of Scouting, including his final nine seasons as the Vice President of Hockey Operations.<\/p>\n<p>Conte played an integral in the drafting of the New Jersey Devils key players during their Stanley Cup runs, including Martin Brodeur, who is the only goaltender to win over 600 games with 691 career wins. He also set NHL records with 125 regular season shutouts, 28,508 saves, 1,259 games played, the most 40-win season with eight and many more.<\/p>\n<p>At Colgate, Conte played three seasons from 1968-69 through 1970-71. As a rookie in 1968-69, Conte set the program record for most points by a rookie in a single season with 56. During that season, Conte also set the program record for most assists in a game with six and most points in a game with seven in a 9-0 win vs. Pennsylvania on March 1, 1969.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Colgate men&#8217;s ice hockey alternate captain David Conte &#8217;71 has been hired by the National Hockey League&#8217;s expansion franchise in Las Vegas as a Special Advisor to Hockey Operations Las Vegas will begin play in the NHL for the 2017-18 season. The franchise will continue to build its front office during the 2016-17 season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}