NHL Connect ID

larry_m_deschaine__pe

Description

I’m an graduate of MIT, currently pursuing my PhD at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden……….. I work full-time for a Fortune 500 company performing duties similar to the MIT nerd on the CBS TV show “NUMB3RS”……..a USAHockey Level 4 Coach – Certified to coach hockey up to the Collegiate Level – I help coach players and hockey teams and play myself in Adult recreational leagues in Augusta GA and Columbia, SC…………….. I’m 6’5" (195cm) & 260lbs (120kg). I play defence and sometimes center/wing………I very strongly believe in respect for – and protecting – skill players. Some things are simply worth fighting for – that’s just the way it is.

Favorite NHL Team

Boston Bruins

Favorite Sports/Teams

NHL Hockey: Tough choices: My first favorite NHL team was the Canadiens when I was in high school. Then I went to college in Boston and knew the Bruins. Living in Connecticut (Whalers) and working in NY (Rangers). But really love ALL hockey teams – including amateurs! I tend to follow players and coaching staffs more than a particular team…I’m really here to provide encouragement to kids (and adults!) to go out and skate, and learn to play Hockey! Keep ur head UP!

Favorite Players

Gordie Howe, Trevor Gillies, Chris Pronger, Vincent Lecavalier, Scott Corbett (Germany).

Music

Classic rock (Boston, Aerosmith, Ramones, Meatloaf!), classical (Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky), Jazz/Blues (BB King), and many operas; Russian and German mostly. Favorite singers are Patrica Kaas (French), Alla Pugacheva and Alsou Abramova (Russian), Pat Benetar, and the immortal Tina Turner.

Books

Russian books and poetry (1800s through ~1920s), French literature (1700s and 1800s).

Movies

Indies, Foreign films such as “Manon of the Spring” and “Jean de Florette” (French) when I want to think, and old classic movies on TCM when I relax late at night. My favorite actors are John Candy and Bill Murray. My favorite actresses are Catherine Deneuve and Julliete Binoche. Hard core action movies (most) and comedies for example: Mr. Bean (all), John Candy (Canadian Bacon), Kelsey Grammer (Down Periscope), and Bill Murray (Groundhog Day), Ghostbusters.

Other interests

My highest professional awards to date are an award from the US Vice President and now Nobel Prize winner – Al Gore – for optimization work, and two world records for a niche underground design and construction project. My best work to date is I recently invented a “bomb-finder”, which locates and discriminates whether below ground objects are unexploded or not…….. …………Athletically, I’m an individual US National Champion (Collegiate), a 5-time national record holder (U20 – two of them are still standing, they were set in 1981 and 1982) and am a two-time international silver medalist (U20) in pistol. I also still enjoy training in boxing and judo as well as pistol, but just don’t compete in them…my main focus is hockey now…My email is………Larry.M.Deschaine@alum.mit.edu…………..