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Richard Ricci, Head Coach and General Manager of the St. Michael’s Buzzers, announced Saturday that the team has acquired goaltender George Grammenopoulos.

Grammenopoulos spent the 2009/2010 season with the Smiths Falls Bears of the Central Junior Hockey League (CJHL). A 1991 born player, the 6-2, 180 pound native of Brooklin, Ontario will look to fill the void in the goaltending position left by Joe D’Elia, who recently committed to attending Davenport University beginning this coming fall.

Though he spent last season playing in the Ottawa area, joining the Buzzers will be a homecoming of sorts for Grammenopoulos who played minor hockey in the greater Toronto area.

“In George we are getting a highly athletic and intelligent goaltender,” said Ricci. “He played forty four games last year for a rebuilding Smith Falls team in the CJHL. George played his minor hockey in the GTA and was a teammate of former Buzzer Reilly Smith and SMC student Tyler Seguin. George's talents have been very noticeable to Division I NCAA recruiters. He is an impressive young man from a good hockey family. I expect he will be a great addition to the Buzzers.”

In a separate transaction, the Buzzers traded Michael Hawkrigg to the Bridgewater Bandits of the Eastern Junior Hockey League (EJHL) after he expressed a desire to play junior hockey in the United States.

Acquired by the Buzzers early in the 2009/2010 season from the Bramalea Blues, Hawkrigg managed fourteen goals and nineteen assists in thirty one games for St. Michael’s and helped to provide the secondary offensive punch that the Buzzers were in need of at the time.

“The Buzzers organization would like to wish Mike the best in his future endeavours,” said Ricci.