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​Season openers are fun regardless of the final score. That being said, it’d be tough to open the season in a better way than the Icepack did last Friday.

The Icepack kicked their 2023-24 campaign off with a bang, dismantling the visiting East Carolina Pirates by a whopping score of 17-3. Yes, you read that right. 17.

It was a team effort all night long, as 15 separate skaters managed to record a point. 12 players notched multi-point games, including this week's "'Primo X Hockey' Player of the Week", junior forward Thomas McEneny (three goals, one assist).

Yellow skate laces are a rite of passage for the team's rookies, as first-year players are only allowed to sub them out for the traditional white laces once they record their first goal with the team. FIVE different rookies managed to get their yellow laces off during Friday's home opener, including Nick Shook, Aiden Brenner, Holden Koufman, Caid Cox, and Spencer Harman.

A massive night for the Icepack, and a season opener to remember for the players and 1,500+ fans in attendance.

During practice this week, the team revealed their captaincy for the upcoming season, including one primary and three alternates to serve as the leaders of the up-and-coming Icepack squad. Here's a quick look at the letter representatives:

CAPTAIN - Garrett Auriene (#17)

• Senior Forward
• 94 career games played
• 33 goals, 55 assists, 88 points

ALTERNATE CAPTAIN - Drew Bresingham (#14)

• Senior Forward
• 72 career games played
• 13 goals, 15 assists, 28 points

ALTERNATE CAPTAIN - Alex James (#15)

• Junior Defenseman
• 28 career games played
• 7 goals, 20 assists, 27 points

ALTERNATE CAPTAIN - Jackson Cowen (#4)

• Senior Defenseman
• 70 career games played
• 2 goals, 16 assists, 18 points

The newly announced, grizzled leadership group will attempt to lead the Icepack to new team heights this season.

Vibes are high around the 2023-24 Icepack right now, and for good reason. New and old faces alike have been congregating at Invisalign Arena for the past two weeks with immense excitement for the season ahead. The team has worked tirelessly in order to get ready for the season opener on Friday night against the East Carolina Pirates, nobody can deny that.

However, at the end of the day, hockey is fun. It's meant to be a release valve from the everyday life stressors, ranging from aerospace engineering courses to part-time jobs and everything in between. For that reason, I decided to take the fun route during Icepack Media Day on Tuesday, asking each of the 29 players a interesting hypothetical question. Enjoy.

Ricky Frosch (#5)
Defense / Long Island, NY / Grad Student / Physiology

• “Hands for feet, because if monkeys can do it, then so can I”

Nick Shook (#27)
Forward / Eastover, NC / Freshman / Engineering

• ​“Hands for feet, because your hands are more stable than your feet”

Holden Koufman (#29)
Forward / Winston-Salem, NC / Freshman / Engineering

• “Hands for feet, because I could get more stable balance”

Eric Daniel (#30)
Goalie / Raleigh, NC / Grad Student / Electrical Engineering

• “Hands for feet because I could grab stuff with my feet”

Garrett Auriene (#17)
Forward / Youngsville, NC / Senior / Information Technology

• “Hands for feet, because two more hands is OP”​​

Drew Breshingham (#14)
Forward / Oswego, IL / Senior / Environmental Tech & Management

• “Never see in color because I couldn’t live without food, I love peanut butter too much”

Noah Scherff (#3)
Defense / Greensboro, NC / Freshman / Sport Management

• “Never be able to taste food, because I could eat disgusting things that I normally don't eat”

Caid Cox (#11)
Defense / Livingston, MT / Freshman / Aerospace Engineering

• “I can go without seeing in color, because I love food and being able to taste food”

Spencer Harman (#19)
Forward / Vernon Hills, IL / Freshman / Computer Science

• “Never see in color, because I’d rather be able to taste steak than see the bleachers in color”​​

Joey Gouveia (#21)
Forward / Raleigh, NC / Junior / Elementary Education

• “Zombies, because they’re slow and probably easier to kill”

Aiden Brenner (#12)
Forward / Amherst, NH / Sophomore / Business Administration

• “Zombies, robots would annihilate us but we might have a slight chance with zombies”

Kade McConaghy (#6)
Defense / Charlotte, NC / Sophomore / Business Administration

• “Zombies, because they’re not bulletproof”

Addison Lawrence (#33)
Goalie / Cary, NC / Sophomore / Business Administration

• “Zombies, because I feel like you can get away from them quicker”

Jackson Cowen (#4)
Defense / Cary, NC / Senior / Sport Management

• "Always have an itch, because I want people to not hate being next to me”

Zack Robinson (#7)
Forward / Apex, NC / Junior / Sport Management

• “Always have an itch, because always having an itch only affects me, smelling bad affects other people”

Nick Librizzi (#13)
Defense / Raleigh, NC / Sophomore / Sport Management

• “Always smell bad, because realistically I probably already smell bad”

Scott Daniel (#25)
Forward / Cary, NC / Freshman / Business

• “Always have an itch, because I don’t want to smell bad in class”

Alex James (#15)
Defense / Lakeville, MN / Junior / Finance

• “Ricky [to laugh at/with], Hockey stick [to practice], and headphones [to pretend I’m not there]”

Andrew Throndson (#18)
Defense / Apex, NC / Freshman / Business

• “Sword [protection], water [hydration], and peanut butter [protein]”

Jackson Strong (#10)
Defense / Georgia, VT / Freshman / Aerospace Engineering

• “Cows [steaks, burgers and clothes], fire [warmth and cooking], and a knife [protection... and to slaughter the cows]”

Isaac Tawyer (#1)
Goalie / Danvers, MA / Junior / Industrial Engineering & Economics

• “Emery Oliver [various reasons], my PC [entertainment], and a stable internet connection [entertainment]”

Emery Oliver (#22)
Forward / Raleigh, NC / Junior / Electrical Engineering

• “Two threes, because I'm dirty from the stripe”

Cameron Lohr (#26)
Forward / Geneva, SUI / Sophomore / Textile Technology

• “Rushing yards, because I got legs”

Philip Bailey (#23)
Forward / Holly Springs, NC / Junior / Bioprocessing Science

• “Two threes, because I was gonna go to the league before I picked up a hockey stick”

Thomas McEneny (#9)
Forward / Wake Forest, NC / Junior / Business Management

• ​“Two threes, because I’ve always been a shooter”

Luke Jagielski (#16)
Defense / Apex, NC / Senior / Marketing

• “Controlling time, because I could do whatever I want whenever I want and it's more powerful than other people’s superpowers”

Chase Williams (#24)
Forward / Holly Springs, NC / Sophomore / Entrepreneurship

• “Flying, because I can travel whenever I want to... I’d be in the Bahamas tomorrow”

Logan Todd (#28)
Forward / Raleigh, NC / Junior / Parks, Recreation and Tourism

• “Flying, because I don’t want to walk to class”

Zach Herman (#8)
Forward / Holly Springs, NC / Sophomore / Business Entrepreneurship

• “Flying, because I hate traveling”