The departure of Doc

For those Buzz readers who might not be checking theDP.com this summer, here's a story on M. Lax assistant coach Brian "Doc" Dougherty leaving the program to pursue other opportunities and advance his coaching career.

He was a surefire Hall of Fame goaltender until his recent retirement from his playing days, and his departure will certainly hurt the Penn defense and goalies this season. M. Lax head coach Mike Murphy, entering his second season with the Quakers, now has to fill his top two assistant coaching positions, as his former top assistant, Chris Wojcik, took over the head gig at Harvard.

Dougherty was also an old friend of Jerome Allen's, dating back to their playing days at Episcopal Academy under Doc's father Dan Dougherty. Replacing him won't be as important as replacing Brian Voelker last summer, but it will definitely impact the Quakers this season.

Anyway, the rest of the details are in my full story linked above, but right now the comments on theDP.com are disabled because we were having trouble with our spam filters and it was getting out of hand. So I figured I'd bring any discussion on this move and the state of M. Lax to The Buzz.