Clare Wharton Author

Bruce Driver, born in 1962, has been playing hockey since the age of three. He played minor league hockey in Toronto (where he was born) for fourteen years, winning four consecutive city championships. He served as team captain for the University of Wisconsin Badgers his junior year and went on to play with the Canadian Olympic team in Sarajevo in 1984, his senior year. He then went on to win the coveted Calder Cup with the Maine Mariners (The NJ Devils American Hockey League affiliate at the time) before he entered the NHL at the end of 1984. Bruce played for the Devils for eleven years, serving as captain in 1991-1992 and assistant captain for the next three years. The Devils won the Stanley Cup in 1995. He spent his last three years in the NHL with the New York Rangers. He concluded his 922 NHL game career with ninety-six goals and four hundred eighty-six points. He has served as both head and assistant coach since 1999 at Morristown-Bear High School and the Montclair Hockey Club as well as Head Instructor at the Huron Hockey School and the New Jersey Devils Alumni Association Clinics. He and his wife, Tracy, have two children, Whitney, 16, and Dillon, 10. Hometown: Montville, NJ Clare Wharton has been immersed in youth hockey for more than ten years. Beginning as a "hockey mom" and observer, she developed an active love of the game. Clare is an English tutor who holds both a B.A. and M.A. in English. She is a newspaper columnist, a writer for a New Jersey parenting magazine, and a freelance author of numerous articles. Hometown: Parsippany, NJ