Brooks Orpik

Richard Brooks Orpik is an American professional ice hockey defenseman and an alternate captain for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League .

Orpik, born in San Francisco a few months after the U.S. Miracle on Ice win over the Soviet Union in Lake Placid in 1980, was named after Team USA Olympic Head Coach Herb Brooks. Orpik grew up in Amherst, New York, and attended the Nichols School in Buffalo and Thayer Academy in Braintree, Massachusetts. He played three seasons for Boston College, winning the Hockey East postseason championship in 1999 and 2001, as well as the NCAA Mens Ice Hockey Championship in 2001. His younger brother Andrew was also a hockey player, playing for Boston College and having a brief minorleague career.

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