James McQuaid Boo (born November 12, 1954) is an American former

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

defenseman Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from Goal (ice hockey), scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the l ...

. He played 6 games in the

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

with the

Minnesota North Stars The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, and the team's colors for ...

during the 1977–78 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1978 to 1980, was spent in the

Central Hockey League The Central Hockey League (CHL) was a North American mid-level minor professional ice hockey league which operated from 1992 until 2014. It was founded by Ray Miron and Bill Levins and later sold to Global Entertainment Corporation, which opera ...

Career

Although he was born in Missouri, Boo grew up in Mahtomedi, Minnesota. Boo played junior hockey for the Mahtomedi High School team before joining the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

Golden Gophers. He was part of the team that won the 1976 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship. The

of the

signed Boo to a free-agent contract during the 1977–78 season. He played six games for the team. For the next two seasons, Boo played for the

Oklahoma City Stars. He retired from ice hockey following the 1980 season. After his hockey career ended, Boo began working in the real estate industry, eventually forming his own company
Team Boo Realty
with his wife, Tracy. Boo is also involved wit
High Pointe Realty
, another

Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...

-based real estate firm.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

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* 1954 births Living people American men's ice hockey defensemen Fort Worth Texans players Ice hockey players from Missouri Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey players Minnesota North Stars players NCAA men's ice hockey national champions Oklahoma City Stars players People from Rolla, Missouri People from Mahtomedi, Minnesota Ice hockey people from Washington County, Minnesota Undrafted National Hockey League players 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-icehockey-defenceman-stub