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

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) 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. In ice hockey, two o ...

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

. He played 6 games in the

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey sports league, league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranke ...

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 fo ...

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

During his college years, Boo played for the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

. He was part of the team that won the 1976

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. 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 The Oklahoma City Stars are the athletic teams that represent Oklahoma City University, located in Oklahoma City, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (N ...

. He retired from ice hockey following the 1980 season. After his hockey career ended, Boo began working in the

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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 state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minne ...

-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 Minnesota Ice hockey people 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 Undrafted National Hockey League players {{US-icehockey-defenceman-stub