Earlier during the winter, The Futures League announced its 2026 schedule. The league's 16th season of summer baseball will begin on Wednesday, May 27, with the Worcester Bravehearts opening on the road, taking on the Westfield Starfires in a 10:30am start. Postseason action is expected to begin on Monday, August 10. All six of last... Continue Reading →
Railers Booster Club announces 2025-2026 player awards
Tuesday night, the Worcester Railers Booster Club announced its season-ending awards for the 2025-2026 season at a banquet held at the DCU Center. These awards also double as the Railers' team awards. Booster Club members voted for the season-ending awards in late March. The "ECHL Community Service Award" was selected by the Worcester Railers. Best... Continue Reading →
Worcester Hockey Alumni 2025-26 highlights, NHL week 26
With the 26th week of the NHL season over, we'll take a look back at some of the highlights from the last seven days from former Worcester hockey pros. Weeks run from Sunday to Saturday. Sunday Ryan Carpenter two assists https://twitter.com/SDGullsAHL/status/2038405104391589931 https://twitter.com/SDGullsAHL/status/2038424318603092171 Sunday Ivan Chukarov assist https://twitter.com/SavGhostPirates/status/2038401540990320758 Sunday Devon Paliani goal https://twitter.com/Knight_monsters/status/2038380690711191954 Sunday Michael Gildon... Continue Reading →
There’s no Easter miracle as Railers are eliminated with 3-2 loss
The Worcester Railers needed an Easter Sunday regulation win over the visiting Reading Royals and a Trois-Rivières victory over Maine to keep their slim playoffs alive, and got neither in a 3-2 loss in what was an absolute clown show of a game. On Friday night, this writer tweeted that the officiating performance of that... Continue Reading →
Gahagen makes it a Good Friday in Railers 2-1 win over Reading
The Worcester Railers and Reading Royals hooked up Friday night for the second of three meetings this holiday weekend at the DCU Center, and it was all about Railers goaltender Parker Gahagen, who made 36 saves on the 37 shots he faced to make Good Friday into a great Friday as he led his team... Continue Reading →
Railers make a Case for defense in 5-3 win over Reading
The Worcester Railers began a string of "must-win in regulation" games Thursday night in the first of three this holiday weekend against the Reading Royals, and got the first hat trick by a pure defenseman in Worcester pro hockey when Case McCarthy scored his first three goals of the season in Worcester's 5-3 win over... Continue Reading →