Sometimes, no matter how good or bad your team is, an opposing goaltender just seems to have your number. This season for the Worcester Railers, that goaltender appears to be Adirondack's Vinnie Purpura. After Saturday's 3-2 Railers shootout loss to the Thunder Purpura is now 3-0-1 this season against Worcester, giving up just 2.33 goals... Continue Reading →
Railers three-goal third period beats Thunder 4-2
Longtime readers of this blog will note the cardinal rule that's mentioned here far too often: never give up a goal in the first or last minute of a period. For once it wasn't the Worcester Railers falling afoul of one of hockey's great precepts, it was the Adirondack Thunder that did as the Railers... Continue Reading →
2023 NFL Week 14 Schedule, TV, Announcers
Thursday, December 7, 2023 New England @ Pittsburgh 8:15PM AMAZON Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit (Kaylee Hartung) Sunday, December 10, 2023 Detroit @ Chicago 1:00PM FOX Adam Amin and Mark Schlereth (Kristina Pink) Carolina @ New Orleans 1:00PM FOX Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma (Shannon Spake) LA Rams @ Baltimore 1:00PM FOX Joe Davis and... Continue Reading →
Worcester Hockey Alumni 2023-24 highlights, NHL week 8
With the eighth 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 Jeff Kubiak secondary assist https://twitter.com/AHLIslanders/status/1728885156315095416 Sunday Adam Goodsir goal https://twitter.com/GoHeartlanders/status/1728907041098363209 Tuesday Joe Pavelski goal https://twitter.com/dmn_stars/status/1729692226878341340 Wednesday Taylor Fedun two... Continue Reading →
Why can’t college football have a real championship tournament?
After watching the College Football Playoff Selection Show and their glaring omission of Florida State, a school that I hate with a passion but without a doubt got absolutely jobbed by the selection committee, it has become plainly obvious that college football needs a true playoff system to determine its national champion. Unfortunately, the people... Continue Reading →
Railers past year has been one of the worst in Worcester pro hockey
To paraphrase the late Jerry Garcia, what a long, terrible trip it's been. That's pretty much the only polite way to describe the play of the Worcester Railers over the last 365 days, which saw a long, slow collapse from the top of the ECHL to not making the playoffs, and then an almost completely... Continue Reading →