(Note: the following article originally appeared in the program for the ECHL/SPHL Booster Club Jamboree last weekend, hosted by the Worcester Railers Booster Club in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and was edited for length. This is the entire submitted text, which was significantly longer than the space available to print it.) While the ECHL/SPHL Jamboree is celebrating... Continue Reading →
Worcester Railers 2024-25 schedule: Some good things, and some really bad things
Earlier this month the ECHL released their 2024-25 schedule for all its member clubs. It's important to know before we start discussing the schedule that teams only have a small amount of input as to what their final schedule is, and that's usually limited to the dates they can host games and the dates of... Continue Reading →
The “210 Awards” for the Worcester Railers 2023-2024 season (Part 2)
As promised, here is part two of this season's 210 Awards... The "Shameless Plug Award": You can find the first half of the 210 Awards post right here. The "Premature Celebration Award": Keith Nichols, for throwing his hat on the ice thinking Zach White had scored an empty net goal to give him a hat... Continue Reading →
The “210 Awards” for the Worcester Railers 2023-2024 season (Part 1)
Once again, the Worcester Railers’ season ended without making the playoffs, so as we do when the Railers fail to make the second season we get an all-too-early posting of the “210 Awards”. In a tradition that started last season, if it's possible to call something that happened two years in a row a tradition,... Continue Reading →
Railers embarrass themselves with 4-0 loss, fail to make playoffs for fifth season in a row
The Worcester Railers once again had their playoff destiny in their own hands Sunday afternoon at Colisée Vidéotron, and in their usual lack of testicular fortitude that this franchise has become known for, managed just 16 shots in a 4-0 loss to the Trois-Rivières Lions. That coupled with Maine's overtime win over Adirondack ends another... Continue Reading →
Railers blanked 2-0, it all comes down to Sunday
Why can't they just make it easy for once? The Worcester Railers, needing a win in any manner Saturday afternoon, not only didn't get the two points for a win they didn't even get one past Lions goaltender Zachary Émond as Trois-Rivières kept their playoff hopes alive with a 2-0 victory over Worcester. The Railers'... Continue Reading →