Not always the first, but always the best
Saturday afternoon, a bunch of guys wearing Worcester Railers jerseys headed northeast-ish to the Harold Alfond Forum in Biddeford, ME to play a bunch of guys wearing Maine Mariners jerseys in an exhibition game that evening, and the guys in the white Maine jerseys got a late third-period goal to defeat the Worcester players in... Continue Reading →
Friday night, an enthusiastic standing room only crowd at the Worcester Ice Center watched the Worcester Railers, or at least the training camp version of the team, take on the Maine Mariners in the first of two exhibition battles between the two squads, with the Railers coming out on the wrong end of a 4-2... Continue Reading →
The ECHL released its new rulebook on Wednesday, and a couple of minor changes were made. The first was Rule 9.5 - Protective Equipment, which adds a game misconduct for a player returning to the ice without wearing, or not wearing properly, A5-rated cut-proof socks, wrist protection, and/or neck protection after being warned by an... Continue Reading →
With the Worcester Railers season over, we'll return to what will (hopefully) be weekly editions of "Friday 4," where I discuss the four things I’ve been thinking about over the last week and the upcoming weekend in sports and the world. ONE The NFL draft was this past weekend, and regular readers and Twitter followers... Continue Reading →
As we begin another long spring and summer in Worcester without playoff hockey, we can, as we've done far too often over the years, look back at all the "what ifs" of the past season as other teams and fan bases move on to hockey's second season. Depending on how you define it and count... Continue Reading →
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 "Linens Award": To Austin Heidemann, who apparently liked his Booster Club provided bathroom towels so much that he decided to take them with him when he... Continue Reading →
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