As the team approaches the ECHL's Christmas holiday break the Worcester Railers find themselves in all too familiar territory: not in a playoff spot in the standings. With Saturday night's 4-1 loss at Cool Insuring Arena to the Adirondack Thunder the Railers are now within the games in hand of the last-place Reading Royals, the... Continue Reading →

Occasionally a loss is more than just not gaining two points, and unfortunately the Worcester Railers may have suffered such a fate as rookie goaltender Tristan Lennox left Friday night's game in Reading with 6:54 remaining in the middle period in the Railers 5-2 loss to the Royals. He was replaced by emergency back-up Joel... Continue Reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →