I can still remember walking in to the civic center for a game.."PROGRAMS HERE!" they would shout out. And for $1.50 you could get a SCORE magazine with a chance to go out on the ice to play score-o after the second period.
Fighting in hockey seems to have been all but removed from the game in recent months...
Brad Church, a former Portland Pirates player and GM, and former owner Godfrey Wood are planning to bring hockey back to Portland for the 2017-18 season. It will be an ECHL team and will keep the Pirates name. ECHL is the East Coast Hockey League and is a tier below the American Hockey Leauge...
With the news of the Portland Pirates setting sail for Springfield Mass, let's take a trip back to their inaugural season in 1994 when the Pirates couldn't be stopped. They had a winning record of 43–27–10. One of the best records in the AHL...
I've heard of high sticking and spearing but maybe "clotheslining" should be a new penalty in hockey. This player totally took himself out. Watch this...and cringe!
On Friday, a guy named Mark Donnelly sang "O Canada" before a minor league hockey game in British Columbia. For some reason he skated around during the song and didn't see that carpet!