He was a last-minute replacement for the man who selected the team, its original manager, Roy Schooley, a Canadian-born hockey institution in Pittsburgh who’d worked as a referee, founded the amateur Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets, and managed the city’s Duquesne Gardens. An illness in the fami...
able to score at least 50 goals for the third consecutive year (netting 51), the first time for an American-born player, and goaltender Sean Burke was acquired at the trade deadline. Burke proved ineffective in net, as the Flyers were eliminated in the first round by Buffalo in five ...
Worcester totally controlled the opening stanza, but couldn't get one past Mannino and into the net. Lukas Kaspar did manage to beat Mannino just before the horn sounded to end the first period, but the puck caught the crossbar and bounced harmlessly into the netting. The ringing of the ...