On February 22nd, more than 7,500 were on hand at the Dunkin Donuts Center when the names and official portraits of the RI Hockey Hall of Fame’s “Class of 2019” were unveiled between periods of the game between the Providence Bruins and Bridgeport Sound Tigers. The 10 honorees include players, executives, educators and coaches, many [...]
George “Butch” Keeling and Ed Yagnesak may not be household names in RI Reds’ history, but for about a week in October of 1957 they were the talk of all local hockey. That’s when the “Asian Flu” reached North American shores and effectively decimated the Providence Reds roster as it was about to start the [...]
Inducted into the RI Heritage Hall of Fame in 1986 Inducted into the Mount St Charles Hall of Fame in 2012 Brother Adelard, born in 1884, arrived in RI from Quebec in 1911. One year later, he organized his first hockey team at Sacred Heart Academy in Central Falls. In 1924, he was assigned to [...]
Inducted into the Mount St. Charles Hall of Fame in 2016 Inducted into the RI Interscholastic League Hall of Fame in 2019 Goaltender Brian Boucher was born on January 2, 1977, in Woonsocket. He began playing hockey at an early age and went on the star for Mount St. Charles before deciding to move to [...]
Inducted in to the Providence College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016 Inducted in to the British Columbia Hockey Hall of Fame in 2016 While Brian Burke was primarily raised in Edina, Minnesota, in a family of 10 children, he was born in Providence, just a few short blocks away from the college that would [...]
Jack Capuano is a Cranston, RI, native. A product of the CLCF Youth League, Jack prepped at Cranston East and the Kent School in CT and was drafted by Toronto 88th overall in 1984 entry draft. The following year he started his collegiate career at the University of Maine. At Maine, he played with his [...]
Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1961 Malcolm Greene Chace was born in in 1875 in Central Falls, RI. He was a financier and textile industrialist who became director of the company that later became Berkshire Hathaway. Malcolm was instrumental in bringing electric power to New England but before that, in the [...]
Inducted into the Los Angeles Kings Hall of Fame in 1997 Inducted into the Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Society (PHATS) in 2007 Inducted into the Trainer’s Wing of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007 Inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2016 (with 1996 USA World Cup team) Pete Demers, born in [...]
Inducted into the RI Reds Hall of Fame in 1965 Inducted into the NE Turf Writers Association Hall of Fame in 2011 Judge James E. Dooley was one of the founders of the Canadian-American (Can-Am) Hockey League in 1926, as well as the founder and sole owner of the Providence Reds, the state’s first professional [...]
Inducted into the Boston College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006 Inducted into the Bishop Hendricken Athletic Hall of Fame Inducted in to the RI Interscholastic League Hall of Fame in 2014 Center David Emma was born in Cranston, RI on January 14, 1969. David starred at Bishop Hendricken, where he was a three-time All-State [...]
