2018 Malcolm Greene Chace Award Recipient. Among the many Rhode Island players, coaches, and executives who have distinguished themselves and given back to hockey what hockey has given to them, Ralph Warburton, our first Malcolm Greene Chace Memorial Award recipient, stands tall. Ralph was born in Cranston in 1924. He was an All-State hockey selection at [...]
2019 Malcolm Greene Chace Award Recipient. Larry Reid never learned to skate and did not play hockey. That didn’t keep him from distinguishing himself with his off-ice contributions to the game at the local, regional, national and international level over the last 50 years. He is the 2019 recipient of the Malcolm Greene Chace [...]
Buster Clegg has had a connection to the game of hockey in Rhode Island for most of his life and it touches all levels of the sport. Born April 21, 1937, he was raised in Burrillville, R.I., when that town was a hotbed of hockey, especially at the high school level. He learned [...]
Don Mellor was born in Cranston, RI on February 22, 1921, where he lived his entire life. He began skating at age six and recalls first playing hockey with a rubber heal, the closest thing the neighborhood kids had to a hockey puck. He would hone his skills on the city’s frozen ponds. As [...]
Tom Army was born in 1930, the son of George Army, the legendary Hall of Fame trainer of the Rhode Island Reds. He was raised a slapshot away from the RI Auditorium - his home away from home. There he developed his hockey IQ observing Reds practices and games and sharpened his exceptional talents [...]
The late John W. Kennedy Jr. – “Jack” to his friends - and wife, Joanne, were major contributors to the development of youth hockey in Rhode Island for more than half a century. Jack was a standout at East Providence High School before a Hall of Fame hockey career at Norwich University where he was [...]
2025 Malcolm Greene Chace Award Recipient. Edwin Gardiner was born and raised in Warwick, RI’s Apponaug neighborhood. He attended Warwick Veterans High School where he wrestled and played baseball for the Hurricanes, graduating in 1962. A boyhood fan of HOF catcher, Yogi Berra, Edwin, a lefty hitter, mimicked the Yankee great at the plate [...]
