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 [...]
Inducted into the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994 Inducted into the International Scholar Athlete Hall of Fame in 2010 Digit Murphy was and continues to be a pioneer - not only in women’s hockey, but in all of women’s athletics. Born Margaret Pearl Degidio on December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day, “Digit” as she [...]
When Alfred “Al” Thurier was inducted into the Mount St. Charles Hall of Fame in 2013, the hockey legend was characterized as the Academy's “original Flying Frenchman.” As his career developed Thurier was better known as “Fred.” His was a pro career that began in 1937 and ended in 1952. Along the way, he starred [...]
New Englanders know Walter Brown as the former owner of the Boston Bruins, who later founded and owned the Boston Celtics with his close friend and RI Reds’ owner, Lou Pieri. However, Brown’s greatest contribution to sport may have been the development of hockey in the United States, which he influenced for over three decades. [...]
