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Star Power

On February 8, 2012, amidst their twentieth anniversary season, the Providence Bruins received a hard-earned present in the form of All-Star hospitality privileges for the next winter. The selection quickly ended a one-year practice of hosting the AHL’s midseason showcase in a non-league market. The 2012 All-Star Classic took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which was briefly a home away from home for the Albany Devils, but had otherwise not hosted pro hockey since the ECHL’s Boardwalk Bullies left in 2005. At the formal press conference to announce the event, Rhode Island Convention Center Authority chairman and CEO Jim Bennett noted that mayor Angel Taveras had arisen at four o’clock in the morning and made the trek to Atlantic City to personally pitch Providence as the next host to the league’s assembled owners. Within ten days of the 2012 event’s conclusion, the plans were in place for many stimulating returns. Besides returning the event to one of the league’s full-tim...
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On Hockey

Preparation powered the PK PC women weather third period blizzard for win Around the halfway mark of the third period last night, goaltender Genevieve Lacasse watched with little surprise and controlled angst as the population of the Friars’ compact penalty box grew to a near overflow. “I kind of felt the penalties were going to come because we hadn’t taken any yet,” she said. “We were ready for them.” That they were. With Jess Cohen flagged for hooking at 9:05, Jessie Vella whistled for hitting from behind at 9:50, and Amber Yung cited for holding at 10:54, the Friars were ultimately forced to play shorthanded for a succession of three minutes and 49 seconds. It was a 5-on-3 deficit for each of those first two minutes and 29 seconds. And all while they were safeguarding a precious 2-1 lead against the formidable Boston College Eagles. But upon Yung’s jailbreak with 7:06 to spare, the difference on the scoreboard was the same –and it eventually morphed into a 3-1 victory for Providence...
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Comeback Cubs

In each odd-numbered year spanning 1997 to 2003, two New England sports entities took turns showing a knack for surmounting a two-games-to-none deficit in a best-of-five playoff series. The Boston Red Sox pulled the relatively rare feat in 1999 and 2003 against the Cleveland Indians and Oakland Athletics, respectively. Only six Major League Baseballteams have done this in the first twenty-three years of the division series, and Boston is the only franchise to have produced two of those teams.             But two-and-a-half years before the BoSox did it the first time, the Providence Bruins became only the sixth team in American Hockey League history to do the same. Two-and-a-half years before the Sox did it again, another edition of the P-Bruins became the eighth AHL team to pull such a rally. And in 2013, yet another score of Spoked-P skaters became the tenth.           ...
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