October 11, 2011
By Brian McDonough, special to NAHL.com-California Rubber Magazine
Chris Nuth celebrated what was perhaps his greatest moment on skates last spring in Anchorage, Alaska. That’s where his California Stars’ 18U AAA team captured the Pacific District regional championship, earning it
The Kenai River Brown Bears erased a one-goal deficit in regulation and Zac Lazzaro scored in overtime, propelling the squad to a 5-4 win over the previously undefeated Fresno (Calif.) Monsters before 986 fans Friday night at the Soldotna Sports Center.
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In the aftermath of the plane crash that decimated a beloved Russian hockey team last week, fans clung to one filament of hope: a single player, 26-year-old Aleksandr Galimov, had somehow survived, staggering from the wreckage under his own power and telling a pair of astonished police officers, “Brothers, I am Galimov.”
Over the next five days, Mr. Galimov became a sort of talisman for fans, who flowed out into the street in the tens of thousands to grieve the ...