CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – John Madden, a three-time Stanley Cup Champion, was named as the head coach of the Cleveland Monsters prior to the start of the team’s 10th anniversary season. Madden, 43, is replacing Jared Bednar, who left Cleveland last week to become the head coach of the Colorado Avalanche after leading the Monsters to […]
Talk about a memorable performance. Canadian jazz singer Alexis Normand delivered an unforgettable version of the Star-Spangled Banner at this weekend’s Memorial Cup between the Halifax Mooseheads and Portland Winterhawks. *For other headlining National Anthem performances, click HERE Things started off normal enough, until she got to this line: “twilight’s first gleaming.” Everything seemed to […]
VIA: History.Com On January 18, 1958, hockey player Willie O’Ree of the Boston Bruins takes to the ice for a game against the Montreal Canadiens, becoming the first black to play in the National Hockey League (NHL). Born in 1935 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, O’Ree was the son of a civil engineer, in one […]