Hall of Fame Members

A lifelong Somersworth native, Chris first played youth hockey in Dover, then moved on to Somersworth Youth Hockey before joining Somersworth High School for three seasons. He led the team with over a hundred points in his three years there, then played a post-grad season at Berwick Academy where he was MVP. Chris continued to build his impressive hockey resumé at the University of New Hampshire, playing four seasons from 1986-87 through 1989-90.

Recruited by UNH as a non-scholarship walk-on, Chris became a regular on the Wildcat’s blueline by Thanksgiving, leading eventually to a full scholarship after his freshman season. As a sophomore in 1988, he was voted Best Defenseman by his teammates and received the Rod Langway Best Defenseman Award. He was team captain in the 1989-90 season and led the Wildcats to the Hockey East Semi-Finals his senior year. He received the Charles E. Holt Coaches Award for contributions to the team both on and off the ice. During his four years at UNH, Chris scored 8 goals and assisted on 32 others.

Having been offered a try-out with the Winnipeg Jets, Chris opted instead for an AHL contract with the Maine Mariners and played 22 games with the Boston Bruin’s affiliate. In three combined seasons in the ECHL with the Johnstown Chiefs and the Nashville Knights, he appeared in 161 regular season and playoff games, scoring 15 goals and earning 78 assists.

Following his playing days, Chris served at Berwick Academy for two years as an assistant coach under Charlie Holt before taking over the Head Coach position in 1997-98 after Charlie resigned. He then collaborated with five-time Coach of the Year, Sean Tremblay, as an Associate Head Coach in Junior Hockey. In all, he spent eight years in that role with the New Hampshire Jr Monarchs, Islanders Hockey Club, the Great Northern Snow Devils in Biddeford ME and the Exeter Snow Devils.

The Seacoast Spartans have been called the nugget in the Grassie hockey crown. The organization was co-founded by Chris’s father Gerry and his friend, Bob Brown. After Gerry’s death in 2002, Chris took over as the director of the program and held that position for the next eleven years while still assuming coaching duties. During that time, he tripled the number of full-season teams to nine, and further expanded the program to include fall-season Midget and Mite development programs. In 2008, Gerry was inducted as a member of the NH Legends of Hockey. Chris accepted on behalf of his father and now joins him in the Hall of Fame.

Paul was born in Methuen, MA but grew up in Derry, NH. He was already on the ice by the age of five and for the better part of his hockey life, Paul stayed true to his roots and played in New Hampshire. His cousin had played for UNH, which may have been the spark that lit up a spectacular Hockey East career for Paul with the Wildcats. After spending two years at Pinkerton Academy in his home town, Paul joined the New Hampshire Junior Monarchs of the Eastern Junior Hockey League for two seasons beginning in 2005. There, he picked up a total of 113 points and distinguished himself by scoring 51 goals in 50 games. He was named EJHL Offensive Player of the Year.

Paul arrived at UNH in 2007 and during his NCAA career was recognized for his many accomplishments. In 2010, he was the Best Offensive Player as chosen by the players and in 2011, Thompson earned several prestigious accolades, including the Leonard Fowle Award as New England MVP, the Herb Gallagher Award as New England’s Best Forward, Hockey East Player of the Year, Hockey East First-Team All-Star and winner of the Army ROTC Three Stars Award. Paul was the team’s Most Valuable Player as voted by his teammates and was a Hobey Baker Finalist. Paul finished his senior year with 52 points on 28 goals and 24 assists to lead the ‘Cats’ in scoring and rank him ninth nationally. His teammates named him winner of the Guy Smith Award as the Best Offensive Player. He also received the Roger A. LeClerć Trophy MVP Award and was selected First Team All-American. He also led the nation in power play goals. His superb college career ended with 112 points on 57 goals and 55 assists. Paul has the honor of being one of three NH players to achieve status in the Century Club, and the first in the past thirty years.

In March 2011, Paul signed a two-year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins and played out the season with their AHL affiliate in Wilkes-Barre.  He appeared in three games with the New Jersey Devils in 2015-16 and logged 21 NHL games the next year with the Florida Panthers. Paul wore the “C” in the AHL for the Chicago Wolves (VGK) and the Springfield Thunderbirds (FLA). He also spent time in Rangers and the Islanders organizations. Paul officially retired from professional hockey in 2023 and joined the Loomis Chaffee School as a hockey coach and member of the athletic department, where he is still enjoying the game from behind the bench.

Paul’s professional career spanned thirteen seasons beginning in 2010. He delighted fans with 610 games in the AHL with stops in Bridgeport, Hartford, Springfield, Chicago, Albany and Wilkes-Barre. Paul also played in Worcester and Wheeling in the ECHL.

A native of Merrimack, NH, Tim played 276 games in the NHL gathering 57 points on 29 goals and 28 assists before retiring from the league in September 2023. Described as a “big center with defensive skills that teams like”, he appeared with the Buffalo Sabres, Boston Bruins, Vancouver Canucks and Los Angeles Kings during his ten-year pro career.

Tim’s AHL travels took him to Rochester, Wilkes-Barre, Bakersfield and Milwaukee. In his earlier days, Tim played high school hockey and was Rookie of the Year in his hometown of Merrimack before joining the New England Junior Huskies in the Eastern Junior Hockey League.

Tim attended Providence College in 2009-10 and was co-recipient of the Rev. Herman Schneider Most Valuable Freshman Award. In 2011-12, Tim won the Rob Gaudreau Award for most goals scored and was a Walter Brown Award semi-finalist as the best American-born hockey player in New England. By his senior year, Tim was co-captain of the Friars where he recorded a career high 23 points in 38 games to steer the team to the 2013 Hockey East playoffs. Tim was named Hockey East’s Defensive Forward of the Year.

Tim was invited to the Chicago Blackhawks NHL Prospect Camp and to the Calgary Flames 2012 Development camp on an Amateur Try-out agreement. After leaving Providence College in 2013, the Buffalo Sabres signed Tim to a two-year entry level contract and he played the entire 72 game season with the Sabres AHL affiliate in Rochester. Tim’s NHL debut came in November 2014 in a 4 -3 Buffalo win over the Montreal Canadiens and he scored his first NHL goal a few weeks later in a 4 -3 loss to the Bruins.

Tim signed with Boston in 2016 and stayed until July 2018 before moving to the Vancouver Canucks on a
two-year contract. In 2020, Tim joined the roster of the Los Angeles Kings in a trade. Entering the pandemic-delayed season, he was re-assigned to the Pittsburgh Penguins AHL affiliate in Wilkes-Barre. As a free-agent, he agreed to move to the Edmonton Oilers AHL team in Bakersfield, California then moved on to the Milwaukee Admirals, the primary affiliate of the Nashville Predators.

While with the Bruins, Tim and his brother David founded the Timmyheads Foundation which directs all
proceeds to the Jimmy Fund and Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Tim donated bone marrow to David in 2006.

A state champion at Concord High School playing with his big sister, future U.S. Olympic gold medalist Tara Mounsey, Mick went on to become one of the best defensemen in University of New Hampshire history. He
played four years for the Wildcats from 2000-04, winning two Hockey East championships and helping the team reach two Frozen Fours.

As a freshman defenseman at Concord, he scored 13 goals – including the game-winner in the Division 1 championship game against Bishop Guertin – and had 31 assists for a team that finished the year undefeated. He was the runner-up for Division 1 Player of the Year, finishing only behind sister Tara, who was a senior.

Declining an offer to go to Michigan and play for the U.S. National Team Development Program, Mounsey moved on to Avon Old Farms, helping that team win a New England prep school championship.

He was an impact player at UNH from the day he arrived. He played in 37 games as a freshman and finished as the runner-up for Hockey East’s Best Defenseman award. As a sophomore he led the team and Hockey East in plus-minus, as the Wildcats won the first of two straight league championships and advanced to the first of two straight final fours.

Mounsey finished his UNH career with a stellar plus-68 rating. He scored six goals and assisted on 38 others for a career 44 points, but brought much more to the ice than scoring.

“Mick was the ultimate team player,” said former UNH assistant coach David Lassonde. “He understood what he needed to do to bring value to his team, and he performed that role to a ‘T’. Every successful team has glue guys and for us he was exactly that.”

Mounsey’s 157 games played at UNH rank among the most in program history, and he enjoyed a brief career in the ECHL, winning a Kelly Cup with the Idaho Steelheads. After his professional career ended, he settled in Concord and got involved with youth sports including the Concord Youth Hockey Association, serving as its president in 2012.

Please welcome to the Class of 2023, Mick Mounsey as a member of the New Hampshire Legends of Hockey Hall of Fame.

Willie ‘The Barber’ Bibeau

Attended the Canadian School systems where he started playing ice hockey at the age of 5 until he attained the age of 15 years.

Willie then played junior hockey for the Richmond Flyers of Windsor, PQ, where he was a major factor in their winning the championship in 1964.

In the 1964-1965 hockey season, Willie started playing for Manchester’s Alpine Club in the Granite State Hockey League, where in his first game he scored 7 goals. At the conclusion of the ’64-’65 season, Willie won the coveted high scoring title of the Granite State Hockey League.

In 1968, Willie broke a scoring record that had existed since 1948 by scoring 53 goals and 42 assists for a total of 95 points in 38 games.

Willie’s hockey career from 1964 through 1974 encompassed playing for the Alpine Club, Manchester Blackhawks and Manchester Monarchs braking many scoring records and was a fan favorite over that period of time.

Willie was a coach in the Youth Hockey League where his Merrimack Pee Wees won the State Championship in 1972.

Willie “The Barber” continues his 30+ years career as a professional barber.

A British Columbia native, the late Wayne Pecknold made his mark in New Hampshire with the Concord Eastern Olympics. In seven seasons between 1967-74, he put up 57 goals and 181 assists for 238 points, the only defenseman among the team’s all-time top 10 in scoring.

Born in Victoria, B.C., Pecknold was a standout in several sports before settling on hockey. At the age of 13, he led his Victoria bantam club to a provincial championship in lacrosse. He won a juvenile football scoring title with 48 points in five games and was a main cog on his high school’s basketball team.

In hockey, after leading the Juvenile Canucks to the Pacific Coast League title, Pecknold joined the Prince Albert Mintos of the Saskatchewan Junior League. His play with the Mintos earned him an athletic scholarship to Michigan State in 1959, though he was later ruled ineligible because he had signed an ‘A’ form with Prince Albert.

He became an honor student at Michigan State, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in 1963. He’d go on to earn a Master’s and Ph.D in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and remained at MIT as a professor of civil engineering.

He joined the Concord Eastern Olympics in 1967 and played with them through 1973-74, serving as captain over that entire period. Often times he would coach the team during practices and, at times, in games in Pat Eagan’s absence.

“Wayne Pecknold was easily the most talented, the most efficient, the most unselfish, the smartest and the most complete defenseman with whom I had the great good fortune to have been paired with while playing for the Concord Eastern Olympics,” said teammate and Legends of Hockey Hall of Famer Bruce Parker. “Wayne was skilled both offensively and defensively. He possessed a great comprehension of the game and utilized that understanding to play with a special ability to anticipate where teammates, as well as opponents, were about to be and about to do.”

He finished his career playing for the Concord Budmen. He also coached youth hockey in Manchester, where his players included his son, Rand, a Legends Hall of Famer and now the successful coach at Quinnipiac; along with Jeff Serowik and Kyle McDonough.

Pecknold passed away in 2000 at the age of 60 after a lengthy battle with colon cancer.

He stood only 5 feet-4 inches – just a wisp of a center; a teenager not yet old enough to get a driver’s license – when first he was handed a uniform by the fabled Berlin Maroons and given a regular spot on the celebrated roster.

That all happened to Wally Fournier back when the 1930s were becoming the 1940s. He then was at Berlin High School, blessed with uncommon hockey skills, able then to play for a Senior hockey organization while also playing for a high school team.

By 1943, when he graduated from Berlin HS, Wally had added three stellar varsity seasons to his fine freshman season, and had served as a senior BHS co-captain.

Throughout those four high-school years, Wally simultaneously skated with the Maroons, which was a bonus for everyone. It gave him double the ice time, while fans and teammates had double the pleasure watching him. He many times was cited for his quickness and superb stick handling. One admirer said he “had few equals.”

Within a month of his graduation, he was in a cadet in a US Army Air Corp program that eventually turned him into a skilled B-17 navigator. He then went off to Europe and flew seven bombing missions.

In 1946, when he again became a civilian, it was just in time to shake the dust out of his old Maroons jersey and lace up the skates. For the six seasons between 1946 and 1951, he was regularly on the ice, again doing double duty. This time, his other team was the University of New Hampshire. As a UNH freshman, he was captain. As a senior, he was varsity captain.

The vagaries of our northern New England winters, though, plus playing on an outdoor rink in Durham, sometimes made for a miserable UNH hockey life. In his freshman season (1947-48), he played but a thimbleful of games. And his three varsity seasons (1948-49 – 1949-50 – 1950-51) weren’t much better. He played just 16 total games. It was a major Ouch for someone who dearly loved the sport and excelled as a scorer and stick handler. A newspaper sports columnist, back in March of 1951 at the close of the shortened season, wrote that “Fournier never had a real chance to hit his stride,” adding that there is an opinion that “Wally Fournier is the greatest all-around ice star ever to graduate” from UNH.

While in Durham, Wally still got plenty of ice time, traveling back and forth to Berlin to suit up with the Maroons. “There was one time,” he recalled, “that I got off the ice after a game in Durham and didn’t even take off my uniform. I just rode straight to Berlin in time for a Maroons game.”

The Maroons at that time were a powerhouse. Three times the team won the New England Amateur Hockey Association title: 1948, 1949 and 1951. And Wally was right in the middle of it all.

Fortunately, Berlin’s Notre Dame Arena, which opened for the winter of 1947, had walls and a roof, which helped extend the life of naturally frozen ice. Artificial-ice-making equipment didn’t get installed at the Arena until 1966, which was 15 years after Wally retired as a skater.

After graduating from UNH in 1951 with a degree in civil engineering, Wally called a halt to playing hockey seriously and went off into the work world. He and his wife Phyllis had married during his sophomore year and family life had grown more important.

Married 60 years, the couple today still lives in Berlin. They have three children, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

First came the Learn-To-Skate program. Then, she skated one season with the mites in Derry before enrolling in the Manchester Flames organization. For most of that time, it was hockey with all boys. The girls’ programs in New Hampshire back then were still few and far between.

By the time Tricia Dunn was a junior at Pinkerton Academy, she was skating in an out-of-state women’s/girl’s program-in Chelmsford, MA-for a team called the Lions.

By that time, her talent was easily seen and her destiny was to become one of the all-time greats among women hockey players at the University of New Hampshire, followed by her play as a forward with the US Women’s Olympic and National teams.

Following her two seasons skating with the Lions, it seemed a natural union: Tricia and UNH. And it was. When those four years came to an end in 1996, she had played 108 games and scored 117 points-60 goals and 57 assists. Her best single-point season was 1995 when she potted 23 goals and added 27 assists.

In her senior year, she was named to the all tournament team after UNH won the ECAC title in five overtimes. That game against Providence still ranks as the longest game in collegiate history at 145 minutes and 35 seconds.

Tricia was inducted into the UNH Hall of Fame in 2003.

She went on to play for the U.S. Women’s National Program from 1996 through 2006, during which time she skated in three Olympic Winters Games, five International Ice Hockey Federation World Women’s Championships and nine Three/Four Nations Cups, among other events.

When the American women won the Olympic gold medal at Nagano, Japan in 1998, Tricia potted the goal that beat the Canadian women in the last round-robin game. That win gave the team a 5-0 record going into the medal round. She also played on the US Olympic team in 2002 and 2006, where she captured silver and bronze medals, respectively. While she was wearing a team USA jersey, she played in 196 games, scoring 56 goals and 48 assists.

She graduated from Pinkerton Academy in 1992 and also is enshrined in that school’s Hall of Fame.

Tricia also had a brief professional career (2005-06 and 2006-07) playing with the Minnesota Whitecaps of the Western Women’s Hockey League, scoring 57 points in 39 games.

Tricia Dunn-Luoma Class of 2008.

Not only was the late Ted Rice regarded as one of the best players in Concord’s history, he also was one of just a handful of players who played for all three of the city’s top amateur teams – the Concord Hockey Club, the Millville Bruins and Sacred Heart – during the golden era of senior hockey in Concord.

Proclaimed by his teammates as one of the greatest players in the city’s history, Rice displayed his skill and ability on a wide array of New Hampshire amateur teams. He debuted with the Concord Hockey Club in 1931, recruited by, among others, George Harkins.

Following his debut with the original C.H.C., Rice would help organize a new team called the Millville Bruins, who proved a formidable opponent to the established “Sacre Couers.” The Bruins first played Sacred Heart on Feb. 17, 1933 and won, 2-0. Between 1933 and 1937, the Bruins played Sacred Heart six times, winning one, tying one and losing three.

He quickly became a star attraction when the Bruins hit the road. Opposing clubs, like ones in North Conway and Wolfeboro, would feature Rice on their advertising: “Ted Rice and the Millville Bruins will be playing this weekend.”

When the Bruins dissolved, Rice played six seasons for Sacred Heart, from 1937-38 through 1941-42, and again in 1945-46 season. He played defense with an offensive flair. He played in 60 of the 76 games the Hearts played over those years and the team won 45 of those games, losing just 14 and tying one. He scored 22 goals and assisted on another 25, before the assist was awarded as freely as it is today, and also could play forward.

“He was rock solid and could score,” recalled Hall of Famer Red Adams.

During a two-decade playing career that lasted until his retirement in 1943 – through he’d come out of retirement to play one more season in 1945-46 — Rice played on several New Hampshire teams: the White Mountain Storm Kings of Littleton, the North Conway Hockey Club, the Abenaqui Indians of Wolfeboro and the Manchester Hockey Club.

In the early days of his career, he was granted a tryout with the Boston Bruins semipro club team and later was invited to play with the Springfield Indians, the No. 1 farm team of the New York Rangers. He declined this spot due to financial and family responsibilities, continuing to play with the Concord Hockey Club program and, on occasion, Sacred Heart.

Rice was a versatile player, playing goalie on occasion. In 1932, with the Concord Hockey Club, he was between the pipes for a 3-0 shutout of Hampton.

A spinal-cord injury playing junior hockey at the age of 16 set Taylor Chace down a path that ultimately made him a three-time Paralympic medalist.

Chace, a native of Hampton Falls, excelled at several sports growing up but hockey was his best. He became the youngest member of the New Hampshire Junior Monarchs in the Eastern Junior Hockey League.

On Oct. 6, 2002, playing in a charity game with the Monarchs in Cannington, Ont., Chace was checked, back-first, into the dasher behind the net. He collapsed to the ice, unable to feel or move from the waist down.

He was diagnosed with an incomplete spinal cord injury. After hours of surgery, weeks of hospitalization and months of rehabilitation, he relearned to walk using his remaining muscle in 2003; Chace was introduced to Northeast Passage at the University of New Hampshire and the sport of sled hockey. Two years later, he was invited to try out for the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team and made it.

Since 2005, Chance has played a big role in the U.S. National Team’s success. He was part of a bronze medal-winning team at the Paralympics Games in Torino in 2006. And 2010, he reached the pinnacle of his sport, captaining a U.S. team that won the gold medal at the Paralympics Games in Vancouver. He was named the tournament’s Top Defenseman and the Paralympics Sportsman of the Year for 2010.

In 2014, he helped the Americans become the first team to win back-to-back gold medals in sled hockey at the Paralympics, beating host Russia, 1-0, in the gold-medal game in Sochi.

Attended Concord High School from 1992 to 1996. In her senior year, Tara was the team captain and was names Player of the Year in NHIAA men’s hockey.

Completed three seasons at Brown University. She took a year off after her freshman year to compete in the 1998 Winter Olympics. After her junior year she left Brown for two years to train with and play for the Salt Lake City Olympic Hockey team.

Tara won a Gold Medal at the 1998 Olympics held at Nagano, Japan and won a Silver Medal at the 2002 Olympics held at Salt Lake City.

Tara was selected to the All-World Teams at both the 1998 Nagano and 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

Tara was a member of the Women’s National Team from high school through the Salt Lake City Olympics. During this period she won three silver medals at the World Championships.

Tara is currently enrolled at Boston College Graduate School pursuing her Masters in Nursing degree to become a nurse practitioner

Steve Shirreffs played five seasons of pro hockey, including two in the AHL, but he got his start in the Upper Valley, playing on some terrific Hanover High School teams in the early 1990s.

An offensive defenseman, with excellent size and leadership skills, Shirreffs led the Marauders to state championships in his junior and senior seasons, 1992-93 and 1993-94. As a junior he posted 4-19-23 point totals and was a plus-59.

One of his biggest plays came in the waning seconds of the championship game against Concord. He stopped a clearing pass at the blue line and set up a play that tied the game; the Marauders won in double-overtime.

That championship helped insert Hanover into the conversation about the state’s top programs. Over a 14-year span, the Marauders would take home the state title five times.

“He played his best games in the biggest games against the toughest competition,” said longtime Hanover coach Dick Dodds. “He was a positive influence everywhere he went and never had a bad word to say about anyone.”

As a senior, Shirreffs upped his totals to 11-30-41 and plus-81, earning All-State honors. He prepped for a year at Hotchkiss, winning a New England title, getting drafted by the Calgary Flames and paving his way to Princeton, where he developed into one of the top defensemen in the NCAA.

He was named an All-American and first-team All-ECAC as a junior, when he was the second-highest scoring defenseman in the nation and the Tigers won the league crown and made their first-ever NCAA tournament appearance. He currently ranks fifth all-time at Princeton in defenseman scoring (16-48-64).

“I never had an easier guy to coach,” said former Princeton coach Don “Toot” Cahoon. “He was the consummate team player. No one worked harder or listened better…His graduating class was probably the best in Princeton hockey history.”

With his NHL rights traded to the Washington Capitals, Shirreffs started his pro career in the fall of 1999 with their AHL affiliate, the Portland Pirates, playing in 44 games. From there he moved on to Europe, playing three seasons in the Finnish Elite League around one more stint in the AHL/ECHL.

A student of the game, a positive influence on teams he touched, and a great ambassador for hockey from New Hampshire.