Hall of Fame Members

Normand ‘Husky’ Poirier

Attended Notre Dame High School from 1944 to 1948 and was a member of the first hockey team and they won the High School State Championships in 1947 and 1948. He was voted the Most Valuable Player of the 1948 State Championship.

Husky was named in the “Who’s Who” publication for High School Athletics for his abilities in Ice Hockey and Baseball for the year 1948.

Husky was a member of the Berlin Maroons from 1948 to 1962. In 1949 and 1954, the Maroons won the AHA New England Hockey Championships. Also, in 1954 the Maroons won the National AHAUS Hockey Tournament.

Husky was instrumental in organizing the youth hockey program in Berlin by forming and coaching teams at all levels of the youth hockey program from 1963 through 1972.

In 1963, Husky organized and played in the Berlin City Hockey League. He also organized a traveling All-Star team that played in tournaments.

Husky was instrumental in the cleanup and rebuilding of the Notre Dame Arena when the original building collapsed in 1969.

Husky has received many awards for his efforts as a player, coach and builder of the sport of ice hockey in Berlin, NH.

Norman ‘Fat’ Pinette

He was-and still is-known throughout New Hampshire’s North Country as “Fat,” a nickname hung on him during his middle high school years by revered sportswriter, the late Leo Cloutier.

“I was a little chunky back then,” “Fat” admits today.

His weight, though, never interfered with his skills as a goaltender. He was, in fact, exceptional with above-average puck-stopping abilities. For those lucky enough to have seen him play for Berlin High School and then for the Berlin Maroons, all of the memories remain robust.

“Fat’s” interest in the position was tweaked at age 13 or so, when he and his friends played pick-up games out on the frozen river. “I was very competitive,” he says. “I hated losing, and we were that day, by a lot of goals. So, I swapped positions and put on the pads. When we were finished playing, everyone said that I should be the goalie. So, I was.”

Back in the season of 1937-38, the Berlin High School hockey program, after several years in deep freeze, was resurrected, much to the liking of students and adults throughout the city.

“Fat,” then a sophomore, eagerly dragged his pads and gloves out of the closet and earned himself the top goaltending job.

By the time he was a senior that being the 1939-40 season he enjoyed a high reputation that was enhanced by his four shutouts and the team’s 11 wins.

Berlin went on to win the 1940 state hockey title. (Note: The title is considered unofficial due to the fact that the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association was not formed until after the 1945- 46 season.

Also that season, “Fat” added All State Goalie to his personal credentials. He graduated that June.

In 1996, Berlin High School honored him with induction into its Athletic Hall of Fame. In addition to hockey, he had played varsity football and baseball, and was voted as Berlin High School’s Best Athlete of the 1930- 40 Decade.

When the 1940-41 season rolled around, the Berlin Maroons were in the market for a dependable goaltender, and “Fat,” then 19, got the job, playing every minute of every game.

When America entered WWII in December of 1941, “Fat” hung up his pads and enlisted in the US Navy, serving three years aboard an anti-submarine bomber in the Pacific. By the time he was discharged in 1944, he had flown 28 missions.

When he returned home, his Maroons teammates eagerly awaited for him to put on the pads. He did and ended up playing for the seven seasons between 1944-45 and 1950-51.

Recently he wrote: “In all of those years, I never missed a game due to injury or illness. I may have missed a few periods, just to give our backup goaltender a chance to play, but never a whole game.”

The Maroons back then were an established force in the national Senior Amateur ranks and won three New England AHA titles while “Fat” was in the net: 1948 – 1949 – 1950.

He also was in the net when the Maroons played in the 1948 National AHA tournament in Toledo, OH, and again in 1949 in the National tournament in New York City.

His outstanding abilities as a netminder factored heavily in those consistent Maroons’ successes during that time.

After “Fat” hung up his pads in 1951, he turned to officiating and established himself a lustrous reputation as a fair, knowledgeable and incisive referee.

For the 1952-62 decade, he regularly worked as a NHIOA official, calling high school and college games, and also as an AHA referee, calling amateur games throughout New England.

Today, in the company of his dear friend, Alice, he splits his time between Ormand, FL and Chateauguay, Quebec. He confesses, though, “that a large part of me is still in Hockey Town USA, in good old Berlin.”

Merrill P. Fay

Growing up in Rochester, Merrill attended Spaulding High School, a member of the Class of 1954. He was Class President in 1953 and 1954, and played varsity basketball, varsity football and was selected to the National Honor Society.

Merrill received the prestigious Elks Award, Renseller Award, and Bosch and Lomb Award.

After graduation from Spaulding, he attended Philips Exeter Academy for a post-graduate year in 1955.

He then attended the University of Michigan, continuing his education there in 1956, 1957 and 1958. Unfortunately, his Dad passed away in the spring of 1958 and Merrill made the decision to take over the family’s boat yard. Of note, Merrill’ father was the hockey coach for Spaulding High School from 1948-1952.

In the early Seventies, he maintained a skating rink within the confines of his boat yard on Lake Winnipesaukee. He flooded the ice and kept it plowed after snow storms.

Merrill became involved in hockey in 1978 in the Lakes Region when his son, Will, was seven years old. He later became Chairman of the Lakes Region Youth Hockey Association and built the first rink in Gilford at Varney Point. It was on public land and Merrill had Bruins’ stars Bobby Orr and Don Awrey come up from Boston to help raise money for the new outdoor rink. A roof went up in 1984 and Merrill purchased a used Zamboni from the Nashua Ice Palace.

In the early to mid-Eighties, he helped out doing whatever he could at the Rochester arena.

In 1989, Merrill formed the non-profit Winnipesaukee Skating Club. He purchased 7 acres of land and did a considerable amount of fund raising towards the $1.5 million goal. When the doors opened in 1994 as the Laconia Ice Arena, it was virtually debt free.

Merrill’s son, Will Fay, is the owner of the Laconia Leafs hockey team which competes in the Atlantic Junior Hockey League.

The late Maurice Couture, whose standout playing career for Sacred Heart spanned the entire existence of the team, is remembered as a marvelous stickhandler who could score from seemingly impossible angles with an accurate shot.

Born in Concord in 1915, Couture grew up playing hockey on local ponds, including White’s Park. His family lived on Warren Street across from Concord High School. He had two brothers and three sisters. His brother, Lionel, also played for a time with Sacred Heart.

Couture worked at the St. Paul’s School maintenance shop and later at its post office. He also enjoyed playing tennis at the Bow Brook Club and softball for a west end team in the city. He later married and bought a home on Broadway Street.

Couture played for Sacred Heart from 1931-52. He compiled the highest number of goals (119) and assists (115) of any player on the team, and was named captain of the team following Paul Colgan’s retirement from play in 1947. He finished his playing career with 234 points in 150-plus games.

Teammates and friends remember that, though Couture was not the fastest skater on the ice, he had the ability to deke out opposing players, especially goalies, to set himself up in position to score. He also had the uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time to make a perfect pass, while also knowing when to shoot on net himself.

He was the captain of Sacred Heart during the famous hockey game held in Concord against the 1952 U.S. Olympic team. Following the disbandment of the team at the end of the 1951-52 season, he continued to play in pickup hockey games at White’s Park for another decade.

Couture would often work late at the outdoor Sacred Heart ice rink to flood and maintain it.  It was said he just loved being on the ice and playing whenever he could. His acquaintances also recall how he had a great sense of humor and strong character, and welcomed many new players into the Sacred Heart fold.

Couture passed away at the age of 86 in Concord on Christmas Day in 1999.

Those four years that Matt Robbins skated for Nashua High School were marked, emphatically so, by a gaggle of wins: 64, to be exact-against just 16 losses and three ties.

There were back-to-back state hockey championships, too-the first in his freshman year of 1985, and then again in 1986. Plus, there was a 33-game win streak fashioned over three seasons.

That ’85 hockey championship was the very first in Nashua High School’s long and distinguished athletic history. And ironically, all three of the team’s tournament wins that March were by 3-2 margins.

The championship of ’86 was doubly special, culminating the hockey program’s first undefeated season, 21-0, to go along with the back-to-back title sequence.

There also was a near-miss title during that time period. It came in Durham in March of 1988 when Nashua lost an overtime heartbreaker in the final round, 5-4, to Trinity High School of Manchester.

Matt’s coach, Bill Batte, now retired from high school hockey, well remembers how his gifted forward made good things happen on the ice.

“During those four years, I watched him do phenomenal things with a hockey stick,” he says. “And people came out just to watch him.”

In Matt’s senior year of 1988, he was paid a high compliment by Manchester Memorial coach, Bernie Dudley. Right after a 3-2 double-overtime state tournament loss to Nashua, the opposing coach saluted Matt as “Mister Everything.”

And throughout that season he was, indeed, Mister Everything, finishing with 38 goals and 37 assists, scoring at least once in each of the 21 games that Nashua played.

And, too, 1988 marked the fourth consecutive year Matt was named an All State forward.

Although selected by the New York Islanders in the 9th round of the 1989 NHL entry draft (overall 170th), Matt opted to enroll at the University of Lowell.

After skating in just 14 college games and scoring a pair of goals with eight assists, he decided to take advantage of his draft opportunity and he turned pro.

Ultimately, he played five seasons in the East Coast Hockey League.

To start the 1992-93 season, he reported to the Birmingham Bulls. However, after just a few games, he was in Johnstown, Pennsylvania wearing the uniform of the famed Chiefs.

In 1993, he again changed teams, signing on with the Charlotte Checkers, later making a brief nine-game stopover with the Providence Bruins in the American Hockey League.

In five ECHL seasons, including his four with the Checkers, he played 314 games, scoring 137 goals and 269 assists.

His best ECHL scoring season was 1993-94 when he had 33 goals and 56 assists in 53 games.

Matt finished his career in Finland after the 1997-98 season, having played 44 games with the Karpat team. He posted a 50-point season, with 21 goals and 29 assists.

Matt today lives in Merrimack with his wife, Kathy, and their daughter, Kelly, and son, Kyle.

He is part owner of JDM Pharmaceutical Water Systems in Nashua, a company started in 1986 by his dad.

Interestingly, Matt’s long-time friend and high school teammate, Jacque “Jack” Rodrigue-also one of today’s NH Legends of Hockey inductees-is employed by JDM Pharmaceutical Water Systems.

It’s a short list of players from New Hampshire who can claim a two-decade career playing professional hockey, and Mark Stuckey is at the top of that list.

The Concord native, who grew up on the campus of St. Paul’s School, where his father, Dan Stuckey ’09, was a teacher and hockey coach, went on to start at Hotchkiss School and then Princeton. At Princeton, he set a new freshman scoring record in 1971-72 and was presented with the team’s Hobey Baker Trophy for his contributions in play, sportsmanship and influence. He led the Tigers in goal scoring as a senior.

Stuckey attended the Eastern tryouts for the U.S. Olympic Team in the spring of 1975. The head coach was the late Bob Johnson and Stuckey was one of the last players cut.

From there, his career took him to Europe, where he signed his first professional contract for Renon of the Italian “A” League, playing from 1975-76 through 1979-80, twice leading the league in scoring. Another season, he played solely on defense and ended the season with the second-most goals in the league.

“That year,” he said, “I scored 50 goals playing defense the whole year, living out my Bobby Orr fantasies.”

In 1980-81 he crossed into Switzerland, playing for Dubendorf for three years in the Swiss “B” League, leading the league in goals the first year. He played the next two seasons in the Italian “A” League for Merano and the following as a player-coach for Renon, helping that team win the “B” championship and earn its spot back in the “A” League.

He’d play six more seasons in Italy, five with Hockey Club Fassa and his final one with Renon. Having received his Italian citizenship, he was chosen and played for the Italian National Team.

“You don’t play professionally for nearly 20 years overseas without being real good,” said Dana Barbin ’11, whose own career took him to Europe in the 1980s. “Anybody I ever ran into overseas, when Mark’s named was mentioned, they always commented what a great player he was.”

Undersized but speedy, Stuckey was a scorer wherever he played, at times finishing with more goals than former and future NHL players who were in his league, like Mark Pavelich, Jacques Lemaire and Jari Kurri.

“He was an outstanding skater-fast, strong with great stick skills and very determined,” said Barbin. “His slap shot was outstanding and was renowned for his sweep-check, something you no longer see in hockey.”

After a 10-year stint coaching professionally in Italy and Germany, Stuckey turned to another sport – golf, which he’s been teaching for 15 years.

Mark S. Evans

When goalies at Phillips Exeter Academy get their instruction, they know they’re being taught by a guy who’s seen first-hand what they’re doing – and has done it well.

Evans went from a walk-on to a starting goalie during his days at the University of New Hampshire in the 1970s, playing for coach Charlie Holt and with teammates like John Fontas, Bruce Crowder, Bobby Miller, Frank Roy, Cecil Luckern, John Corriveau, Cap Raeder, Bob Blood and Rod Langway.

During his UNH days he played a total of 53 regular-season games. As a senior, he made a program-record 808 saves (since topped by Greg Moffet); received the Roger LeClerc Award, which is voted by the players for the team’s MVP; was named Most Improved Player. Evans is believed to be the only player in program history to go from a walk-on to team MVP by the time his career was finished.

After graduation, he went on to play for the Cape Cod/New Hampshire Freedoms and Manchester Blackhawks of the NEHL, and the Erie Blades and Richmond Rifles of the EHL.

As a professional, he was invited to three preseason NHL training camps – the Edmonton Oilers, Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins. He eventually moved on to Europe, playing for Club HieloJaca for the Spanish National League as one of the two allowed imports for the team during the 1982-83 season.

Growing up in Freedom, N.H., and Cape Cod, and traveling a lot with his father serving in the Air Force, Evans began playing hockey at a young age, following in the footsteps of his older brother and father. He enrolled at Brewster Academy to play for legendary coach Pop Whalen, and followed Whalen to Berwick Academy when Brewster cut hockey from its athletic budget.

He was the first-string goalie for three years, leading his team to a Northeast Junior A championship. Among his teammates was future Olympic hero Mike Eruzione, who was attending for a postgraduate year.

For the past 15 years, Evans has been the goalie coach at Phillips Exeter Academy, helping the program win a New England championship in 1999. All three of his children played hockey at Exeter High School and he has also devoted time to coaching youth hockey with New Hampshire East.

Malcolm Kenneth Gordon

The ultimate recognition of your contributions to the hockey world is to have a rink named in your honor and to be elected to the US Hockey Hall of Fame.

Malcolm Kenneth Gordon, who lived to be 96, achieved both honors.

Gordon’s name is on a rink at St. Paul’s School in Concord, hung there posthumously in 1966. His induction into the US Hockey Hall of Fame happened in 1973.

In each case, he was honored as a visionary, an organizer, a guiding influence in hockey’s early development and as an outstanding athlete-all major contributions to the sport.

His connection to St. Paul-s School began in 1882 when he arrived as a young student. He graduated in 1887 as ice hockey in the US was becoming a refined, streamlined game with specific rules, moving quickly toward becoming the modern game we all now know so well.

Although the 11-man game of shinny is known to have been played at SPS in the early 1870s, it wasn’t until the afternoon of November 17, 1883, out on SPS’s Lower School Pond, that the first old style game of hockey was played in the USA. More than a decade later, in 1895-generally acknowledged to be The Year- the modern game was established, and Malcolm Gordon was right there in the middle of it all, making much of the evolution possible. While still a student, he was an enthusiastic admirer of the game. In 1889 he became the SPS hockey coach and his career spanned 28 years. During that time, he brought Canadian rules to campus, massaged them judiciously, and created the basis for what became American rules.

As a coach with the ear of the alumni, he bucked the tide that was already running towards athletic specialization. He encouraged diversity in accomplishment rather than specialization. This led to his creation in 1892 of The Gordon Challenge Medal, now the school’s highest athletic award.

Among his many players was the legendary Hobey Baker, who played at SPS in 1905-1909 and later achieved great fame as an athlete at Princeton University.

Coach Gordon left St. Paul’s School in 1917, entered World War I and founded the Malcolm Gordon School in Garrison, NY. Originally, Gordon Rink on the SPS campus stood as a single facility, completed in 1966. The current hockey center, completed in 1998, has two ice surfaces. Gordon Rink was renovated and Ingalls Rink was added. Malcolm Gordon, indeed, left an indelible mark on the game.

Malcolm Kenneth Gordon – Class of 2008.

Please welcome David Gordon, accepting for his grandfather, the late Malcolm Kenneth Gordon.

Leonard ‘Red’ Brochu

He had enough. After pinning one player under his knee, taking another off his back and throwing a third over the boards, the 6-foot-2, 250-pounder glided over to the Montreal Police bench and in so many words told them if they didn’t clean it up, the game wouldn’t continue and they could settle their issues off the ice.

After he removed his officiating shirt, that is. One of eight children, Red Brochu learned his English in the basement of the Sacred Heart Church in Concord, where he attended Concord High School in 1946. Red skated for the hockey team through his senior year in 1950, playing an influential role in guiding the Crimson Tide to the semifinals as a senior, where it fell to Berlin, 2-1, in double overtime.

Red continued his career, playing for Sacred Heart in the team’s final year of existence. He moved on to play for the Shamrocks, who played at White Park, in the 60s. It was during this time that he also helped assist Concord High Coach Paul Dupont in 1961.

Red’s brother, Robert Brochu, was the superintendent of the construction company that built Everett Arena.

Red was also a part of starting the Concord Youth Hockey Association. Red and John Healy were amongst a group that helped founder Russ Martin start the youth hockey program in 1959-60. And it was at this time that Red began officiating.

Sometimes four to five games a day, Red officiated youth hockey games on weekends, donating his time and energy to the game he loved. In the evenings he would officiate high school, college or senior games.

Known to always carry two pairs of skates with him, so he’d always have a dry pair, Red officiated somewhere between 90 to 120 high school, college and senior games per year.

Red also officiated league games for the Eastern Olympics, Blackhawks, Maroons and Budmen. It was during one of these games that he had his run-in with the Montreal Police, who were in town for a game against the Eastern Olympics.

After a third back surgery in 1979, Red retired from coaching. And when Charlie Holt was re-writing the collegiate hockey officiating book he called upon Red for his input.

Red returned to coaching during the 70s, following the birth of this son, Len, in 1966. He coached Len from clinic all the way through peewees. Bishop Brady Coach Bud Luckern coached Len for one year before retiring, thus handing over the reins to Red, who took over the helm and coached Bishop Brady from 1981-86.

Red passed away in June of 2007 at the age of 73 while he building a stone wall for his business, Brochu Nurseries. He did get a chance to see most of his grandchildren play hockey; Ryan, DJ and Greg Proulx, and Hannah and Lenny Brochu III. His youngest grandsons William and Henry Brochu were only one year old when he passed away.

One of his greatest joys was watching how his love of hockey transferred down to his children and grandchildren.

Leo W. Vaillancourt

Leo Vaillancourt grew up during the time when the young sport of ice hockey was growing rapidly in Berlin. In 1920 the local paper mill organized a company hockey league, and nearly a dozen social clubs sponsored their own teams. Leo played for the Joliette Hockey Club in the mid-1930s. After high school graduation, Vaillancourt played for the Berlin Hockey Club that became the Berlin Maroons in January 1937. Leo was part of the high scoring “Kid Line” with Hall of Famer Barney LaRoche as his teammate. Soon the Berlin Maroons became a powerhouse winning the 1941 New England AHA Championship with Vaillancourt scoring seven goals in that tournament.

Leo then served in the European Campaign of WWII from 1942 to 1945.

The Maroons resumed playing in 1946/47. In 1947/48, Vaillancourt led them to another New England title as their team captain. The Maroons won a third NE Title in 1949 with Vaillancourt scoring 48 goals and 23 assists that season. Leo was selected to the 1949 New England AHA All-Star Team. He was top scorer the following year with 74 points. In 1951, Captain Vaillancourt led the Maroons to another NE title.

In the 1953/54 season, Leo gave up the uniform and became Coach Vaillancourt. The Maroons became the dominant amateur hockey team in New England winning the National AHA Championship.

Including and following his playing years, Leo Vaillancourt became a member of the National Athletic Amateur Association (NAAA) and the National Intercollegiate Hockey Official Association from 1950 to 1975. In addition, he was a member of the NAAA Evaluation Committee.

Leo J. Gould

Born and raised north of the border, Leo came to the United States in 1960. Not surprisingly, he brought his skates.

From 1960 through 1964, Leo played with the Fitchburg Aces and the Fort Devens’ team. He worked tirelessly to upgrade the latter program.

By 1964, he was playing for the Manchester Alpine in the Granite State Hockey League and in 1965-66 joined the Nashua Royals, winning the G.S.H.L Championship. That team was led by later-to-be Montreal Canadien Bobby Sheehan.

Leo joined with three friends in 1966 to work on opening a rink in Nashua. A year later, Leo was playing for the Manchester Blackhawks and journeyed to Fitchburg MA where he founded and played for the Fitchburg Royals through 1971.

Leo, in 1970 was hired to assist in the final development and management of the Wallace Civic Center in Fitchburg. He oversaw the final stages of construction of the dual-rink venue and guided it through successful operation for seven years.

Never one to sit still, Leo started the Wallace Wallopers (1972-79) in the New England Junior Hockey League. This team featured many Division I and professional players such as NH’s own Lee Blossom (Boston College), Phil Bourque (Penguins), Mathieu Snider (Red Wings), Bobby Williams (Bruins), and Jim Campbell (Canadiens) to name a few.

From 1972-77 he hosted the Boston Bruins training camp at Wallace Civic Center, the first time an NHL team held a training camp in the United States.

Leo attended NHL Referee School in Haliburton, Ontario in 1973 and in 1977 he and his son, Mike, refereed a Boston Bruins vs NY Rangers pre-season game.

In 1982, Leo along with Ron Gosselin founded the Manchester Jr. Canadiens, coached by Don Awrey.

In 1994, Leo took over the Tyngsboro-Nashua Huskies Junior Hockey Team, a New Hampshire not-for-profit corporation in the New England Junior League. He is currently President of the New England Junior Huskies. He was instrumental in the development of Junior Hockey in America and continues his dedication to hockey through team ownership and as a Scout for the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Major Junior League.

In 2002, Leo was inducted into the Lakes Region Hockey Hall of Fame.

Twenty-eight years of competitive ice time adds up to a lot of worn skate laces and hundreds of games played on a long list of rinks. For Lee, you also could add in that the pucks from all of the goals he scored over that time might easily fill a dump truck.

Lee came up through the Concord Youth Hockey Association-Mites through Bantams-first stepping onto the ice at age 5. By the time he was a Squirt, he showed his natural knack for puck control and scoring. Always a forward, he enrolled at St. Paul’s School for grade 7, later playing three seasons of varsity hockey, always among the school’s top scorers.

Just prior to his senior year, he transferred to Concord High School (class of 1977) and in that one season led CHS to its first State hockey title, defeating Bishop Guertin, 3-2. In the semi-final round versus Manchester Memorial, Lee scored five goals in the 5-2 win. He ended that season as the State’s top schoolboy scorer: 35G – 32A – 67P. He also, that school year, captained hockey, golf and baseball.

After graduation, he went to the Oshawa Generals’ (Ontario Hockey League) training camp and was assigned to play with the Newmarket Flyers. The lone American on that team, he finished 5th in scoring.

Returning home for the 1978-79 season, he played for the Fitchburg (MA) Wallopers in the New England Junior Hockey League, leading the league in scoring with a record-setting 115 points. He was named MVP. The Wallopers then won the NEJHL title and Lee was named tourney MVP and also a member of the All Tourney 1st team.

Then came Boston College, where for his four varsity seasons (1979-80 through 1982-83), he was a major scoring force. As a freshman, he finished 2nd in the 1980 ECAC Rookie of the Year balloting. As a junior, he led the team in goals scored, finishing 2nd in total points. As a senior, he was team captain and again led the team in goals scored, ranking 2nd in total points. He also played in four Beanpot Tournament finals, winning the championship his senior year. His varsity production of 58G – 60A – 118P in 111 games earned him a place in BC’s prestigious 100-point Club. He graduated in 1983 with a bachelor of arts in economics.

After graduation, he attended the Pittsburgh Penguins’ training camp and was assigned to the Nashville (TN) South Stars of the East Coast Hockey League. Later that season, he was with the Virginia Lancers and by season’s end had played in 69 games, scoring 61G – 47A – 108P.

In 1984, he again attended the Penguins’ training camp and returned to the Virginia Lancers’ lineup. After 46 games, he was moved over to the International Hockey League to play with the Toledo (OH) Goaldiggers. His season’s production in 71 games was 65G – 64A – 129P.

In 1985, he began the season with the Goaldiggers but at the trading deadline in March of ’86 was sent to the IHL’s Fort Wayne (IN) Komets. It was a three-for-one swap, with Lee being the One player in the transaction! Fort Wayne, with him in the lineup, definitely got the best of the deal and eventually won the IHL title, thanks to his sharp scoring skills. The team, though, lost in the Turner Cup finals. In 72 games that season (with both teams), Lee had 33G – 33A – 66P.

At the start of the 1986-87 season, Lee again was on the Fort Wayne roster but later was offered a contract to play in Finland. He decided to retire as a pro and he returned to Concord.

For the next five seasons (1987-88 through 1991-92), he regularly suited-up with the Concord Budmen, continuing to produce game winning goals and assists, fashioning a lot of memories for teammates and for the many who watched him play. He also has filled his hockey time as assistant hockey coach at Plymouth State College (1987-89); as a color broadcaster for Channel 12-Concord H S (1989-94); and currently serves as a member of the BC Hockey Booster Club (Pike’s Peak Club).

Today, he resides in Boston’s North End and is national sales director for Consumers Medical Resource of Pembroke, MA.