How does a hockey player from Flower Mound, Texas, end up playing for the Portland Pirates in the American Hockey League? If you’re Chris Brown, you leave home at age 14 to play for a major midget team in Detroit. Then you spend two years playing for the U.S. national development program’s under-18 team. Finally […]
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Pirates Notebook: Scoring not enough for rookie
How does the player who led all of Canadian junior hockey in scoring last season manage to go undrafted by a National Hockey League team? If you’re Portland Pirates rookie center Brendan Shinnimin, it’s because of your size. “At the time of his draft age, obviously he was a smaller guy,” Phoenix Coyotes assistant general […]
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Happy to be in Portland with NHL lockout in place
Oliver Ekman-Larsson is a regular defenseman for the Phoenix Coyotes who is willing to be in the AHL.
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Idled NHL coaches have time for Pirates
Since the Phoenix Coyote players are locked out, the staff will be in Portland over the next few weeks.
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Pirates: ‘Wrecker’ hoping to be a big hit
Joel Rechlicz, signed by the Coyotes this summer, will provide muscle for Portland.
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Pirate veteran is ‘ready to go’
Alexandre Bolduc will have to wait until the lockout ends to try to get back to the NHL.
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Pirates just got stronger
The labor strife that’s put the NHL season in jeopardy could be a bonanza for AHL teams and fans.
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A lockout won’t stop the AHL
The Portland Pirates will train and play no matter what happens to the parent Phoenix Coyotes.
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Pirates will open season in New York
Portland will start Oct. 13 at Adirondack and play its first game at the Civic Center on Nov. 2.
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Pirates’ lineup likely to be younger, bigger
The 2012-13 roster is far from set, but it’ll include some new veterans and several rookies.