The Salem Saints began their second season in the Valley Hockey League. Nine Saints teams play there, while the Midget 1 team competes in the Granite State League. During games played the week of Sept. 14 to 20: The Mites beat S & S, 7- 2, with Mason Drouin and Nick Peters garnering two goals apiece. Brendon Banks, Michael Drouin and Jake ...

New Hampshire Motor Speedway is teaming up with the Manchester Monarchs for their Fan Appreciation Night celebration on Saturday, April 11 at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, N.H. The Monarchs will be hosting the always tough Portland Pirates.  The team will also be recognizing the great sports fans throughout the area with amazing ...

Following an up-and-down beginning to its season, the Goffstown Middle School ice hockey team proved steady and ready for postseason play, coming from behind to defeat a strong group from North Reading, Mass., 4-2, in the playoff semifinals, then pulling away from Londonderry for a 7-0 shutout victory in the finals recently. Goffstown won four of ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYAfter erasing a 3-0 deficit in the first round of the Division I tournament against West, Salem was unable to hold onto a 2-0 lead versus Bishop Guertin, falling in overtime to the one-loss Cardinals. On March 4, the Blue Devils won, 5-4, at the Icenter to advance to the quarterfinals on Saturday, March 7, where they nearly pulled ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYManchester West found itself on the side of the Division I hockey tournament highway in a familiar position – out of gas. Skating only two lines against Salem High School in their quarterfinal-round match on March 4, the ninth-seeded Blue Knights couldn’t hold a 3- 0 lead and were bumped from the playoffs following a ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYAfter a taste of the postseason in 2009, the Bedford hockey team is ready for a larger portion next season. The sixth-seeded Bulldogs chowed down on No. 3 seed Somersworth on Saturday, March 7, in a 3-1 victory, but were sent home with an empty feeling following a 7-1 thumping from Kennett in the Division-III semifinals on ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYIt wasn’t a storybook ending for Bow, though it was a tale fans of the Falcons have seen before. Seventh-seeded Bow fell to second-ranked Lebanon, 4-3, in the quarterfinal round of the Division II ice hockey tournament on Saturday, March 7. “We had a couple chances. We had a power play and one where the goalie was ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORFor the second straight year, the Goffstown Grizzlies put together an exemplary regular season, earned home ice in the first round, then suffered a heartbreaking overtime defeat and missed the Division II semifinals. After coming back from a late two-goal deficit before falling to Bow in last season’s quarterfinal ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYWhen Matt Guerard saw the container of carnations carried to the ice for Pembroke Academy’s Senior Night, he wasn’t sure what to think. For now, Bedford’s head coach doesn’t have to worry about that kind of ceremony. The first-year BHS hockey team prepares to enter the Division III playoffs after a 12-5-1 ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORCall it a roller coaster season. Call it a year of hills and valleys. Call it what you will, but after 18 Division II ice hockey games, Bow finds itself exactly where it is every March … in the playoffs. Though the Falcons slipped in their regular-season finale at home, 4-2, to three-win Winnacunnet, head coach Tim ...