Lake Placid Roamers

The Lake Placid Roamers were an independent, intermediate senior level ice hockey team from Lake Placid, New York. The Roamers operated from 1946 to 1952,[1] and were a farm team of the New York Rangers,[2] and produced future National Hockey League goaltender Gilles Mayer.[3] The team was coached by Aurel Myre and Doug Keenan.[1] The Roamers participated in the first games at the opening of the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, playing two exhibition games versus the Crescent Athletic Club.[4] The Roamers defeated Spokane, Washington's Eagle Electric team in a two-game total goal series played at Lake Placid for the 1967–68 national senior ice hockey title, by scores of 13–7 and 8–3.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Lake Placid Roamers hockey team statistics and history at hockeydb.com
  2. ↑ New York Rangers franchise biography New York Rangers Franchise Biography
  3. ↑ Gil Mayer's biography at Legends of Hockey
  4. ↑ Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn
  5. ↑ Spokane Eagle Electric


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