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Scott Linesburgh

Linesburgh has been a member of The Record’s sports department for 22 years. A native of Wantagh, N.Y., he has covered the Stockton Thunder hockey franchise since its inception in 2005 and has spent two decades reporting on motorsports and various other sports on the high school, college and professional level.

Internet star joins Thunder

By Scott Linesburgh | Published: August 17, 2010 | 0 Comments
If you haven’t seen this, take a look. The Thunder signed forward Scott Howes, who is the player who started one of the best goal-scoring plays you’ll see while playing with the Victoria Salmon Kings last season. He started the play with some fancy passes through the legs of a Bakersfield Condor. Adam Taylor scored, and [...]
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Fun give-and-take at the Thunder’s meet-and-greet

By Scott Linesburgh | Published: July 15, 2010 | 0 Comments
Thunder Matt Thomas said he thoroughly enjoyed Wednesday’s discussion with season ticket holders at the arena. Thomas, team owner Brad Rowbotham and team president Dan Chapman fielded questions from about 250 fans, and Thomas often kidded back and forth with the questioners. One person asked him when he planned to introduce his seven-month-old son, Devlin, to [...]
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ECHL free agency: Who is returning to the Thunder? Let’s take a guess

By Scott Linesburgh | Published: July 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
This is the time of year where facts are hard to come by and hockey fans play a guessing game as they try to figure out or will come back to, or join, their favorite team. We can get some information from who is on the Thunder’s protected list, and who isn’t. Forwards Chris D’Alvise, Igor Gongalsky, [...]
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Can Stork deliver in Greenville?

By Scott Linesburgh | Published: July 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
Dean Stork, the Stockton Thunder’s first captain, has been named the new head coach of the Greenville Road Warriors of the ECHL. Stork, 34, retired after serving as Stockton’s team captain during its inaugural 2005-06 season, and became the assistant coach of the Cincinnati Cyclones. A defenseman who played seven seasons, Stork was given much credit [...]
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Live Chat on Thursday

By Scott Linesburgh | Published: May 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
I’ll be chatting on recordnet.com beginning noon on Thursday. We can talk about the Thunder’s past season and future, it’s new ownership situation, motorsports or any other sports subject of interest. If you get a moment, come by and say hi. There will be a link on the front page of the website.
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A few comments about Game 5

By Scott Linesburgh | Published: May 9, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Thunder lost the fifth game of the ECHL National Conference finals to Idaho 6-3, and now has to find a way to win twice on the road to advance to the Kelly Cup Finals. That will be tough, and here’s a few observations and notes before we put Game 5 to bed: Yes, I believe [...]
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Thunder makes a statement

By Scott Linesburgh | Published: May 8, 2010 | 0 Comments
Thunder 7, Idaho 2 No one expected that. And now that the Thunder has tied up its best-of-seven at 2-2 with its win on Friday, it’s pretty clear that Idaho has a serious fight on its hands. Game 5 is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Stockton Arena. “I think they will definitely be thinking about this (Saturday) and [...]
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Little things can add up to big things

By Scott Linesburgh | Published: May 6, 2010 | 0 Comments
The stars of the Thunder thrilling 1-0 triple-overtime win on Wednesday were goaltender Bryan Pitton and defenseman Ryan Constant, whose long wrist shot finally ended the game. But sometimes the plays which don’t end up on the stat sheet are just as important. Pitton’s older brother, forward Jason Pitton, didn’t get an assist on Constant’s goal, [...]
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Thomas comments on “mismatch” story

By Scott Linesburgh | Published: May 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Stockton Thunder saw the story in the Idaho Statesman after its 4-0 loss to the Steeheads in Game 2. There was a line which caught their attention: “The Idaho Steelheads are starting to make the ECHL’s National Conference Finals against the Stockton Thunder look like a mismatch.” Stockton coach Matt Thomas said his team is down,but [...]
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Thunder must strike early

By Scott Linesburgh | Published: April 30, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Thunder’s ECHL National Conference series isn’t quite the battle of David vs. Goliath it is potrayed to be. Idaho handled the Thunder during the regular season and had the best record in the league, but the teams haven’t met since Jan. 2 and Stockton is a much different and better squad. But the Thunder needs [...]
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