The Thunder made its first visit to Sovereign Center in Reading, Pa. on Thursday and had a brisk and productive practice. The Thunder is preparing for the start of the ECHL Kelly Cup Finals against the Reading Royals which begins 4:05 p.m. Saturday. Stockton flew to Pennsylvania on Wednesday, and went on the ice on [...]
The Stockton Thunder is on its way to the Kelly Cup Finals after vanquishing the Idaho Steelheads for the Western Conference crown, but the players who celebrated on the ice aren’t the only winners. Owners Brad and Dawn Rowbotham and team president Dan Chapman now have a banner to hang in Stockton Arena, and are [...]
The Thunder hasn’t done anything the easy way throughout the postseason, so it’s not surprising there would be one more hurdle as it moved the the verge of an ECHL National Conference championship. Stockton led 3-2 with 1.4 seconds left in the game when they was a mad scramble in front of the Thunder net [...]
So, is the home team going to win one in this series? So far it hasn’t happened. After dropping two in Boise, the Idaho Steelheads got a bit of revenge by beating the Stockton Thunder 2-1 in overtime on Wednesday at Stockton Arena. It was a very good game. The Thunder certainly played pretty well, [...]
The Thunder won the first two games of the Western Conference finals against the Steelheads in Idaho, and come home at 7 p.m. Wednesday to try to put Idaho in a deeper hole. Both coaches — Matt Thomas of Stockton and Brad Ralph of Idaho — have praised the opposition, but Ralph did make some [...]
That’s what you call a productive weekend. The Thunder went to Boise Idaho, played the Steelheads and skated away with two wins in the ECHL Western Conference finals. The Thunder is halfway to qualifying for its first Kelly Cup Finals in its eight-season history, and now take the series back to Stockton Arena, where it [...]
The Reading (Pa.) Royals is the fourth and final team to reach the conference championship round. The Stockton Thunder qualified Tuesday, and will meet the Idaho Steelheads in the first game of the Western Conference finals on Friday in Boise Idaho. Reading finished off the Florida Everblades in seven games on Wednesday, and move on [...]
The Thunder’s familiar, thrilling formula has put it in the ECHL’s version of the frozen four. The Thunder fell behind, as usual, rallied as it always seems to do and beat the Alaska Aces 4-3 in Anchorage to finish off its Western Conference semifinal series in six games on Tuesday. Next up is a meeting [...]
The Thunder could have finished its series with the Alaska on Sunday and taken a few days to bask in the warm California sun. But lost, so it’s off to Alaska, where it was 41 degrees on Sunday evening. The Thunder still has a 3-2 lead in the ECHL Western Conference semifinals, and has two [...]
You need good goaltending to win in the postseason, and Matt Thomas makes it clear he believes Olivier Roy is playing his best hockey of the postseason. Roy gave up a power play goal and then held off the ECHL’s best offense. The Thunder managed to scratch out a goal by Eric Hunter in the [...]
Related Content