Lake Placid Roamers

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The Lake Placid Roamers were an independent, intermediate senior level ice hockey team from Lake Placid, New York. The Roamers were a farm team of the New York Rangers,[1] and produced future National Hockey League goaltender Gilles Mayer.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]

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  1. ^ New York Rangers franchise biography New York Rangers Franchise Biography
  2. ^ Gil Mayer's biography at Legends of Hockey
  3. ^ Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn
  4. ^ Spokane Eagle Electric

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