Lake Placid Roamers

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, [ [http://couchpotatohockey.com/Teams/Team%20Biographies/New_York_Rangers.asp New York Rangers franchise biography New York Rangers Franchise Biography] ] and produced future National Hockey League goaltender Gilles Mayer. [ [http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=18609 Gil Mayer's biography at Legends of Hockey] ] 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. [ [http://www.mindspring.com/~luckyshow/IceHockey/NYRovers.htm Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn] ] 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. [ [http://spokanehockeybook.com/images/1960S/WHENTHEE.PDF Spokane Eagle Electric] ]

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* [http://www.sport-stat.ru/hockey/teams.php?c=134&y=1947&t=2990 1946–47 Lake Placid Roamers roster]
* [http://www.sport-stat.ru/hockey/teams.php?c=134&y=1950&t=2990 1949–50 Lake Placid Roamers roster]
* [http://www.sihrhockey.org/public_team_list.cfm?letter=l&PageNum_qTeams=1 SIHR-Society for Internation Hockey Research]