New York Slapshots & Troy Slapshots
December 30, 2013
The New York Slapshots were a threadbare minor league hockey effort in the low-budget Atlantic Coast Hockey League. The club debuted in the winter of 1985 with the intent of playing at a newly constructed 5,000-seat arena on Staten Island. Construction problems rendered the Slapshots homeless for the 1985-86 season. An effort to re-group for a second season at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s field house in Troy, New York flopped and the Slapshots folded just six games into their second campaign. Read more…
