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Street Hockey Revival
Posted: June 07, 2010 12:20PM; Updated: June 07, 2010 4:27PM
 | | Hockey fever has caught two year-old Roman Gallagher as he calls for the ball during a game near his Penndel home Thursday. The groups of friends numbering close to ten play several times a week. Street hockey was popular in the 1970s and is becoming popu | The Intelligencer recently published an article on the Flyers
success, and the subsequent effect of street and roller hockey in the
Philadelphia area. PCRHL Commissioner Brian Smith was interviewed and
briefly quoted in the article.
By: COLLEEN BOYLE
The Intelligencer
The original Broad Street Bullies inspired a
generation of Any Street Bullies who took up the asphalt version of ice
hockey. The latest version of the Flyers could have a similar impact.
In the mid-1970s, Philadelphia caught the fever.
Black and orange jerseys flourished across the city and surrounding
suburbs as young people, inspired by the dream, turned to pickup games
on the blacktop. The Flyers had won the Stanley Cup back-to-back and
street hockey, a more accessible and cheaper version of the game on ice,
was king.
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