Yushiro Hirano

ECHL Game Recap: Adirondack Thunder Clinch North Division Title in OT Win Over Maine Mariners | 04/12/2024

The Adirondack Thunder and Maine Mariners faced off on Friday Night for the Mariners final home game of the season. The Mariners honored the late Raymond “Switch” Dudley, who passed away earlier this year. Dudley was a longtime fan and loved by players on both sides of the ice. He was inducted into the Portland […]

ECHL Game Recap: Adirondack Thunder vs Maine Mariners | 03/09/2024

The Adirondack Thunder came into Saturday Night needing a bounce-back performance after getting shutout for just the second time all season, with both times coming against the Maine Mariners. It would be a much better start for Adirondack as they would outshoot Maine 11-1 in the opening 10 minutes, but it would be the Mariners […]

ECHL Game Recap: Adirondack Thunder vs. Reading Royals | 02/23/2024

GLENS FALLS- The Adirondack Thunder have now won three straight games as they defeated the Reading Royals on Friday Night by a score of 4-1 in front of yet another sold-out crowd at Cool Insuring Arena. Adirondack wouldn’t get off to the start they wanted as Colin Felix took a penalty just 34 seconds after […]

ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Transactions|02/12/2024

The Adirondack Thunder continue to get reinforcements back as Yushiro Hirano has been loaned to Thunder from the Utica Comets after spending last week with Team Japan for the Olympic Qualifying games, putting up a goal and an assist in three games. In 34 games with Adirondack this season, Hirano has 11 goals and 19 […]

ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Mid-Season Report Card

The Adirondack Thunder have officially hit the halfway point and have taken their success at the end of last season and applied it to this season as they currently have a record of 25-8-2-1 and sit in first place in the North Division and second in the Eastern Conference heading into the All-Star Break. “Certainly […]

ECHL Game Recap: Adirondack Thunder vs Trois-Rivieres Lions| 01/03/2024

The Adirondack Thunder have kicked off 2024 the same way they ended 2023 with a win as the Thunder improved to 19-8-2-1 this year and now sit just two points out of the top spot in the Eastern Conference. In the opening frame, Joe Vrbetic and Vinnie Purpura would both make some big saves to […]

ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Sit Atop North Division After Busy Week

For the first time in a long time, the Adirondack Thunder sit atop the North Division for the first time since November 3rd, 2019, after picking up seven of a possible eight points during a busy four games in five-day stretch last week, as three of those games would be played in Glens Falls. This […]

ECHL: Adirondack’s Third Period Struggles Lead To Railers Sweep

The Adirondack Thunder have lost back-to-back games for the first time since their first two games of the season, as they lost on opening night vs Worcester and in their home opener in OT vs Maine. It was the first visit to Cool Insuring Arena, and when asked if this was a revenge game for […]

ECHL: Henri Tikkanen’s Career Day Spoiled By Adirondack Thunder

The Adirondack Thunder have now picked up at least one point in four straight games and now are on a three-game winning streak after beating the Worcester Railers and Henrik Tikkanen 4-3 in a shootout. Adirondack got off to a quick start as Erik Middendorf, who’s had hot stick lately, found a deflection off a […]

ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Storm Back To Earn Point in Home Opener

GLENS FALLS- The Adirondack Thunder opened their home slate on Saturday Night vs Maine Mariners after Friday night’s game was postponed due to the tragedy in Lewiston, Maine, where 18 people lost their lives. Vinnie Purpura, who came into the season as the third-string goaltender, would get the call between the pipes for the Thunder’s […]