Broome Dusters
Founded	1973
Home ice	Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena The Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena is a 6,925 seat multi-purpose arena in Binghamton, New York. The Arena was completed in 1973, providing an entertainment venue for residents of the Greater Binghamton area. After decades of haggling over location, size, and design - it's rumored a college...
Based in	Binghamton, New York Binghamton, New York Binghamton is a city in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers...
Colors	gold and brown
League	North American Hockey League

The Broome Dusters were an ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team in the North American Hockey League. They played in Binghamton, New York

Binghamton, New York

Binghamton is a city in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers...

, USA at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena

Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena

The Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena is a 6,925 seat multi-purpose arena in Binghamton, New York. The Arena was completed in 1973, providing an entertainment venue for residents of the Greater Binghamton area. After decades of haggling over location, size, and design - it's rumored a college...

. The team logo was designed by Johnny Hart

Johnny Hart

Johnny Hart was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id. Hart was recognized with several awards, including the Swedish Adamson Award and five from the National Cartoonists Society...

, artist of the comic strip "B.C." and a Binghamton native.

Seasons: 1973-1977

Arena: Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena

Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena

The Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena is a 6,925 seat multi-purpose arena in Binghamton, New York. The Arena was completed in 1973, providing an entertainment venue for residents of the Greater Binghamton area. After decades of haggling over location, size, and design - it's rumored a college...

Uniform colors: gold and brown

Logo design:

Division titles won: none

Regular season titles won: none

League championships won: none

History

The Dusters played in the NAHL, which served as the inspiration for the movie Slap Shot

Slap Shot (film)

Slap Shot is a 1977 film comedy starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean directed by George Roy Hill. It depicts a minor league hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a declining factory town.- Plot :...

, which includes a "Broome County" team. One scene in the film was specifically drawn from events that occurred in Binghamton. In the movie, the Hanson brothers wear black-rimmed, Coke-bottle eyeglasses, and in one game, get into a fight immediately after the opening faceoff. In reality what happened was that both Jeff and Steve Carlson wore those type of glasses, and did get into a long fight right after an opening faceoff. Coach Dick Roberge told the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, "We got into Binghamton about two or three weeks before the playoffs. In the team warmup, we're out there and all the Binghamton players came out with the plastic glasses and big noses, every one of them, poking fun at the Carlson brothers. We went back in the dressing room and the boys said, 'Coach, as soon as that puck is dropped, we're pairing up.' We had one heckuva fight. They went about 30 minutes until everyone got tired. We met them again in the finals (1974–75) and beat them four straight."

When the NAHL folded in the 1977, the team was replaced by the Binghamton Dusters

Binghamton Dusters

The Binghamton Dusters were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They played in Binghamton, New York, USA at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena...

 of American Hockey League

American Hockey League

The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League...

 who previously operated as the Providence Reds

Providence Reds

The Providence Reds were a hockey team that played in the Canadian-American Hockey League between 1926–1936 and the American Hockey League from 1936 to 1977, the last season of which they played as the Rhode Island Reds. The team won the Calder Cup in 1938, 1940, 1949, and 1956...

.

Season-by-season results

Regular Season

Season	Games	Won	Lost	Tied	Points	Goals For	Goals Against	Standing
1973–74	74	28	41	5	61	274	352	6th, NAHL
1974–75	74	39	32	3	81	293	286	3rd, NAHL
1975–76	74	27	45	2	56	258	337	5th, West
1976–77	74	41	31	2	84	363	324	3rd, NAHL

Playoffs

Season	1st round	2nd round	Finals
1973–74	Out of Playoffs
1974–75	??	??	L, 0–4, Johnstown Johnstown Jets The Johnstown Jets were a professional ice hockey team from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The Jets were founded in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League for the 1950–51 season, playing at the newly constructed Cambria County War Memorial Arena...
1975–76	Out of Playoffs
1976–77	W, Utica Mohawk Valley Comets They Mohawk Valley Comets are a former professional ice hockey team based in Utica, NY. They were a member of the North American Hockey League from 1973 to 1977.-Season-by-season results:...	L, Maine Maine Nordiques The Maine Nordiques were a professional hockey team that operated within the North American Hockey League from 1973–1977. They were based in Lewiston, Maine.- References :*...

Team records

Goals: 87 Dave Staffen   (1976–77)

Assists: 124 Rod Bloomfield

Rod Bloomfield

Rod Bloomfield was a professional ice hockey player.Bloomfield was a stunt double on the film Slap Shot and did most of the skating in long-shot scenes involving Paul Newman's character, according to others involved with the filming.-Career statistics:-External links:*...

   (1976–77)

Points: 173 Rod Bloomfield   (1976–77)

Penalty Minutes: 273 Paul Stewart

Paul Stewart (ice hockey)

Paul Stewart is a former professional ice hockey player and referee.Stewart played in both the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League. He played with Mark Messier for the Cincinnati Stingers...

   (1975–76)

GAA: 3.61 Rick Lemay   (1974–75)

SV%:

Career Goals: 187 Rod Bloomfield  

Career Assists: 310 Rod Bloomfield  

Career Points: 497 Rod Bloomfield  

Career Penalty Minutes: 505 Paul Stewart  

Career Goaltending Wins:

Career Shutouts:

Career Games: 288 Rod Bloomfield  

External links

• The Internet Hockey Database - Broome Dusters
• The Dusters WSKG history of the Broome Dusters