The American Hockey League is remembering Ed Anderson, the longtime government with the Maine Mariners and Windfall Bruins who handed away on Thursday at his house in Scarborough, Maine.
Anderson was 77.
The primary individual employed by the Philadelphia Flyers’ new AHL affiliate in Portland, Maine, in 1977, Anderson served as enterprise supervisor earlier than being elevated to president in 1978, a place he held till the franchise’s transfer to Windfall in 1992. He was chairman and governor of the P-Bruins till 2000, and served on the AHL’s Board of Governors all through his time within the league, together with positions on the manager committee and structure committee, amongst others. Anderson’s Bruins have been chosen to host the primary fashionable AHL All-Star Sport in 1995.
“Ed Anderson was a masterful enterprise supervisor and marketer, as evidenced by the dramatic success of the Maine Mariners and Windfall Bruins beneath his steerage,” mentioned AHL President and CEO Scott Howson. “He was an integral a part of 4 Calder Cup championship groups and a useful member of the AHL’s Board of Governors for greater than 20 years. Our deepest condolences exit to his spouse, Linda, and Ed’s total household.”
