Coach Angelo Ricci and his 16-and-under Colorado Thunderbirds hockey team would have preferred to win last month’s USA Hockey Tier 1 national title with leading scorer Quentin Shore on the ice ...

Colorado finally has a champion at youth hockey’s highest level. In beating the North Jersey Avalanche, 5-1, today in Woodridge, Ill., the Colorado Thunderbirds under-16 squad became the state ...