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Going Out On Top

PEORIA’S HOMETOWN CAPTAIN LED HIS TEAM TO COMEBACK TITLE WIN IN SWAN-SONG SEASON
Going Out On Top
THE PEORIA RIVERMEN LOST Game 1 of the best-of-three SPHL final, but they still had the Huntsville Havoc right where they wanted them. The championship series shifted to Carver Arena in Peoria, where the Rivermen swept Games 2 and 3 to clinch the league title in a place where they went a combined 28-1-3 in the regular season and playoffs, the best home-ice record among all NHL, AHL, ECHL and SPHL teams in 2023-24. The victory marked the first time in SPHL history that a team lost the opening game of a best-of-three final and came back to win the title. It also marked a storybook farewell for Rivermen captain Alec Hagaman, a 10-year pro who was the only Peoria-born captain in the 42-year history of the franchise. Hagaman, 34, declared…
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