Chris Van Buskirk
State House News Service
BOSTON Lost jobs in the leisure and hospitality sectors are likely not coming back anytime soon and the job market may look particularly different after the state recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official in the region s workforce development industry said. Nothing came even close to the devastating job losses in leisure and hospitality, as travel was just simply shut down, JVS President and CEO Jerry Rubin said during a virtual forum on Tuesday. Because of the uneven impact of the COVID recession across different industry sectors, the pain of this recession was not spread evenly. Here in Massachusetts, the leisure and hospitality sector is dominated by immigrants, women and other workers of color.
Maven s Memories: Kelly Hrudey s Road to the Islanders
Stan Fischler chronicles Kelly Hrudey s path from learning to skate at age 11 to making the NHL by Stan Fischler @StanFischler / NewYorkIslanders.com The miracles we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer - U.S. Armed Forces Slogan
Considering Kelly Hrudey s goaltending career, that could have been his slogan as well.
After all, Hrudey was in goal April 18-19, 1987, making 73 saves as the Islanders beat Washington in the playoffs. The Easter Epic.
It was the longest Game Seven in history, spanning four overtime periods. The Hockey News rated it One of the greatest games ever played all-time.