Photo Credit: The Delaware Thunder
The Delaware Thunder had many unknowns when the team was first founded a few years ago. First and foremost, how would the community embrace this team? Boy!!! The people of the “First State” come out in full force for their new found hockey team. Selling out the first game, and many other games after that. Owner, President, and General Manager, Charles Pens Sr. believed a packed house on a nightly basis would make it a tough place to play against, and he was right as the Thunder played competitive hockey for the majority of the season. Fight after fight would ensue on most nights, at times it was like Good Ole’ Fashioned pond hockey with the “Broad Street Bullies” on the ice.
Looking ahead the Thunder have really bolstered their blue line in a big way with an addition of a Philadelphia native in Phil Foster, and I’m pretty sure Foster is a huge Flyers fan as he plays for the Philadelphia Warriors hockey team.
Foster played two seasons for the University of Pennsylvania, and the Thunder are very familiar with the Philadelphia Warriors hockey team. Foster is an athletic defenseman, who appears to be a good skater. He makes himself big on the ice, as he transitions well from defense to offense.
This is a really solid addition for the Thunder. Foster played two years at the University of Southern California before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania. The Thunder needed a reliable veteran defenseman who could possibly steal them games, well they got it in Foster.
