Some of you may have already heard of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, site of Tuesday’s Kraft Hockeyville Preseason game between the Lightning and Pittsburgh Penguins. If not, the NBC Sports Network broadcast will surely highlight a number of notable facts about the small town located about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh. Here are some of them …
Johnstown has endured three separate floods in its history. The worst of those was the first, which occurred in 1889, and is known simply as “The Johnstown Flood”. In that disaster, more than 2,000 residents perished and the downtown region was completely destroyed.