By TOD PALMER
The Kansas City Star
Acquired via trade with the Allen Americans during the 2009-10 season, Charlie Effinger helped power a late-season rally as the Missouri Mavericks made the playoffs in their inaugural season.
He earned almost legendary status in local hockey circles before parting ways with the Mavericks last season. Not that Effinger, 26, who grew up in the St. Louis suburb of Belleville, Ill., necessarily wanted to part ways.
“I loved it here, but I got the opportunity to have my master’s paid for — my MBA — in England, playing for the (Newcastle) hockey team there,” Effinger said. “It was a great opportunity and really difficult to pass on, but more so it was hard to leave here. Coming back was an easy decision.”
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