There was a time when the chatter about top hockey players in Marlboro would inevitably include the last name Pacific.

Decades later, the name still carries weight around area rinks.

Six of the Pacific boys, playing under the fitting name “The Brothers Six,” barnstormed to tournaments and competed in Pro-Am leagues throughout the 1970s and ’80s.

Everywhere they went, a ‘W’ was highly likely.

“Of all the tournaments we played in, we won all but a handful,” said Paul Pacific in a phone interview last week.