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Dear Readers, Well it’s 2014 and mid-way through the hockey season. ThisissueisfilledwithphotographsfromtheFrozenFron-tierinRochesterinwhichtheRITmenandwomenfaceoffona wintry day in December. NY Hockey Online regrettably had toleavebeforethemen’sgameinordertomakethetripbacktoWilsonsafely.However,weenjoyedallthreeperiodsofthewomen’sgameandPhotographerJanetSchultzcapturedtheeventonfilm.WehopetheRITandClarksonwomenenjoythesephotosandrelivethememo-ries another time. WealsocoveredtheAmerksvsLakeErieMonstersgame.Again,abeautifulwinter evening in Rochester. AswelooktothefutureofNYHockeyOnline,wehopetoexpandourcover-ageandengagemoreorganizationstosendtheirstoriesandphotos,andinviteustotheirevents.WetrytotravelacrosstheStateatleastacoupleoftimesandhavefeltsowelcomewhenwemadeittoyourrinks. Wearealsolookingforassistanceindistributingthemagazinetoyourhockeyfamily.Aswe’veexplainedinthepastweonlyhaveemailaddressesfortheBoardofDirectorsoftheAssociationsandtheSportsInformationpersonnelatthecol-leges.Weaskthemtoforwardtocoachesandplayers,thatwouldbeover50,000people in NY. Our views remain around 2,000 each month so we know there are people not getting the chance to see what happens in hockey in NYS. Please share this, or send us your email lists and we will make sure they receive the link tothemagazine. ThisistheonlymagazineofitstypeinNYthatcovershockeyatthegrassroots level through the college and minor leagues. This is a youth-based publica-tion where are goal is to highlight our outstanding youth. At the present time none ofusgetpaid,itistrulyaworkdoneoutofpassionforhockeyandyouth. AprosperousandwinningNewYeartoallofyou!

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In This Issue:

Hockey America .................................4Empire State Winter Games ...........5On the Bench with Sedia ................6Coaching with Gridley .....................9Homegrown ..................................... 10Hockey Insight ................................. 12NY Goalies ......................................... 14Frozen Frontier ................................ 16Central New York ............................ 24Comets ............................................... 25Eastern New York ............................ 34Northern New York ........................ 40Western New York .......................... 45Buffalo to Sochi ............................... 49Duffett Award 2013 ....................... 49Buffalo Stars .................................... 51USA Hockey ...................................... 59NYS Varsity Standings .............61-63NYS Tournaments ........................... 64

NY Hockey OnLine Hockey Day / Page 4


Plan Your Hockey Vacation!

If you’re planning a Hockey vacation that includes the NCAA Frozen Four, here are the locations for the next few years:

Men’s Collegiate Final Four as they affect NYS:College (Men) final four, regional and frozen affects NY Division III Final Four: 2016-Lake Placid 2017-Utica 2018-Lake Placid

Division I Regional: 2016 Eastern Regional-Albany Frozen Fours: 2015-Boston 2016-Tampa 2017-Chicago 2018-St. Paul

Hockey Weekend Across America, presented by CCM, will be highlight-

ed by Try Hockey for Free Day on Saturday, March 1, 2014. This is a national effort to have more than 500 local rinks and association intro-duce kids between the ages of 4 and 9 to youth hockey. Participating host locations will receive jerseys, promo-tional items, marketing tools, USA Hockey sanctioning and online registration to maxi-mize participation. This is an opportunity to capitalize on the excite-ment and broad exposure of the Olympic Games. The last post-Olympic season (2010-11) had a 15% increase in new 8 & under players. This was the largest increase in new players in the past 15 years. For a detailed overview of the program and what USA Hockey provides go to the USA Hockey website. Host locations need to register by March 1.

WHAT IS TRY HOCKEY FOR FREE DAY?: This program, designed to provide youth hockey associations a national platform to introduce new kids

to the sport, is a joint-effort between USA Hockey, the National Hockey League and NHL member clubs. The goal is to have 500 locations host a try hockey for free clinic for kids be-tween the ages of 4 to 9. Capitalizing on the Olympic excitement and with winter sports in full swing, this event provides local associations the perfect opportunity to introduce new families to youth hockey. HOST SITE REQUIREMENTS: One hour of ice time, volunteers on ice and at check-in, an off-ice recruiter, marketing information, a minimum of 40 helmets,

skates and gloves (can be winter gloves) and full sets of equipment to let participants borrow is recommended.

WHAT HOST SITES RECEIVE: Forty USA Hockey/NHL jerseys; 40 goodie bags, on and off ice guidelines, USA santioning, online manage-ment and registration tool, grassroots promotional tools, customizable templates for printable material, best prac-tices on attracting new families and national marketing.

Hockey Across America!

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March 1, 2014

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2014 Empire State Winter Games

Open February 6

The NYS Empire State winter games will be held in Lake Placid and Tupper Lake February 6 through 9. All women’s ice hockey will be played at the

Tupper Lake Memorial Civic Center, Tupper Lake, 30 miles outside Lake Placid. Opening ceremonies will take place on Thursday, February 5 at 6 p.m. The Parade of Athletes will be held in the Herb Brooks Arena, 1980 rink followed by guest speaker Mike Richter. Richter was an NHL goaltender for 14 years with the New York Rangers, and is considered one of the greatest American-born goaltenders in NHL history. He played college hockey at the University of Wiscon-sin, for one year, after playing for the US in the World Junior Championships in 1985. After being drafted by the Rangers, he played two years in the International Hockey League with the Colorado and Denver Rang-ers. Richter was in goal for the Rangers when they won

the Stan-ley Cup in 1994. During his NHL career he recorded 301 wins in goal. He played in the All-Star Game in 1992, 1994, and 2000, and in 2008 he was inducted into the US Hockey Hall of Fame. After his hockey career ended in 2003, Richter enrolled at Yale, graduating in 2008, studying ethics, politics, and economics. He has also become a triathlete and marathoner. On Saturday, Feb. 8 Winterfest will be held in the Oval featuring music, entertainment and the Hockey Shot. The event goes from 4 to 7 p.m. ending with fireworks at 7 p.m. The Women’s Ice Hockey schedule follows:

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6 TIME HOME TEAM VISITING TEAM

GAME 1 10:00 AM-11:20 AM CENTRAL NEW YORK CITY GAME 2 11:40 AM-1:00 PM HUDSON VALLEY VS ADIRONDACK GAME 3 1:10 PM-2:30 PM LONG ISLAND WESTERN NY GAME 4 2:40 PM-4:00 PM NEW YORK CITY HUDSON VALLEY GAME 5 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM ADIRONDACK WESTERN NY GAME 6 5:40 PM - 7:00 PM CENTRAL LONG ISLAND

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7

GAME 7 9:00 AM 10:20 AM WESTERN NY NEW YORK CITY GAME 8 10:40 - 12:00 NOON HUDSON VALLEY CENTRAL GAME 9 12:10 AM-1:30 AM LONG ISLAND ADIRONDACK GAME 10 1:40 PM - 3:00 PM WESTERN NY HUDSON VALLEY GAME 11 3:10 PM - 4:30 PM ADIRONDACK CENTRAL GAME 12 4:40 PM - 6:00 PM NEW YORK CITY LONG ISLAND

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8

GAME 13 8:00 AM-9:20 AM HUDSON VALLEY LONG ISLAND GAME 14 9:35 AM-10:55 AM WESTERN NY CENTRAL GAME 15 11:10 AM-12:30 PM ADIRONDACK NEW YORK CITY

All games will be held at the Tupper Lake Memorial Civic Arena.

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Thank you very much for the emails and positive com-

ments about my last article; “What is Your Hockey Handicap”. Your feedback has been fantastic and is very much appreciated! I would like to thank the coaches that have taken the time to email me and give me their input as well as share their opinions about the topics at hand. I receive a large number of requests for drills specific to half ice with a focus on repetition and intensity. I real-ize half ice practices have their challenges and although 2 ice sessions for the price of 1 is always a good thing, we don’t want it to be at the expense of a low intensity, low rep practice. As a rule, I make sure my players know why we are doing a drill and how it relates to a game situation. I also make sure we (as a coaching staff) focus on all the little drills within the main drill we are doing. Here is a half ice drill that not only simulates a game situation, it offers a great deal of action and will give each player a large number of reps in a short period of time. In addition to the “action” benefit, this drill is flexible. It can be modified to accommodate different age/skill levels as well as different offensive and defensive perspectives.

Off The Wall Version 1 / D2D Pass (Pictured bottom left) This version could technically be labeled as a 4V2 but Green D1’s role is less active than the other 5 players in the drill. The circled “C” represents the coach. The players out-side of the blue line are not in the drill yet.The Set Up: Put pucks in both corners. Line up the players as shown, Red D1 and Red D2 line up on the low side hash marks, Green F1 and Green F2 line up on the high side hash marks. Green D1 (in this example) lines up board side facing the coach and Green D2 lines up inside blue line center. All Green players are offensive players. All Red players are defensive players for this drill. The Objective: The obvious objective of this drill is that Green (offensive players) are trying to score and Red (defensive players) are trying to prevent a goal and clear the zone. The Action: For this version of Off The Wall, I do not like to use a whistle to start the drill. Instead, I like to make all players in the drill look at me (because I have the puck). The drill starts when I make a pass to Green D1. When I release the puck, Green F1, Green F2, Red D1, and Red D2 blast out to the wall where they must make a full stop and touch the wall with their stick then blast back into the core. Green D1 receives the pass from the coach and makes a pass to Green D2 who must make read the action. They must either shoot or pass to Green F1 or Green F2 if they were able to create space from defending players Red D1 and Red D2. Key Points: Green D1: Although Green D1 does not get much action, let’s not underestimate the importance of a couple of things. First, he must present a target for the coach! Get the stick blade on the ice and let the passer know WHERE YOU WANT THE PUCK. This increases the chances of the pass being in an area that you can receive the puck without much trouble. Promote a “receive and release” thought process for Green D1 – DO NOT DRIBBLE

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THE PUCK or we will lose time and space. Green D2: When we have puck possession in the offensive zone as this drill simulates, we would like to see Green D2 in an offensive position a few feet inside the blue line. When this drill starts, Green D2 should have his eyes on the coach and his stick on the ice. He should visu-ally follow the puck from the coach to his partner Green D1. When Green D1 receives the pass, Green D2 should already be in “receive” mode (presenting a target to Green D1). When Green D2 receives the pass from Green D1 he should NOT DRIBBLE THE PUCK! His motion should be to the net. He must make the most optimal offensive play at this point. A fast shot is not always the optimal offensive play if either Green F1 or Green F2 were able to get open OR, if Green F1 and F2 are late getting into the core. If Green F1 and Green F2 are covered by Red D1 and Red D2, a low hard shot while they are entering the core is optimal due to potential screens, tips, and the net front presence for rebounds. Green F1 & F2: Speed and aggressiveness are key when it comes to creating space and beating the Red D to the core. If we can get just one step in front of the Red D, we want to use our body as a tool to prevent the Red D from gaining ground. It is not interference if you keep moving toward the net with your eyes focused on the puck with your stick on the ice ready to receive a pass from Green D2, tip a shot, or bang away at a rebound (the puck finds its way to stick blades that are ON THE ICE, not up in the air). If Red D gets the step on you off the wall, you must be creative, change speeds, cut low then high or drive through him to the net, etc. Your ultimate goal is to get inside the Red D and become a problem for the Red D. Passiveness and laziness have NO PLACE in hockey ESPECIALLY when you are in front of your op-ponent’s net. I tell my players to imagine a laser pointing from their chests and stick blades with the objective to keep those lasers pointed to the puck at all times! Red D1 & D2: This is a challenging drill for Red D1 and Red 2 as the advantage goes to the offensive players for obvious reasons. As discussed for the offensive players off the wall, we would like to see Red D1 and Red D2 get the inside space off the wall and use their bodies to keep Green F1 and Green F2 to the outside. It is very important for the Red D’s to keep their sticks on the ice and to keep them active when it comes to tight quarters in front of their own net. Stick on stick and body on body are good defensive basics to keep in mind during this drill. Playing “big” and owning space is key for the Red D during this

drill. It’s hard to do but try to keep Green F1 and Green F2 in a position like this:

*be sure to change corners on the initial pass from the coach.*place other coaches in an area to throw the puck back into the action if need be*keep the drill as a hot rush and let the play go until it gets out of a normal game situation. For example, we will NEVER be in a 4V2 situation in a real game so don’t let this turn into one with setting up and passing back to the point again, etc.*no cheating! Make sure players touch the wall and make a full stop facing the puck as well as use explosive cross-over starts to get into the core quickly.

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Remember:Stick on stick, body on body. This helps you “feel” to the offensive player while you can keep a visual on the puck. Keep the offensive player to the outside and make sure you are between your opponent and your net.

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Off The Wall Version 2 / Low Delivery

In this version, we take the point players out of the drill and focus on the puck coming into play from the coach under the goal line. Make sure the coach does not give an indication as to what side he will send the puck. This makes the goalie go post to post in an effort to take away wrap-arounds as well as disrupt tight passes. The main objective for the offensive players is to GET OPEN! If they “stand still” when they get to the net they are EASY to defend. If you would like the “Action” and “Key Points” for this version, please send an email to: [email protected]

Off The Wall Version 3 / With 1V1 Whip

In this version, we run the Off The Wall on one side and a 1V1 whip on the other. This coach has the option to pass to F1, F2 or shoot. Make sure D1 makes his initial move from the outside to the inside for proper “inside the dots” positioning. Be sure to switch sides for another per-spective. If you would like the “Action” and “Key Points” for this version, please send an email to: [email protected]

As you can see, this one drill is quite diverse and offers plenty of versions with as many as 6 active players and only minimum of 4. There is something for everyone in this drill. It is action packed, high tempo, and a great deal of fun for the players. This drill can be run with younger house players, all the way up to juniors and beyond. Fo-cus on the key points and be sure to explain how these relate to real game situations. (Rob Sedia is a Partner/Professional Instructor with the NewEdge Hockey Training Company and will be writing a monthly column for NY Hockey Magazine. If you would like to comment on this article, ask questions, provide feedback, or share your thoughts, please send an email to: [email protected])




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NY Hockey OnLine Coaching With Gridley / Page 9


It’s the Holiday Season again…the traditional “Mid-Season”breakformanyofusinthehockeyworld.It’salsotheendoftheclinicseasonforthoseofus

in USA Hockey’s Coaching Education Program. It’s a goodtimeformetostopandsaythankyoutoallofthose who have been so instrumental in the coach-ingeducationprocesshere inNewYork. Butfirst, IwanttothankRandyandJanetSchultzandeveryoneatNYHockeyMagazineforgivingtheNYCoachingProgramtheopportunity togetcoaching informationouttoourhockeycommunity.Themagazineisdoingagreat jobof reportingonandpromotinghockey inour state. I’m honored to have the opportunity to be partofthat. SinceAugust,wehavehad55clinicsinNewYork;twenty Level 1’s, seventeen Level 2’s, fifteen Level3’s,and twoLevel4’s. Inaddition,weheldour firstever “Goalie Coach Clinic”. This was a day-long clinic designed specifically forGoalie Coaches. It was agreat success, and we will be doing at least one (pos-siblytwoormore)nextseason. We had over 2,300 coaches go through our clinics inNewYork; over 900 coaches attended Level 1’s,over580coachesattendedLevel2’s,over560coach-es attend Level 3’s, and over 300 coaches attended our two Level 4’s. TheLevel4’sthisseasonwereinBethpage,LongIs-landandatCanisiusCollegeinBuffalo.WehadsomewonderfulpresentationsbyUSAHockeystafflikeLouVairo, Matt Herr, Kenny Rausch, and Matt Cunning-ham.We had some of the best college coaches inNewYorkpresenting,likeEdGosek,DaveSmith,JeffMeredith and Dean Jackson. We had some presenters fromtheranksofprofessionalhockeylikeJimCorsi,AdamMair, andBrentThompson.The feedbackonour Level 4’s has been overwhelmingly positive. We look forward to our 2014-15 Level 4’s next season,which will take place in Rochester and Syracuse. The coaching clinics do not just happen. Muchworkgoesintoschedulingandexecutingtheseday-longevents.Iamluckytohaveadedicatedstaffof

Associate Coach-in-Chiefs thatwork tirelessly to make these clinicssuccessful.IwanttothankthemforalltheydoforhockeyinNew York State. They are Kevin Moore (Central), Mike Ackerman (West), Corey Rosoff (North),MikeBonelli(East),MarkHogan(ACE), Earl Utter (Goaltending), andStuartMcKenzie(Disabled).The Coaching Education Pro-gram here in New York is very lucky to have a great group of

talented Instructors. I want to recognize and thankeachofthem.Theyareasfollows:

From the North - Mike Trimboli, Corey Rosoff,Gavin Regan, Joe Eppolito, Keith Clark, Dave Rider, JeffWoodandChuckDievendorf. FromtheCentral-KevinMoore,JohnWood,HerbGriffith,SteveCibelli,SheridanMischandMikeChiel-lino. From the East –Mike Bonelli, BillAlonge, RichGuberti, Dave Temkin, Dave Starman, Joe Trimarchi, Dave Starman, Peter Whitney, Brianna Rossi andTonyLuizzi. FromtheWest-MikeAckerman,JohnSage,Da-vid Hayman, Pat Ruggiero, David Silverberg, Peter Tonsoline and Patrick Rimar. AnotherbigpartofourCEPfamilyinNewYorkisour ACE Team. Mark Hogan is our Associate Coach-in-Chief ACE. His Section ACE Administrators areChuckDievendorf(North),RonCalcavale(East)andSheridan Misch (Central). The ACE Program is the “communication”armoftheCEP…TheseguyshavedoneagreatjobgettingthewordouttoACEDirectorsin each association. Their contribution to the Coach-ing Program is invaluable. Thanks to all who have made our clinic season successful here in NewYork, and a special thankstoallofyoucoacheswhohavetakenthetimetogothrough the USA Hockey certification process. Weknow that your time is valuable. We appreciate that you took the time to attend clinics and complete mod-ules. We appreciate your commitment to coaching, to thekidsthatyoucoachandtothegameofhockey.

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When the Los An-geles Kings hit the outdoor ice at

Dodger Stadium against the Anaheim Ducks on Janu-ary25,alotofmemorieswillcome back to the players par-ticipating.Youthfulmemoriesofplayingonanoutdoorrink. ForKingscaptain,DustinBrown, his memories takehim back to his days growing up in Ithaca. “It might be a bit warmer playing outdoors in Los An-geles than it was playing on a January day in Ithaca,” remarked the 29 year-oldBrown, a native of Ithaca.“Cass Park was the outdoor rink that I learned to skate on and began playing hockey on.” Brown has played in all orparts of 10 seasons with LosAngeles. He is currently the captainoftheKings. The13thoverall pickof the2003 NHL Entry Draft becamethe first Amer-ican-born cap-tain to lead his team to a Stan-ley Cup Cham-pionship. It was theKingsfirstStanleyCup. “Ithastobeoneofthegreat-est moment of my hockey ca-reer,” commented Brown. “YoudreamofliftingtheStanleyCupabove your head and leading your team to a championship. “It was also a great honor to be the second American-born player to lead his team as cap-

tain to a Stanley Cup.” Brown was recently select-edtoplayforTeamUSAinthe2014 Winter Olympics in Socci Russia. “It’s always an honor to represent your country in Inter-

national play,” re-sponded B rown .“ B e i n gapartoflead ing T e a m

USA to a gold medal would be a great honor.”He believes that the foundationof his hockeycareer began back in his youth hockey days in Ithaca.

“I played most of my youthhockey there,” said Brown.“I played two years of highschool hockey at Ithaca High School and decided to move on.“I played one year of juniorhockey with the Syracuse Stars.IwasdraftedbyGuelphStorm (Ontario Hockey League, second round, 26thplayer taken overall).”Brown played three seasonswith the Storm, scoring 194points in 174 games. Fromthere it was on to the NHL.Quiteajumpforaplayerwhohad been playing organizedhockeyforadecadeandone-half.

“I began playing organizedhockeywhenIwasaboutfour,”addedBrown.“Myolderbrother,Brandon,istwoyearsolderthanme. He began playing hockey and I wanted to do what my old-

Home Grown:Ithaca’s

Brown Takes to Ice...

At Dodger Stadium

by Randy Schultz

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“I just want to make a

difference.”


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er brother did. “I have to give a lot of credit tomy parentswho got me involved and then took me travelling all over when we had games and practices. Prob-ably the one coach who really helped me out a lot and was involved with my hockey career up throughBantamwasTomVeneterin. “I still stay in touch with him today.” Brownstillgetsbacktohishometownasoftenas possible. “IhaveahousethereandIgetbackthereforaboutsixtoeightweeksduringthesummer.” WasitmuchofadecisionforBrowntomaketochoosebetweengoingtherouteof the juniorranks or college? “I really didn’t even know about the Ontar-ioHockeyLeagueuntil Iwasabout 15,” stated

Brown.“Thedecisioncamedowntogoingto Guelph or waiting three years and going through the college ranks.“I felt comfortable with the junior offer. Iknowthatitisdifferentforeveryone.“Ifeltitwastherightdecisionforme.”Brownwilladmit thatayearcanmakeabig difference in a player’s career. It cer-tainly did with his.“I remember the Select Festival when Iwas 15,” said Brown. “I got cut from theNew York team.“At16InotonlymadetheNewYorkteambut I made the National Team as well. I got invited to the American National program in AnnArbor.ButIhadalreadycommittedtoGuelph.“It was amazing that in one year I wentfromnot being able tomake the 20manroster with New York to making the 20 man roster nationally.”Brownwasalsoplayedothersports thanhockey.“I have kids of my own now and I thinkit’simportantthattheyplaymorethanjusthockey,”commentedBrown.“Hockeywasmyfavorite.“But Ialsoplayed lacrosseandbaseball.Tojustplayonesportisnotgood.”

In2011BrownreceivedtheNHLFoundationPlayerAwardforhisextensivecharityworkintheLos Angeles area. “I think it was a combination of how I wasbrought up and trying to make an impact on where you live,” concluded Brown. “I try to dosmall scale things so you can see the immediate benefits. “I’mnotthekindofguywhojustwantstowritea check out and not know where it goes. I like to beahands-onguywhocanseethebenefitsrightaway. “Ijustwanttomakeadifference.”

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Ah, the holidays. A nutty but more digestible treat than Aunt Nel-

lie’s curious, wrong-side-up fruitcake; a frenetic, intoxicating and near im-possible time ofthe calendar year, which can be as much fun as it can be exhausting, exhilarating and for most, a time of authoring or unwit-tingly participating in what are to be transformed into memories of a life-time. With great anticipation, we join to celebrate with family and friends, we revel in pageants, parties and obligations, as together we resolve to end the year well and commence the next with optimism, a brand new road map and unblemished slate. Against the background of the fun, the fantasy, the travel and sleep de-privation, there is often --at least here in Western New York-- the requisite and enhancing snow. But for me, no matter the temperature or state of precipitation, there was ice, always ice, hockey ice and now in retrospect, sublime hockey dreams taking root. Sure, as all of us, I can vividly re-call holidays past, the nearest and dearest, the many gifts received and given, decorated tables of turkey and

mom’s cutout cookies, the pile of guests’ coats in a bedroom, the per-vasive contentment and happiness, (of course, the occasionaldisappoint-ment...) Among my most cherished recollections and constants: holiday hockey! Playing in youth hockey leagues was a blast, especially when on schoolbreak. There was the surg-ing excitement at the rink, in the locker room, on the ice, and the dis-traction of the coming holiday. But there was to be more, where no such preoccupation would dare intercede. It was long before ‘play dates’, before every ounce of every day was structured, organized and super-vised, and liability was not yet the sextant by which we circumnavigate our daily walk and that we now slav-ishly bow to in allegiance. Simpler time? Maybe, but it was simply our time; kids’ time, brother’s, family and neighborhood time. It was dedicated backyard rink time, outdoor play and pond hockey time. We learned the game, and learned to love the game outside in our very own ‘Audito-rium’, ‘Forum’ and the ‘Garden’ of our dreams, that of our backyard ‘arena’. Better learn the rules quickly, or be left behind. Solving disputes was as much a part of the learning curve as crossovers. And it was an advantage to acquire the skills to stop, in both directions, or you would soon fall victim to the fast approaching snow-bank. “Losers scrape” was the threat and the reality, as well as an addition-al motivating factor to win that 7th

game in OT, and before the sun set, or certainly rink maintenance would soon be your penalty. Saturdays during Christmas va-cations were unrivaled, competitive and highly anticipated. While get-ting out of bed during school days seemed to darken every morning, on vacation we all sprang out of bed at ungodly hours and darted to the basement to gear up, pick our fa-vorite sweater, struggle to tighten skates and if you were lucky, locate a couple of extra pucks and up and out you went... and played, and played, played and played some more, until either nature called, (and maybe not even then...) or sustenance and liq-uids were unconditionally required to refuel. Always looking to improve upon our rink ‘experience’, over the years we added lights for night play, a speaker hung on the maple tree with care to announce goals and to play music. We even experimented, unsuccessfully, with red India Ink in an effort to better mark face off dots, lines and creases. The ink sure wasn’t permanent, except for the stains it left on our clothes, while after the games we all looked like we were helpless victims of some hockey as-sassination attempt! Our backyard was the winter equivalent of the community pool and players from blocks around found their way to come to play. Friendships and bitter rivals ruled the day. Having two older brothers it was clear if I was intent on playing with the big boys and getting my share of rink time, toiling in goal was my price of admission. But c’mon guys, I was a sniper and a right winger on my mite team, right? No matter my protesta-tions, it was goal. One Christmas, to my dismay, apparently Santa must have noticed. Under the tree my

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brothers were thrilled to find new sticks and rolls of black friction tape that would be put to use as soon as they could get outside. As one of seven children, I searched and searched under that tree among the wonderfully wrapped packages that crowded the room, but could not find MY stick. Wait - there was one more twig, but it sure did not look like theirs. No, it was a Louisville goaltender stick, 6 lie, and, unbelievably, it had MY name on it! Why me, I’m a winger, now I’ll be sentenced to play goal the rest of the winter, Santa, how could you do this to me? The worst gift, EVER. Surely Ol’ St. Nick had a rogue elf pack his sleigh. After breakfast, my dad, who happened to play goal himself through college and beyond, showed me how to best tape the stick and begrudgingly,outside I went to join in the ‘reindeer games’. It was only January when Santa’s plan and the big picture became a bit more clear: I received leathergoal pads, blocker, trapper and a mask. The surreptitious Kafka-esque metamorphosis was apparently complete. Get it pal, you are no longer a right winger and the opportunity and sheer joy to play the po-sition --the best position I came to discover-- for decades to come and follow in my father’s skatesteps continues to be one of the great good fortunes this game has brought to me. As each year passes, I realize that I am not quite so enamored with the cold, lake effect blizzards and wind chill factors, shoveling or spending more time than ab-solutely necessary in the great outdoors of winter. I more than made up for this new found penchant however, with an entire youth only coming in from the cold and fun of

that rink when there were no more pucks, no more light or energy left to do anything else but to reluctantly go inside, sleep, recharge and prepare to go at it all again the next day. I couldn’t wait. ‘Twas the night before Christmas and with great delight I will always recall pucks deflecting silently into the air of the dark night, as well as the sounds of skates, sticks and pucks echoing throughout the neighborhood, cheers, impromptu play-by-play, the shovels, garage pan-els and picket fences shattered and next door windows and lights smashed by errant shots. But it was the game at its most raw and truest self, the feel, the smell, camara-derie, the coming of age, the fun. These were the gifts and dreams I was given, may this game continue to bless you as well. Happy holidays and the best for a happy and success-ful new year. Go follow your dreams.

Tom Barnett, a native Western New Yorker, participated as a player from the youth through collegiate level, and has been involved in coaching hockey and program development for more than 30 years. As founder and president of The Buffalo Shamrocks Hockey Club, a USA Hockey program, Tom was recognized by the National Hockey League as the 2009 recipient of the inau-gural Mark Messier Youth Leadership Award.


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By Warren Kozireski

Hockey fans have talked over the last few years how the state of New York produced

three of the 30 current NHL captains in the New York Rangers Ryan Cal-lahan (Hilton), Los Angeles’ Dustin Brown (Ithaca) and the Montreal Canadians Brian Gionta (Greece). But don’t look now, but the state also produced the top goaltenders for six of the 59 Division I college hockey programs in the country. And two of those entered the holi-day break ranked among the top-15 teams in the nation. Add Division I back-up goalten-ders and Divi-sion III starters and the num-ber jumps three more. Union Col-lege was off to a 12-3-3 start and ranked seventh nationally with Niskayuna native Colin Stevens in net for over 700 of the almost 1,100 minutes the team had played through 18 games. His 2.31 goals against aver-age ranked him 25th in the nation and his Statesmen had allowed an ECAC-best 19 goals through the first half of the campaign. Ithaca native Andy Illes is in his senior season with hometown Cor-nell and their 7-4-2 record had them sitting 13th in the country in the USA Today poll.

He either owned or was on the verge of setting almost every goaltending record in Big Red school history, which is quite an ac-complishment consid-ering the school has produced NHL Hall of Famer Ken Dryden, Ben Scrivens, Hobey Baker finalist David LeNeveu and others. Illes was sport-ing a 2.39 GAA and just had his consecu-tive games started

streak of 80 consecutive starts bro-ken, which ties him for fifth all-time in NCAA history. Williamsville’s Braden Komm is a multi-year starter at Bentley in the Atlantic Hockey Association where he has an 8-6-1 record, a 2.43 goals against average and .928 save per-centage while playing all but one period-plus for the second place Falcons. He was named Atlantic Hockey Goaltender of the Month for November.

New York Goalies Leading Division I Programs

Mike Rotolo (RIT Photo)

Braden Komm (Sports Pix Photo)

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Rensselaer’s Scott Diebold is in his junior season with the Engineers and took over the top spot earlier this season when Jason Kasdorff was lost for the season to shoulder surgery. All the Buffalo native has done for the 8-6-4 Engineers is register a 2.17 GAA (20th in nation) with a .922 save percentage (25th in na-tion) over 17 games. Robert Morris University in Pitts-burgh is off to a rough start with a relatively young roster. Part of that youth is Penfield native Terry Shafer, who had played in 12 of the team’s 14 games and earned both the Co-lonials wins while seeing 373 shots on goal—better than one every 120 seconds. And RIT’s freshman goalten-der Mike Rotolo (Greece), who got his first collegiate start Novem-ber 23rd against St. Lawrence and hasn’t been out of the lineup since. He racked up a five-game winning streak and a six-game unbeaten run. In addition to the six starters, Buffalo native Parker Gahagen is in his freshman season as the number two net-minder for Army and, if you extend the reach to Division III, Ro-

slyn product Sal Magliocco played in ten of the first eleven games this season for Elmira, who sat in second place in the ECAC West at the break. Plus Gen-eseo, ranked 14th in the na-tion, is being backstopped by Hilton’s Bryan Haude’s 7-1-0 record and 2.64 GAA to second place in the SU-NYAC standings. It can’t be denied that New York has produced more than its share of on-ice leaders with three team captains. But the next gen-eration may make its mark in the blue paint.

Scott Diebold (RPI Photo)

Gahagen (Janet Schultz Photo)

Terry Shafer (RMU Photo)

Colin Stevens, Union (Union Photo)

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It was called “The Fro-zen Frontier.” Frozen was the op-

erative word. The official name of the event was the Greater Rochester Area Honda Dealers Frozen Frontier presented by Labatt. The 10-day out-door hockey festival (December 13-22) was held at Frontier Field, usually the home for baseball’s Rochester Red Wings of the Inter-national League. Fans entered the stadium through the main gate in front of Frontier Field. Many fans stopped to have their picture taken at the Morrie Silver statue, which was surrounded, by the blocks of ice featuring the events logo and hockey jerseys of the Rochester Americans and Lake Erie Monsters. It featured hockey at every level during the two week-ends and 10 days of hockey activity. The kickoff on Friday, Dec. 13 featured the American Hockey League’s Ameri-cans playing the Monsters in front of a standing-room only crowd of 11,015 fans. The Amerks didn’t disappoint the home crowd, de-feating the Monsters 5-4 in a shootout. But it was the lit-tle things that made the game, as well as the whole week, special. With the temperature hovering in the teens all week-end fans came dressed for the elements. Most were dressed in layers. Spotlights lit up the sky around the baseball stadium before and during the game. With snow lightly falling it created the idea of a real-life snow globe. Add to that the fog-like image of the lit-up Rochester skyline as the backdrop to the stadium and you had the perfect setting. Santa C l a u s was even t h e r e , g r e e t -ing fans as they e n t e r e d the sta-dium to find their s e a t s .

And to give it that baseball flavor, a trio of retired hockey players sang “Take Me Out To The Hock-ey Game” late in the second pe-riod. The mascots of both the Amerks (Moose) and Red Wings (Spikes) were also on hand to entertain the fans, both young and old alike. Fireworks lit up the sky following

the game. Other hockey games that first weekend featured a women’s hockey game between RIT and Clarkson on Sat-urday afternoon, with the host team losing, 6-2. The eve-ning contest had a men’s game between RIT and Niagara University that ended in a 2-2 tie. Sunday featured a triple-header of hockey games. Leading off was a game between Nazareth College and Geneseo. That was followed by a Junior Hockey game be-tween the Buffalo Jr. Sabres and St. Michael’s. The evening featured an Alumni game between the Sabres and Amerks. Former players from the Sabres in-cluded Rob Ray, Danny Gare, Brad May and Matthew Barnaby, while former Amerks featured players like Scott Metcalfe and Scott Nichol. The second weekend got started again on Friday night with the Labatt Blue 3-on-3 Pond Hockey Tourna-ment. There were also two open skates featuring Santa Claus, Spikes and Moose that night. The evening was also capped off with a moonlight skate at 10 o’clock. Saturday and Sunday featured the Section V Rivalry Days. High School teams from all over the Rochester area

played from m o r n i n g until night. C a n a n -d a i g u a and Victor opening up S a t u r d a y m o r n i n g . They were followed by Hilton vs.

Rochester’s Frozen Frontier Produces Fond

Memories!by Randy Schultz

Photography by Janet Schultz

Irondequoit, McQuaid vs. St. Joe’s, Webster Schroeder vs. Webster Thomas and Pittsford vs. Fairport. Sunday saw Churchville vs. Batavia, Brockport vs. Bat-avia Notre Dame, Brighton vs. Spencerport, Greece Thun-der vs. Greece Lightning and Gates-Chili vs. Penfield. It was hockey for all levels during the 10-day span. Even youth hockey organi-zations played games on the once-in-a-life-time hockey experience. And through it all there was one common thread that was seen by everyone in attendance. Smiles. Smiles on the faces of the hockey players as well as the hockey fans. You couldn’t help but smile. Many players who played during the 10 days had be-gan their hockey careers playing outdoor hockey. Maybe it was on a homemade rink in the backyard or an outdoor rink in their neighborhood.

The fans were also smiling as well. After all they were part of once-in-a-lifetime experience that featured entertain-

ing hockey at all levels. M a y b e Amerks Presi-dent, Ted Black, summed it up the best.

“This was an exciting week for the City of Rochester, the state of New York and, of course, the game of hockey,” concluded Black. “With more than 10 teams coming in from all corners of the state – and from all levels of the game – to play hockey, this is a tremendous event to showcase the exceptional hockey teams we have in this region. “More importantly, it was a fun and different way to

experience hockey. Whether you were a player or a fan watch-ing your favorite team, these games were the games you’ll never for-get being a part of.” -


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NewYorkStatebyplayinganoutdoorgameonSaturday,December15.Thescoreboardtoldthestoryas the temperature hovered in the teens’ and the winter wonderland the State is well-known made a

dramatic appearance as the puck was dropped. Aticelevelthesmilesontheplayer’sfacescouldbeeseenbythefewofusluckyenoughtocoverthegamefromthatlevel.Theywereexcitedtotaketotheice,theyevenhadtoshovelthesnowasitpileduponthesurfacemakingthepuckhardtoseeandalsogetburiedonceinawhile. Astheoldsayinggoes,“apictureisworthathousandwords;”andsohereIwillsharesomeofthosememoriesfromthegame. ThewinneronthescoreboardwasClarksonbuttheexperiencewasthetruewinner! Ladies--itwasapleasuretophotographthisgameandnowshareitwithyouandyourfans!




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“It’s a huge hockey area around Utica (NY). Plus there are a lot of positives happening in and

around the city. “Things are turning around in Utica. I want the Utica Comets to be a part of that.” That is how former NHL goalten-der and now President of the Comets, Robert Esche, sees things happening in the New York State-based city. “I believe in THE sport of hock-ey,” continued Esche, emphasizing the word THE. “I don’t believe in pro hockey over college hockey or college hockey over pro hockey. “When you can create that out-let for youth in the area through the grassroots of hockey, it eventually creates leaders and great people in the area. The more you can get team sports involved in the area and the more kids you can get involved in those sports, I think it helps shape and mold them into pillars of the community. “We have youth, college and pro hockey all in one building (the Utica Memorial Auditorium). That’s really rare. “You don’t see that combination too often in one

building. I think it is something that our area should be proud of. “I’m proud of all of them.” So what is Esche and the Comets doing to help youth hockey in and around the Utica area? “As president of the Comets I wear a lot of hats,” ex-plained Esche. I’m trying to make the Comets as interwo-ven with the rest of hockey as it can be. “We do a lot of that with youth hockey. One of the easier things we do is hold practice with youth players.

Comets Blaze Into Utica With Exciting Team; Historic Building!

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“We’re also doing clinics of different kinds. We do power skating clinics. “We do goalie clinics. We do skills clinics. “We do them with our players, our coaches and my-self. We are trying to connect with these kids as much as possible. Hockey has always been a sport that reaches out to its youth. It’s just the way it has always been. “I’m trying to make the Comets as hockey friendly as possible.” Esche is extremely proud of the Comets building. “It is an engineering marvel,” remarked Esche. “It re-flects back to better times in Utica. “It’s a national engi-neering landmark. “The suspension roof was the first of its kind. It’s a bicycle wheel tilted on its side. (See photos on previous page). “When you look at it, it looks like spokes in a bi-cycle wheel. Our building was a prototype for Madison Square Garden in New York City. “It was the first building of its kind ever built. We’re very proud of it.” As he is about Utica and its people. “I think it’s a city on the rebound,” concluded Esche. “If we can help in some way to make it work, especially through hockey, then I’ll be happy. “If it can happen through youth hockey that will be great. After all, that is our future.”

T to B: Utica Comets Owner Robert Eshe;Utica Comets Captain Colin Stuart and the Utica Comets Mascot.

BROOME CCC The Bees won five gamesthrough the first half, but just twowereagainstconferenceopponents. Freshman Mat Culcasi, CoryDella Stua (Pittsford) and MichaelFerranti (Binghamton) were all indouble-figuresoffensively. Goaltender Dylan Snyder wasnamedRegionIIIPlayeroftheweekfor stopping 78 out of 90 shotsagainst Monroe Community Col-legeonNovember14th. ThesquadhassevenconferencegamesremaininginthesecondhalfwhichbeginsJanuary15thathomeagainstMohawkValley.

COLGATE TheRaidersfailedtowinagameinDecember,but still stood fourthintheECACatthebreak. Thesophomoreclasshadbrag-gingrightswiththetofivespotsonthe team in scoring led by MikeBorkowski,KyleBaun,DarcyMur-phyandtheSinkbrothersTysonandTylor.

J u -niorJoeWilson(North Syra-cuse)registeredhis 50th careerpoint Novem-ber 8th againstUnion. The Raid-ers swept theirNorth Coun-try (Clarkson /St. Lawrence)roadtripforthefirst time since

1996-97inmid-November. FreshmanDerekFreemanscoredhisfirstcollegiategoalagainstYaleagainstYaleNovember22nd.

CORNELL The Big Red were one of fiveECAC teamsnationally rankedandsatfifthintheultra-competitivecon-ference. JoelLowryand JohnMcCarronled the team in scoringwithBrianFerlin the top goal-scorer throughthefirsthalf. FreshmangoaltenderMitchGil-lambecamejusttheeighthinNCAAhistoryandthefirstBigRedtoscoreagoal…anditcameinhisfirstcol-legiatestartNovember26thagainstNiagara. TheGillamstartendedAndyIl-les’ streak of 80 consecutive startswhich ties him for fifth all-time inNCAAhistory. Patrick McCarron scored hisfirstcollegiategoalNovember26thagainstNiagara. Freshman forwardEricFreschinettedhisfirsttwocol-legiate goals while freshman for-

wardMattBucklesandsophomoredefenseman Reece Willcox alsoscoredtheirfirstagainstBrownNo-vember22nd. The squad joins Princeton,Maine andNewHampshire in Es-tero,Florida for theannualFloridaCollege Classic at the end of De-cember.

CORTLAND The Red Dragons three SUNY-ACvictoriesinthefirsthalfequaledtheirtotalforalloflastyearandhadtheminaplayoffspot,whichwouldbetheirfirstsincethe2007-08cam-paign. Junior Nick Zappia was theleading scorerwith 17 points over12gameswithseniorsAdamBevi-lacquaMikeHenriciandA.J.Moyeralsowithtenormorepoints. Freshman forward Casie Garri-son (Cortland)wasnamed theSU-NYACRookie of theWeek for theweek endingDecember 15th afterhetalliedthegame-winninggoalinCortland’s5-1non-conferencewinversusNazarethCollege.Their season resumes January11thatManhattanville.

ELMIRA The Soaring Eagles were re-bounding nicely from their downseasonayearagowithfourconfer-encewinsintheirfirstsixcontests. JarrydtenVaanholt,JoshBrunelland Jesper Strale stood atop thescoringchart,buttheteamwasget-tingbalanced scoring through sev-erallines. (Continued on Page 28)

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by Warren Kozireski


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Freshman goaltender SalMagliocco(Roslyn)ismakingabidfor ECAC West All-Rookie honorsplayinginallbutonegamewithfivewins. MichaelCollinsandMaglioccowere tabbed ECACWest Player ofthe Week and Goaltender of theWeekrespectivelyfortheweekend-ingNovember24th.Collinsearnedhis third ECACWest Player of theWeek award of his career after hetotaledfourpointsontwogoalsandtwo assists in a 3-0 week for theSoaring Eagles. Magliocco pickedup thefirst ECACWestGoaltenderoftheWeekawardofhisyoungca-reerasherecordedthreewins. TheEaglesarebackJanuary7thatFredonia.

HAMILTON Senior Michael DiMare andfreshman Robbie Murden withsophomore Kenny Matheson werethetopscorersfortheContinentalsthroughthefirstsevengamesastheteamwas3-3-1overall. Freshman goaltender CharlieFennell (Elmira) picked up his firstcollegiatevictoryandshutoutaftermaking16savesagainstCantonDe-cember1st. ThesquadwillplayhostPlatts-burgh in the Buck Supply WinterClassic with Hobart andWilliamsJanuary3-4as theybeginastretchof playing nine of their next tengamesontheroad.

HOBART TheStatesmenwereundefeatedthroughthefirstfourgames,buthad

not picked up a victory sinceNo-vember9thgoing0-4-2toconcludethefirsthalf. Offense was in short supplywith sophomores Mac Olson andBoWebster leading the teamwithjustsevenpointseachintengames.TheteamwillalsoplayintheBuckSupplyWinterClassicatPlattsburghwith Hamilton andWilliams Janu-ary3-4.

MORRISVILLE With just one conference winoverthefirsthalfoftheseason,theMustangs were in danger of notmatching their four-win total fromthepasttwocampaigns.SeniorsRyanMarcuzandMikeDol-man with freshman Darren Youngwereatoptheteamscoringlist,butthe teamwas struggling defensive-ly allowing a conference-worst 55goalsin11games. FreshmanforwardDarrenYoungwasnamedSUNYACRookieoftheWeekfortheweekendingDecem-ber 1st—the second time this sea-sonYounghasreceivedtheweeklyaccolade.Young tallied two assistsintheMustangs3-2upsetwinoverUticaCollegeashepostedhisthirdmulti-assist gameof his initial col-legiateseason.TheteamtravelstotheUniversityofNewEngland January4th tobeginthesecondhalf.

OSWEGO Halftherosterturnedoverfromlast season and the Lakers foundthemselves with two conferencelosses in the first half for the first

timesince2007-08. But they are still a conferenceforce led offensively by freshmenMattGalatiandShawnHulshofandjuniorMikeMontagna(Fulton),whoeachhadeightormorepoints. Freshman Matt Zawadski andsophomore Justin Gilbert weresharing the creasewith the formergetting his first collegiate shutoutagainst Brockport November 23rdand sporting an impressive .942savepercentage. Zawadski was named the con-ference’sGoalieoftheWeekwhileShawn Hulshof earned Rookie oftheWeekfor theweekendingDe-cember 8th. Zawadski stopped acareer-high 35 shots against thenation’s top, Plattsburgh State, enroute to a 3-3 tie. Hulshof talliedthreegoalsoverthetwo-gamespan. TheLakerswillhostUtica,CurryandWisconsin-StoutintheOswegoClassicJanuary3-4.

UTICA ThePioneerssatatoptheECACWest conference andwere rankedamongthetop-teninDivisionIIIaf-tertheir8-2-1start. The top six scoring spotswereheld by upperclassmen led by se-niorAdamGraff’ssixgoalsand12points. Trevor Hertz led the teamwitheightassists. SeniorgoaltenderNickTherrienwastop-20nationallyinbothgoalsagainstandsavepercentage. TheteamheadstoOswegoJan-uary 3-4 for their tournament andplays Wisconsin-Stout in the firstround.

Camillus For those interested inapplying for travel teamhead coaching positions for the 2014-2015 season,please email Scott McDon-ald by Jan 15 [email protected]

Cortland Youth FireonIceTournament,Febru-ary28,March1and2forMite,RedWhiteandBlueandTyke(IP)

Center State Thanksforlinktoourwebsite.

Elmira Youth Hockey Squirt travel will be holding a fundraiser at Party Central Janu-ary 12, 5-7PM. $10 for unlimitedbouncing and lazer tag. 50% ofproceeds will be donated to the team! When you go make sure you mentionyouarethereforthehock-eyfundraiser! Thanksforthelinktoourmaga-zine!

Ithaca Youth Hockey The Ithaca Pee Wee Travel Team won Hershey Holiday Tour-nament.

Lysander Youth Hockey

Save theDates for 2014 tour-namentsincluding: House Teams! 2014 LYHA Thanksgiving Tournament Novem-ber28-30. Travel Teams! 2014 LYHA Hal-loween Tournament October 24-

26. 2013 Thanksgiving House Tournament Results: Squirt Division Leitrim Hawks Peewee Division Nepean Aces BantamDivisionOsgoodeRideau Senators

Onondaga Youth Hockey Upcoming OYHA Tournaments KingoftheRink-HouseTeamsJanuary17-20 Thunder Rumble - Travel Teams,March14-16 For information: www.eteamz.com/oyha/

Rome Youth Hockey The Rome Grizzlies Bantamswon the 2013-14 International Silver Stick Bantam B QualifyingTournament Championship.

Oswego Youth Hockey The19thAnnualPowerPlayIn-vitational Tournament Tournament isfullandnotacceptinganyfutureapplications at this time. The 31th Best Western PlusAnnual House League Invitational Tournament is January24-26.Goto Oswego’s website for applica-tion.ForSquirt,PeeWee,Bantam-House Level. Contact Mike Sova, [email protected] The28thAnnualOswegoMitesInvitational Tournament Tourna-

mentisfullandnotacceptinganyfutureapplicationsatthistime. The 2nd Annual “Girl Pow-er” Invitational Tournament will be held January 31-Feb-ruary2.Divisionsinclude8U,10U, 12U. Contact Tom Ro-man,phone:(315)939-2607,

email:[email protected]

Salmon River Hockey Salmon River Storm would like to welcome you to our invitational tournaments.As you may already know, the par-entsofSRIHAoperateourfacility. We coordinate, finance, andmaintain the entire facility for alliceactivitiesfromOctobertoApril.All proceeds from theactivitiesoftournaments directly benefit ournonprofitorganization. Tournament Coordina-tor: BethNewton–[email protected] Home Invitational Tournament Dates: Squirts$450 01/18/2014and01/19/2014 Bantams$550 02/01/2014 and 02/02/2014 Midgets$600 02/15/2014and02/16/2014 Peewees Pending 03/01/2014 and 03/02/2014 (TENTATIVE JAM WEEKEND) MiteJam$100 03/15/2014and03/16/2014

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Southern Tier The Binghamton Jr. Sena-tors Squirt A team won the 2013 Shootout Tournament held in Ska-neateles.Teammembersincluded:Zack Leniek, Dawson McAvoy, Angelo Carboni, Curtis Robitaille, Ryan Symons, Cameron Krisko, Ethan Kurkoski, Justin Ryan, Ja-cob Downton, Liam Burtis, NoahSladish, Landon Smith, Anthony Conti, Zach Burpee, JacksonFaughnan, Will Cohen, BrockCarter. Coached by Dan McAvoy, Chuck Burpee, Patrice Robitaille,Marc Leniek The Binghamton Jr. SenatorsPeeWeeBteamwonthe2013YorkThanksgiving Tournament held in York, PA. Team members includ-ed Grace Harner, Jake Holland, Nate Smith, Justin Ryan, Tyler Ko-polow, JonMorgan, BryantWein-gartner, Kyle Spisak, Austin Hand, MattCalenzo,CarterO’Brien,Ed-ward Kuklo, Alek Conrad, Zach Cerinetti, Josh Ryan; coached byWayneCerinetti,MikePatrick,JeffO’Brien,ToddRyan,BrianMorgan ThePucksforPawsFundraiseris underway with teams collecting suppliesforfivelocalanimalshel-ters. The team that collects and brings themost items to theBBQon January 21 will earn them a sky boxatanupcomingB-Sensgame.The shelters benefiting include:ProjectPAW,AnimalCareCouncil,Front Street Dog Shelter,ASPCAWaverlyand the Humane Society ofBroomeCounty Each shelter has a website that hasalistofneededitems. Southern Tier--thanks for thelinktoourmagazine.

Snowbelt hockey Here are the likely JAM loca-tionsforthisseason. Squirt(Feb28–Mar2) PeeWee(Feb28–Mar2) Bantam(Feb28–Mar2) Midget(Feb21-23) Gotowebsitefordetails.

Syracuse Hockey

SyracuseBlazersPresidentsDay Squirt Showdown, February15-17--Squirt ‘A’ Travel Tourna-mentTournament Director: DawnZimmer315.289.8434dawnzim-mer@att.netBlazersSquirtPresi-dentsDayTournamentHostedBy:Syracuse Youth Hockey Arrival

Clinton Youth Hockey The Squirt Travel Team won the Shatter Point Tournament2014 Comet Cup - Central New York Squirt Invitational Clinton Youth Hockey will be hostinganendof seasonCentralNew York Squirt Invitational Tour-namentonMarch7-9attheClintonArena. Clintonwon theSquirtB Inter-national Silver Stick Regional for2013-14.

Elmira Jackals ECHL Team The Elmira Jackals will hold their popular 4-for-$44 promotionon Saturday, January 11 when they takeontheReadingRoyalsatFirstArena. “Our 4-for-$44 promotion hasbecome an annual event that our fans really look forward to andwe’re excited to bring it back for

2013-14. We also have to thank ourgreatsponsorsforcontributingto this year’s package and making itoneofthebestwe’vebeenabletooffer,”saidJackalsgeneralman-agerMattHufnagel. The4for$44isapackagetick-etdealthatincludesfourticketstotheJackalsgamealongwith: •Four hot dogs and sodas/wa-tersatFirstArena •Fourpasses toapublicskateattheFirstArenaIcePavilion •Four small cups of coffee atCappy’s •Four one (1) week member-shipstoGrandCentralFitness •FoursconesatKatie’sCafe •FourslicesofpizzafromRico’sPizza •Four one (1) hour passes toParty Central •Four smothered or loaded atTexasRoadhouse •FourgamesofbowlingatRos-si Lanes The4for$44packagesareonsale right now and are available by calling607-734-7825.Jackalssea-son ticket holders can take advan-tageofallofthegreatdealsofferedinthe4for$44packagebyvisitingtheFanServicestableonJanuary11. There they can claim one bun-dleof4 for$44dealsperseasonticket account. The Jackals dropped their sea-son finale against the GreenvilleRoad Warriors by a 6-3 score atBon Secours Wellness Arena.The loss moved Elmira’s record to 9-15-3ontheseason.

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Senior Megan My-ers was named

ECAC West Confer-ence Player of the Week, Monday.The forward netted

three goals and added three assists to help UC sweep conference foe Buffalo. In game one she had one goal and three assists in UC’s 5-1 win over the Bengals. She followed that up the following day with two goals, including a short-handed game-win-ner to help the Pioneers to their fifth straight victory. Myers currently leads the team in goals (7), assists (7), and points (14). She is also fourth in the country with 1.86 points per game and has tallied at least one point in each of UC’s sev-en games so far this season. Utica comes into the New Year with a six-game winning streak af-ter beating Hamilton College 3-2 in overtime and then taking a holiday break. Syracuse

Kallie Billadeau was named the female Syra-

cuse Orange Scholar-Ath-lete of the Week for Decem-

ber 2. Billadeau is a two-time College Hockey America Goaltender of the Week this season, last receiving the honor on Oct. 28 after earning the win in net against then-ranked No. 4/3 Boston Col-lege. She allowed just one goal and made a season-high 43 saves in her second win over

a top-10 team this season. The first one also earned her CHA Goaltender of the Week after limiting previously-ranked No. 10 Northeastern to one goal on 28 shots on goal. Billadeau has played in 11 of SU’s 15 contests and owns a .934 save percentage, which is the best mark in the CHA and ranks eighth among all Division I goalies. Additionally, her 2.08 goals against average is 16th nationally. At Penn State on November 9, Billadeau became the only Syracuse goalie to surpass 2,000 career saves. The senior net minder was selected to the CHA All-Academic Team for the third time in her career earlier this year and is a six-time member of the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll. Billadeau is pursuing a degree in Television-Radio-Film in S.I. New-house School of Public Communica-tions and Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Freshman forward Heather Schwarz was named College Hockey America Rookie of the Week for the second time this season. This marks the fifth CHA Player of the Week se-lection for the Orange this year. Schwarz notched the first goal of her collegiate career when she netted the game-tying goal against Colgate in a game that Syracuse would win 2-1. In the midst of Colgate defenders and SU players in front of the net, the puck slid out, giving Schwarz enough room to get a shot off. Schwarz flicked it up and over traffic to tie the game at 1-1 with 13 seconds remaining in the second period. The rookie skater has played in all but one game this season and has the third-most points among Orange freshmen with three. Larissa Martyniuk earned the first College Hockey America award of her career. The freshman defense-man was named Rookie of the Week for her performance against Linden-wood. Martyniuk tallied three points against Lindenwood, all assists, in-cluding two in the 4-1 victory over the Lady Lions. After that game, she had seven points on the season, the second-most among Syracuse rook-ies and fourth-most among all Or-ange skaters. She now ranks eighth in CHA in defenseman scoring and fifth in freshman scoring. This is the third Rookie of the Week honor SU has received this sea-son. The Orange come into the New Year with a 8-8-2 overall record. Nicole Ferrara and Caitlin Roach lead the scoreboard with 12 points each. Ferrare has 7 goals/5 assists and Roach, 3 goals/9 assists. They are fol-lowed closely by Nicole Renault, Jes-sica Sibley and Margot Scharfe who have 11 points each.



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Colgate

The Raiders come into the New Year with a 3-12-2 overall record and look to face

ECAC rivals in the upcoming weeks in-cluding Harvard, Dartmouth, Clarkson, St.Lawrence and Brown. Junior Miriam Drubel is leading the scoring sheet with 6 goals and 5 assists. Rochester’s Susan Allen has minded the net for seven games and has a 2.41 Average making 148 saves for a .914 save percentage.

Oswego

The Oswego State women’s ice hockey team cruised past SUNY Canton 6-1

to complete the sweep of the Kangaroos during White Out Weekend December 6-7. With the victory, the Lakers improve

to 8-2-1 on the year, which is the best start in program history. The Lakers return to the ice January 10 against St. Norbert (Wisconsin) and then travel to play Buffalo State College on January 18/19 before returning home January 24 to take on Elmira. They will hold Military Appreciation Day on January 25 and Pink the Rink on February 1 and 2 when they play Stevenson. Three players tie for first place in the scoring with 8 points each including Melissa Seamont, Olivia Boersen and Megan Hagg.

Elmira

For the sixth week in a row, the Elmira College women’s ice hockey team remained at No. 4 in the latest U.S.

College Hockey Online (USCHO) national poll. There was no movement in the top four as Platts-burgh State stayed at No. 1 in the rankings, followed by Middlebury College, Norwich University and Elmira Col-lege. However, there was plenty of movement in the remaining six spots of the national poll as none of the teams stayed in the same spot as the pre-vious week. Despite playing in only two home games during the first half of the year, the Elmira women enter the holiday break with an 8-2-1 overall record and a

perfect 6-0-0 mark in ECAC West Conference play, placing the Soaring Eagles at the top of the conference standings with 12 points. Elmira started the year 0-1-1 but would go on to win eight of their next nine games which included a five-game win streak, four of those wins coming against ECAC West opponents. Third year talent Ashley Ryan leads the ECAC West in point scoring, averaging 2.00 points per game, good enough to be ranked third in NCAA Division III women’s ice hockey in that same category. Ryan is also fifth in the nation in assists per game while Brooke Wilgosh is fourth in the country in defensemen scoring. Johanna Eidensten was named one of the EC Athletes of the Week in the final installment of the award in 2013. Eidensten and the women’s ice hockey team enjoyed a successful weekend in Pittsburgh, PA, sweeping their weekend series with Chatham University by a combined score of 15-0. In Saturday’s 5-0 win over the Cougars, Ei-densten picked up an assist on the final goal of the game, but came back on Sunday for a career performance. The Täby, Sweden native turned in her first career hat trick and scored the first game-winning goal of her career as she tallied the first goal in EC’s 10-0 victory. She also add-ed an assist in the third period, giving her five points on the weekend. Tanis Lamoureux was named one of the Elmira Col-lege Athletes of the Week for the week ended December 1, 2013. Lamoureux and the women’s ice hockey team earned a weekend split at the Cardinal-Panther Classic, falling to No. 2 Middlebury College 5-3 on November 30 before coming back to defeat Amherst College 3-2 the following day. The captain tallied a combined two goals and one assist over the weekend, earning All-Tournament honors in the process. Despite falling to the Panthers in game one, Lamou-reux came up with timely scores that nearly helped EC pull off the upset. Her second period goal put Elmira ahead 2-1, and after Middlebury tied the game in the third pe-riod, Lamoureux’s assist on an Ashton Hogan goal gave the Purple and Gold the 3-2 advantage in the third pe-riod. Lamoureux was back at the following day against Amherst as her second goal in as many days broke a 1-1 tie and swung the momentum back in the Soaring Eagles’ favor. Kyle Nelson and Tanis Lamoureux both received weekly honors from the ECAC West for their play in the Cardinal-Panther Classic. For Nelson, it is her first ECAC West Rookie of the Week award of her young career. (Continued on next page)



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Auburn Hawks Auburn will hold their 5th Annual Pucks on thePondTournament,February1atHoopesParkinAu-burn. The tournament is a celebration of the birth ofhockeyandanefforttopromotethegameofhockeywhileexposingouryouthtothe“pondhockey”expe-rience.Thisevent is intended tobe funandweaskthat you please keep this in mind when setting your rosters. Please do not enter travel level players in the

house division and try to have house rosters balanced withamixofplayers.Thisevent isreallyabout fun,and not about winning or losing. Therefore, pleasehonorthespiritofthegamethroughpositivecheeringand participation. The tournament features 6 Man teams; 3 on 3;Three Game guarantee; 15 Minute games Squirts-Adult;8&Under10minutegames Official2014PucksonthePondTournamentRules [email protected]

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Nelson was named the ECAC West Rookie of the Week for her efforts between the pipes. Making the second start of her career, Nelson led the Soaring Eagles to a 3-2 win over Amherst College in the final game of the Cardinal-Pan-ther Classic. Playing in all 60 minutes of the game, Nelson made 27 saves en route to her second win of the season. Elmira captain Lamoureux also landed a place on the ECAC West Weekly Honor Rolle after totalling three points on two goals and one assist in the tournament’s opening round game against No. 2 Middlebury, Lamoureux scored one goal and assisted on another. Then, against Amherst, Lamoureux scored Elmira’s second goal of the game with one second remaining in the second period, putting El-mira ahead 2-1 at the time. For her efforts she was named to the Cardinal-Panther All-Tournament Team.

Cortland

Cortland ended 2013 with a split of its weekend series with Neumann.

The Red Dragons will be on the road as they open their New Year against Amherst in Massachusetts, then at Utica, Platts-

burgh and Buffalo before facing Hamilton at home on January 28. They are coming into the New Year with a 2-6-2 over-all record. Niamh O’Connor has 7 points with 3 goals and 4 assists; followed by Katie Gili with four points.

Cornell

The last time the Winter Olympics were held in 2010 in Vancouver, one member

of the Cornell women’s hockey team won a gold medal with Team Canada. But in 2014 in Russia, there may be as many as four

members of the Big Red with Olympic medals around

their necks. Hockey Canada announced the final roster for its women’s hockey team to take the ice in February -- in-cluding Big Red’s Rebecca Johnston ‘12, Laura Fortino ‘13, Lauriane Rougeau ‘13 and senior Brianne Jenner. All four were on Canada’s centralization roster, which was trimmed from 27 to the final 21 who will be making the trip to Sochi, Russia. Johnston, a forward, is a veteran with Team Canada, having won gold with the team in Vancouver before her senior season on East Hill. Fellow forward Jenner was also centralized with Canada and the youngest member of the training squad leading up to that tournament. But she didn’t make the final cut and was left off the Olympic roster the year before she started her career at Cornell. Fortino and Rougeau, both defensemen who tra-ditionally played on the same pairing during all four of their years at Cornell, have a long history of competing on the international level with Team Canada, but this will be their first foray into the Olympics. Fortino, Jenner, John-ston and Rougeau all won the silver medal with Canada at the IIHF World Championship in March. The Big Red are 10-1-2 overall and following a 5-2 victory over Syracuse, they took a holiday break and re-turned to the ice at Brown and Yale right after New Years. Emily Fulton leads the scoring with 8 goals and 16 as-sists and Jillian Saulnier has 12 goals and 8 assists.

Hamilton College

Hamilton is 2-4-1 overall after a 3-2 loss to Utica. They now face SUNY Canton and

SUNY Cortland as they start the New Year. Gigi Fraser, Stephanie Lang and Katie

Parkman each have 5 points tallied this season with Fra-ser putting in 4 goals/1 assist; Lange 3 goals/2 assists and Parkman 2 goals/3 assists.

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Santini Tapped for National Team Steve Santini of Mahopac NY was select-ed to attend the Nation-al Junior Training Camp. He plays for Boston Col-

lege and was drafted by the New Jersey Devils in 2013; second round, 42nd overall.

Brewster Congratulations to Coach Tim Donaghy on the birth of a daughter. Mom Marisa, Brother Brady and Sister Cami are all doing well. Four former Brewster/Westcheser Express players were named to the National Junior Team Preliminary ros-ter and attended the training camp in Minneapolis in De-cember.

Bronxville—submitted story and photo on Silver Sticks. The Blackhawks Bantam A Team won the 2013-14 Sil-ver Sticks New England Regional posting a 5-0 record and an OT win in the finals. The Blackhawks PeeWee Major (pictured) team won the 2013-14 Silver Sticks New England Regional with a 5-0 record. They now go on to Michigan.

Greater New York City Ice Hockey League The following NY Stars Midget players have been se-lected to play in the 16U EJEPL All Star Game. Ethan Cohe, Danny Edmonds, Bryan McKernan, Larry Niland and John O’Brien. Also Goalie Eddie Futterman. Greater NYC Ice Hockey will be fielding AAA teams in the Eastern Junior Elite Prospects League at the PeeWee, Bantam, Midget levels for the 2014-15 season. Greater NYC will have the only EJEPL AAA Hockey teams in the five boroughs. For information email [email protected]

Long Island Ice Cats The IceCat Amateur Hockey Club Pee Wee Minor team placed third at the Can/Am Lake Placid Tournament.

Long Island Gulls The Long Island Gulls Squirt Major team played and took the Silver Medal in the Fall Classic Tournament in Springfield, Mass., ranked 10th in the country. The Gulls cruised through the round-robin portion of the tourna-ment going 3-0, and outscored their opponents 19-7. With a dominant performance in the preliminary round, the stage was set for a semifinal rematch with the de-fending champions from last year’s Fall Classic, the New England Falcons. Down 3-1 in second period, the Gulls staged a dramatic comeback and defeated the Falcons, 4-3. The championship game found the Gulls leading a makeshift New England All-Star team, 4-2, with just eight minutes remaining in the third period, however, wound up loosing the game 5-4. “We had them, unfortunately we had a few break-downs within a four minute span that cost us the cham-pionship. You can’t have that happen against a team with that kind of skill,” said assistant coach, Mike Bradey. “It’s a process and we are confident the team will learn from this experience.” The LI Gulls 2002 team brought home the Champion-ship from the 2013 Valley Jr. Warrior Thanksgiving Tour-nament in Adover, MA. The boys rebounded after losing their opening game and went 4-0-1 the rest of the way. They avenged their opening loss against the Sea Coast Spartans by defeating them 6-2 in the semi-finals. In the finals they played the host team, Valley Jr. Warriors, who they had tied in round-robin play. The Gulls dominated with 5-1, four goals from Austin Myers and one from An-

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News and Notes

drew Cagner and terrific goaltending from Christopher Stoffers. In other news, Forward Dnate Palecco has committed to attend and play at Yale University in 2016. Joe Fallon has made a commitment to attend school and play hockey at Princeton in the Fall of 2015. Daniel Willett has been traded to the Muskegon Lum-berjacks. Willett is a native of Bayville (NY) and is in his second season with the USHL, all spent with the Lincoln Stars. He will play for Northeastern University following his junior career.

New York Bobcats The Bobcats grabbed four points at the Eastern Hock-ey League’s Christmas Showcase. They went 2-1-0 against EHL North opponents and sit in second place in the EHL Central Division, tied with the WBS Knights. Gabe Grunwald was named to the Eastern Hock-ey League’s All Star Team. Grunwald is part of the EHL’s First-Team selection that played the MHL Russian Junior League All Stars at Harvard in December. Bobcats Lucas Brown and Will Capion were named to the All-Star Second Team. Corey Kennedy was named Player of the Week for No-vember 25-December 1 in the EHL.

New York Cyclones NY Hockey Online thanks the Cyclones for putting our link on their site. The Cyclone Midges traveled to West Point to see Army take on Providence College. Prior to the game for-mer Army Goalie and Associate Captain Second Lt. Ryan Leet spoke to the Cyclones in the Army Sports Hall of Fame in the Kimsey Athletic Center. After the game they skated with the Black Knights.

Richmond Thunder The Thunder Pee Wee team won the Thanksgiving Hockey Classic tournament in Newark, De. Beating the NJ Freeze 4-1, the Junior Blue Hens 4-2, tied the Ed Snider Hockey 3-3 and then defeating the Delaware Ducks 1-0 for the Championship.

Aviator Hockey The Aviator Club PeeWee AA took the Bridgeport CT Silver Sticks Regional by defeating the NJ Colonials 3-2 in the final game. Christian Sarlo had a hatrick to take the victory. This team is made up of all 2001 Birth Year and currently are 18-1-2 sitting on top of the Tri-State and Long Island League standings. The Squirt team went 3-1-1 at the Silver Sticks, los-ing in the Championship game against the Central Con-necticut Capitals. They went 2 overtimes and a shoot-out in the semi-finals to put them into the Championship round.

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ARMY The Black Knights won two oftheir final three conference gamesofthefirsthalf,butstillsatinafour-waytieforninth/lastintheAtlanticHockeyAssociationstandings. Junior goaltender RobTadazakmade15 saves to registerhis thirdcareer shutout by a 2-0 countagainstCanisiusDecember7th. FreshmanC.J.Reuschlein leadstheteamwithsixgoalswithsopho-moresShaneHearnandWillieFaustwith freshman Clint Carlisle atoptheteamscoringchartalthoughnoplayer had reached the ten-pointmarkthroughthefirst15games. FreshmancenterKylePlagemannetted his first collegiate goal, ac-countingfortheBlackKnights’lonescoreagainstProvidenceDecember20th. TheteamhostsMercyhurstfora

pairJanuary3-4.

HUDSON VALLEY CC The Vikingsended their firsthalf on a five-game winning

streak including three conferencetilts. WilliamHuber(HopewellJunc-tion)andJamesMurphy(PortJeffer-son Station) had accounted for 51pointsandwereamongthetop-fivein the conference in both catego-ries. Together they accounted formore than half of the team’s totalgoals. Their season resumes January22ndagainstBroomeCConhomeice.

MANHATTANVILLE A 3-3-1ECACWest recordput the Valiantsmiddleofthepackin tight confer-ence.

Junior Jake Mooney is leadingthe team andwas tied for 20th inDivisionIIIwithhissixgoalsinthefirsthalf,includingfourpower-playtallies that tie him for fifth in thecountry. Seniors Mark Rivera and LucVanNetterwere1-2ontheteaminpointswith15and13 respectivelythrough11games.Thesecondhalfstartswithfivenon-conferencegamesbeginningatCur-ryJanuary10th.HobartarrivesforapairtheweekendofJanuary24-25.

R.P.I. A so-so No-vember wastrumped by a2-1-2 Decem-ber highlighted

byanon-conferencetieonhomeiceagainstDenveranda3-3deadlockwithtop-of-the-conferenceQuinni-piac.ThathadtheEngineersmiddleofthepackinthetoughECAC. RyanHaggertywas named thePlayeroftheWeekbyECACHock-ey for theweek endingDecember8th after the junior forward scoredthree goals and added an assist intwo contests. He was leading thenationingoalspergamewith18inthefirst17contestsandwastop-sixinpointspergame. Brock Higgs, Mat Neal, JacobLaliberte andMikeZalewski (NewHartford)wereallindouble-figuresinscoringatthebreak. Sophomore defenseman ChrisBradley (Williamsville) and fellowbluelinerPhilHamptonbothscoredhis first collegiate goal November22ndagainstMercyhurst.

UNION TheStatesmenenteredtheholi-daybreakunbeatenontheroad(6-0-2) and unbeaten against rankedopponents(5-0-1)thisseason.Theyended the first half on a ten-gameunbeatenstreakandrankedseventhin the nation—one of five ECACteamsinthetop-15. DanielCarrpassedKellyZajacfor second place onUnion’s Divi-sion I careerscoring listwithhisthree-point week-endagainstSt.CloudState.

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CJ Reuschlein (Janet Schultz Photo)



Union C o l -

l e g e women’s h o c k e y j u n i o r goalten-der Sh-

enae Lundberg tied a program record for career shutouts in a 2-0 win over Maine. With the win the Dutch-women improve to 6-11-0 while the Black Bears fall to 1-13-5. Lundberg’s 22 saves leaves her in a five-way tie with Alana Marcinko (2009-2013), Dana Smullyan (2002-2006), Heather Olney (2001-2002) and Victoria Elkins (2000-01) with three career shutouts. Union College women’s ice hock-ey junior goaltender Shenae Lun-dberg and senior forward Stefanie Thomson earned ECAC weekly hon-ors for their performances in the two-game series versus Maine. Lundberg was named the ECAC Goaltender of the Week after making program history in Friday’s 2-0 win over Maine as she recorded her third career shutout (second of the sea-son) to move into the five-way tie for first in career shutouts. Her 19 saves included 12 in a busy second period. She held the Maine power-play off the board in four attempts. She also recorded six saves in16:00 of ice time in Sunday’s 6-3 loss to Maine. Lund-berg already set a program record for career wins earlier this year when the Dutchwomen blanked Dartmouth 3-0 at home. Thomson was named the ECAC Player of the Week after tallying three power-play goals on exactly three shots over two games last weekend in a split series with Maine. Thom-son’s first goal of the weekend also proved to be the game-winner in a 2-0 win over Maine in game one. She

then went on to record two power-play goals against Maine the next af-ternoon. With her two goals, Thom-son cracked the top five all-time goal scorers in program history by tallying her 19th and 20th career goals. She is currently tied for eighth in the nation in power-play goals with four. This is the fourth time that Lun-dberg has earned ECAC Goaltender of the Week honors after earning the honor twice during the 2012-13 sea-son and once earlier this season. This marks the first time Thomson has been honored by the ECAC. Union returned to the ice on January 3 and 4 against RIT. They en-tered the New Year with a 6-12 over-all record. Maddy Norton is holding the scoring lead with two goals and 11 assists, followed by Courtney Turner and Stefanie Thomason, each with 5 goals and 7 assists.

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has named Rensselaer Po l y t e c h -nic Insti-tute (RPI) s t u d e n t -

athlete Kelly O’Brien named Goal-tender of the Week, after helping the Engineers to a two-game sweep of St. Cloud State. A junior out of Sussex, Wisc., O’Brien recorded a career-high 44 saves in the first game with a 4-1 vic-

tory over the Huskies. Stopping 14, 15 and 15 shots in each period, the lone tally she allowed came on the power-play. She then stopped 31 of 32 shots the fol-lowing day, as the En-gineers completed the

sweep with a 2-1 victory. O’Brien has started 14 of the team’s 15 games so far this season, posting a 6-7-1 record, with two shut-outs. She carries a 1.94 goals against average and a .921 save percentage. In six ECAC Hockey contests, the for-mer Madison Capitals standout is 3-3-0, with a 1.69 goals against aver-age and a .919 save percentage. Nationally, O’Brien ranks 12th in goals against average and 20th in save percentage. She is also ninth in shutouts. In ECAC Hockey play, she is fourth in goals against average and fifth in save percentage. Through 68 career games at RPI, O’Brien is 20-40-5, with a 2.43 goals against average and a .906 save per-centage. She has seven lifetime shut-outs. The Engineers closed out 2013 with a 6-10-1 overall record. They open 2014 against Providence on January 4 and 5. It will then be a string of ECAC rivals when they take on Quinnipiac, Union, Dartmouth, Harvard and St. Lawrence.

Manhattanville

After a three-point game in the Manhattanville women’s hockey

team’s lone game of the week, junior assistant captain Sydney Asselstine (Hartington, Ontario/Nepean Wild-cats (PWHL)) has been named the ECAC East Conference Player of the Week for the second straight week.


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(Continued from Page 38) Asselstine, who was coming off a week in which she tallied three goals and an assist to earn her first career weekly conference honors, followed that up with a one-goal, two-assist performance in a 4-3 win over Neumann.

She was on the ice for all four Valiant goals, assisting on the team’s first and fourth tallies while also adding a power-play goal midway through the second period to knot the score at two. Asselstine is Manhattanville’s team leader in scor-ing this year, netting seven goals and five assists for 12 points through seven games. The assistant captain is currently one of only eight players in Division III to be averaging at least one goal per game this season, while also ranking eighth in the country in points per game. The Valiants are 5-4-1 and play on the road until January 17 when they face Holy Cross at Terry Connors Rink.

(Men”s Hockey Continued from Page 37) ColinStevens(Niskayuna)wasnamedECACHock-eyGoaltenderoftheWeekfortwoconsecutiveweeksendingDecember8th&15th.Thejunior,recordedhissecond shutout of the season in Union’s 3-0 victoryoverPrinceton(December6th)forhisfifthcareershut-out. MatBodiewastabbedplayeroftheweekandAlexSakellaropoulosnamedrookieoftheweekfortheweekendingDecember15th.Bodierecordedagoalandtwoassistsandstandsthirdnationallyindefensemenscor-ing(1.06pointspergame).Bodieneedsoneassist tomoveintoasecondplacetiewithAdamPresizniukforcareerassistsatUnion(DivisionIlevel). Sakellaropoulos, who was making his first startsinceOct.25,heldthenation’seighth-highestscoringteamtojustonegoal(apowerplaymarker)instopping34of35shots(.971savepercentage)againstSt.CloudState.TheStatesmenhaveoneofthelongerholidaybreaksinDivisionIwith26daysoffbeforeresumingJanuary10-11andQuinnipiacandPrincetonrespectively.

OTHER...MercyhurstseniorforwardDanielO’Donoghue(PortJeffersonStation)hadthreeassistsina5-5tieagainstRobertMorristobecomethe16thplayerintheDivisionIeraatMercyhursttoaccumulate100careerpoints.


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CLARKSON TheGoldenKnightsfinishedthefirsthalf12-3-1andrankedinthetop-ten in the nation—a far cryfrom theECAC lastplacepredic-tioninpreseasonpolls. FreshmangoaltenderStevePer-rywastiedforthirdinthecountryingoalsagainstand11th insavepercentage but Greg Lewis wasseeing more playing time with

eightwinsastheteamranked12thallowingjust2.31goalspergame. Boston draft pick Ben Sexton leads the balancedscoring attack with 15 points. The Knights have 11playerswithsixormorepointsincludingthreedefen-semanandGrandIslandjuniorJoeZarbo(12points). ClarksonreturnsDecember28-29attheCatamountCupwithCanisiusandUMass-LowellattheUniversityofVermont.

PLATTSBURGH TheCardinalscompletedthefirsthalfoftheseasonundefeated(9-0-2)andbacktotheirfamiliarplacerankedfirstinthenation. Senior goaltender MathieuCadieuxhasplayedeveryminuteofeverygameandwas to-five nationally in goals against and save per-centage. Juniors Alex Jensen and Mark Constantine withsophomore Dillan Fox and senior defenseman BarryRoytmanallhadtenormorepointsthroughthefirst11games. TheCardinalshostHamilton,HobartandWilliamsin the annualPrimelinkTournament January3-4 andresume SUNYAC lay January 24th at travel partnerPotsdam.

POTSDAM The Bears completed thefirst half of their conferenceschedule with just one win,but it could be a momentumchanger for the second half as senior Mike ArnoldscoredinovertimeinthefinalgameinDecember. Arnold had eight goals over the first ten gameswhile the restof the teamcombinedhad scored just20foranoffenseaveragingonly2.80goalspergame.Sophomore forward Todd Thomas had a team highsevenassistswithjuniordefensemanErickWarerightbehindwithsix. Vinny Caligiuri (Shoreham) was named the SU-NYACRookieoftheWeekfortheperiodendingNo-vember24thafterherecordedhisfirstthreecollegiatepointsintheBears’weekendsweepofSUNYCanton.

ST. LAWRENCETheSaintshotstartfizzledwithjusttwovictoriesovertheirlastninegamespriortotheholidayhiatus.Thefifthmostpotentoffenseinthena-tion(3.63gpg)ledbyGregCarey,Matt

Carey and JeremyWick is offset by the52nd rankeddefenseallowing3.68goalspergame. Senior forward Greg Carey was named NationalCollegeHockeyPlayeroftheMonthinNovemberaf-terhe ledthenationinscoringwith21points in tengames.Itmarkedthesecondtimeinhiscareerhewasso-honored;thefirstwasinFebruary2013. Freshman center Matt Carey was named ECACHockeyRookieof theWeek for the second time thisseasonfortheweekendingDecember8thafterscoringfourgoalsinatwo-gamesetagainstrivalClarkson. Former Saints defenseman and current assistanthead coachMike Hurlbut will be inducted into theRochesterAmericansHallofFameinceremoniespre-ceding thegameon January10th.Hurlbut (Massena)playedfiveseasonsinRochesterandisthelongest-ten-uredcaptaininteamhistoryatfiveyears.Heranksfifthall-time among Amerks defensemen in scoring with167pointsover288regularseasongames. The secondhalf begins January 7th onhome iceagainstVermont.

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After a 3-0 week closing out 2013, three SUNY Potsdam women’s hockey players

were honored by the Eastern Col-lege Athletic Conference West. Senior Assistant Captain Amanda Lucky was named the conference’s

Player of the Week. Freshman forward Jordan Ott (Hilton, N.Y./Rochester Edge) earned her third Rookie of the Week award in the last month and sophomore goaltender Alex-ane Rodrigue was named to the ECAC West Honor Roll for the second time in three weeks. Lucky scored four goals and added an assist in the Bears’ three wins. The forward scored the game winner in Potsdam’s 4-1 win over SUNY Canton. Three days later she found the back of the net to cement Potsdam’s 2-0 win at Saint Michael’s. The following afternoon, Lucky scored the game-winner and added another goal and an assist in a 6-2 victory over the Purple Knights. This season, Lucky is tied for second on the team in scoring with six goals and six assists for 12 points. Ott also had four goals and a helper that week. She scored two goals against the Kangaroos. She assisted on the game-winning goal at Saint Michael’s on Friday. On Saturday, she twice erased Purple Knight leads with pow-er-play goals to wrap up her best week yet. The freshman now has scored two goals in a game three times in the first 11 contests of her career. Ott is tied with Lucky for second on the team in scoring this year with nine goals and three assists for 12 points. She leads the team in goals and both the Bears and ECAC West in and power-play goals (4). Ott’s scoring average of 1.09 points-per-game is fifth-best in the nation by a freshman and she is tied for fourth in the NCAA in power play-goals. Rodrigue went 2-0 for Potsdam last week with a 1.50 goals against average and a .938 save percentage. She

stopped 24 of 25 shots against Canton and then made 21 saves in the series finale at Saint Michael’s. This season Rodrigue is 5-3-2 with a 3.01 goals against average, a .914 save percentage and one shutout. The Bears are 4-0-1 in their last five contests. Potsdam is off until January 7, when the they head to Castleton State for a 4 p.m. showdown with the Spartans.

Plattsburgh Giovanna Senese scored both Cardinal goals as the top-ranked Plattsburgh State women’s hockey team re-mained unbeaten with a 2-0 victory over No. 2 Middle-bury at the ninth annual Panther/Cardinal Classic. The Cardinals move to 9-0-1 on the year, surrender-ing just one goal this season in the first semester. The loss marked the first of the season for the Panthers, who drop to 5-1-0 overall. Sydney Aveson of the top-ranked Plattsburgh State women’s hockey team has been named the Eastern Col-lege Athletic Conference (ECAC) West Goalie of the Week for the week ending Dec. 1. Aveson was named the most valuable player at the Ninth Annual Panther/Cardinal Classic after making 40 combined saves in a 1-0-1 weekend for Plattsburgh State. The West Covina, Calif. native recorded 19 stops in Satur-day’s 1-1 draw against Amherst, allowing her first goal of the season. On Sunday, Aveson turned away all 21 shots she faced to earn her seventh shutout and victory of the season. The latest honor marks the fourth time this sea-son Aveson has been lauded as the league’s top goalten-der. A solid performance in Sunday’s game against Mid-dlebury landed sophomore forward Giovanna Senese a spot on the ECAC West Weekly Honor Roll. Senese netted both goals in Plattsburgh State’s 2-0 win over the Pan-thers as the Cardinals claimed the Panther/Cardinal Clas-sic title. With her two goals, Senese earned a spot on the Panther/Cardinal Classic All-Tournament Team. After wrapping up the first semester with a 9-0-1 re-cord, the Cardinals claimed the top spots in the USCHO.com and D3hockey.com Division III polls for the fifth-straight week. Plattsburgh State returns to action on Sunday, Jan. 5 when the Cardi-nals host the Norwich Cadets at 3 p.m. at the Stafford Ice Arena.



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College Report by Janet Schultz



Clarkson

After a lengthy break, an exhibition game against McGill University opens the New Year for the Clark-son University Women’s Hockey team. The Golden

Knights are guided by sixth-year co-head coaches Matt and Shannon Desrosiers and assistant coach Matt Kelly. Last in action on December 14 with a 6-2 victory over RIT in the Outdoor Game at Frontier Field in Roch-ester, NY, Clarkson owns a 14-4-2 overall record. Led by senior captain Carly Mercer (Exeter, ONT) and senior as-sistant captains Vanessa Gagnon (St. Constant, QUE) and Jamie Lee Rattray (Kanata, ONT), Clarkson resumes ECAC Hockey play with a home-and-home series against North Country rival St. Lawrence University. The Knights, who enter the 2014 portion of the sched-

ule with a 5-2-1 league mark, are tied with the Saints for fifth place in the ECAC Hockey standings. Genevieve Bannon, a freshman forward on the Clarkson Univer-sity Women’s Hockey team, has been named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week.

Bannon helped lead Clarkson past RIT in the Outdoor Game at Frontier Field on Saturday with two assists in the 6-2 victory over the Tigers. Playing on the Golden Knights’ second line, she assisted on Clarkson’s first and last goals of the game. Bannon registered a plus-minus rating of +2 on the day. She now has recorded six goals and added six assists in 20 career games for the Green and Gold.

Ranked sixth in the national polls with a 14-4-2 over-all record, including a 5-2-1 ECAC Hockey mark,

St Lawrence

St. Lawrence University first-year student Brooke Webster has been named the ECAC Hockey Rook-ie of the Month for November thanks to her 10 points in eight games.

Webster, who recorded three goals and seven as-sists in November, helped St. Lawrence to a 4-1-1 mark in ECAC Hockey play and has the Saints tied for third in the conference standings heading into second semester. The Aurora, ON native, who scored the game-winning goal against Brown, is tied for first in the league in fresh-man scoring (1.00 ppg) and is seventh in the country in

that same category. Webster was tops among all rookies in power-play goals with two and power-play points with five in November conference action. “Brooke has made a nice adjust-ment the first half of the year,” said St. Lawrence head coach Chris Wells.

“Like many of our players, she has worked hard on im-proving certain aspects of her game and she has been rewarded with this accomplishment.” Webster beat out an impressive group of rookies for the monthly honor, including Cornell’s Hanna Bunton, Harvard’s Sydney Daniels, Clarkson’s Corie Johnson, Yale’s Phoebe Staenz and Quinnipiac’s Emma Woods. Webster and the Saints will be in action again when the calendar turns to 2014, as they head to Coraopolis, PA to take on Robert Morris on January 4 and 5. The Saints are 6-9-1 overall as they come into the New Year.

Canton

Caty Darling (Oswego, NY) of the women’s hockey team was named Roos of the Week for December 17.

Darling had a strong weekend for the women’s hockey team showing great leadership on the ice in both games. “She was our best defender Friday and led by keeping things

simple and executing our game plan,” said Head Coach Melissa Lomanto. The junior made her first start of the season in Saturday’s contest. Darling has appeared in 36 games during her career as a Roo tallying one goal and eight assists. The women’s hockey team has completed its 2013 slate and will returned to the ice against Utica on January 3 at home.


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North NewsLewis County Amateur Hockey The Lewis County Corbras will hold a fundraiser at McDonald on Wednesday, January 15. Players should arrive wearing their jerseys between 4:45 and 8 p.m. The players will be holding their banner out front, washing tables, etc. While there the Cobras will earn a percent-age of the McDonald’s profits from that night.

Northwood School The Northwood Invitational Hockey Tournament will be held January 17-19.

Plattsburgh Plattsburgh Youth Hockey will hold the PYH Roadrunner Rumble Friday, January 17 through Monday, January 20 at the Plattsburgh State Field House and AC North Sports Center. A website has been created which will include the schedule, standings, scores, rules, etc. at www.leaguelinup.com/pyhroadrunnerrumble.

Saranac Lake Pee Wee Hockey Association The Saranac Lake High School Boys Hockey Team sponsored a Wounded Warrior Event at their game vs Lake Placid on January 4. The Pee Wee/Squirt Ultimate Chill Tour-nament was held January 3-5.

Saratoga Youth Hockey The Mark Woodcock Peewee Tourna-ment will be held January 10-12 and the Connor LaFrance Squirt Tournament and Midget Tour-nament will be held January 16-19.

Troy Albany Youth Hockey The Troy Albany Ice Cats and Jr. En-gineers will hold their 21st Annual Rink Rat Tournament for Squirts, PeeWees, Bantams and Midgets and Girls 14U, 16U, 19U Tier II Divi-sions on February 14-17. For information email Bill at [email protected]

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NJPE Win Tournaments

The2013Niagara Jr. Purple EaglesPeeWeeMajorHockeyTeam (pictured above) won the PeeWee

MajorDivisionoftheNiagaraUniversityJr.PurpleEa-gles Thanksgiving Invitational Tournament. They alsowontheSilverSticksRegionalQualifyingTournamentinRomeandadvancetothenextroundinForest(On-tario).Witharecordof20-3-5,theteamiscurrentlythe34th rankedAATeam in the nation, and 2nd rankedteaminNewYorkState.Picturedaboveare: Top Row: Head CoachMarkMendel, Cam King,RhysMendel,Michael Barker, Peter Lysiak, Kyle Lee,DrewMerino,VinceCapolupo,ChrisCacciatore Middle Row: Jackson Burns, Anthony Desimone,PatrickBrady,DylanRusso,NickHarlock,AlexProno-bis FirstRow:TylerLehan,OmAcharya(Notpictured-DylanLugris)

Iroquois Varsity/JV Report(Submitted by Iroquois Hockey)

TheIroquoisVarsityBoysHockeyteam(picturedaboveright) lost twice during the games over theChristmasholidays.Theylost6-1toSt.Joe’sonDecember22andtotheCheektowagaWarriors4-2onDecember28. During thegameagainst St. Joe’s, theonlyChiefsgoalwasscoredbyStevenKaufmannoffanassistfromAidenAbraszek.WhiletheentireChiefsteamstruggledto gain some momentum against Joe’s, defensemenRichardKaralusandAndrewWilsonperformedwell.

TheDecember28gameagainstCheektowagastart-edstrongwiththeChiefsjumpingouttoa2-0leadongoalsbySashaHawkinsandAndrewTakac,withassistsfromMarkMorgantiandPatrickStenzel. TheWarriors thenshowedwhytheyareundefeat-edthisseasonastheycontinuedtoapplypressureandeventuallyscored4goalsoverthenexttwoperiodsforthewin.ChiefsgoalieRobertBauerwasoutstandinginthegame,makingmanyspectacularsavestokeephisteaminthegameaslongaspossible. TheChiefswentbacktotheirwinningwayswithanimpressive8-5victoryover the JamestownRaidersonJanuary3attheJamestownicearena.TheteamsplayedabackandforthfirstperiodwithJamestowntakinganearlylead,butAidenAbraszekwasabletoscoretwiceoffassistsbyStevenKaufmannandJohnLavisandtheperiodendedwiththegametiedat2. TheChiefsblewthegameopenat thestartof the2ndperiodwitha4-goalexplosion.RyanFehrreceivedapassfromAndrewTakacthenfiredalaserfromthetopof the faceoffcircle thatbeat the Jamestowngoalie togivetheChiefstheleadforgood.TylerHirshaddedtotheleadjust30secondslaterwithabeautifulbreakawaygoaloffanassistfromKaufmann.Kaufmannscored20secondslaterandtheroutwason.JohnLavisscoredoffan assist fromRichard Karalusmaking the score 6-2.The Raidersmade things interesting by scoring twicebeforetheendofthe2nd.TheChiefsputthegameawayfor good in the3rdperiodwhenAbraszek scoredhis3rdof thegamefollowedbyanothergoal fromLavis.ThelineofRyanFehr,MarkMorganti,andPatStenzelwasaforcethroughoutthegame. The Chiefs looked to extend their winning streakwhentheyfacedLancasteronJanuary5attheDepewrink.Despitecontrollingmuchof theplay, theChiefswere unable to capitalize on numerous scoring op-portunitieshitting3goalpostsinthe1stperiodwhichended scoreless for both teams.The Chiefs appeared

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to lose themomentum they had builtafter a penalty resulted in a Lancasterpower play goal early in the 2nd pe-riod.TheChiefswentonapowerplayoftheirownoneminutelaterandwereable to even the scorewith a goal byAidenAbraszekafterRyanMarshallandStevenKaufmanndidsomegreatworkbehind the Lancaster net to feed himthepuckintheslot.Thegameremainedtiedintothe3rdwhenRichardKaralusonetimedaper-fectpassfromJohnLavisonanotherChiefspowerplay,giving theChiefs the lead. Lancaster tied the score3minuteslater.ItwasthenthatKaufmannscoredahigh-light reel goal goingend to endandfinishingoff theplaywithaslickbackhandmove.TheChiefsappearedtobeon theirway toanothervictorywhenLancasterpulledtheirgoalieandtiedthegamewith28secondsleft,endingthegameina3-3tie.

Iroquois JV Playing Well TheJVIroquoisChiefsplayedafantasticteamgameonFridaynightagainsttheirEden/Lakeshoreopponent.AfterabusyprevioustwoweekswheretheJVteamhadtodealtwithmorethanafewgameswithashortbenchanalmosthealthyteamcompetedandcompletedtheirmosteffectiveteamwinoftheseason.InbeatingEden/Lakeshore 3-2 the JV Chiefs continued their balancescoringandwhileplayingsolidteamdefense.MaxTes-ta,whowasaplus3forthegame,wasoutstandinginallthreeareasoftherink.HisassistonthefirstgoaltoawideopenCameronElliswasatapin.AlexHeld,backfromalonginjurylayoff,couldn’thavereappearedatabettertime.Hehasbeenplayingqualityminutesinad-ditiontoscoringsometimelygoals.Intermsofdefense

the pairing of Patrick Marrone and Owen CreightonwereashutdowncoupleskatingagainsttheChiefstoplineallnight.Inthepipes,forhisthirdwinoftheyear,wasColtonDegracewhostopped12of14shots. The JV Chiefs have a 5-7-1 record through 13games.

Rochester 16U Team Plays at Frozen Frontier OnTuesday,December 17th theRochester JuniorAmericans16Uteam(picturedbelow)participated intheirversionoftheWinterClassic. HometotheInternationalLeague’sRochesterRedWingsbaseballteamduringthesummer,FrontierFieldhasbeentransformedintoahockeyMeccathismonthashundredsofhockeyplayershavehadtheopportunitytotakepartinaonceinalifetimeexperienceofplayingthegametheyloveoutdoorsinaprofessionalbaseballstadiumunderthelightsaspartofthe“FrozenFrontier”event. TheJuniorAmericans16Uteam,alongwithRoch-esterYouthHockey’s 16UAA teamcoachedby StuartMacKenzieandChrisMarionweresplitintotwoeventeamsandscrimmaged.SeveralmembersoftheJuniorAmericans18UteamandamemberoftheEliteteamalsoparticipated. Parentsstoodalongtheglassandtookpictureswithonethingnoticeableineveryphoto…nonotfrostbite,butrathereartoearsmiles!Theteamscouldn’thavebeenmoreevenlymatchedastheRed&BlueteamralliedtotietheWhiteteam10-10intheclosingseconds.


Photo: Celebrat-ing the win against East Aurora on New Year’s Day: Iroquois Players Pat-rick Sten-zel, Aiden Abraszek, Steven Kaufmann, Kyle Kup-czyle and Patrick Mar-rone.(Iroquois Photo)

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Mike Gilbert is going to the Olympics as a member ofthe 2014 USA Men’s Olym-

pic Hockey Team. Gilbert, the Buffalo Sabres’vice president of public and com-munity relations, will serve on the pubic relations staff for the 2014US Hockey Team. SohowdidGilbertgetthejob? “I think it goes back to Buf-falo’s involvement in theWorldJr.Championships,” said Gilbert, now inhis17thseasonwiththeSabres.“I had the opportunity to work with DaveFisher (Sr.DirectorofCom-municationsforUSAHockey)dur-ing that time. “We worked together again with the Prospects Game a year ago. And we continually stayed in touch. “He had told me last spring that USA Hockey was going to select some-bodyfromtheNHLtoworkwith Team USA and he asked if I would be inter-ested. I told him absolute-ly. “Dave said that he would get back to me.” Within a matter ofweeksFischergotintouchwith theTedBlack, presi-dentof theSabres,Blackcame to Gilbert. The formal announcementwas then made in June at the NHL Draft.FromthereitwasontoTeamUSA’s orientation camp in Wash-ington,D.C.attheendofAugust. NextstopwillbeSochi,Russia. “It’sbeenveryexcitingsofar,”commented Gilbert, a native ofTonawanda,NY.“Myjobwillbetoassist Dave. “I will be interacting with the players and the coaches. I will assist the media that will be over there covering Olympic hockey.” Gilbert has never been to Rus-sia.

“I’ve been to Europe a couple of times,” remarkedGilbert, who resides with his wife,Amyand threechildren,Mark, Jack and Grace in Am-herst. “I will be leaving forRussia on February 1 and Iwill return to Western New YorkonFebruary26. “I really don’t know what to expect since this is myfirst time being involved withsomething this big. It’s like a dream right now. “I really didn’t think too much about it when I was originally asked back in April.

Then the reality check came when I went to camp in August. “Things were much more real at that time. “ So what will be the toughest adjustment Gilbert will have tomake? “I’mgoingtobeoutofmydayjobwith theSabres for amonth,”statedGilbert,a1990graduateofCanisius College. “So I have to plan ahead with that. “Iwillbeoutofmyhouseforamonth so that is going to be a lot on mywife.Iwon’tseemykidsforamonth.

“That’s a lot on them with their schedules andall.Butmywifehasbeen very supportive. “But with moderntechnology the way it is, I should be able to talk and/or see them during the time I’m in Russia.” What other prepa-ration is Gilbert doing? “Memorizing infor-mation and photos ofthe players,” answered Gilbert. “You need to know who they are at a moments notice.”

When everything is said and done, Gilbert is ready to go. “Thisisveryexciting,”conclud-ed Gilbert. “This is an event that is world-wide. “It is an honor to be a small part ofsuchagreatevent. I’m lookingforwardtoit.”

Buffalo to Sochi: Sabres PR Man Headed to 2014 Olympicsby Randy [email protected]



Janice Cavaretta has been named the 2013 recipient of the J. Michael Duffett Memorial Award by the Buf-falo Sabres. The award is presented each year to the

coach or administrator whose contributions to amateur hockey in Western New York “best exemplify the knowl-edge, teaching, love of the game and gentle humanity of Mike.” Cavaretta is the first woman to receive the award in its 30 years of existence. She has been heavily involved with various youth hockey programs in the WNY area, including serving as USA Hockey Associate Registrar and the Western Section Administrator, Qualifying Games Co-ordinator and Credential Review Chair for more than 10 years. “It is tremendous to win this award,” commented Cavaretta, who is married to Louis and have six children including Andrew, Daniel, William, Rachel, Gregory and Robert. “I was very surprised that I was even considered for the award. “I was told that I had won the award on my dad’s birthday. And with his passing, it was very special for me. “I hope I can continue to live up to everyone’s expec-tations.” Additionally, Cavaretta was the Executive Director of the Western New York Amateur Hockey League for 14 years. She is currently an assistant coach in the Buffalo Re-gals organization. A graduate of USA Hockey’s Coaching Education Pro-gram at Colorado College, Cavaretta achieved Master’s Level 5 Accreditation in the prestigious program.

Cavaretta admits that she was able to continue her hockey career through off-ice positions that became available to her once her playing days were over. “It occurred during the 1983-84 hockey season,” re-called Cavaretta. “My skills as a player were slowing down. “I had gone from playing forward to playing defense. I had been recruited by RIT and Yale for their women’s hockey programs. “I decided to stay local. I got a statistician position with the Western New York Amateur Hockey League.” As a player growing up, she captained numerous teams in addition to winning State and National titles at all age levels. Cavaretta is grateful for the magnitude of support that her father, Tony Rozek, Sr. provided over her hockey career both on and off the ice. “He was with me for many of my early years and was very influential in my career playing, coaching and also on the administrative side,” said Cavaretta. “I would have never continued if it was not for him. “I began playing hockey when I was three. I loved it from the first time I had a stick put in my hand. “I began as a goalie. I was a practice goalie for some of the Regals players. “They were the ones who eventually said that I should get on a hockey team as a regular player because I was good.” What had changed in the game since Cavaretta be-came involved? “Hockey is almost a year ‘round sport now,” responded Cavaretta. “We’re already planning the 2014-15 season. “I’m just glad to see that there are more opportunities for girls and women in this game today. It wasn’t that way when I began playing.”

Meet Janice Cavaretta:

First Woman To Receive

Duffett Award



Does Cavaretta consider herself a role model? “Absolutely,” responded the Duffett Award win-ner. “My role models growing up were guys like Mike Bogdan, David Braustein, Joe Baudo and Tom Bran-den. “I’ve already received messages from girls and women congratulating me on the award. One actu-ally called me her hero. “So I hope I can reach out to other girls and wom-en and help them in some way, shape or form. That would be great.” J. Michael Duffett was a student of the game and a coach with the Buffalo Bisons and the Amherst Hockey Association. He was a standout hockey player at Nichols School and Clarkson University. Duffett was working in the Sabres hockey de-partment under future Hockey Hall of Famers Scotty Bowman and Roger Neilson at the time of his death following a battle with cancer. In 1984 the Sabres es-tablished the J. Michael Duffett Award in his memory.

Cavaretta with her NYS colleagues: (l to r) Tom Branden, Joe Bado, Cavaretta and David Braunstein. (Photo by Janet Schultz)

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Gehen Sets Record Erin Gehen of the West Seneca Girls Varsity Ice Hockey Team had her 100th career goal in the league in December.She is the first player in the four year history of the League to post that record and did it in 63 games. Gehen was also named WKBW TV7 Super Athlete of the Week for December 11. Gehen, a forward, had the lone goal for her team in a 8-1 loss to Amherst/Sweethome. She scored on a breakaway and beating the goalie with a backhand deke. This was the Senior’s eighth goal this sea-son. Gehen put up significant numbers in her freshman year with 22; and in her sophomore and junior years led the League in scoring with 32 and 38 goals respectively.

Buffalo Stars Youth Spotlight

Player of the Week December 8th Matt Lucyshyn

Minor Bantam AA Team

ThirteenYearOldMattLucyshynwasnamedtheYouthSpotlightPlay-erof theWeekforDecember8bytheBuffaloStar. Mattisa5’8”forwardwhoplaysfor the Stars Minor Bantam AATeam. HelivesinEastAurora.Matt’sfa-voritesubectsaremathandsciencewhichwillhelphiminhiscareerasaphysicaltherapist. His favoriteNHLplayer isCarlHaglinandhisfavoritecollegeteamisMIchiganState. Mattlovesbarbecuewingsandspendshis spare timeplayingPlayStationandsoccer. His rolemodel is hisDad andhisgoalforthisseasonistowintheleaguechampionship.


Player of the Week December 15thNolan O’Hara

Peewee Major Team

Nolan O’Hara is 12 years oldandplaysDefenseonthePeeWeeMajorTeam. The seventh grader’s favoritesubjectismathematicsandheplanstobeascientist. Nolan’s favoriteplayerisHossaandhis favoriteNHL team isPitts-burgh. He enjoys XBox and readingandhisfavoritefoodischickenfin-gers. Nolan’s role model is his Dadbecause“hedoeseverything.” PatrickKaneishispersonalherobecause “he made it to the NHLfromBuffalo.” Hisgoalsthisseasonaretomakenewfriendsandimprovehisskills.


Player of the WeekDecember 1

Jamie Cummings U16 Full Season Team

JamieCummingsis15yearsoldandisaforward.TheGasportnativeisin10thgradeandhisfavoritesub-jectisphysicaleducation. HisfavoritecollegeteamisBos-tonUniversityandhisfavoriteNHLplayerisPatrickKane. Healsoenjoysdirtbike riding,Rapmusic,21JumpStreetandtheBigBangTheory. Hisfutureplansincludeacareerasanathleticdirector. Patrick Kane is his role modelbecauseheisoneofthe“fewguysthatmade it from the Buffalo areaintotheNHL.” His personal heros are the USsoldiersfightingforus. Thisseasonhehopestoimprovehispuck-handlingskills.



Stars’ Players Honored

Buffalo Stars Report(Buffalo Stars Submission)

Bantam Minors

The Buffalo Stars Bantam Minor team is having a successful season as they are currently third in

their division with an overall record of 15-5-5 includ-ing tournament Championship in Washington DC.The team has also established a working relationship with the Amherst Knights. Both teams have hosted an off ice workout, followed by a scrimmage and a sit down dinner. Stars coach Patrick Bernas and Knights Tony Cretella were very pleased with the way the kids interact on and off the ice. The Buffalo Stars 2013-14 roster includes: Coach-es Patrick Bernas, Kevin Zulewski, Bob Walter, and Tim Ruggiero. Forwards Luca Olivieri, Lucas Prince, Daniel Puerner, Jacob Bicknell, Matt Lucyshyn, Jacob Grazen, Jacob Allan, Alex Bernas, Justin Zulewski. Defenseman Ben Mazur, Quinten Burke, Cody Smith, Andrew Vincek, Jacob Fort, and Nick Walter. Goalten-ders Cameron Ruggiero, and Jude Rajakrishnan.

Buffalo Stars Squirt

The Buffalo Stars Squirt Mixed team traveled to Cleveland to play in the Rock n’ Roll Cup. They

came into the tournament hungry for success, and, of course, mini-sticks and the pool. The players know the scoreboard is not always the measure of success, because their effort and teamwork are very important. However, this weekend saw success in all of those ar-eas, and the team brought in a second place finish. The first game was against the Avenue Road Ducks. The Stars came out fast and furious but could not find the back of the net. The Ducks struck first near the end of the opening period. Stars goalie Noah

Kuras played outstanding after that first goal and turned away several quality chances, but the Ducks held on to the lead for almost two periods. Half way through the third period it looked as though the Stars might lose a game that they had dominated in every other facet. At least that’s how it looked until Dylan Klodzinski scored his first of the game at the 5:53 mark. Klodzinski’s effort, assisted by Kenny Fox and Sam Staerker, brought a spark to the Stars bench. The team had their opponent on their heels, and they knew it. Less than two minutes later the Stars’ Bob-by Rydzewski nailed home a lose puck with an as-sist from Ian Schrader. Klodzinski also got an assist on the play, and the goal really got the Stars rolling. They would go onto score ten seconds later, and an-other three more after that on the way to a 6-2 victory. Crosby Juliano notched his first tally of the season, Rydzewski scored a second, and Klodzinski rounded off with another assist and the final two goals for a hat-trick. Logan Schwartz and Kirk Mohawk also added assists. The following day the Stars played the Sylvania Maple Leafs, who proved to be a well-matched op-ponent. Sylvania would capitalize on a few Stars mis-takes to put five goals in (one was an empty-net goal). However, the Stars never quit as Cameron Smith put home two goals, including one with 13 seconds left in the game. Dylan Klodzinski added his fourth goal in two games. Five different Stars assisted, spreading out the action to every line; Fox, Staerker, Schwartz, Schrader and Rydzewski all added to their tourna-ment point totals. On the last day the Stars came to the rink bright and early, knowing that their 7:50am game was their ticket to the finals. Eager for a rematch against Syl-vania in a 12:30 game, the Stars came out on fire and earned their spot by putting eight goals in against the Ann Arbor Spitfires. Klodzinski and Rydzewski each continued their outstanding tournament performanc-es by putting in five and three goals, respectively. That brought Klodzinski’s tournament total to eleven points (9G, 2A) in just three games, with Rydzewski tallying seven points (5G, 2A). Kenny Fox, Josh Coo-per, Kirk Mohawk, Cameron Smith and Paul Rydzyn-ski all added assists.When returning to the bench after a goal, the Stars Squirts were always eager to shout out “we scored,” highlighting that it takes a team effort for any indi-vidual to score. Andrew Allen and Nick Botzenhart



played solid defensively, and contributed in ways that don’t show up on the score sheet but are essential to success. Teammate Garrett Brown was unable to make the trip, but the players and coaches know ev-ery member contributed in the practices that prepared the Stars for Cleveland. Nolan Smith also played well, and scored the loan goal for the Stars in the tour-nament championship game. Schwartz received his third assist, and Klodzinski added his twelfth tourna-ment point on that goal. Despite another strong per-formance by goaltender Noah Kuras, the Stars ended up losing that game 2-1, but received well-earned medals and a second place trophy. “I could not be more proud of this team,” said Coach Justin Mullen. “The boys came together, not just this weekend, but in the weeks leading up to it. Everyone contributed, everyone came together as a team.”

Stars take second in Cleveland

The Buffalo Stars Peewee MOHL team skated to a second place finish at the Rock n Roll Cup tour-

nament in Cleveland. Facing strong competition, the team played 3 close games and found themselves in a three way tie. Stellar goaltending and hard work gave them the point differential needed to advance to the championship. Facing a Canadian Select League team Waterloo, the Stars stood tall and went toe to toe for three peri-ods but came up short in the end. “I am so proud of how our players conducted themselves both on and off the ice” said Stars Head Coach Dave Lynch. “They battled and stood up for each other all weekend and were excellent ambassadors for the Stars organiza-tion. We were the only team our division to even score goals on the eventual winner, and at the same time, our team held them to half their usual tally. I can’t wait to begin preparing for Pittsburgh in Janu-ary where hopefully we’ll put it over the top”.

Buffalo StarsExpand to the Falls

The Buffalo Stars Hockey Organization will ex-pand their footprint in the 2014-2015 hockey season with the formation of the “Buffalo Stars

North” or Niagara Falls Stars. The Stars will form Multiple Organization House League (MOHL) teams in the Squirt, Peewee, Bantam and Midget levels. In addition, the Stars will offer a Beginner/Learn to Skate Hockey Program. “We are pleased to be able to offer Niagara Coun-ty residents an opportunity to play for a team with the name of Niagara Falls in it” said Buffalo Stars VP House Dave Lynch. “It makes perfect sense since we already have so much ice available to us at the Hyde Park Ice Rink now” The Stars will open the on line registration process for their new House Program on or around January 15th. The Stars will also start to accept resumes for coaches for some of these teams. Interested players or coaches should contact Dave Lynch at 253-3157 or email President Pete Preteroti at [email protected] A logo for the Niagara Falls Stars will be intro-duced shortly. The Stars will continue to offer Erie County resi-dents a MOHL Program as well with those teams con-tinuing their base at Holiday Twin Rinks in Cheek-towaga. The Buffalo Stars are one of WNY’s oldest hockey organizations coming into existence in 1972. The Stars offer over 300 boys and girls ages 4-19 the opportu-nity to compete in both competitive and recreational levels of hockey. For more information about the Buffalo Stars, visit us on line at: www.buffalostars.com

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Caz Girls Report(Submitted by Cazenovia Hockey)

The Cazenovia Girls 12uNTB competed in the Itha-ca Shooting Stars tournament the weekend of De-

cember 6-8. The team won the Championship in the 10/12U Division. The young Lady Chiefs were lead by goaltender Lauryn Brown, who had an outstand-ing weekend. The team was led offensively by Mad-die Jurusik, Katie Dougherty, Catherine Finn and Em-ily Conroy. The defense was led by Emma Tambacas, MacKenzie Ellerbrock and Sarah Mruk. Great job to coaches Mark Jacobs and Joe Ziemba.

The Cazenovia Girls 12UTB team competed in the Ithaca Shooting Stars tournament the weekend of

December 6-8. The girls, who played in a 12/14U di-vision, finished as runner up, losing in the finals to a bigger, older Camillus team 4-1. The Cazenovia girls are made up of primarily of 10&11 year olds with only three12 year olds, played hard and competed fiercely all weekend against older, bigger competition. The

team was lead by the line of Riley Malicki, Kendal Kalinowski and Maddie Ziemba. Contributing offen-sively were Bethany Horvatits and Ally Jacobs. De-fensively the team was led by Gabby McCrory, Emma Sutfin ,Carleigh Sutfin and Paige Palinski. Dylan Gor-ski was outstanding in net all weekend, leading her team to the Championship game. Congratulations to Coach Chris Malicki and staff!

The Cazenovia 19u Lady Chiefs lit up the ice at the Ithaca Shooting Stars Tournament winning four

straight games to take home the Championship tro-phy. Led by Coach Chris Malicki, the girls outscored their opponents 31-2. Team scoring leaders, Erin Ge-hen (W. Seneca) and Missy Mallon (Amherst) each had 9 goals during the series. Power forwards Erin Jozwiak (Amherst), Vicki Smith (Cheektowaga), Bri-anna Mathias (Tonawanda) Erica Dombrowski (Am-herst), and Kara Orlowski (Lancaster), kept the pres-sure on. Outstanding goaltending by both Courtney Wesolowki (Cheektowaga) and Kara Rea (Amherst), and strong defense from Amelia Gajewski (Amherst), Shannon Moran (Buffalo), Olivia Jacobs (OP), Jessie Phillips (Tonawanda) and Grace Simmons (Tonawa-nda) kept scoring opportunities to a minimum. Missy Mallon (Amherst) took home the MVP of the series. The girls are looking forward to their next tourna-ment up in the Adirondacks in January.

BROCKPORT With just one confer-encewinandonetieoverthefirstsixgames,theGoldenEa-gleswereontheoutsideoftheplayoffpictureentering2014.

Chase Nieuwendykwas the teams to point-getterwith11,butnolayerhadmore than four goals,which had them with aconferenceworst13goals.They also allowed four ormoregoalsineightoftheir12 games including non-conference. Theybegin2014withatrioofhomegamesagainstWestern New England,StonehillandUticaastheytrytobuildmomentumforthesecondhalf.

BUFFALO STATE Monroe CC transfer Dan Tur-geonhadscoredfiveofhisteam-highseven goalswith theman-advantageand continued to lead the fourth-placeBengalsinscoring.

Senior Mike Zanella (Ithaca) was tops in assistswhilefreshmanAdamRossiwasclutchwithfivegoalsincludingonegame-winner. Theteamhasjusttwohomeconferencegamesre-maining (January 24-25) before their last five on theroad.AdrianwillbeintownJanuary3-4asthesecondhalfrestarts.

CANISIUS SeniorKyleGibbonsledCanisiuswiththreepointsandtwogoalsinahomewinversusRITtobecometheeighthplayerintheprogram’sDivisionIhistoryandthe28thGriffoveralltoreachthe100-pointcareermark.

Canisiushas averaged just 1.60goalspergamewithKeeganAsmundsoninnet,com-pared to3.11goalspergamewith seniorTonyCapobiancobetweenthepipes. CanisiussignedfourplayerstoNation-al Letters of Intent during the early sign-ingperiod:defensemanZackPittmanandforwardsJeffMurray,RyanSchmelzer(Williamsville/Jr.

Sabres)andNolanSheeran(EastAmherst/Jr.Sabres).Allwill join the squad for the2014-15campaign. Pittman iswith the Lin-coln Stars of theUSHL. In76 career games with theStars,Pittmanhasrecorded10points,fourgoals,sixas-sistsandaplus/minusratingof +21. Murray has accu-mulated36points,19goalsand17assists in28gameswiththeWhitbyFuryofthe

OJHLthisseason.SchmelzerisinhisthirdseasonwiththeBuffaloJr.SabresoftheOJHLandtheteamcaptainhad14pointsonsixgoalsandeightassistsin16games.Sheeranhad27pointson10goalsand17assistsin28games.

ERIE CC FreshmanJacobMacchioniwaspacingtheoffensewithninegoalsand11pointswhileRichardLarkinandCodyDynarski ledwitheightassistseachas theKatswere3-4atthebreak. TheyhostMonroeCCtoopenthesecondhalfcon-ferencescheduleJanuary20th.

FREDONIA TheBlueDevilswerewinlessovertheirthreeDe-cembercontests,buthadstillearnedtwowinsandtwotiesforsixconferencepointsheadingtothebreak. JuniorsJaredWyniaandStephenCastriota(Bellport)combined for almost half of the Blue Devils scoringoutputwith12of25goalsthroughthefirst10games.SophomoredefensemanRyanWilkinsonwasthelead-


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ingassistmanwithseven. The team hosts Elmiraand Neumann as part of fivenon-conferencegamesinJanu-ary before conference play re-sumeslaterinthemonth.

GENESEO A9-2starthadtheKnightsranked12th in thenationandsolidly in second place in theSUNYACstandings. TransferTyler Brickler wasleadingagroupoffiveplayerswithtenormorepointsinclud-ingStephenCollins(Pittsford)andJustinScharfe(Web-ster). GoaltenderByranHaude(Hilton)was third in theconferenceingoalsagainstaverageandaperfect5-0inthefirsthalfinSUNYACgames. TheteamhostsFranklinPierceJanuary10thtokickoffsixnon-conferencegamesinJanuary.

MONROE CC TheTribuneshaveagoalofgoingoutwithanation-alchampionship,as theschoolannouncedtheywerediscontinuinghockeyafterthisseason,andtheyweremorethanontheirwayaveragingovertengoalsscoredpergameandundefeatedinconference. The international trio of Dominik Gabaj, MartinMatejcek and Pavel Kuzmin had combined for 133pointsover13games—nomisprint.SethHamiltonandCameronRandlesmakeupasolidsecondtierwith19and 18 points respectively while defenseman KevinCortivohaschippedinoffensivelywith13assists. Four non-conference games are scheduled beforeleagueactionresumesatEricCCJanuary20th.

NAZARETH TheGoldenFlyersrodeanine-gamelosingstreakintheholidaybreakanditdoesn’tgetanyeasierwhen

they host 13th ranked OswegoJanuary10thtoopen2014. Freshman Ben Blasko wastheonlyplayertosurpasstheten-point plateau with a team-highfive goals including accountingfor the team’sonly twotallies in theirFrozenFrontieroutdoorgameagainstGeneseo. MarkZavorinandScottDawsonwereeachtiedfortheteamleadinassistswithseven.

NIAGARA ThetramhadnotwonagamesinceNovember9thandwereindangerofbeingforcedtoplayafirstroundplayoffseries. Offense continued to be a questionwith leadingscorers Ryan Rashid, Mike Conderman (Greece) andIsaacKohlsallwithonlyninepoints.Thepowerplayalsomanagedjustfivegoalsovertheirfirst73chances. ThePurpleEaglesandRITplayedinthethirdout-doorgameinAtlanticHockeyAssociationhistoryNo-vember14th atRochester’s Frontier Field. Itwas alsothe18thinDivisionIhistory. Thefirstgameof theTigers-PurpleEagles rematchJanuary24thwillbecarriedontelevisionnationallybyCBSSportsontheircollegenetwork. CaptainRyanMurphy, sittingouta team-imposed18gamesuspension,iseligibletoreturnJanuary10thagainstAIC.

R.I.T. The Tigers took a six-game unbeaten streak intotheirholidayandwereridingfreshmangoaltenderMikeRotoloandhis1.97goalsagainstaverageoverhisfirstsixgames. Rotolo (Greece) started thefinal six gamesof thefirsthalfandwentundefeatedat5-0-1andbecamethefirstRITgoaltendertowinhisfirstcollegiatestartsinceShaneMadoloraonNov.21,2009andthefirsttowinhisfirstfivebreakingtherecordheldbyJamieMorris(1995)offourinarow.

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Buffalo State

The Bengals are winless as they close out the first half of the 2013-14 season. They come

into 2014 with a heavy schedule of ECAC rivals on the slate including Oswego, Cortland, El-mira, Potsdam and Neumann before the ECAC playoffs begin. While the scoreboard is often empty on the Bengals side none of the games (with a couple exceptions) have been losses with more than one or two goals. Putting the Bengals on the scoreboard are Nikki Kirchberger with 5 goals and one assist and Kara Good-win with 4 goals/1 assist. In goal Lee Jordan has played in 8 games and made 282 saves for a .876 save percentage and Sarah Quigley has played in 6 games with 117 saves and a .873 save per-centage.

RIT

The RIT women’s hockey team rings in the 2014 cal-endar year with a pair of non-conference contests at Union College of the ECAC on Jan. 3-4. It is RIT’s first

game in three weeks. Last time out, RIT fell to No. 6 Clarkson on Dec. 14 by a score of 6-2 at Frontier Field in downtown Rochester. It was the sixth outdoor game in the history of NCAA Wom-en’s Hockey and first outdoor game that either program has ever partici-

pated in. Kolbee McCrea (Wawa, Ontario/Burlington Barracudas) netted both RIT goals. McCrea leads all Tigers with 10 goals while Celeste Brown (Great Falls, MT/National Sports Academy) is second with six. In net, Ali Binnington (Oakville, Ontario/Mississauga Chiefs) is 8-7-1 with a 2.31 goals against average and .927 save percentage this season and is quickly closing in on several RIT career marks. She is tied for sixth nationally with three shutouts and is also 16th nationally in save percentage.

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ManythankstotheRochesterRedWingsforhost-ingtheevent,aswellasStuartMacKenzieforputtingtogetherthisonceinalifetimeevent. TheRochesterJuniorAmericans16UteamhastwoleaguegamesathomeversustheBayStateBreakersthisweekendbeforeamuchdeservedholidaybreak.

Condolences

Condolences go to the family of the RonNowa-kowskifamilyonthepassingofhismother,Rose-

mary.Ronisalong-timeWestSectionAdultCoordi-natorandmanagerofHolidayTwinandLeisureRinks.



What’s New in the West?Buffalo Bisons Fourteen Pee Wee Boys MOHL team members volunteered at the Church of the Holy Cross sorting donations of clothing that would be distributed to persons in need. They also handed out stuffed ani-mals and books and made sure that each child had a pair of winter gloves.

Canandaigua The Canandaigua Varsity Ice Hockey Team will host a “Adopt-A-Brave” skating clinic on Friday, Jan 10 fro 6 to 6:50 p.m. It is limited to the first 24 regis-trants and each participant will be paired with a var-sity player for 50 minutes of on-ice instruction led by Hobart Men’s Hockey Coach Bill Greer. Contact Mark MacNeil at [email protected] for informa-tion. The Knights are inviting girl players born after 12/31/2002 to join the Girls 10U supplemental team. Registration is now open and first practice is January 11 at 9 a.m. at GCCC. Jamestown Lakers Hockey The Mid-Winter Classic Hockey Tournament will be held February 15-17. Go to www.jamestownlakers.com for information and registration forms.

Depew Saints The Saints Pee Wee Major AAA team won the Rochester Stars and Stripes AAA Tournament by win-ning all five games.

Northern Chautauqua Thanks for the beautiful link to our magazine.

Perinton Youth Hockey PYH has announced a competitive girl’s hockey program for 2014-15. They plan to field Tier II teams at the U19 U16 and U 14 and possibly a U12 level. For information contact Dwayne Foley, director of girls hockey.

Rochester Youth Hockey Holy Childhood and Bill Gray’s Regional Iceplex are partnering to bring you a unique community event where you get the chance to sample delicious wines, craft beers, and enjoy hearty appetizers in the middle of an ice rink! Yes – you read that correctly! What’s Holy Childhood? We are an agency serv-ing children and adults with developmental and in-tellectual disabilities through a school program, adult day training program, clinical services, and respite activities. It is our goal to serve our people in an en-vironment rich with compassion and dignity while helping them meet their maximum potential. What’s Bill Gray’s Regional Iceplex? It’s a 170,000 square foot, multi-sport facility located on the campus of Monroe Community College. It is home to 4 NHL sized ice rinks, a Bill Grays Restaurant, Tap Room and Snack Bar, Abbott’s Frozen Custard, City Brew Coffee, Locker Room Sports retail hockey store, Maksymum Hockey, Northern Educate Hockey Academy, Travel Team USA. What’s Wine at Center Ice? This unique event is designed to bring a new level of community aware-ness and outreach for Holy Childhood and Bill Gray’s Regional Iceplex. Guests can expect an evening filled with delicious wines, craft beers, hearty appetizers and a few other surprises. All of this will take place in the middle of the ice rink in a fun experience not previously available in Rochester. We will also be rais-ing money to help Holy Childhood fulfill it’s mission through a silent auction and you’ll have a chance to fulfill the agency’s wishlist. A portion of every ticket sold benefits Holy Childhood directly as well. The event is on January 25, 7pm - 10pm. Tickets are $50.00, advance sales only for ages 21 and over please. Tickets are currently available online only at the Rochester Youth Hockey site.

...Rochester Junior Amerians Goaltender Derek Shatzer has committed to play collegiate hockey at Colorado College beginning with the Spring semes-ter. Shatzer is a native of Denver and has a 6-0-1 re-cord with a goals against average of 2,84 and .911 save percentage for the Elite team this season.

When the world turns on the 2014 Olympic Ice Hockey competition,

NewYorkerscanbeveryproudofJosephine Pucci, Jimmy Howard, Brooks Orpik, Kevin Shattenkirk,DustinBrown,RyanCallahanandPatrick Kane. Pucci is fromPearl River andplays for Harvard University. Sheisa5’8”forwardwhoshootsright.She played in the Four NationsCupforthepastfouryearsandintheIIHFWomen’sWorldChampi-onship twice. Her career stats as a memberoftheNationalTeam,38games played, is 4 goals and 14 assists.Asamemberof theHar-vard squadshehasplayed in88games with 22 goals and 38 as-sists. Pucci was a member of theU.S. Women’s National U22 team for the2010U22Series;a three-time participant in the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival andattended the 2007 USA HockeyPlayer Development Camp. At the 2011 IIHF Twelve Na-tions Invitational Series she led tournamentdefensementwithnineassists in seven games. Pucci was named one of thethree captains for the 2012-13seasonbutwithdrewfromHarvardof the ECAC Hockey for a yeardue to a concussion. She is serv-ing as captain this season. As a junior shewas nominated for thePatty Kazmaier Memorial Awardand named to the New England Writers All-Star Team. In her soph-

omore year she led team defen-semenwith25points(12-13)andwas ranked sixth among the na-tion’sbluelinersbyaveraging0.83points per game. The Choate Rosemary Hall (Conn.)graduatewasa four-yearmember of the varsity hockeyteam and served as Captain in her senior year. She was named MVPinbothherjuniorandsenioryearsandledtheteamtothe2008FoundersLeagueChampionship. PucciwasamemberoftheMidFairfield Connecticut Stars thatcapturedasecond in2005andathirdin2008and2009attheUSAHockey Girls’ National Champi-onships. She also played softballand soccer at Choate, serving as captainofthesoftballteaminhersenior year. She is the daughter of Victorand Ursula Pucci and has two sis-ters, Samantha and Victoria. Jimmy Howard is a goaltender with the Detroit Red Wings. He is a native of Syracuse. HowardhasplayedforUSAHockeyatthe

Men’sU18WorldChampionshipin2002;World Juniors in 2003 andMen’s Worlds in 2012. BrooksOrpikwasborninBuf-falo. He played for Boston Col-lege and currently is a member of the Pittsburgh Penquins.As amember of TeamUSA he playedin the World Juniors, Men’s World Championship and on the 2010 sil-ver medal Olympic team. Kevin Shattenkirk, New Ro-chelle, is a member of the St.LouisBluesNHLTeam.HeplayedforBostonCollege, theLakeErieMonsters and as a member ofthe USA men’s team in the Men’s U18WorldChampionship (2007),WorldJuniorChampionship(2009)and Men’s World Championship (2011). Dustin Brown comes fromIthacaandisamemberoftheLosAngeles Kings. He was a member of the silvermedal 2010Olympicteamandhasmade fourappear-ances in the Men’s World Cham-pionships and in two World Junior Championships. Prior to playing with the Kings he played for theManchester Monarchs and the Guelph Storm. Rochester native Ryan Cal-lahan is playing his pro career with the New York Rangers. Cal-lahan was also amember of the2010 silver medal Olympic Team andplayedinthe2005WorldJu-nior Championship. Prior to the Rangers he played four seasonswith the Guelph Storm and played partsoftwoseasonswiththeHart-

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fordWolfpack. BuffalonativePatrickKaneplays for theStanleyCupChampionChicagoBlackhawks.He hasmadeTeam USA appearances at the Men’s U18 WorldChampionshipin2006earningagoldmedal;abronzemedalatthe2007WorldChampionshipsandasilvermedal at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He began his careerasamemberofthe2004-05USNationalU17team,2005-06USU18teamandtheLondonKnightsbefore joining theBlackhawks in 2007. Kane is thereigning Conn Smythe Trophy winner currently lead-ingthescoringracewith23-30-53. . The U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team

has medaled in all four Olym-pic appear-ances to date ( g o l d - 1 9 9 8 ,s i l v e r - 2 0 0 2 and 2010, bronze-2006)... The 2014 U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team is under the direction ofGeneral Man-ager Reagan

Carey (Colorado Springs, Colo.) ... Katey Stone (Ar-lington,Mass.) was named head coach on June 8,2012, andwill be the first female to serve as headcoachofaU.S.OlympicWomen’sIceHockeyTeam. ThewomenopenplayonFebruary8againstFin-land.TheywillthenplaySwitzerlandonFebruary10;CanadaonFebruary12followedbytheQuarterinalsonFebruary15;Semi-finalsonFebruary17andtheBronzegameat8a.m.(ET)onFebruary20andGoldMedal Game at 1 p.m. (ET) the same day. Coverage of the 2014 U.S. Women’s OlympicTeamcanbe foundonolympics.usahockey.com,aswellasontheU.S.Women’sNationalTeam’sFace-bookpageandonTwitterat@usahockey. .DanBylsma,headcoachofthePittsburghPen-guins, is the head coach of the 2014U.S.OlympicMen’s Ice Hockey Team, with Peter Laviolette, Todd Richards,headcoachoftheColumbusBlueJackets,andTonyGranato,assistantcoachof thePittsburghPenguins, serving as assistant coaches Themen’steamhastwogoldmedals,8silverand1bronze. The men’s team will open play against Slovakia on February13followedbyRussiaonFeb.15;Slovenia,Feb.16.QuarterfinalswillbeplayedonFebruary19;SemisonFebruary21;BronzegameonFebruary22andtheGoldMedalgameonFebruary23at7a.m.(ET).

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(Continued from Page 56) HewasnamedtheAtlanticHockeyAsso-ciation Rookie of theWeek for theweekendingDecember 15th after he extended

hiscareer-longunbeatenstreaktosixgames,bystop-ping34of36shotsina2-2tieagainstNiagarainfrontof4,760 fansatFrontierField inRochesteraspartofRIT’sfirsteveroutdoorgame. Webster native Dan Schuler was named AtlanticHockeyPlayeroftheWeekfortheperiodendingNo-vember24thafterscoringfivegoalsoverthreegames. Freshman defenseman Todd Skirving was namedAtlanticHockeyConferenceRookieof theMonth forNovemberaftertallyingninepointsonthreegoalsandsix assists in six games.He scoredhis first collegiategoalina4-2winoverRobertMorrisonNovember9th.HewasalsoAHARookieof theWeek for theperiodendingNovember24th. MikeColavecchia enters the secondhalf just twopointsfrom100career. GarrettMcMullen(Churchville-Chili)scoredhisfirsttwocollegiategoalsDecember7thagainstAIC)while

BrandonThompsonandDannySmithscoredtheirfirstcollegiategoalsagainstSt.LawrenceNovember23rd. TheteamtravelstoUConnandBentleythefirsttwoweekendsofJanuaryinkeybattlesofteamsaheadofortiedwiththem.

OTHER:...BentleyseniorgoaltenderBrandenKomm(Williams-ville) was namedAtlantic Hockey Goaltender of theMonth forNovember after helping Bentley finish themonth on a four-gameunbeaten streak (3-0-1). Start-ingwitha shutoutofUConnonNov.15,Kommhasallowedjustsixgoalsinthelastfourgamesfora1.46GAA,whilemaking115savesfora.950savepercentage.HehasstartedeverygameforBentleythisseason and ranked third in Atlantic Hockey in GAA(2.69)andsecondinsavepercentage(.919). HewasalsogoaltenderoftheweekfortheperiodendingDecember15thafterhemade42savestohelpBentleyknockoffBostonUniversity4-1on the road.Thewinwasthe36thofhiscareer,breakingtheschoolrecordinplacesince1984.

Section III

OswegoSkaneateles

Alexandria BayIthaca

Section VI--WNYGVIH

KenmoreLancaster/IroquoisMonsignor Martin

WilliamsvilleAmherst/Sweethome

NicholsOrchard Park/Frontier

West Seneca

Section VII

Lake PlacidBeekmantown

Albany AcademiesSaranac Lake

Section X

CantonPotsdamMassena

Salmon RiverSt. Lawrence

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New York State Boys High School Hockey StandingsAs of January 1, 2014

SECTION I

WRPDIIHL Conference A

HendrickHudsonPawlingYorktownBrewster

WRPDIIHL Conference B

PelhamMamaroneckNewRochelleScarsdale

ETBWhitePlains

Sleepy/Irvington/Dobbs

WRPDIIHL Conference II

Ryetown/HarrisonMt.Pleasant

RyeOssining

ByramHillsFoxLane

HoraceGreeley

WRPDIIHL Conference IIINorthRockland

SufferinPearlRiverClarkstown

Nyack/TappanZee

Section I Division ISuffern

NorthRocklandWhitePlainsNewRochelleScarsdaleMahopacClarkstown

MamaroneckLakeland/Penas

Nyack/TappanZee

Section I Division IISomers/NSalem

PearlRiverJohnJayCrossRiverHendrickHudson

PelhamHoraceGreeley

PawlingYorktown

Ryetown/HarrisonMt.PleasantCarmel

BrewsterRye

ByramHillsETB

Sleepy/Irvington/DobbsOssiningFoxLane

SECTION II(CapitalDistrict)

SaratogaLaSalle

BethlehemGF-HF-SGF

ShenendehowaNiskayuna/SchenetadyBurntHills/BallstonSpa

CBAShaker/ColonieGuild/Hohon/S-G

SECTION III

Division IIAmerican Coference

SkaneatelesAuburn

WhitesboroChristianBrothersAcad.

National ConferenceClinton

NewHartfordOswegoCazenoviaOntarioBay

Division IAmerican Conference

SyracuseWestGeneseeWatertownIHC

Fayetteville-ManliusFulton

National ConferenceRomeFreeAcademy

BaldwinsvilleLiverpool

MohawkValleyCicero-NorthSyracuse

SECTION IV DivsionIIthaca

SECTION VDivision IPittsford

Athena/OdysseyFairportSchroeder

Brighton/ER/HFLPenfield

RushHenrietta

Division IIAquinas

IrondequoitCanandaigua

Victor

ThomasArcadia/OlympiaGeneva/Waterloo

Division IIIChurchville-Chili

HiltonSpencerportGates-ChiliBrockportBatavia

NotreDameofBataviaGeneseo/Livonia

SECTION VIDivision I

NiagaraWheatfieldWilliamsvilleNorth

CanisiusBishopTimon-St.Jude

St.JosephFrontierClarence

OrchardParkLancaster

Division IIKenmoreEast

WilliamsvilleEastWestSenecaEast

HamburgGrandIsland

WestSenecaWestSweetHome

WilliamsvilleSouth

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A DivisionChaminadeMsg.FarrellFordhamPrep


St.AnthonyHolyCrossSt.MarySt.JosephIonaPrep

B DivisionXavier

St.EdmundPrepStepinac

St.FrancisPrepSt.PeterXaverian

Mt.St.Michael/St.Raymond

JV DivisionSt.JosephChaminadeIonaPrepSt.AnthonyMsgr.FarrellFordhamPrep

WNY HIGH SCHOOL CLUB

Varsity RedCheektowagaCanisius

St.JoesMaroonStarpointIroquoisLancaster

Cityhonors/CardinalO’haraJamestown

Varsity WhiteDepew

SouthPark/RiversideSouthwestern/MapleGrove

OleanHutch-TechEastAurora

OrchardParkWhiteEden/LakeshoreWhite

Varsity BlueDunkirk/Fredonia

St.JoesBMaryvale

Eden/LakeshoreBlueWilson/NewfaneWilliamsville

OrchardParkblueNiagaraCatholicPioneer/Springville

JV SmallGrandIslandJV

DepewWildcatsJVWilson/NewfaneJV

LewportJVCityHonorsJVStarpointJV

JV LargeKenmoreWestJV

IthacaJVDunkirk/FredoniaJV

T-NTJVJamestownJVNiagaraFallsJVLockportJV

SECTION VIIChamplainValleyAthleticConfer-

ence

NCCSBeekmantow

PHSSaranacLake

SaranacLakePlacid

SECTION X

Division IMassenaCantonPotsdam

SalmonRiver

Division IINorthwood-Norfolk

OgdensburgMalone

St.LawrenceThousandIsland/Alex

TupperLake

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EASTBrewsterMartin Luther King Day, Jan. 20PresidentsDay,Feb.17MarchTBATheseareforbeginnernoviceteamsfollowingtheADMModel.GotoBrewster’swebsiteforregis-trationinformation.

NORTHSaratogaMark Woodcock Pee Wee Tourna-ment, Jan 10-12ConnorLaFranceSquirt/Midget18UTournament,Jan.17-19,2014Go to www.syhi.orgMoreinformationonpagexxofNYHOL.

WESTJamestown LakersMid-WinterClassic,Febru-ary15-17.TheMiteDivisionisfullice.ThisisforMites,Squirts,[email protected].

2013-14 NYS Tournament* Schedule(We have compiled this list from your emails, websites and NYSAHA site. If your tournament is not listed and

you wish to do so, please email us at [email protected] or [email protected]

Orcall716-969-7192.

Niagara Junior Purple EaglesPatriot Day TournamentFebruary14-17ForinformationonbothemailTournamentdirector@jrpurpleeagle.com

Perinton Youth Hockey24th Annual House Spring Tournament 2013/14HouseAandBTeamsInmemoryofWillard“Bud”ParkerJr.ADivision:February28-March2,2014BDivision:March7-9,2014ThomasCreekIceArena,FairportContactRogerSalmons,[email protected]

Tri County Youth Hockey13thAnnualDavidBidelowMemorialTournamentMarch19-23,2014MiteB,MiteA,SquirtB,SquirtA,PeeWeeB,PeeWee AHeldattheSUNYBrockportIceArenaIncludes Saturday Skills Competition (like the NHL)Light/Music/MCshowforChampionshipSundayCoaches GameGotowww.tricountyyouthhockey.comformoreinfor-mation and registration.

BuffaloStarsNiagaraFallsClassicHockeyTournamentMarch 21-23Hyde Park Ice ArenaOpentoMidgetU15AA;U16AAandAAA;[email protected]

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