I watched a coach have his team gather around a television that had been rolled into the gym. I was thinking, they're about to watch some game film, boy was I wrong! This coach pulls out the "Insanity" DVD. The issue, as I see is it is this, the head coach will let their team know how important any aspect of their program is by how much attention they give to it. Case in point, when a coach is going over an offense or defense, do you honestly believe they would pop in a DVD to show the team? I don't believe so, that coach would be teaching, interacting with their team. They would be encouraging cajoling doing things that coaches do.

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With the season officially over, just wanted to get some random thoughts off my mind and maybe tie up some loose ends…

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Matt Cloud had three goals and Brian Miller added two as Team Briere defeated team Giroux 11-2 last night at Hollydell. The game was close after two periods but Team Briere blew the game open with six goals in the third period. Brandon Mead scored twice for Team Giroux. This year the league supplied jerseys and socks to each player. And Joe Walters supplied both teams with hoodies as well.

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We are leaving it up to you. Go to our Poll Questions page and help us select this year's Leadership Award which will be presented before the Junior-Senior Showcase. Two seniors from each Tier I team was selected by their coaches to be represented in letting the fans vote for their Leadership recipient. The voting will end on Tuesday, February 26th at midnight. Your final vote will determine who wins the Leadership Award.

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Once again SJIceHockey.com is pleased to announce our annual award recipients. This year there seemed to be more balance throughout the league and with the playoffs upon us we could be in for a few surprises. Listed below are the 2012-2013 winners:

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Nick Kilcourse, Collin Miller and John Kennedy scored third period goals as Black Horse came back to defeat EEW 4-2 in Tier II playoff action at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. The loss eliminated the EEW from playoff contention. The teams traded goals in the first period with Peter Laviolette scoring in the opening thirty seconds to give the EEW a 1-0 lead. Black Horse countered one minute later as Bryan Popiolek tied the game at 1-1.

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Five different players scored for H/L/V as they defeated the EEW 5-1 in playoff action at Voorhees on Monday night. Doug Henkel stopped 15 shots in getting the win. H/L/V got things started early as Alex Mastrokyriakos scored just two minutes into the game. Matt Cloud made it 2-0 just about two minutes later scoring a power play goal. Sam Belanger made it 3-0 with assists going to Brian Clegg and Pat Rizzo.

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Moorestown, H/L/V and Riverfront all enter the double elimination Tournament as the top seeds, however it’s not where you start but how you finish. Let’s take a look at each Tier:

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Andrew Dolan scored two goals, one on the power play and one short-handed as the EEW defeated Cinnaminson 4-1 in an opening round game in the Tier II playoff double elimination tournament. After Cinnaminson scored the lone goal of the first period, Peter Selnek scoring unassisted at the 3 minute mark, the EEW tied the score in the opening minute of the second period with Zach Bieriq getting a power play goal with Dolan and Sam Amon getting the assists.

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Austin Kohler and Ryan Lauk each scored twice as Clearview defeated the EEW 5-1 in Tier II action at the Skate Zone in Voorhees on Monday night. Playing without their captain and leader Mike Vulpio, who began serving his suspension; Clearview needed eight minutes to finally get one past EEW goalie Brian Mood as Kohler snapped an eight game scoreless streak to give Clearview a 1-0 lead. That lead lasted seven seconds as Peter Laviolette tied the game at 1-1 notching his ninth goal of the year.

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The teams have been selected for the 2012-2013 Junior/ Senior Showcase game for the SJHSHL. This year the two teams are being called Team Giroux and Team Briere. There are 12 forwards, 6 defenseman and 3 goalies selected. In case some players can not make the game there also were 3 alternates chosen. All the nominees were submitted by the teams and then chosen by a committee. The page listing the players is still being worked on, but if you are a registered member, you will have full access to view the selections. From the Home page, select the "All Star Game" link on the left.

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The list of the 2013 Junior/Senior Showcase nominees has been released and we have them. The game will be played either late February or early March with date, time and location details still being worked out. Here are the nominees for Team A:

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Austin Haslett and Jason Smith scored two goals each and Zack Burkhardt stopped 20 shots as Washington Township defeated the EEW 8-1 in action played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Haslett and Billy Wharton scored the only two goals of the first period, both coming about three minutes apart as Township led just 2-0 after one period. While out-shooting EEW 49-21, Burkhardt made several big stops with the game still in the balance, stoning Luke Hussey twice on breakaways. Getting the start due to an illness to McCusker, Burkhardt would lose his shutout midway through the third period as Hussey would net his tenth goal of the season.

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Cherokee scored six goals in an eight minute span of the first period to jump out to a 6-1 lead and went on to defeat the EEW 8-3 in action played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. John Martino led the attack with three goals and Brian Miller added two goals. Nick Stengel, Avery Harwan and Kevin Hall scored the goals for the EEW. Stengel opened the scoring just one minute into the game as the EEW had the early lead, and it would stay that way for about five minutes, then the Chiefs got rolling as Miller and Martino scored goals twenty four seconds apart to give Cherokee a 2-1 lead.

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Five different players scored goals in the second period as Moorestown rallied from a 2-0 deficit and defeated The EEW 7-2 at Voorhees on Monday night. After Chris Miller and Kevin Hall gave the EEW a 2-0 lead in the first period, Moorestown would come storming back scoring four goals in a span of five minutes early in the second period. Jeff Briggs got things going scoring a power play goal to cut the lead to 2-1 as the EEW would be short 2 men. Just over one minute later, on the back end of the advantage, Eric Schwartz would tie the game at 2-2 scoring his tenth of the season.

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Luke Hussey scored three goals and added two assists as the EEW defeated Middle Township 10-2 at Hollydell on Friday night. Peter Laviolette added two goals and three assists and Alex Deitch added two goals as the EEW blew open the game scoring six goals in the second period. Jeff Hernandez had a shutout going until midway through the third period when Middle Township’s Josh Mander scored on a breakaway.

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St Joe’s and the EEW played to a 3-3 tie on Monday night at the Skate Zone with Sam Amon scoring two goals for the EEW. St Joe’s led 2-1 after the first period on goals by Anthony Lovell and Alec Divenuto sandwiched around a goal by Amon. The EEW would score twice in the second period, first Peter Laviolette would score a power play goal and Amon would add his second with Nick Frangos getting the goal for St Joe’s. Both goalies would shut the door after that as Troy Altbaum for St Joe’s and Brian Mood for the EEW would not allow any more goals.

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Six different players scored for the EEW as they defeated Cinnaminson 6-2 at the Skate Zone in Voorhees on Monday. Trailing 1-0 on a goal by James Popp, the EEW would score the next five goals. After Peter Laviolette would tie the score at 1-1, scoring his second goal of the season, the EEW would take control of the game scoring three goals in the second period.

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Seven different players scored for Washington Township on Friday as they defeated EEW 8-1 in cross-over action played at Hollydell. Jason Smith led the way with two goals and one assist, Frank Hughes added a goal and two assists. Zack Burkhardt stopped 20 shots in capturing his first win of the season.

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