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While the new season does not start until Monday, October 9th, here are a few items that we know. There will be two divisions, Tier I and Tier II. This year Tier I will consist of the following teams: Cherokee, Eastern, Moorestown and Washington Township in one conference and Shawnee, Kingsway, Williamstown, Egg Harbor and Lower Cape May in the other. Black Horse has dropped out of the league citing not enough players to fill a team.
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The teams have been announced for the NJ/Delaware Flyers cup and soon it will begin its 4th Annual tournament the second week of March. This year there has been an increase in the number of teams participating. Here is the schedule for the Pond in Delaware with Salesianum playing Kingsway and Delaware Military Academy playing Township on Monday March 6th. Cherokee will host Moorestown and Eastern will host Appoquinmink at Voorhees also on March 6th. Semi-finals on Wednesday, March 8th with the Championship on Friday March 10th. Here's the full list and seeding for this year's Flyers Cup.
Kevin Troy and Seth Zolda scored two goals each as St Joe’s defeated Mainland 6-4 and eliminated Mainland from the tournament and ended their season. St Joe’s jumped out to a 2-0 first period lead on goals by Troy and Kevin Glass. Troy scored a power play goal early in the second period for a 3-0 advantage. Gage Grist would put Mainland on the board with the first of his two goals on the night, scoring short-handed at the eight minute mark to make it 3-1.
Each year, we are pleased with the league allowing us to recognize several players and a coach and their outstanding contributions they have made for their team. With at least two to three players considered for each category, we have finalized our decision. In the continuing tradition here at SJIceHockey we honor players we feel stood out during the regular season and here are the players we selected and are pleased to announce the 2016-2017 award winners:
Nick Pontoriero stopped 34 shots as Riverfront defeated Mainland 3-1 in playoff action at the Igloo. After a scoreless first period, Brandon D’Amato scored at the seven minute mark to give Riverfront a 1-0 lead. Later in the period Ryan McCormick would add a power play goal and a 2-0 lead after two periods. Pontoriero looked strong in nets through two periods and kept Mainland off the board. Daniel Taylor would score short-handed for Riverfront to make it 3-0 in the first five minutes of the third period.
Mike Moss broke a 2-2 game with ten minutes left in the game as Team Simmonds edged Team Giroux 3-2 in last night’s Junior/Senior Showcase game at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Having participated in the last few drafts Coach McKay has never won in this format, and while he wouldn’t admit that it bothered him, I got to believe that the success he has enjoyed over the last 8 years, not winning this game was probably bothering him to a degree. Trailing 2-0 on goals by Kevin Troy of St Joe’s and Zachary Faust of Black Horse, Team Simmonds would get a late goal in the period as Cody Charyk from Shawnee would score with Moss and Vinny Salerno getting the assists.
Brendan Blight scored five goals and Mainland scored seven times in the third period as they handled Cinnaminson 11-3 in early game action at Pennsauken on Friday night. Blight came into the game with six goals and had a career high scoring five and had three of the seven in the third period. Mainland led just 1-0 after one period on a goal by Jonathan Wilson, his fifth of the season and the third straight game he has scored a goal. Blight would get his first on the night at the three minute mark of the second period and the lead was 2-0.
Nicholas Imperial and Gage Grist each had a hat trick as Mainland defeated Middle Township 9-2 at Voorhees Skate Zone on Monday night. The game was even at 1-1 after one period with Grist connecting on the power play and Jake Simone getting the Middle Township goal. Mainland would score five goals in the second period to take command of the game, two coming while they were short-handed. After Nolan Harring made it 2-1 in the opening moments of the second period, Imperial would score twice in a span of four minutes to make it 4-1 at the six minute mark.
This past Thursday night the SJHSHL held its Junior/Senior Showcase draft with Team Giroux selected by Coach Popiolek from Black Horse and Coach Busler from Cherry Hill East and making the selections for Team Simmonds were Coach McKay from Cherokee and Coach Vulpio from Clearview. We tossed a coin to see who would get first pick and Team Simmonds won the toss and selected Nick Ramos, Team Giroux would select Zachary Faust with their first pick. The forwards were chosen first, total of 12, followed by 6 defenseman each team, then 3 alternates each team and finally the goalies. Here are the rosters:
The list of nominees from each SJHSHL team has been announced for the Junior/Senior Showcase game to be played on January 31st at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Each team will have 12 forwards, 6 defenseman and 3 goalies. In addition, 3 alternates will be chosen in the event a player selected cannot make the game. The league will conduct a live draft streamed on SJIceHockey.com at a date to be announced. Here are the nominees: