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. 

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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:

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Justin Fynes got his second start in nets for varsity and stopped 18 shots and John McLaughlin scored two goals as Black Horse defeated Middle Township 3-2. With the win Black Horse improved to 11-0, Middle Township remained winless on the season. Paul Stryker gave Middle Township a 1-0 lead just three minutes into the game. Zachary Faust would tie the game at 1-1 just over one minute later scoring his league leading 24th on the year. McLaughlin would give Black Horse 2-1 lead moments later as he connected for his first of two on the night.

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Williamstown jumped out to a 4-0 lead after one period on their way to an 11-1 rout of Middle Township. With the win the Braves improved to 6-3 on the season. Dennis Campbell, Drew Murtha and Justin Fortuna each scored two goals and Enrique Espinosa added a goal and four assists as eleven different players recorded at least one point. Campbell opened the scoring at the six minute mark and five minutes later Tyler Spear would get his second goal of the season and a 2-0 lead. Goals by Fortuna and Kehrik McKeon, his first varsity goal of the year, had the lead to 4-0.

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Mike Moss had two goals and four assists and Joseph Bene scored three times as Kingsway rallied from a 3-1 deficit to defeat Middle Township 7-4 at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Antonio Bene scored a power play goal in the opening three minutes to give Kingsway a 1-0 lead. Middle Township with score the next three goals to take a 3-1 lead. First Sydney Couval would get credit for the first goal as a mishandled puck by a Kingsway player found its way into the net. Then on the power play Paul Stryker converted and TJ Albano would add a second power play goal at the ten minute mark and Middle Township took a 3-1 lead into the second period.

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