Eastern Hockey League regular season ends

with the New Hampshire Jr Monarchs earning the regular season title.  A final record of 35 W 8L 1 T.  The Monarchs the #1 seed in the EHL play offs and will play the winner of the Play In Game between the New Jersey Titans and Washington Nationals.  Drew Crandal is a member of the Washington Nationals and finished sixth in team pts.
The Philadelphia Little Flyers of the EHL south division 28W 11L 2T 3OTL are the number 2 seed in the first round of the playoffs.  The Little Flyers defeated the Monarchs twice in league play this season.  The Little Flyers found success on the tape of Zach Felser, 2012 Sylvania Northview Graduate and HS state champion, who put up 62 pts this season coming on 42 Assist and 19 goals, which had him finish 4th in the EHL scoring.  The Little Flyers had scoring from every where this year.  Case and point, 5 players were over 30pts, 5 players over 20pts, Former BCHL Salmon Arm FWD Cam Berry appeared in 9 games with the Little Flyers, earning 23 pts.  Centermen Austin Kelly Toledo St. Johns Graduate put up 23 pts this year as well.  Former Ohio standout Jude Warner 38pts.  Waterford MI Native 95' Jess MacIntyre 48pts.  Back Stoping the Little Flyers was Phenomal Alec Dirks 96' 1869 min, .922 sv % and 2.38 GAA
The Little Flyers play Walpole Express in a best of 3 series that starts this Friday night at 8pm.
Head Coach Rocky Russo is proud of his team, and excited about the playoffs.

Kent finalized tonight

The politically correct Ohio HS Everyone's a winner bracket gets set tonight.  University School is in, and will play the winner of Walsh Vs Lake Catholic.
Brooklyn is down to St. Ignatius Vs Rocky River, in the no way in hell does Rocky River win bracket  VS the winner of Holy Name Vs St Ed's.  Holy Name should be playing Ignatius in this final on 3-1-14
Olentangy Orange Vs St. Charles down in Cbus.  Still liking the Cardinals in this one.

In Sylvania we had an upset where 4th place Sylvania Northview upset the Bowling Green Bobcats 3-0.  This was clearly a case of Bowling Greens youth catching up to them.  Bundles of nerves as they faced down a team of district veterans, with a strong culture of success in years past, who won a game that matters.  They now face district finals foe's the Titans.  Titans who seem to play to not loose in big games, big games that always seem to be an historic problem for Mike Hayes.  To coach Hayes and the Titans I say, play opposite.  When you say play controlled, actually play wide open, unleash this beast of team thats been holding back all year. .....I say Northview's zombie cats have a blood lust, dare I say your feature presentation will be a remake of the classic, DAWN OF THE DEAD- Zombie Cats in OT
maybe a titans mercy
if the same NASCAR style rules and provisional's apply, that anointed the 4th places Cats the second seed, they may start the game with a 3-0 lead and the Titans two men in the box.  OHHHHHH io HS hockey and its wacky rules. 

USA Hockey High School Nationals 2014 March 26-30

Ralston Arena, Nebraska Omaha is home of the USA Hockey, High School Varsity Nationals.  In 2013 Santa Margarita Ca HS won the whole show.  Beating Regis Jesuit, CO. 4-3 in OT.  Regis Jesuit was the defending 2012 National Champions.  MEDIAN represent OHIO last year, Loosing to Plano TX 3-2, victory 7=6 over Cypress FL, and Victory over Regis Jesuit 3-1.  Tied in the standings with Regis Jesuit they lost the tie breaker, where Regis had 16 goals for and just 7 goals against to Medina's 12 and 10. 
It would be interesting to see one of Ohio's top teams attack this National stage.  Better yet would be to have the state ditch the gay as hell federation rules and just adopt USA hockey, and award a trip to Nationals to the State Champions, in the first place.

So tired of over priced beer league hockey

The use of pros, in the Olympics needs to end.  These guys play with no heart.  How do we know?  The absent schedule leading up to the games, the zero commitment by these guys when it comes to representing their Nation.  If they had a heart, and an ounce of respect, they would be willing to play 30-50 games schedule leading in to the games. 
No I do not care if other Nations elect to play their pros.  Ours are candy assed, paycheck players.  Give us back the boys, boys with heart and soul, a real desire to win, and passion for the game.
Id rather the USA u20 world jr team loos 5-1 to Canada's pros, than see this shit show.  A shit show with 1/82 the intensity of an NHL preseason game.
Instead of the Olympics, they should call the 4 year yawn fest.

The Final Count Down, a blast from 30 years ago.

Two Quarter finals are played tonight at Kent State.  U.S vs Kent Rosevlet, will be a blow out for U.S, in one of those games the state in their infinite wisdom, has top teams playing total dusters, in a waste of time, money and player development.  The other game holds upset potential, but slim.  Gilmour vs Hudson.  Hudson should not be able to win this game, but it will be close 4-2

St. Eds is waiting patiently for Holy Name the grand inquisitors to torture Avon, who will likely cry for mercy.  Rocky River is still waiting for their Dominatrix St. Ignatius to dismember Lakewood. 


Tonight Toledo St Johns and their 106 goals for, 55 goals against play Toledo St. Francis 72 goals for and 56 goals against.  This the first Semifinal in Sylvania starts at 7pm.   A St Francis win would make for the first upset of the playoffs.  The keys to a St Francis win are to hang around the whole game.  Clog up St Johns offense and attack in the lanes as they open up, capitalizing on mistakes and keep the pace slow.  St. Johns on the other hand needs to role their lines, drive up the pace, finish every hit, punishing St. Francis few offensive threats when ever they have the puck.  St. Francis can not play 3 periods with Toledo St. Johns, when the Titans play their game.  I see the Titans looking to make a play off statement against their rivals.  7-3 final St Johns

UPSET anyone? its that time where it normally will happen.

First potential upsets are in place.  Feeling the sting of having been swept by BGHS for the first time in a while, the Trojans are out looking, as they do every year, to make some playoff noise.  I awoke this morning with that thought in my head and it keeps circling back around and around.  Tonight at 6pm at TamOshanter, I believe Findlay will upset the Knights of St. Francis.  No good reason other than historically some one always gets upset, and Findlay is always strongest in these games.

The only other truly upset game, has yet to be arranged and that would be Liberty over St. Charles in Columbus.

In WCHA hockey the Bowling Green Falcons look to be in a death spiral.  A tie and a humiliating loss to Alaska, is now being followed what should be even more humiliation at the hands of Team USA 18U, in a game that does not count in the season.  The real story here are the  four games that follow (2 at Northern, 2 home vs Bemidji)  loosing here will see the Falcons fall to 9th place RAPIDLY from 5th and be out of ALL post season play.  The WCHA is exceptional tight this year, with Alabama not winning anything.  Leaving a 7 team log jam from 3rd place down, where  all teams are with in two wins of each other. While the WCHA is arguably the weakest NCAA D1 conference, it is currently about the most exciting overall, heading in to the close. The best team in the WCHA is Ferris State is ranked 6th in the nation, with no other WCHA teams receiving votes.
In overall college hockey action, Dalton Carter and the U Mass Lowell River Hawks remain in 7th place this week.  Mychal Montith and Merchurst remain in First Place in the Atlantic Conference.

In EHL news, the  Philadelphia Little Flyers won their division and are closing in on 2nd overall  heading in to the play offs.  Lots of Ohio talent on this Little Flyers team, and head Coach Rocky Russo is pushing them every step of the way.  Zach Felser remains in 4th place in scoring with 17 goals and 39 assits for 56pts.  What is exciting here is that it is not a one man show.  the Flyers have scoring every where you look

#	PLAYER	P	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM	PP	PPA	SH	SHA	GWG
15	Felser, Zach	F	41	17	39	56	41	3	14	1	1	2
10	MacIntyre, Jesse	RW	39	24	19	43	20	6	7	1	0	3
12	Warner, Jude	LW	39	14	21	35	76	2	7	2	0	4
22	Gannon, Drew	F	24	15	15	30	24	6	2	0	1	2
28	Potemkin, Oleg	LW	32	12	17	29	45	5	4	0	0	1
9	Majul, Hector	RW	29	16	10	26	27	5	2	0	0	3
27	Chuckran, Gabe	D	37	3	20	23	8	1	8	0	0	0
7	Grahl, Troy	D	32	5	15	20	40	2	7	0	0	1
14	Kelly, Austin	C	39	9	10	19	10	3	3	0	0	2
26	Day, Matt	D	36	2	15	17	22	0	5	0	1	0
17	Berry, Cameron	F	9	8	7	15	2	2	1	0	1	1
3	Browning, Beau	D	35	1	10	11	37	0	1	0	1	1
16	Gielarowski, Stephen	C	20	3	7	10	12	0	1	0	0	1
21	Woods, Colin	C	41	6	2	8	29	0	0	0	1	0
19	Racicot, Andrew	LW	34	1	6	7	32	0	0	0	0	0
5	Gallagher, Garrett	D	32	2	4	6	38	1	2	1	0	0
25	Pierce, Cole	D	10	0	6	6	6	0	2	0	0	0
24	Rigsby, Chase	RW	29	2	2	4	39	0	0	0	0	1
23	Lukenda, Carter	F	6	1	3	4	16	0	0	0	0	0
18	Nugent, John	F	4	1	2	3	14	0	0	0	0	1
11	Bandura, Austin	RW	25	0	2	2	10	0	0	0	0	0

The Flyers have 3 season games remaining.  Then enter the EHL playoffs.  Open Tryouts for the Little Flyers have been announced, April 11th-13th.  Check in at the ICE WORKS Aston PA, 4pm Friday the 11th.  Preregistration  IS required and that application can be found here Little Flyers Tryout aplication


In the NAHL, Nolan Culver and the Minnesota Wilderness advanced to 28W13L 6OTL for 62pts and are solid 3rd in the NAHL rankings.  Culver has 3 goals 8 assist and 41 PIM.  he has really identified himself as PK specialist,  helping the Wilderness maintain their #1 ranked PK at 93.82% this season.  Having shut down 178 Power play attempts.  The Wilderness are closing out their season with 12 more regular season games to play, before entering the post season.

Titans lead the Valentines day Massacre

The St. Valentines Day Massacre.
Toledo St. Johns slayed the Knights of St. Francis 7-1.  It maybe coach Hayes has opted to go all in and unlease his hell hounds now, so that wins just come big and loud.  This would be a good strategy.
Bowling Green Won over Ottawa Hills 24-0 in two periods.  Isnt the states format just BRILLIANT.  clearly schools like Ottawa Hills are playing at the same level.  The states rules on championships clearly apply to hockey, which has so few teams, and does not mandate having two championship.  That logic is as well founded as posting a building or making public Schools "Gun free zones"  that has worked out fantastically.....NOT!  Same stupid people, same retard logic.

U.S beat Canton 10-0 and Kent beat Twinsburg 9-0.  Rocky River scored 8  on Olemstead Falls.  Lake Wood beat Grafton 5-4.