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Ethan Montoya of Las Vegas and AAA Ontario Avalanche 18u at US Nationals in Amherst, NY

26 Thursday Mar 2015

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Thursday final score : Culver Academy 4, AAA Ontario Avalanche 18u 0

Friday final score: AAA Central Connecticut Selects 6, AAA Ontario Avalanche 18u 4

Saturday final score: AAA Buffalo Jr Sabres 3, AAA Ontario Avalanche 18u 1

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Thursday, March 26

http://nationals.usahockey.com/page/show/1685443-ontario-avalanche-ca-

Amherst, N.Y. – Ethan Montoya of Las Vegas and the AAA Ontario Avalanche – who had a miracle run while winning the California State gold and the Pacific District Championship – open against Culver Academy here in the US Nationals at the Olympic Oval on Thursday.

Here is the Avalanche’s schedule:

Thursday – 0-4 to Culver Academy
Friday – 4-6 to Central Connecticut Selects
Saturday – 1-3 to Buffalo Jr Sabres

NEVADA STORM BANTAMS ROCK TEAM NEW MEXICO AT THE US NATIONALS

26 Thursday Mar 2015

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http://nationals.usahockey.com/page/show/1661948-youth-tier-ii-14u-1a

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Thursday Final – Delaware Ducks 7, Nevada Storm 1

Storm Scoring

NS – Joseph Terrana Jr (Cody Printzen)

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Friday Final – Nevada Storm 4, Team New Mexico 2

Storm Scoring

NS – Justin Brooks (Cameron Zucker, Dominick Panzarella)

NS – Romeo Scallion (Cameron Zucker, Dominick Panzarella)

NS – Cameron Zucker

NS – Romeo Scallion (Cameron Zucker)

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Saturday Final – Portland Hawks 8, Nevada Storm 3

Storm Scoring

NS – Darion Conaway (Antonio Buck, Alexander Miller)

NS – Joseph Terrana Jr (Darion Conaway)

NS – Joseph Terrana Jr (Caesars Redoble)

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Salt Lake City – It all starts Thursday for the Nevada Storm Bantam AA’s here at the US Nationals. Head coach Micah Sanford said goalie David ‘Lamont’ Turner will get the start against the Delaware Ducks at the Olympic Oval Legacy rink. Game time is 3:20 pm here.

“Anything could happen — this is the U.S. Nationals so we will take one game at a time. If we show up ready to play, we will be fine,” Micah said.

The top line for the Storm will be Cameron Zucker, Dominic Panzarella and Romio Scallion. The starting defensive pairing will be Steven Avalone and John Hallet.

The Storm are the Nevada State Champions. They practice and play home games at the Las Vegas Ice Center on Flamingo Ave.

Here is the Las Vegas schedule:

Thursday – 1-7 to Delaware Ducks
Friday – 4-2 over Team New Mexico
Saturday – 3-8 to Portland Hawks

Website of the Day: Nevada Storm Bantams AA

25 Wednesday Mar 2015

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The Nevada Storm Bantams AA, coached by Micah Sanford, are off to the US Nationals in Salt Lake City. Games begin on Thursday. The Storm bantams skate out of the Las Vegas Ice Center.

http://www.nvstorm.com/

As Las Vegas Skaters Head for Playoff Weekend, Let’s Not Forgot One of the Vegas Greatest Lines – Bryce Reddick, Corbin Brown and Kyle Clay

25 Wednesday Mar 2015

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As Las Vegas skaters prepare for Playoff Weekend, a hometown Las Vegas insider talks about the great teams and lines which came out of the Las Vegas Ice Center. This is one of the great emails ever sent to Vegashockey.net
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We have a lot of writeups here on coach Rob’s old teams. But I think we have forgotten the importance of coach Pokey Reddick’s 16u teams with Bryce Reddick, Corbin Brown, Kyle Clay, Ryan Scheafer, Steven Bolton, Colby Cookson, Ryan Sutliffe, Matt Hedderly, Kris Carter, Chris Rial, Robbie Silvernail, Alex Yug, Christian Bryant, etc.

When they won the 16u Pacific District Championship in 2005, that wasn’t suppose to happen. In 2006 they won 4 tournaments at home including a game that to me, my son and any person you speak to, was the most exciting game to date at the Las Vegas Ice Center against the (Long Beach) Ice Dogs semifinals double OT to go on and win the Pacific District Championship in 2006.

Pokey Reddick and those 2 teams put that rink and organization on the USA hockey map. Hamilton Whyte, the Quinney kids, Brendan Harris, Sullivan, Brooks, Chiasson, Raats all grew up watching those guys play – just like most of the 89s and 90s who grew up watching Rob’s teams at the Santa Fe Ice Arena.

After 2006 is when they changed the name and began billeting kids from out of state. Everyone wanted to play at that rink.

The line of Bryce Reddick, Corbin Brown and Kyle Clay terrorized teams for 2 years.

They were called the Teal Line. No one could stop them, just like Jasek, Samuels and Naglich did. Those 2 Pokey teams were in the papers in Summerlin, Las Vegas Review Journal, USA Hockey. Many kids at that rink continued playing because of the excitement of those 2 back to back teams.

The rinks would be packed with 200-300 people. I remember the buzz of every team team in that organization coming to watch these teams play. Parents took kids out of school early to watch the Friday afternoon games. Mike Sullivan, Jeff Hajner, Jason Allen, Rob Pallin, Larry Sanford and YOU all at the rink boards watching.

We haven’t had a team that good and fun to watch since then, everyone knows it. I believe Rob’s midget teams of those back to back seasons from AA-AAA and Pokey’s two AA teams were the best teams the city has ever seen to date.

Not to mention it was all Las Vegas skaters, no one from out of town like we see now. Just ask the Vegas coaches – Rob Pallin, Ken Quinney, Rod Buskas and anyone around that team and Pokey had the support and gathering like no other.

I would like to nominate Bryce Reddick and Corbin Brown into the Top 15 skaters in Las Vegas history.

Bryce Reddick was so smooth on his skates. He might have been the fastest kid to play in Vegas. Faster than Jasek. Just ask around.

Corbin Brown at 5’6″ was truely the first small player out of Las Vegas and he went on to play for one of the best NAHL franchises in the Wenatchee Wild which was a Robertson Cup runnerup. I’d say he helped kick start all of these other kids who have played in Wenatchee

Like I said, those 2 Pokey teams were very exciting.

And not a lot about them.

It’s part of history at the Las Vegas Ice Center.

They kick started it for all of our kids and the organization.

Coach Rob Pallin Update

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Coach Rob Pallin of Las Vegas is coming home. After spending eight months coaching Sapa Fehervar AV19 in Hungary, coach Rob said today he should be back in Las Vegas around April 2.

“Our team finished 11th a year ago. This season we finished 4th in our league. I’m proud about that,” he said.

He will spend the summer here in town, then return to Sapa Fehervar AV19 in the fall.

“There are some players in the US I want to scout,” he said. “So I will be on the road doing that as well.”

Website of the Day: Let’s Play Hockey.com

23 Monday Mar 2015

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http://www.letsplayhockey.com/

Colby Cookson Update

23 Monday Mar 2015

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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Las Vegas – Goal scorer Colby Cookson of Las Vegas was at the UNLV Alumni game on Saturday night. Colby, 27, was a top roller player for UNLV’s powerful program where he graduated a few years ago. He skated on the top Rebels roller line with Nick Robone and Adam Tamura. Colby is now working in healthcare at Mohave Mental Health in Las Vegas.

//Mike Zenzola, UNLV, noted his younger brother Matt is now a goalie with the SPHL Louisiana Icegators.

The Ticker – When in Doubt, Give the Puck to Mike Zenzola

22 Sunday Mar 2015

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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Las Vegas – UNLV alum Chris Tate peered through his goalie facemask and saw trouble coming. At mid ice three red-jersey UNLV forwards broke through the pack and were heading his way on Saturday night at the SoBe Ice Arena.

Chris looked to his left, then to the right.

Not a defenseman in sight or on his radar.

He looked again and leading the attack run was #18 Mike Zenzola, the greatest goal scorer in the history of UNLV Rebels hockey.

The three forwards arrived, sprayed ice at the net, the puck was quickly shot and rocketed into a far corner of the net. The three forwards then turned as a unit and sped back down the ice.

It was a quick strike and score, the way Mike Zenzola of UNLV used to do it so many times when the big teams rolled into town.

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It was the annual UNLV Alumni Game at the SoBe Ice Arena on a warm Saturday night. Zenzola looked the same – tall, lean, ready to rock down the ice and unleash blasts of shots from a variety of distances.

Officially he is 6’2, 200.

He scored 138 career goals and the only other Rebel remotely close to that was Anthony Greener who played a different kind of game. Greener usually played much closer in the shark waters around enemy nets when big teams like Michigan, Texas, San Diego State and yes, even UCLA got into UNLV’s grill.

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Mike Zenzola said he couldn’t have scored all of the goals without his longtime linemate Sam Braniff. They played on the same AA midget team, the Inland Valley Coyotes in the Riverside area, then with the Fort Vancouver Pioneers in junior hockey, then together with UNLV. It was Rob Pallin, Mike said, who recruited he and Sam.

Biggest goals ever? Zenzola, like most great athletes, laughed and said he had just a few. Well he scored over a hundred of them, including six goals in one game against Cal State Fullerton. Zenzola said he had a big game against Colorado and he mentioned one or two more.

His best line? Zenzola, Braniff and Greener or with the explosive goal scorer Josh Jasek.

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Practically all of the top UNLV alum players were in the game. Tate, who was in the net in the very first UNLV game in 2005-06 season, wore a powder blue jersey. Years ago he said he never looked at the Pepsi scoreboard during the closest of games at the SoBe Ice Arena. “My only concern was keeping any eye on the puck and keeping it out of out net,” he said.

Greener, whose #96 jersey is framed and hanging on the south wall at the SoBe, was handed red jersey #3 to start the game.

“Never wore a #3 before,” he said. “But here we go.”

Moments later his hockey mom Sue, in the cold bleachers, told everyone “Anthony is now wearing number 20 red.”

Greener had a great game, chipping passes, setting up linemates. Ryan Krametbauer, whose #13 jersey is also framed and hanging on the wall at the SoBe, is an attorney now. He gave me his card, just in case, you never know when you need a good attorney he said. He plays in a men’s league on Sunday nights. A former Rebel, Danny Kaminski, is on the team.

Arturo Castro wanted to play but didn’t. He is still recovering from a serious back and neck injury in a game against Long Beach State. Will he play this fall? Doesn’t think he can do it. Too much at risk in the health area. He now works in UNLV Rebels hockey promotions. He is very popular and the players call him Arty.

Even UNLV defensemen like Doug Wenglare got into the goal scoring. He made it look easy, getting to the net, feinting and scoring.

UNLV enforcer Kyle Curry was prowling around on the ice. He had a great skate, just like his former teammates. Kyle’s temperature never red-lined, so that was good for all.

No one skated harder than an active Rebel, Trey Johnson. He went up and down the ice high speed.

Just the way he always does in the real Rebels games.

The game? It was a scorefest. Final score was 14-14. No goals were announced. Rock music blasted during the game, not just during timeouts.

We asked one of the goalies Katie Scheafer who was the most dangerous goal scorer out there.

She said didn’t track many of the jersey numbers who were at the net.

But she said #18 was pretty good.

That was Zenzola.

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When the game was over, it was time to take an official team photo at center ice.

The players lined up and someone said “where’s Gramps?” and he was over by the south boards.

Zenzola and Krametbauer went to go get him and helped the UNLV legend Frank ‘Gramps’ Perone walk onto the ice. He is part of what UNLV has accomplished, always around the bench area, lining up sticks and fidgeting during those intense late-game one goal leads.

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After the team picture, the players skated around, not really wanting to leave the ice.

These were the greatest of all of the UNLV players, the ones who played in the biggest of games.

Anthony Greener, who played on a UNLV top line for 4 1/2 seasons, was horsing around, laughing, making tricky passes.

His hockey mom Sue pressed her face against the rink glass, over by the locker room area.

“Oh, how I miss seeing him play,” she said quietly, smiling, but just a little bit.

Joseph Kaszupski’s Power Play Goal Gives NAHL Kenai River 3-2 Shock Win; Gage Quinney 4 Assists, +3, #1 Star for WHL Kelowna Rockets

22 Sunday Mar 2015

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Saturday, March 21, 2005

Soldotna, Alaska – Joseph Kaszupski’s power play goal in the second period was the decisive goal for the NAHL Kenai River Brown Bears in a 3-2 shock win over the 38-16-4 Fairbanks Ice Dogs before 775 at the Soldnota Sports Center. Joseph, from Las Vegas, has 7 goals this season for the 16-40-2 Brown Bears.

Kelowna, BC – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas dealt 4 assists, was +3 on the ice and named the #1 Star of the Game for the WHL Kelowna Rockets who closed out the regular season with a 5-2 win over the Vancouver Giants before 6007 on home ice at the Prospera Center.

Ontario, California – Chris Francis of Las Vegas was +1 on the ice for the ECHL Alaska Aces in a 3-1 win over the Ontario Reign before 9395 at Citizen Business Bank Arena. Goalie Troy Redmann (AAA L.A. Jr Kings) got the win. The Aces are battling for a playoff spot as they go into their final games of the regular season.

Chicago – Joey Raats of Las Vegas had 2 assists, was +2 and was picked the #3 Star of the Game for the USHL Sioux Falls Stampede in a 7-5 road win over the Chicago Steel. The crowd was 1704 at the Chicago Edge Arena. Joey has one goal, 12 assists this season.

Season Comes to a Close for Joe Sullivan and St. Lawrence; Gage Quinney Plays Before 11,644; Standing Ovation for Zach Pochiro and PG Cougars

21 Saturday Mar 2015

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Friday, March 20, 2015

Lake Placid, N.Y. – Joe Sullivan of Las Vegas dealt an assist on the first goal of the game for St. Lawrence which lost 4-3 in OT to 15th-ranked Colgate in an ECAC Semifinal playoff game before 5025 at the Herb Brooks Arena. St. Lawrence had more shots in OT, 8-5, and more shots in the game, 32-31. Joe, a freshman, had 6 goals, 6 assists this season for St. Lawrence.

Prince George BC – The crowd of 4570 gave Zach Pochiro of Las Vegas and the WHL Prince George Cougars a standing ovation after clinching a playoff spot with a 3-1 win over the Kamloops Blazers on home ice at the CN Centre. It will be Prince George’s first time in the playoffs in four seasons. Before the game, Zach received an award from the Cougars fans as the “Offensive Player of the Year.” Prince George closes out the regular season against Kamloops on Saturday night, then begins a best of seven playoff series vs the Victoria Royals next Friday.

http://pgcougars.com/article/playoffs-here-we-come

Vancouver BC – Before a huge crowd of 11,644 Gage Quinney of Las Vegas had an assist for the WHL Kelowna Rockets in a 4-3 OT win over the Vancouver Giants at the Pacific Coliseum. The Rockets are a division champion and are headed to the WHL playoffs. Kelowna has a record of 52-13-5.

Ontario, Ca – Chris Francis of Las Vegas had an assist for the ECHL Alaska Aces in a 5-3 loss to the Ontario Reign 5-3 before 8540 at Citizens Business Bank Center. The Aces were 2 for 2 on powerplays and had more shots 16-8 in the third period. Chris has 20 goals, 30 assists this season.

Wenatchee, Washington – Ryan Chiasson of Henderson, NV had two assists and was +2 on the ice for the NAHL Wenatchee Wild on ‘Parents Night’ at the Town Toyota Center. Wenatchee held off division champion Lone Star Brahmas 4-3 before a big hometown crowd of 3,047.

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