Monday, February 29, 2016

Two Las Vegas players – Hamilton Whyte and Mike Trimboli – are heading to The Show, the ACHA D2 U.S. Nationals which begin March 18 in West Chester, Pa.

Hamilton plays for Northwest region #1 ranked New York University which got an automatic bye to the U.S. Nationals. Mike is a defenseman for Utah State which qualified at the ACHA Western Regionals in Logan, Utah this past weekend.

LAS VEGAS PLAYERS

WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE (WHL)

MOST GOALS

66 – CHRIS FRANCIS, PORTLAND WINTERHAWKS

61 – ZACH POCHIRO, PRINCE GEORGE COUGARS

49 – GAGE QUINNEY, KAMLOOPS BLAZERS

3 – LANDON QUINNEY, MOOSE JAW WARRIORS – FIRST SEASON 2015-16

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Kamloops BC – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas scored his career-best single-season 25th goal for the WHL Kamloops Blazers in a 4-3 loss to the Seattle Thunderbirds before 3322 at the Sandman Centre on Sunday evening. Gage, in his final WHL season, this season has 25 goals, 28 assists for 53 points. He has 55 career goals in the WHL. Kamloops, coached by Don Hay, is trying to pin down a playoff spot. Kamloops is 29-25-5 and in possession of a wild card spot but is just 4 points ahead of the Tri City Americans. The regular season ends March 20.

Saskatoon, Canada –  Landon Quinney of Las Vegas and the 33-22-7 WHL Moose Jaw Warriors are going to the playoffs. Moose Jaw clinched a playoff spot in a 4-1 win over the Saskatoon Blades before 4379 at the Sask Tel Centre on Sunday. Landon, a ’98 in his first WHL season, has 3 goals, 13 assists for 16 points

Here are the Las Vegas weekend goal scorers February 25-28, 2016

Goals

6 – Bryden Marsh, UNLV

2 – Vito Carlo, WSHL Las Vegas Storm

2 – Jamahl Eakett, WSHL Las Vegas Storm

2 – Chris Jones, UNLV

2 – Austin Shannon, UNLV

1 – Arrigo Burgener, WSHL Las Vegas Storm

1 – Filip Hedvill, WSHL Las Vegas Storm

1 – Kody Holmes, WSHL Las Vegas Storm

1 – Isiah Letendre, WSHL Las Vegas Storm

1 – Gage Quinney, WHL Kamloops Blazers

1 – Michael McNicholas, New Hampshire University

1 – Mitchell Province, UNLV

1 – Joe Sullivan, St. Lawrence University

1 – Cory Ward, Bemidji State

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Logan, Utah –  For UNLV it was heartbreak. For Las Vegas defensman Mike Trimboli and Utah State it was a return to glory.

Utah State cooled down ultra hot UNLV and won 4-1 in an ACHA Western Regional Final 4 game today at the Eccles Arena on a chilly blustery day with rain showers in the forecast.  Trimboli and Utah State will return to the U.S. Nationals for the third time in four seasons. Last year at this time Trimboli and Utah State were eliminated in a historic Final 4 game against Boise State which went seven overtimes.

UNLV, with new coaches Anthony Greener and Nick Robone, had a shockingly great season at 24-8-2. UNLV here earlier eliminated San Diego State 5-1 and Northern Arizona University 5-1.

In the Final 4 game today Utah State got off to a four goal lead and held on to it for much of the game. UNLV’s goal came from Bryden Marsh who has six goals here and 40 for the season. It was the final game for UNLV seniors who included Chris Jones, a great caring team leader who had an awesome season. He scored 2 goals here at the Regionals.

Trimboli grew up in Las Vegas and played for Pokey Reddick-coached AAA and AA Nevada Stars midget level teams at the Las Vegas Ice Center. One of Trimboli’s teammates was Arturo Castro, a former UNLV player who is now the President of the UNLV club. Trimboli at Utah State majors in Business with a minor in Hospitality.

There were four Western teams who advanced to the U.S Nationals. Two teams, #1 ranked ASU Elite and #2 Utah, got automatic bids and did not play here. Utah State and ASU Maroon – who ironically UNLV outworked and beat pretty badly recently in Las Vegas – also advanced.

About a hour after the game was over Mike Trimboli told his family in the arena how meaningful it was for Utah State to win and advance to the U.S. Nationals “…particuarly with this being my senior year.”

The last game of the season of a season is always hard, particularly for a UNLV team whose skaters were together for over six months, drew huge crowds at home games, played spectacularly and who rarely lost.

When the game was over and the UNLV players were in the handshake line at center ice UNLV coaches Anthony Greener and Nick Robone shook hands with the Utah State players who included Mike Trimboli who told them “...congratulations, what a great job you did turning around the UNLV program.” 

Coaches Greener and Robone said thank you and moved on, quietly shaking hands with the game officials who were by an open gate at the rinkboards. As Greener left the ice he glanced to his left. The Utah State players were piled in a group at center ice getting a team photograph.

ACHA WESTERN REGIONALS

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Final Score – #5 WEBER STATE 3 #7 ASU MAROON 4  —  ASU Maroon advances to U.S. Nationals

Final score –  #3 UTAH STATE 4, #9 UNLV 1

UNLV goal – Bryden Marsh 40th goal of the season

ASU Maroon and Utah State advance to the U.S. Nationals

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Fresno, California

Gateway Ice Arena

Final Score

WSHL LAS VEGAS STORM 3

WSHL FRESNO MONSTERS 7

Las Vegas goal – Arrigo Burgener 13th goal this season – assists Dawson Rowley, Nikita Tsvetov

Las Vegas goal – Isiah Letendre 16th- assists Dawson Rowley, Jessie Orenius

Las Vegas goal – Jamahl Eakett 3rd – short-handed

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Logan, Utah –  Bryden Marsh scored three goals as UNLV beat Northern Arizona (NAU) 5-1 to advance to the ACHA D2 Western Regionals Final 4 on Sunday.  It was a game which had a heated physical twist at the finish when UNLV’s elite goalie Terry Martin was roughed up while in the net area.

UNLV, ranked #9, will now take on #3-ranked Utah State which includes Las Vegas defenseman Mike Trimboli. It was Trimboli’s pass which set up an OT game-winning goal to beat San Jose State 3-2 on Saturday.

Ultra hot UNLV has won 10 straight games and is 24-7-2 overall.  The UNLV record for most wins in a season is 25.

Final Score

UNLV Rebels 5

NORTHERN ARIZONA (NAU) 1

UNLV goal – Bryden Marsh 37th of the season

UNLV goal – Bryden Marsh 38th

UNLV goal – Chris Jones 19th

UNLV goal – Austin Shannon 15th

UNLV goal – Bryden Marsh 39th

UNLV goalie – Terry Martin

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Saturday, February 27, 2016

Special to Vegashockey.net

Teenager Ashley Printzen, who began the season playing ice hockey for the Las Vegas Flames bantam team last fall and is now skating for the AAA Dallas Stars Elite Girls 14u ice hockey travel team, will skate roller for Team USA at the 2016 Inline World Hockey Championships in Roana, Italy on June 20-23.

She was notified by letter that she made the Team USA girls national roller team this week. Ashley just celebrated her 15th birthday.

Her older brother Cody skates in the Nevada Storm ice hockey program at the Las Vegas Ice Center.

Friday, February 26, 2016

Bemidji, Minnesota – On ‘Senior Weekend’ Cory Ward of Las Vegas scored the only goal for Bemidji Stare with 7:34 left in a fierce battle against rival Alabama Huntsville tonight at the Sanford Center. The game finished 1-1 when neither team scored in OT. Cory, a senior playing his last weekend on home ice for Bemidji State, has 8 goals, 10 assists. The crowd was 3883.

Canton, N.Y. – In a battle of Top 20 ranked teams, Joe Sullivan of Las Vegas had one goal, one assist to help #19 St Lawrence University beat #12 ranked Harvard 5-2 before 1623 at Appleton Arena.  Joe now has 10 goals, 9 assists. With the win, St. Lawrence gets a bye in the opening round of the playoffs.

Moline, Illinois – Zach Pochiro of Las Vegas has two assists for the ECHL Quad City Mallards in a 4-1 win over Rapid City Rush 4-1 before 5717 at the iWireless Event Center. Zach has 6 goals, 13 assists this season.

Everett, Washington – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas had one assist and was +1 on the ice for the WHL Kamloops Blazers in a 3-2 OT road win over the Everett Silvertips before 4612 at the XFinity Arena on Friday night. Gage, in his final WHL season, has 24 goals, 28 assists for 52 points this winter.

Friday, February 26, 2016

Fresno, California

Gateway Ice Arena

Final Score

WSHL LAS VEGAS STORM 0

WSHL FRESNO MONSTERS 8

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Las Vegas goalie – Andre Spens