Breaking News

Haverhill, Mass. – A number of top elite Las Vegas players and goalies will be going to the Hockey Night in Boston Summer Tournament which gets underway at the end of this week here at the Haverhill Valley Forum Ice Arena. Las Vegas coaches Brian Salcido and Matt Johnson will be one of the coaches with Chris Nagy who will coach a sophomore team called Team Western.  Nagy is coach of a prep school team in the ISL in Cambridge. Team Western will include Las Vegas players and some from the Colorado Thunderbirds program.

From Las Vegas 

Sophomore Division

Caden Berninger

Shane Dean

Dominic DiTondo 

AJ Lackas

Matt Lackas

Heath Mensch

Zack Ortolano

David Salcido

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Jr High School Division

Conner Beers

Jack Lackas

Austin Moline

Keegan Morse

Ryan Pavlinsky

Joey Picciurro

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Barcelona, Spain – Ash Printzen of Las Vegas scored for Team USA’s Junior Women’s roller team today in an 8-3 win over Colombia. Team USA is 1-1-0 here this week, off tomorrow, and will resume play on Tuesday.

TEAM USA JR WOMEN’S ROLLER TEAM

2-4 to Spain

8-3 over Colombia

JR. GOLDEN KNIGHTS D-MAN REDOBLE SIGNS WITH THUNDERBIRDS

Eddie Del Grosso (red) in action vs a mean-spirited defenseman

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Star defenseman Eddie Del Grosso of Las Vegas was a giant goal scorer starting years ago when he played for the AA Las Vegas Mustangs 17u team in 2001-02. We asked Eddie what were your greatest goals and he said this was one of the best he ever had. Eddie has scored at every level he has ever played. Now, we take you back to March, 18, 2002 in the Pacific District gold medal game. We were there to see one of the greatest games ever played by a Las Vegas team – Lee
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3.18.02
Eddie Del Grosso Air-Lifts 170-foot Goal in Wild 6-5 win, as…
WE’RE HEADING TO THE U.S. NATIONALS!!!!

By Lee Samuels

Valencia, California – Talk about pressure. Up one precious goal, 1:30 to play, defending against a forest-fire 6-on-3 attack….

That’s when Las Vegas defenseman Eddie Del Grosso somehow, someway got control of the puck. He chipped a shot ceiling-high. Then he stood, cocked his helmet and watch the flight of the silent puck towards the empty enemy net.

The puck came down, bounced hard, skittered about and went slowly into the net and the red light was switched on.

That made it Las Vegas, 6-4.

And all of a sudden, with exactly 1:27 to play in a faraway rink, the Las Vegas Mustangs and every Mom, Dad and little one knew the team not only was going to win the game, but was heading to the Tier II U.S. Nationals next month in San Jose.

Rob Pallin’s Las Vegas Mustangs beat a strong, proud, incredibly-tough Anchorage Jr. Aces team, 6-5, to win the Pacific District Tier II regional championship at the twin-sheet Ice Station Arena Sunday afternoon.

How big is it?

Las Vegas had never even won a regional game in 17-and-under hockey, that’s how big. Now the Mustangs have qualified for the Tier II national tournament.

Friday, June 28, 2019

Las Vegas – The new WSHL Las Vegas Thunderbirds will compete in the West Division this coming season. Thunderbirds home games will be played at the SoBe Ice Arena on North Rancho Drive.

WSHL West Division

Fresno Monsters

Las Vegas Thunderbirds

Long Beach Jets (name changed from Long Beach Bombers)

Ontario Avalanche

San Diego Sabers

Valencia Flyers

We are working on our annual July 4 celebration story – please send us how you are planning to spend – and where – you will be during the big weekend – send to leesamuels07@aol.com —  Thank you to all, Lee

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Coming July 4 –

The Genius and the Jokers Must Be Stopped at the SoBe Ice Arena

A Las Vegas Hockey Adventure Story written by Lee and daughter Mary Cate

——-Not all goal scorers are created equal in the biggest of games —–

CONAWAY SIGNS WITH HOMETOWN TBIRDS