Sunday – AHL Henderson Silver Knights are off today, as is coach Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds – Lee
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Get ready, get set for UNLV’s next challenge – taking on ACHA D1 Arizona University on Feb 10, 11 on home ice at the City National Arena on Charleston Ave, across from the Red Rock Hotel Casino – Lee
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Sunday, Feb 5, 2023
THE SATURDAY FEB 4 SCOREBOARD
ACHA D1
UNLV REBELS AT UTAH UNIVERSITY
@Salt Lake City
Final Score – Utah University wins 5-1
‘The Wall’ Zach Wickson goalie for UNLV Rebels in this game.
//Max Johnson scored the UNLV goal
//Utah raised its season record to 14-10-1
AHL
Colorado Eagles at Henderson Silver Knights
@Dollar Loan Center Arena, Henderson NV
OT/ Shootout Final – Colorado Eagles 3, Henderson Silver Knights 2
//Sheldon Rempal scored twice for Henderson
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USPHL Premier
Ontario Jr Reign vs Las Vegas Thunderbirds
Final – Las Vegas Thunderbirds 7, Ontario Reign 5
City National Arena, Las Vegas
Dramatic late-game finish as the T-Birds’ Antoine Tournigny scored his 22nd goal
of the season, then Nick Bonaldi got his 7th to get the huge win.
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FRIDAY FEB 3 SCOREBOARD
ACHA D1
UNLV Rebels
at Utah University
@Salt Lake City
UNLV goalie – Landon Pavlisin
Final Score – UNLV wins 6-1
Rebels goal scorers in order – Jaxsen Wyatt, Cole Wyatt, Daniel Fisher, Max Johnson, Hunter Muzzillo and Caleb Strong
Rebels 3-Stars – Max Johnson, Jaxson Wyatt, Landon Pavlisin
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AHL
Colorado Eagles
at Henderson Silver Knights
Final Score – Colorado Eagles win 2-1
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USPHL Premier
Ontario Jr Reign
at Las Vegas Thunderbirds
City National Arena, Las Vegas
Final Score – Las Vegas Thunderbirds win in OT 7-6
//Beau Kennedy scores dramatic game-winning OT goal
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Thursday, Feb 2, Flash Score – Final – USPHL Premier Ontario Jr Reign 8, Las Vegas Thunderbirds 6
T-Birds goals – Narek Aleksanyan 3, Tristan-Felix Tremblay 2, Nicholas Bonaldi 1
T-Birds goalie – Loic Morin
Game was at City National Arena on Charleston Ave in Las Vegas.
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Here is some good news – we just received more of the 2022-23 Topps Jason Zucker stickers which we will give away at the next UNLV Rebels home game at City National Arena – Lee
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Friday, Feb 3, 2023
Salt Lake City – Let’s Get Ready to ….play hockey! UNLV Rebels coaches Anthony Greener and Nick Robone know what to expect when the Rebels go onto the road and take on ACHA D1 Utah on Feb 3, 4. You can never predict what’s going to happen but historically Utah University’s team gets physical on home ice. Utah’s season record is 11-8-1. The games will be at the Salt Lake City Sports Complex. Faceoff tonight 7:30 pm
Thursday, Feb 2, 2023
The ECHL Allen Americans have traded star goal scorer Zach Pochiro of Las Vegas to the ECHL Maine Mainers. Zach, 28, had 7 goals, 15 assists with the Allen Americans this season. The Maine Mariners are affiliated with the NHL Ottawa Senators and the AHL Belleville Senators.
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Tonight – Thursday – Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds take on the USPHL Ontario Jr Reign over at City National Arena on Charleston Avenue – next to the Red Rock Resort Casino. Game time is 8 pm.
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Wednesday, Feb 1, 2023
Breaker – The American Hockey League announced today that Silver Knights captain Brayden Pachal will represent Henderson and the Pacific Division at the 2023 AHL All-Star Classic presented by Bell in collaboration with Manulife Bank. All-Star festivities will be held in Laval on February 5 and 6.
Pachal will replace defenseman Daniil Miromanov, who was originally selected for the event on January 11. Miromanov last played with Henderson on November 27.
Serving his second season as Silver Knights captain, Pachal has appeared in 34 games for the Silver Knights this season, recording two goals and 11 points with a plus-3 rating. The Estevan, Saskatchewan native has logged 73 penalty minutes, tied for ninth-most in the American Hockey League.
Pachal has also appeared in nine NHL games with the Golden Knights this season, collecting two assists and six penalty minutes.
In four AHL seasons, all with the Golden Knights organization, Pachal has totaled 171 games, seven goals, 39 points, and 223 penalty minutes. This will be his first All-Star appearance
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Who will win the Super Bowl – The Philadelphia Eagles or Kansas City Chiefs. Text me your score, reason why, or send to leesamuels07@aol.com – winner gets a bright new Star………Lee
Here we go…
Coach Anthony Greener
Eagles 27, KC 21
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Coach Nick Robone
Eagles 27-24
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Coach Rob Pallin
Eagles 24, KC 17
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Coach Matt Johnson
Eagles 30, KC 27
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Coach Wally Lacroix
KC 33, Eagles 30
//”Mahones is so awesome…
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The famous Rob Profitt, GM, NAHL Fairbanks Ice Dogs
KC 23, Eagles 21
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Las Vegas hockey dad Steve Allen
//Eagles win this one, 28-21
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LA sports photographer Chris Farina
//KC Chiefs of course by 24-21. Chiefs are my wife Toni’s favorite team!
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Send your pick now to leesamuels07@aol.com
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Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the AHL Henderson Silver Knights are off today……Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds are also off today – Lee
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In Gregg Drinnan’s daily hockey notebook he noted….
“Wanting to go to Scottsdale, Ariz., for the Super Bowl? The average price per ticket on Stub Hub as of Tuesday morning was US$7,573. . . . The Montreal Canadiens wore those baby blues last night as they entertained the Ottawa Senators. The Habs lost, 5-4, and now are 0-6-1 in those uniforms, while being outscored 31-14.“
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Wednesday, Feb 1, 2023
Salt Lake City – Let’s Get Ready to ….play hockey! UNLV Rebels coaches Anthony Greener and Nick Robone know what to expect when the Rebels go onto the road and take on ACHA D1 Utah on Feb 3, 4. You can never predict what’s going to happen but historically Utah University’s team gets physical on home ice. Utah’s season record is 11-8-1. The games will be at the Salt Lake City Sports Complex.
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Scouts tell us they’ve been tracking Collin Spencer, a goal scorer for coach Wally Lacroix’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u team – Lee
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The great hockey writer Gregg Drinnan wrote this today:
Jan Ludvig, the head coach of the junior B Kamloops Storm of the Kootenay
International Junior Hockey League, has been suspended for three games after receiving a gross misconduct during a 4-2 loss to the Posse in Princeton on Saturday night. Ludvig was penalized after putting a towel on a stick and waving it at 12:01 of the third period. . . . Ludvig is in his first season as the Storm’s head coach. He played one season (1981-82) with the Kamloops Jr. Oilers, before going on to play in the NHL with the New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres. He also was a long-time scout with the Devils and later the Boston Bruins. . . . The Storm, it seems, already is planning a Towel Power promotion.
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Las Vegas – The great hockey coaches at all levels of the game construct a team first from the back – the goalies – then the defensemen and at last the goal scorers.
UNLV Rebels head coach Anthony Greener knows all about that.
“We are fortunate we have three goalies – Vince Benedetto, Landon Pavlisin and Zach Wickson – who we can put into a game on any night. We are running hot right now with the goal-tending we are getting that is needed to make a run for the National Championship.
“We want game-changers on our team – goalies with confidence and moxie – goalies who can steal you a game when needed. And that is what we are getting this season,” said coach Greener.
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Best Stats Today
GAGE QUINNEY
Assistant Captain
Las Vegas
AHL Henderson Silver Knights
19 Goals
16 Assists
35 Points
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We gave away all of those Topps Jason Zucker hockey stickers to all who asked this past weekend at the UNLV Rebels game at City National. We have more coming in so we will be in our usual spot on the north rinkboards when the Rebels play their next home game – Lee
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ACHA D1 Rankings
Top 5
#1 Minot
#2 Adrian College
#3 UNLV Rebels
#4 Ohio University
#5 Liberty University
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Best Stats of the Day
Caden Grestini, Las Vegas
Boston Hockey Academy
10 goals
18 assists
28 points
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Big weekend for Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds
Friday – OT loss to powerful 29-7-1 Fresno Monsters
Saturday – 4-3 win over Fresno Monsters
Sunday – 7-3 win over Fresno Monsters
T-Birds, now 25-7-2, picked up 5 team points during the weekend.
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Coach Wally Lacroix’ AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u were away from home over the weekend.
“We lost to the AAA Pitt Vengeance in a morning game 3-2. Kam Laskaska in the net for us. Lost to South Hill Panthers from PA 3-2. Kellen Hardy was our goalie.
“Me, I am extremely proud of our group for their continued effort – we have some injuries and some players who were not feeling that well.
“Coach Todd and myself couldn’t be prouder. We finished the weekend with 6 forwards, 4 defensemen. What we are asking – and getting – to play with such a short bench is remarkable.
“What a special group of young men we get to coach,” coach Wally said.
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Las Vegas – Now this was a very special Saturday evening. On ‘Military Night’ with a sold out frenzied City National Arena, the UNLV Rebels took down and beat invading ACHA D1 Oklahoma University 4-0 to sweep the weekend series on Saturday night. Vince Benedetto was the Rebels goalie and he was awesome all night long. The Rebels wore green-colored military-like jerseys in this game.
Goal scorers for UNLV included:
Dylan Ford
Michael Boutoussov
Jaedin Ness
Brad Golant
Oklahoma University had a number of hard skating attack runs but could not score against Benedetto who has that uncanny ability to seal off the corners.
The crowd was really into this game from the beginning to the finish. Rocco was the referee.
From the Blue Line – In the ACHA D1 rankings Minot 20-0-0 is #1, Adrian College 20-2-1 is #2 and the UNLV Rebels 17-2-0 are #3.
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Henderson, Nevada – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas scored his 19th goal of the year for the Henderson Silver Knights in a 6-2 loss to the AHL Calgary Warriors before 5,206 on Saturday evening at the Dollar Loan Center Arena.
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Special to Vegas Hockey
Saturday, January 28, 2023 – Coach Wally Lacroix’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u are now 2-0-0 this weekend after beating the AAA PHA Icemen 15u by 3-1 at the Frozen Pond Arena in Pennsylvania. Kam Laskaska was goalie for Las Vegas. VJGK had more shots 47-21. “Good effort overall, still looking for better shot quality,” coach Wally noted after the game. Next, Las Vegas takes on the AAA Pittsburgh Vengeance 4:30 pm eastern at the Alpha Ice Complex.
Final Score – AAA Pittsburgh Vengeance 15u 4, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u 1
Coach Wally noted his AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights will have two more games Sunday taking on the same team – AAA Pittsburgh Vengeance at 9:30 am, then face the AAA South Hill Panthers at 2:30 pm local time – Lee
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//We did away all of our Jason Zucker Topps Stickers – awesome items with Jason wearing his Penguins jersey. We got tapped on the back a few times by fans who had their children with them at the UNLV Rebels vs ACHA D1 Oklahoma City on Friday evening at the City National Arena. To our friend Peppers, sorry we are out of those Jason Zucker items at the moment.
//Update – we just ordered more of the Jason Zucker Topps stickers and will give them away at an upcoming Rebels game…
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Friday, January 27, 2023
REBELS 3 STARS OF THE GAME
#1 Cole Wyatt
#2 Alec Johnson
#3 Goalie ‘The Wall’ Zach Wickson
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By Lee Samuels
Las Vegas – The great teams – like the UNLV Rebels with so many ultra-skilled tricky goal scorers and an awesome goalie like ‘The Wall’ Zach Wickson make winning look so easy – as it was in a 5-0 shutdown over ACHA D1 Oklahoma City University before a totally sold out, festive, cheering hometown crowd on Friday night. The Rebels won practically everything there is in a game including faceoffs and fiery puck battles in the attack areas.
“This was a good team team win,” said UNLV’s head coach Anthony Greener. “Let’s hope we come back and do it again on Saturday night.“
The goal scorers for the Rebels, in order:
Jaedin Ness
Cole Wyatt
Kyle Quinn
Cole Wyatt
Azzaro Tingling
From the Blue Line – One of the biggest crowds we’ve ever seen was packed into City National Arena – including very young fans in the stands who danced to the awesome rock music all night long. …….The Rebels have an awesome skillset, from the moment they move the puck from one end of the ice to the attack areas. It is really something to see, the tricky passing while skating at high speed. This is, to me, is a very strong, ultra-skilled UNLV team….Referee Chase Tannenburg is special, he knows how to keep a game at a cool temperature in his unique way communicating with enforcers, etc.
UNLV goes right back vs Oklahoma City University at City National Arena on Saturday – faceoff 7:30 pm.
From the Blue Line – UNLV is unique in that their games attracts fans of all ages – including older folks whose sons or daughters played hockey at a high level years ago and the very very young fans – like in the 5, 6 and 7 area – who like to dance and hop around to the rink music. There is a lot involved in getting a community behind a team and the Rebels, in our opinion, are doing just that.
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Special to Vegas Hockey
Pittsburgh – In a thriller Las Vegas goalie Kellen Hardy was a shining star as coach Wally Lacroix AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u tied the PHA Icemen 1-1 at the Frozen Pond Arena. Las Vegas had more shots 41-17. On Saturday in Pittsburgh coach Wally’s team plays the PHA Icemen one more time. Faceoff 10:30 am eastern time.
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The AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 14u and the AA Las Vegas Storm 14u begin a fierce best of three playoff series today for the Nevada State Championship – and a spot in in the U.S. Nationals
Games are 1/27 8pm LVIC, 1/28 10:40am CNA, and if needed 1/29 12:30pm Pepsi Arena.
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Special to Vegas Hockey
Update – Fuzzy Atchison of Las Vegas and the AAA Windy City Storm 16u went to St. Louis for 2 games vs the AAA Jr. Blues and his team won both games by scores of 5-2 and 8-2. Fuzzy had a natural hat trick in the 1st game and 2 beautiful cross crease passes for assists in the 2nd game.
Last weekend they traveled to Cleveland for a Showcase, the team finished 2-2 but for the 2nd weekend in a row Fuzz notched a natural hat trick this time vs the Buffalo Jr Sabres. He also scored an additional goal vs Honeybaked and put up 2 more assists 1 against the Cleveland Barons and 1 vs the Jr Sabres in their 2nd meeting of the weekend.
Erik Atchison and the NAHL Bismarck Bobcats took 5 of 6 points vs the 2nd place Aberdeen Wings in a 6-0 win which Erik tallied an assist followed by a 4-3 OT loss, and then a huge 10-4 win where Erik started the scoring just 90 seconds into the game with a gorgeous backhand to forward goal. The win was a monumental victory for coach Layne Sedivie, his 400th all with the Bobcats. The team mobbed him on the bench at the conclusion of the game.
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JASON ZUCKER – LAS VEGAS – NHL PITTSBURGH PENGUINS
2022-23 Season
Goals – 13
Assists – 17
Points – 30
Plus/minus on ice – +21
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Looking for the whereabouts of one of our former hockey writers – the great Bethany Drysdale – please contact me leesamuels07@aol.com
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This is from the awesome hockey columnist Gregg Drinnan:
The junior B Pacific Junior Hockey League, which is based on the Lower Mainland of B.C., has added a 14th franchise for next season. It will be based in Port Coquitlam where it will play out of the 780-seat Jon Baillie Arena at the Port Coquitlam Community Centre. The franchise’s ownership group is headed up by Rob Toor of Port Coquitlam.
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We picked up some 2022-23 Topps Jason Zucker stickers #390 – he is wearing his Penguins jersey. If you want one see me at the UNLV Rebels game on Friday night at City National Arena – no cost, our gift to you – we will be in our usual spot, by the north rinkboards – Lee…..
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Thursday, January 26, 2023
Best Stat of the Day
BRYCE REDDICK
Las Vegas
Selber Wolfe – Germany
3 goals
6 assists
9 points
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Best Las Vegas Stats Today
CADEN GRESTINI
AAA Boston Hockey Academy
5 goals
10 assists
15 points
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UNLV Rebels coach Anthony Robone sizing up ACHA D1 Oklahoma University: “They play in a good division and for sure they will bring their best game at us.”
The Friday/Saturday games this weekend – Oklahoma University @ UNLV Rebels – each have a 7:30 pm start time at City National Arena – See you there on game nights over by the north rinkbords – Lee
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Best Las Vegas Stats today
JASON ZUCKER
NHL PITTSBURGH PENGUINS
13 goals
30 assists
43 points
+3 on the ice
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Hockey guru and an awesome writer Gregg Drinnan posted this today in his daily notebook:
“The Spokane Chiefs announced an attendance of 8,649 for their Saturday night game, a 6-3 victory over the Victoria Royals. That’s the largest crowd at a game in Spokane since Feb. 29, 2020 when 10,259 were in the house to watch the Chiefs beat the Tri-City Americans, 4-3, in a shootout.“
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Bet you didn’t know – star player Mikey Yochum of Las Vegas is the captain of the ACHA D1 Canisus College ice hockey team. Home games are at the Koessler Athletic Center in Buffalo, New York…..it is 31-degrees and snowing there as we write this – Lee
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Sunday Evening Final Score
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AHL
Colorado Eagles 4, Henderson Silver Knights 3
@Budweiser Center, Colorado
Att – 5089
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Sunday Final
USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds 3, Lake Tahoe Lakers 2
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Guess who’s coming to town to take on the all-heart UNLV Rebels. Coaches Anthony Greener and Nick Robone are preparing for the invasion of ACHA D1 Oklahoma University in a two-game weekend series beginning Friday evening at City National Arena. Game times are 7:30 pm for each game.
ACHA D1 TOP 5
#1 Minot State 19-0-0
#2 Adrian College 18-2-1
#3 Ohio University 19-4-1
#4 UNLV Rebels 15-2-0
#5 Liberty University 12-9-0
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Lynchburg, Va. – The good thing is that the game is over. The UNLV Rebels – in a rare Midnight road game – took apart ACHA D1 power Liberty College 6-2 before a sold out crowd of 6,000+ here on Saturday night. The Rebels got an awesome game from their premier goalie Landon Pavlisin. When the game was nearly over it ignited with scraps all over the ice. Rebels coaches Anthony Greener and Nick Robone kept their cool on the bench while sorting out who did what…
“Our goalie Landon was awesome – and me, we love the way we are playing right now. All of our players are buying into our program – there is still a long road ahead but this particular game was a good start,” said coach Anthony Greener.
UNLV’s goal scorers in order:
Max Johnson
Jake Berry
Azzaro Tinling
Riley Jensen
Cole Wyatt
Azzaro Tinling
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Las Vegas hockey coach Wally Lacroix – whose team lost 2-1 in OT to the AAA Santa Clarita Flyers on Saturday – noted this his goalie Kellen Hardy played an awesome game. “So proud of our group this weekend – they each fought hard right to the very end.We are disappointed with the result but we grow and learn from these kind of moments.
“We appreciate teams from Compuware and CarShield flying to Las Vegas to compete against our group,” coach Wally said.
Coach Wally’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u only allowed three goals in four games – “very proud of our goalies and our defensemen.”
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Coach Wally Lacroix’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u lost 2-1 in overtime in a title game against the AAA Santa Clarita Flyers 16u on Saturday night. Kellen Hardy in the net for Las Vegas. “In games like this you have to dig deep and be strong mentally,” said coach Wally.
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Las Vegas – In a staggering development coach Wally Lacroix’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u beat AAA Compuware 15u – a team in a program which has won many tournament gold medals. Kam Laskaskas, a premier goalie, was in the net for the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u. Las Vegas won 1-0. “Our compete level was off the charts,” coach Wally said. “Really proud of our entire group and their collective effort including of course our goalie Kameron Laskaskas.” Compuware’s schedule includes games vs powerhouses like Little Caesars in Detroit and Shattuck St. Mary’s in Minnesota. Todd Owen is the assistant coach on the bench with coach Wally on game nights. Coach Wally added “we’re not done yet – we play again in a Sin City Classic Tournament game tonight.” That is a Final Four game. The AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u will take on AAA Santa Clarita Flyers at CNA.
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Breaker – On Saturday the UNLV Rebels will play a ‘Midnight Game’ vs ACHA D1 Liberty College in Lynchburg, Va.
“They are expecting a crowd of 6,000 to be at the Midnight Game tonight,” said Anthony Greener, head coach, UNLV Rebels.
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Lynchburg, Va. – Far away from home UNLV’s Alec Johnson scored two goals including a dramatic OT/Shootout game-winner as the UNLV Rebels got a huge road win, 3-2 over ACHA D1 Liberty here on Friday night.
Rebels head coach Anthony Greener said “It was a hard fought road game, it wasn’t our best game but we battled as a team. Love seeing that in our boys. Tomorrow (Saturday) we will need to be better to get them (Liberty U) swept for the weekend.”
In order, UNLV’s goal scoring went like this:
UNLV – Alec Johnson
UNLV – Jaedin Ness
UNLV – Alec Johnson OT/Shootout game-winner
UNLV goalie – Landon Pavlisin
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UNLVs starting line vs Liberty College
Jayson DiMizio, Bradley Golant, Jaedin Ness
D – Mattias Dalmonte, Robert McCollum
G – Landon Pavlisin
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Las Vegas – Las Vegas premier goalie Kam Laskaskas got a shutout as coach Wally LaCroix’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u took down the AAA Santa Clarita Flyers 5-0 in the opening game of the Sin City Classic Hockey Tournament.
Coach Wally said “Really strong effort from our group. Two tough games are ahead of us – this win was a very good way to begin the weekend,” said coach Wally.
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In a stunner the Wally Lacroix-coached AAA Vegas Jr Golden Jr Knights 15u in their second game of the day worked to a stunning 3-1 upset win over AAA CarShield of St. Louis 15u,
“So proud of our team – it was an awesome group effort – this was an all-team win,” said coach Wally.
Kellen Hardy, a premier goalie, was in the net for the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u.
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Coach Matt Johnson’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u took on the AAA Arizona Bobcats 16u – the AAA Bobcats 16u historically have been a very strong team.
//Friday Final Score – Arizona Bobcats win it 3-0
//Next AAA VJGK 16u game today – vs Empire HC, 5:15 pm
//Friday Final Score – Empire HC 3-2 over AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u in an OT/Shootout game
//Connor Beers and Carter Adams scored for AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u. Kyle Adrian goalie for AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u.
Saturday Final Score – North Shore Academy 7, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u 2
//Connor Beers 2 goals for AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u. Kyle Adrian Las Vegas goalie
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Best Stat of the Day
Gage Quinney, Las Vegas, AHL Henderson Silver Knights
Goals – 16
Assists – 12
Points – 28
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The UNLV Rebels, on the road this weekend, are playing two games including a ‘Midnight Game’ vs ACHA D1 power Liberty University on Saturday. Liberty plays home games at its arena in Lynchburg, Va.
Here is how Rebels head coach Anthony Greener sizes up playing at Liberty University.
“On the average we play between 30 and 36 games regular season games. They (Liberty) have 6000 or more fans in there on game nights. Definitely a great atmosphere and I think our players thrive on stuff like that.
“Let’s see how our players respond – we just ended today with a great practice. We have one more practice before we leave on Thursday morning.
Once we get there we will have a Friday morning pre-game skate and will play both of our games there.”
UNLV, 13-2-0, is ranked ACHA #4. Liberty, 12-7-0, is ranked ACHA #5
The weekend games will be at Liberty University’s home ice arena – the LaHaye Ice Center.
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Best Stat of the Day
Las Vegas goalie, Luke Fundator, NA3HL Northeast Generals, Attleboro, Mass.
Record 7-1-2
GAA 2.17
Save Percentage 91.6%
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Pittsburgh – Jason Zucker of Las Vegas had one goal, one assist on Monday night for the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins vs the NHL Anaheim Ducks….It was Jason’s 11th goal this season…..The Penguins, on home ice, scored in OT and won the game 4-3.
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The Sin City Classic Tournament is coming into town which will include Matt Johnson’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u and Wally Lacroix’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u. Major AAA teams will be involved. Games will be played on rinks in the Henderson area – Lee
SIN CITY CLASSIC
AAA 16u
Friday, January 20
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u 0, AAA Arizona Bobcats 16u 3
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u 2, AAA Empire HC 3
Saturday, January 20
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights vs NSAA, 7:55 am
Head coach – Matt Johnson
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Friday, January 20
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u 5, AAA Santa Clarita Flyers 0
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u 3, Carshield – St. Louis 1
Saturday, January 21
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u vs Compuware 1 pm
Coach Wally Lacroix of the AAA VJGK 15u said “this going to be a tough weekend ahead of us – we are realistic with our goals for this season. All we really want to do is be competitive against these top level teams.”
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Ogden, Utah – Coach Rob Pallin’s AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u are on a tremendous run – with a big 4-1 win over the AA Utah Golden Eagles 16u – and at 9:45 pm mountain time tonight will play as the #3 seed vs the AA Ogden Jr Mustangs 16u here at the Weber County Ice Arena.
Here are the AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u goal scorers in the win over the AA Utah Golden Eagles 16u
Las Vegas goal scores in order
Conner Bintz, unassisted
Luca Doremus, from A.J. Bauchrowitz, Tate Morrison
Tate Morrison, from Jordan Khoury, AJ Bauchrowitz
Tate Morrison, unassisted
Las Vegas goalie – Shayn Tarolla
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Sunday, January 15, 2023
This is a breaking story – coach Rob Pallin’s AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u last night beat the AA Utah Jr Grizzlies 16u 4-1. The scoring went like this for Las Vegas:
//Ryan Williams unassisted
//Ryan Williams from Carson Rowe
//Caden Ross from Ryan Williams
//Tate Morrison from Anze Gudino
Varkis Baligian in goal.
Today – Sunday – the AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u take on the AA Utah Golden Eagles 16u at the County Ice Center in Salt Lake City @11:30 mountain time.
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Tucson, Arizona – The UNLV Rebels took down the ACHA D1 Arizona University by 4-2 – although it did get a bit dicey at the finish of the big road game. Fortunately Rebels awesome goalie Landon Pavlisin held his ground at the net. Arizona was 10-4-3 coming into the weekend games vs the UNLV Rebels.
UNLV head coach Anthony Greener said “…..such a huge win, we knew it would not be easy. This was a character win.”
UNLV Rebels goals- Kyle Quinn, Alec Johnson, Jaedin Ness, Bradley Golant
UNLV Rebels goalie – Landon Pavlisin
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Coach Matt Johnson of the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u notes “this weekend we are in Plymouth, Michigan for the final regular season showcase before next month for the NAPHL. We head into this weekend after a 2-2 showing in San Jose last weekend. During the week a bug ramped throughout our team. Guys are competing with what they have and currently we are 2-1-0. We started off with a 4-2 win over the Northeast Generals in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
“Our goal scorers were Rifiki Lindsell, Hunter Toms, Brandon Cabral and Carter Adams. Jacob Brumm was our goalie.
“In our second game we fell short to our West Coast rival the Ontario Reign by 2-0. Unfortunately we didn’t capitalize on early opportunities – we let them hang around and finally they cashed in. Kyle Adrian was our goalie.
“Today we avenged an early season loss by beating Team Alaska, 3-1 in a hard fought game. Our goal scorers were Connor Beers, Kyle Roberson, Brandon Cabral and Jacob Brumm was our goalie. On Sunday we play the New Hampshire Avalanche. We currently sit atop the Western Division and we are 6th overall in our league.”
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In their biggest most important win this season Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds took down the 25-4-1 Fresno Monsters on their home rink at the Gateway Ice Center in Fresno.
Final Score – USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds 4 Fresno Monsters 3
LV goals – Narek Aleksanyan 38th goal of the season; Gavin Frack 14th, Narek Alekasanyan 39th, Beau Kennedy scored the winning goal
Shots on goal – Fresno 35-23
T-Birds goalie – Loic Morin
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Henderson NV – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas scored his 16th goal of the season for the AHL Henderson Silver Knights vs a very strong 24-9-1 Calgary Wranglers at the Dollar Loan Center Arena. Henderson Silver Knights won the game, 4-2. Jonas Rondbjerb, Sheldon Rempal and Maxim Marushev scored for the Henderson Silver Knights. The crowd tonight was 5135.
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Rebels head coach Anthony Greener said after the 5-0 win over ACHA D1 Arizona University “it really is a huge win – definitely excited to see how well we played after our break. We cannot be totally satisfied – we got to come right back and do it again in 24 hours!”
Here, officially, are the Rebels goal scorers in order (thank you coach Nick):
Nick Flanders
Brendan Manning
Rob McCollum
Cole Wyatt
Gunnar Smith
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Friday, January 13, 2023 – Tucson – At last it is Game Night for the UNLV Rebels who take on mighty ACHA D1 Arizona University tonight here at the Tucson Convention Center – Game time is 6:30 pm – Lee
UNLV’s Top Line tonight – Max Johnson, Jayson Dimizio, Cole Wyatt; Goalie – Landon Pavlisin
Final Score – UNLV Rebels 5, Arizona University 0
UNLV goals – Brendan Manning, Nicholas Flanders, Robert McCollum, Cole Wyatt
UNLV goalie – Landon Pavlisin
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More big games on Friday:
The AHL Henderson Silver Knights took on the AHL Calgary Wranglers, 24-8-1, tonight at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson.
//Final score – Henderson wins 3-1 over a very strong Calgary team
//Shots on goal – Calgary 22, Henderson 20
Henderson goals- Jonas Rondbjerg 6th, Jake Bischoff 3rd, Spencer Foo 5th
Henderson goalie – Jiri Patera – awesome game
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Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds were on the road tonight vs the powerful USPHL Premier Fresno Monsters at the Gateway Ice Center in Fresno.
Friday Final – Fresno 5, T-Birds 4
//T-Birds goals – Antoine Tourigny 17th from Narek Aleksanyan, Frederic Pinet
//T-Birds goal – Gavin Frack 13th from Beau Kennedy
//T-Birds goal – Justin Freeman 4th
//T-Birds goal – Antoine Tourigny 18th
//Shots on goal – Fresno 30, T-Birds 29
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Saturday – Rob Pallin’s AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u vs AA Utah Grizzlies in Salt Lake City.
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Thursday, January 12, 2023
//There was a big game on Thursday night – Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds went to SoCal to take on the USPHL Premier Fresno Monsters at the Gateway Ice Center in Fresno, Ca. Fresno’s record is 23-4-1; the T-Birds are now 19-5-1. The T-Birds are playing Fresno three times this weekend.
//Flash update – The powerful Fresno Monsters win 8-4………
//Fresno, on home ice, had more shots 37-30…
T-Birds goal – Samuel Dumont 21st goal of the season from Narek Alexsanyan
T-Birds goal – Frederik Pinel 13th from Cole St. Laurent, Beau Kennedy
T-Birds goal – Samuel Dumont 22nd from Narek Alexsanyan, Cole St. Laurent
T-Birds goal – Gavin Frack 12th from Guillaume Dufour
T-Birds goalie – Loic Morin – 29 saves
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ACHA D1 Rankings
Top 10
#1 Minot 15-0-0
#2 Adrian 16-2-1
#3 Liberty 12-5-0
#4 Jamestown 12-5-0
#5 UNLV Rebels 11-2-0
#6 Indiana Tech 18-1-1
#7 Ohio University 18-4-1
#8 Central Oklahoma 18-4-1
#9 Niagara 13-4-0
#10 Illinois State 18-2-3
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Wednesday – Final Score – AHL Ontario Reign 7, AHL Henderson Silver Knights 3 @ Dollar Loan Center Arena , Henderson NV
//Gage Quinney of Las Vegas gets his 15th goal of the season in this game for Henderson Silver Knights……
//Henderson goals – Sheldon Rempal 8th goal this season; Gage Quinney 15th goal; Byron Froese 9th goal
//Shots on goal – Henderson Silver Knights 34, Ontario Reign 31
//Goalies – Cal Peterson, Ontario Reign; Laurent Brossoit, Henderson Silver Knights
//Adam Hendren of Las Vegas was one of the officials in this game
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Breaker – Coach Rob Pallin and his AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u tier hockey team are off to Salt Lake City for a series of games this weekend. Here is how the tournament will start for coach Rob’s Team.
Friday, Jan 13 – AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u 1 vs San Diego Saints 7
//VGK 16u goal – Ryan Williams from Anze Gudino
Saturday, Jan 14 – AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u vs Utah Grizzlies
Sunday, Jan 15 – AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u vs Utah Golden Eagles
After these three games top teams will be seeded and a semifinal game and a gold medal game will be played.
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AHL All-Stars Announced
Pacific Division
F Thomas Bordeleau, San Jose Barracuda
F Michael Carcone, Tucson Roadrunners
F Seth Griffith, Bakersfield Condors
F Matthew Phillips, Calgary Wranglers
F Andrew Poturalski, Coachella Valley Firebirds
F T.J. Tynan, Ontario Reign
D Ryker Evans, Coachella Valley Firebirds
D Brad Hunt, Colorado Eagles
D Daniil Miromanov, Henderson Silver Knights
D Christian Wolanin, Abbotsford Canucks
G Lukas Dostal, San Diego Gulls
G Dustin Wolf, Calgary Wranglers
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Jason Zucker Stats updated for this season
NHL Pittsburgh Penguins
10 goals, 16 assists, 26 points, +3 on the ice
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Gage Quinney, Las Vegas – AHL Henderson Silver Knights
15 goals, 12 assists, 27 pts – Assistant Captain
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Las Vegas goalie Luke Fundator
NAHL Northeast Generals, Attleboro, Mass.
7-1-2, 2.17 gaa, 91.6% save percentage
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This just in from the hockey ticker: A new NAHL team in Rochester, New York has been approved for the 2023-24 season; Team will be known as the Rochester Jr. Americans and will play out of the Rochester Ice Center in the East Division.
There is a big game on Thursday – Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds, 19-5-1, go onto the road and take on the USPHL Premier Fresno Monsters, 23-4-1, at the Gateway Ice Center in Fresno. Looking forward to this one….Lee
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Most read story this week: Anthony Greener’s UNLV Rebels jersey #96 will never be worn again…….
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‘Hockey on the Rocks’ – painting by the famous artist Terrence Fogarty of Minnesota
//Look at the depth of this amazing painting – Lee
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Breaker – Jason Zucker of Las Vegas today scored on Sunday for the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins during a win over the NHL Arizona Coyotes. Jason has 14 goals, 15 assists this season. He has scored 20 or more goals in a Penguins season 4 times including 33 goals two seasons ago – Lee
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Great ready, get set for UNLV Rebels hockey. The Rebels are scheduled to travel and take on ACHA D1 Arizona University on Jan 13-14 at the Tucson Convention Center. The Rebels are ranked #4 in the ACHA D1 National rankings. ASU has a record of 10-4-3 and is ranked #13.
UNLV head coach Anthony Greener said “…Arizona is a heavy team and they are well structured. We will have to stick to our systems and dominate the board battles.”
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Coach Matt Johnson’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u closed out their long road trip in SoCal with a 3-1 win over the AAA Wenatchee Wild 16u on Sunday. Carter Adams, Connor Beers, Hunter Toms scored for Las Vegas and star goalie Jacob Brumm was in the net.
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To report hockey news or a game score please send to leesamuels07@aol.com
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Sunday final score in SoCal, just in: AAA Cal Bears 3, coach Wally Lacroix’ AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u 2. Kellen Hardy goalie for AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u – Lee
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Caden Grestini, who previously played in the Vegas Jr Golden Knights youth hockey program, has 5 goals, 11 assists this season for the AAA Boston Academy 15u.
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Breaker – This just in from SoCal – Coach Wally Lacroix AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u 2, AAA Northwest Stars 0 in a game played Saturday in San Jose. Goalie Kam Laskaska of Las Vegas got the big shutout victory – Lee
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The AHL Henderson Silver Knights had Gage Quinney of Las Vegas in their lineup tonight in a road game vs the Abbotsford Canucks at the Abbotsford Centre in BC – Lee
Final score – Abbotsford scores late in game, wins 2-1
Henderson Silver Knights goal – Jake Bischoff, 2nd goal of season
Abbotsford goal – Nils Hoglander, 4th goal of season
Abbotsford goal – Linus Karlsson, 10th goal of season – game-winner
Shots – Abbotsford 27-25
Att – 6,023 – another big crowd
Outside the arena it is cold – 43 degrees – with rain coming down….
Other AHL final scores tonight:
Wilkes-Barre Penguins 4, Hartford Wolfpack 3 OT
Colorado Eagles 6, Tuscon Roadrunners 1
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Tonight – Erik Atchison of Las Vegas and the NAHL Bismarck Bobcats are on the road Saturday night playing the NAHL North Iowa Bulls at the Mason City Ice Arena – score updates will be posted here…
Final – NAHL North Iowa Bulls 2, Bismarck Bobcats 0
Shots on goal – North Iowa 35 Bismarck Bobcats 30
Attendance – 1437
//Weather outside of the arena – icy cold 10 degrees
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Las Vegas Players Away from Home This Season
Erik Atchison, 6 goals, 3 assists – NAHL Bismarck Bobcats
Steven Avalone, 0 goals, 6 assists – ACHA Lindenwood
Gia Avalone, 1 goal, 0 assists – NCAA3 Adrian College
Vito Carlo, 3 goals, 6 assists – NCAA3 Franklin Pierce University
Tyler ‘Fuzzy’ Atchison, 6 goals, 15 assists – AAA Windy City Storm 16u
Caden Grestini, 5 goals, 11 assists – AAA Boston Academy 15u
Austin Moline, 0 goals, 12 assists – Shattuck Prep
Chase Nehring, 6 goals, 10 assists – AAA Shattuck St. Mary’s 15u
Bryce Reddick, 2 goals, 5 assists – Selber Wolfe DE2 – Germany
Hunter Keech, 0 goals, 5 assists – USPHL Premier Jersey Hitmen
Jerrett Overland, 1 goal, 5 assists – ACHA D2 Lindenwood
Brennan Blaszack, 1 goal, 0 assists – ECHL Kalamazoo Wings
//To add or update statistics send to leesamuels07@aol.com
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Coach Matt Johnson’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u played on Saturday vs AAA Golden State Elite 16u in San Jose, Calif., 2 pm –
//Final Score – Carter Adams 2 goals, Kyle Adrian in net for AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u in 5-2 loss to AAA Golden State Elite 16u.
On Sunday – coach Matt’s team will take on the AAA Wenatchee Wild in SoCal, 12:15 pm. The game will be in San Jose.
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Saturday, January 7 – Wow, what a team effort. Down two goals, coach Wally Lacroix’ AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u rallied dramatically to tie the AAA San Jose Jr Sharks 15u 2-2. “Tied them, didn’t win but what a great comeback we had in this game.”
Star goalie Kellen Hardy in the net for Las Vegas. The game was at the Solar4America ice rink in San Jose.
Next Game Today
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u vs. Northwest Stars, 7:15 pm
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Friday, January 6 – – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas scored his 14th goal of the season for the AHL Henderson Silver Knights who were on the road vs AHL Abbotsford Canucks at the Abbotsford Centre, BC
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Friday Flash Final Score – AHL Abbotsford Canucks 4, AHL Henderson Silver Knights 3 – OT/Shootout
//Henderson goal #1 – Byron Frose 8th
//Henderson goal #2 – Brendan Brisson 6th
//Henderson goal #3 – Gage Quinney 14th
//Henderson goalie – Jiri Patera
Shots on goal – Abbotsford 25, Henderson Silver Knights 22
Team records going into this game: Abbotsford 19-10-0, Henderson Silver Knights 12-17-1
Abbotsford Centre, BC – 5,102 attendance
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Friday Final Score – Erik Atchison of Las Vegas and the NAHL Bismarck Bobcats 3 @ North Iowa Bulls 1 @Mason City Arena – Attendance 968
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Friday, January 6, 2023
Steven Avalone of Las Vegas – a premier player – with ACHA D2 Lindenwood: 6 assists +2 on the ice this season…..
Gia Avalone – very skilled younger sister – with NCAA D3 Adrian College: 1 goal, 2 assists on the ice this season…..
Ian Williams of Las Vegas with USPHL Premier Pueblo Bulls: 13 goals, 19 assists, 32 points this season……
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Matt Johnson, head coach of the high-powered AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u, are off to San Jose this weekend for games vs top teams. Other VGKJK travel teams are heading there as well.
Here is the schedule for coach Matt’s team which includes star goalie Jacob Brumm.
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u
Friday, January 6
Final Score
3-1 over AAA Northwest Stars of Seattle
//VJGK goalie Kyle Adrian very strong in net vs AAA Northwest Stars 16u. Quinn Steffen 2 goals, Connor Beers one goal as coach Matt Johnson’s team gets off to an excellent start on this weekend road trip.
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Next game for AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u
Friday, January 6 – 2nd game today
AAA San Jose Jr Sharks 16u 5, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u 3
Las Vegas goals – Ryan Disbrow, Daniel Madison, Casyn Simmons
Las Vegas goalie – Jacob Brumm
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Saturday, January 7 – AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u play vs AAA Golden State Elite 16u in San Jose, Calif., 2 pm
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Sunday, January 8
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u vs AAA Wenatchee Wild, 12:15 pm
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Friday, January 6, 2023
Super Shock!!!!!!
Coach Wally Lacroix of the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u confirmed his team will be playing at the same tournament. On January 6 the AAA VJGK 15u played their first game vs Fairmount Prep of Anaheim.
//Wow, what a finish! Coach Wally Lacroix AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u scored the last three goals of the game to tie Fairmount Prep of Anaheim 3-3 on Friday. Kam Laskakas in goal for the VJGK 15u in this firefight of a game.
Coach Wally Lacroix said “what a game – this was a team win – our whole group pulled it together.”
The game was at the Solar-4America Ice Arena in San Jose.
Saturday Schedule
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u vs San Jose Jr Sharks, 8:15 am
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u vs. Northwest Stars, 7:15 pm
Sunday Schedule
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u vs Cal Bears, 10:15 am
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San Jose, Ca. – Wednesday – the AHL Henderson Silver Knights were on the road last night vs the San Jose Barracuda at the Tech CU Ice Arena. Gage Quinney of Las Vegas had 12 goals, 12 assists going into this game for the Henderson Silver Knights.
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Final Score – San Jose Barracuda 4, Henderson Silver Knights 3 – OT/Shootout
Henderson Silver Knights goalie in this game – Laurent Brossoit
Scoring
Henderson Silver Knights goals:
Gage Quinney, 13th, 14th goals of the season
Ivan Morozov, 3rd goal
San Jose Barracuda goals:
Luke Johnson, 6th goal of the season
Jeffrey Viel, 5th goal
Jasper Weatherby, 3rd goal of season
Danil Gushchin – game-winning OT/Shootout goal
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Shots on goal – San Jose 35, Henderson Silver Knights 29
Team Records – Henderson Silver Knights 12-19-3, San Jose Barracuda 14-18-1
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Flashback Story – from 2015 – The World of Kimmie Zucker…..
Readers here dig deep into our archives each and every day. There are hundreds and hundreds of stories about Vegas Hockey on this website. The most read is the Last Skate at the Santa Fe Stations story. However this past week this particular story – The World of House Hockey – Kimmie Zucker – is the #1 most searched. It was written and posted here years ago.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
By Lee Samuels
Las Vegas – “Are you writing about me again – one more time,” house hockey player Paige Nowag of Team Red was asking at the Las Vegas Ice Center on Flamingo Ave last night.
To her left was linemate Kimmie Zucker who laughed real hard in the lobby of the ice rink.
“What’s going on?” asked teenage playmaker Jimmy Samuels, leaning on his hockey stick.
And then, on a very cold winter night at the Las Vegas Ice Center, it all came flashing back.
The Paige Nowag story.
On a summer night about a year ago over at the Crystal Palace roller rink on North Rancho Drive, Paige Nowag was skating in a house roller hockey game. So was her best rink pal teenage Kimmie Zucker. At the red line – the center of the rink – there was an earthquake shaker of a collision. Somehow, someway, Paige and Kimmie ran into each other and Paige was on the floor.
As Kimmie leaned over, Paige said she was hurt bad, couldn’t get up, needed help. She cried out ‘oh, my gosh.’ At last a hockey dad went over the rink wall, gently picked up Paige, took her to the Crystal Palace area where there are rows of tables.
Paige was placed onto the floor as a small crowd gathered around her.
Then, Jason Zucker – yes, that Jason Zucker then with the NHL Minnesota Wild – came over to take a look.
“Elevate her left leg. Let me take a look,” Jason said. He carefully touched her left ankle which was beginning to swell.
When Dr Jason was finished, medics were called.
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Last night at the Las Vegas Ice Center, Paige, Kimmie and Jimmy Samuels were on Team Red which beat Team Blue 6-3. Jimmy had 4 assists.
Or maybe he had one goal, three assists?
His hockey dad Rich Samuels was at the rinkboards and said he had hard evidence.
At least that’s what he said he saw on his camera.
“I know Jimmy scored a goal. Look at this,” he said.
There was a picture of a red-jersey #29 Jimmy Samuels in front of the Team Blue net. There was a black hockey stick in front of red 29.
“That’s Jimmy’s stick. He scored the goal,” Rich said while looking deep into the back of his camera. He zoomed in on the Big Picture.
“Don’t write about that,” Jimmy said. “I’m good with the 4 assists.”
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Today’s readers are from all parts of the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom – Lee
ACHA D1 Ranking – Updated!
| Ranking | Name | M1 Record | Previous Ranking |
| 1 | Minot State University | 13-0-0 | 1 |
| 2 | Adrian College | 16-2-1 | 2 |
| 3 | Liberty University | 11-5-1 | 3 |
| 4 | University of Nevada-Las Vegas | 11-2-0 | 4 |
| 5 | Indiana Tech | 16-1-3 | 6 |
| 6 | Ohio University | 16-4-0 | 7 |
| 7 | University of Central Oklahoma | 18-4-1 | 5 |
| 8 | University of Jamestown | 9-5-1 | 9 |
| 9 | Lawrence Tech | 12-1-4 | 8 |
| 10 | Calvin University | 14-3-2 | 10 |
| 11 | Maryville University | 9-5-3 | 12 |
| 12 | University of Pittsburgh | 10-5-2 | 14 |
| 13 | University of Arizona | 10-4-3 | 15 |
| 14 | Grand Valley State University | 19-5-1 | 17 |
| 15 | Niagara University | 11-4-0 | 15 |
| 16 | Indiana University of Pennsylvania | 14-1-1 | 18 |
| 17 | Illinois State University | 16-5-1 | 16 |
| 18 | Stony Brook University | 10-5-1 | 19 |
| 19 | Arizona State University | 8-9-1 | 13 |
| 20 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 6-6-5 | 20 |
| 21 | University of Utah | 7-7-2 | 21 |
| 22 | Purdue University-Northwest | 9-5-3 | 23 |
| 23 | Oswego State University | 12-4-2 | 22 |
| 24 | Concordia University-Ann Arbor | 10-9-2 | 24 |
| 25 | University of Rhode Island | 8-6-4 | NR |
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Monday, January 2, 2023 – Boston – Jason Zucker of Las Vegas got plenty of ice time for the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins during a festive outdoor game at Fenway Park before chilled crowd of 39,343. The hometown Boston Bruins won the hard-checking outdoor game 2-1.
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Sunday, January 1 Final Score – AHL San Diego Sabers 3, Henderson Silver Knights 0 – Yes, Gaqe Quinney of Las Vegas played in this game. The Silver Knights had more shots 39-28. The crowd was 4122 at the Dollar Loan Center Arena in Henderson.
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In his story posted today the great hockey writer Gregg Drinnan said he has covid and once he recovers will resume writing his famous ‘Takin’ Note’ hockey column. He is one of the great legendary ones in the world of hockey writers. Gregg writes about Western Hockey League teams in the Pacific Northwest region and all of Canada.
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THE 2022 VEGAS HOCKEY AWARDS ARE RIGHT HERE……..
Jason Zucker of Las Vegas gets set for action here for the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins……
Source – NHL Pittsburgh Penguins hockey website…
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Born in Southern California, Zucker moved to Las Vegas with his family when he was an infant and would become both the first Nevada-raised draft pick and player in NHL history.
The forward was selected by the Minnesota Wild in the second round (No. 59) of the 2010 NHL Draft, and it’s no wonder he became one of the fastest skaters in the League. His mother, Natalie, is a former competitive figure skater, and his father, Scott, is a general contractor who built ice and roller rinks when Jason was young, allowing his then kindergarten-aged son hours a day of free skating time.
Having followed an older brother into ice hockey, Jason began traveling out of state at age 10. At 17, he played the first of two seasons with USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program.
Zucker was one of two players (Jack Campbell) to win three gold medals within a calendar year, helping the United States win the World Junior Under-18 tournament in 2009 and 2010, and the 2010 World Junior Championship. Zucker also won a bronze medal at the 2011 Worlds.
Already committed to the University of Denver before being drafted, Zucker played two seasons there. He had 91 points (45 goals, 46 assists) in 78 college games and turned pro at the end of the 2011-12 season.
As fast as Zucker is, his NHL career started slowly. He had eight goals and 12 points in 47 games from 2011-14.
Zucker spent most of the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season with Houston of the American Hockey League. He scored his first NHL goal Feb. 17, 2013 in a 3-2 win against the Detroit Red Wings. A Jason Zucker banner is on the north wall inside of the Las Vegas Ice Center.
In Las Vegas one of Jason’s first hockey coaches was Wally Lacroix. Before Jason went to the NHL Player Draft in LA it was coach Rob Pallin who worked Jason on his skating skills.
Regarding head coaches Brittany Brooks, an awesome hockey player herself, has put together an exciting totally awesome Las Vegas Storm girls 16u team at the Las Vegas Ice Center.
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BEST COACHES IN LAS VEGAS
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Anthony Greener, Nick Robone – UNLV Rebels
Cory Ward, USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds
Brittany Brooks, coach of the Las Vegas Storm girls team – nationally ranked
Matt Johnson, coach of the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u
Rob Pallin, legendary coach of the AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u
Wally Lacroix/Todd Owen, coaches of the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u
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Best AHL – Gage Quinney, Henderson Silver Knights
Best Goalie – ‘The Wall’ Zach Wickson, UNLV
Best girl player – Maddison Mang, Las Vegas Storm girls team at Las Vegas Ice Center
Best tier goalie – Jacob Brumm, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u
//Jacob’s head coach Matt Johnson said “….Jacob is very, very good goalie – strong work ethic and compete level. Lots of potential. Wants to get better and pushes himself and teammates.”
Best tier goalie – Johnny Ng, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 18u
Best players out of state ….
Eric Atchison, NAHL Bismarck Bobcats
Tyler Atchison, AAA Windy City Storm
Vito Carlo, NCAA Franklin-Pierce University
Austin Moline, Shattuck St. Mary’s Prep
Michael Yochum, captain, ACHA D1 Canisus College
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All Heart – Anze Guidino, Ryan Williams with AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u
Best Referee – Dan Leavitt
//”To me he’s a great guy,” said UNLV head coach Anthony Greener. “He is a referee who you can talk to about what he thought about a certain play. I know I give those guys a hard time sometimes but he’s good at what he does.”
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Best pre-game activities which include younger fans – UNLV Rebels
Best Arena – City National on Charleston Avenue
Best Arena snack bar – Las Vegas Ice Center
Best Arena parking – City National Arena
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Friday, December 30, 2022
Breaker – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas scored tonight for the AHL Henderson Silver Knights. It was his 10th goal of the season. The Henderson Silver Knights beat the AHL San Diego Sabers 4-1 at the Dollar Loan Center Arena in Henderson, NV.
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Las Vegas players away from home:
To update, send to leesamuels07@aol.com
Austin Moline, 0 goals, 12 assists – Shattuck St. Mary’s Prep 18u
Chase Nehring, 6 goals, 10 assists, AAA Shattuck St. Mary’s 15u
Vito Carlo, 3 goals, 6 assists – NCAA Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire
Erik Atchison, 5 goals, 3 assists – NAHL Bismarck Bobcats
Tyler ‘Fuzzy’ Atchison, 3 goals, 4 assists – AAA Windy City Storm 16u – Chicago
Captain Mikey Yochum, ACHA D1 Canisus, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Las Vegas goalie Zachary Ortolano, NA3HL Wilmar WarHawks – Minnesota
Las Vegas goalie Johnny Ng, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 18u
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ACHA D1 Standing
#1 – Minot 11-0-0
#2 – Liberty 10-4-1
#3 – Adrian 14-2-1
#4 – UNLV Rebels 10-5-1
#5 – Central Oklahoma 16-2-0
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#6 – Jamestown 8-4-0
#7 – Ohio University 12-4-0
#8 – Calvin University 13-6-2
#9 – Indiana Tech 12-1-3
#10 – Maryville 8-4-3
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Breaker – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the AHL Henderson Silver Knights ignited while scoring two goals very late in the 3rd period in a 5-4 loss down to the hometown AHL San Diego Sabers in a game on Wednesday evening at the Perchanga Ice Arena. There was a really big crowd – 7,606 – at this road game. The Henderson Silver Knights had more shots 37-20 in this game. Goal scorers for Henderson Silver Knights were Maxim Marushev (2 goals), Mason Primeau and Brendan Brissan.
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Thank you dear readers here for voting for the Vegas Hockey Awards – an avalanche of votes have arrived during the past few weeks – Winners will be announced right here on New Year’s Eve!!!……..Best, Lee, Vegas Hockey
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Breaker – Tough road loss for Jason Zucker of Las Vegas and the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins who got beat 5-1 by the New York Islanders on Tuesday night. Islanders are now 20-4-2, Penguins 19-10-5.
Today – Wednesday, Dec 28 – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the AHL Henderson Silver Knights have a road game vs the AHL San Diego Sabers at the Perchanga Ice Arena in SoCal. Faceoff, 7 pm.
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#1 Most read Story – Flashback 2004 – ‘The Last Skate’ at the Santa Fe Stations Ice Arena on North Rancho Drive in Las Vegas.
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Hockey dad Greg Yochum in Las Vegas today said his hockey son Mikey Yochum, captain of the ACHA D1 Canisus College located in the Buffalo area, is doing fine – he is ok. “Mikey’s apartment in Buffalo had no power until yesterday – and entry ways to it have not yet been plowed. He returns there on the 9th of January.“
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Gage Quinney, born in Las Vegas, is playing for the AHL Henderson Silver Knights this season. Here are his statistics for the 2021-22 season:
Gage Quinney
AHL Henderson Silver Knights
Updated Statistics
Goals – 13
Assists – 11
Points – 24
Plus/Minus this season – plus-6
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Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds return to action during a January 12-14 2023 weekend series vs the USPHL Fresno Monsters at the Gateway Ice Center in SoCal – Lee
There are many more votes yesterday – Christmas Day – for the Vegas Hockey Awards – we thank all who took the time to vote for their favorite Las Vegas players, coaches and officials – Have a good one today, Lee
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To all, we will be on a holiday break this week with our family for Christmas week and New Years’ Eve – All the best to all reading this, Lee – However, keep those votes coming in!!! If there is breaking news our hockey writer Bob Wright will post a story fyi.
There are a large number of first-time voters today for the Vegas Hockey awards – the most we have seen in a long time. There are a number of Las Vegas hockey grandmothers who have been fiercely voting the last two weeks here.
To all reading this here, there is brutal extremely cold snow weather in Buffalo affecting power lines etc in homes and stores.
Hold on Buffalo is the base for captain Mikey Yochum of Las Vegas and his ACHA D1 Canisius College team.
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Goal scorer and arena troublemaker Johnny Gold of LA has a holiday message for anyone getting too close to the rinkboards when he and the Barstow Brothers come to town for a charity game in a few days. “The Barstow Brothers get real edgy during a game – just let them be,” Johnny Gold said in a media statement.
Meanwhile it’s time for families and loved ones here in Las Vegas to get together and enjoy the holidays – Lee
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Latest update with votes so far – Jason Zucker, NHL Pittsburgh Penguins x 27 votes; Erik Atchison, NAHL Bismark Bobcats x 20 votes; Tyler ‘Fuzzy’ Atchison, AAA Windy City Storm 16u, Chicago x 14 votes; Cory Ward, head coach, USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds x 10; Coach Brittany Brooks, Las Vegas Storm girls team x 10; 6’6″ Zach ‘The Wall’ Wickson, UNLV goalie x 10; Chase Nehring, AAA Shattuck Prep 16u x 8; Maddie Ming, Las Vegas Storm girls x 8, Casey Beringer, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u x 5, Caden Ross AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u x 5, Ryan Williams AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u x 6, Anze Gudino, AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u ‘All Heart’ x 8, Coach Matt Johnson x 15 Coach Wally Lacroix x 15, Coach Rob Pallin x 15; Jaxson Sabatasio, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u x 12 votes; Luca Doremus, AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u x 5; Mikey Yochum, captain, ACHA D1 Canisius College x 10, Ryan Williams, AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u x 6, Hunter Toms, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u x6
Vegas Hockey awards will be announced midnight New Year’s Eve.
To vote send to leesamuels07@aol.com
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AA Las Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u
Coach Rob Pallin
For the Vegas Hockey Player of the Year voting consideration
Top Players Include
Luca Doremus – forward
Ryan Williams – forward
Jordan Koury – defenseman
Anze Guidino – all heart
Top 2 forwards and defenseman are getting an even amount of votes so far
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Las Vegas – It’s noontime today action for Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds who take on the Rogue Valley Warriors from Medford, Oregon at the City National Arena which is right next to the Red Rock Hotel Casino on Charleston Avenue.
Thursday, Dec 22, 2022
Live Score – USPHL Premier – from City National Arena
Final Score
Rogue Valley Warriors – from Oregon 2
Las Vegas Thunderbirds 4
Shots – T-Birds 70-17
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Thunderbirds Goals
T-Birds goal – Samuel Dumont
T-Birds goal – Narek Aleksanyan – star goal scorer
T-Birds goal – Brody Walton
T-Birds goal – Narek Aleksanyan – 2nd goal of the game
T-Birds goalie – Joshua Griffith
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Most Votes Today
Best Players
Austin Moline x 12, Caden Ross x 10, Ryan Williams x 8, Mikey Yochum x 7, goalies Jonathan NG x6,
and Michael ‘Burgy’ Brosos x 5 with AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 18u team
/To vote send an email to leesamuels07@aol.com
//Winners will be announced here on Vegas Hockey on New Year’s Eve
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Jason Zucker’s stats this season with NHL Pittsburgh Penguins
6 goals
15 assists
21 pts
+6
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Las Vegas – Coach Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds, 17-5-1, will take on the USPHL Premier Seattle Totems, 15-8-0, today at the City National Arena next to the Red Rock Hotel-Casino on Charleston Avenue.
Game time Wednesday, December 21 is 2:30 pm pacific.
Score – Final Score – T-Birds win 10-2
1st Period – Justin Freeman takes first shot of the game and scores for the Las Vegas T-Birds who lead 1-0 early; Gavin Frack scores for T-Birds who lead 2-0; Nick Bonaldi scores and now T-Birds lead 3-0. At the start of the second period Sam Dumont scores for T-Birds who are ahead 4-0. Brody Walton scores for Las Vegas and it’s 5-0. Walton scores again to make it 6-0. T-Birds now ahead 7-0 via a goal from Guillaume Dufour. Totems came into this game with a record of 15-8-1.
Justin Freeman scores again for T-Birds who lead 8-0 in 2nd period; Narek Aleksanyan’s goal makes it 9-0; Narek Aleksanyan scores again – his 31st goal of the season – for the T-Birds in a 10-2 win.
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There is such massive voting for the 2022 Vegas Hockey Awards that we may not respond to your emails – every single vote will count though – Best, Lee, Vegas Hockey.…
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Today’s Votes for Vegas Hockey Awards
Jason Zucker x 24; Caden Ross x 19; goalie Kellen Hardy x 10, Jacob Brumm, goalie, x 9, Maddie Mang x 8, coach Cory Ward, Las Vegas Thunderbirds x 9; Ryan Williams x 9; Coach Rob Pallin x 9, Jaxon Sabataso 15u x 5; Coach Brittany Brooks x 5; goalie Johnny NG x 5, goalie Michael ‘Burgy’ Brosos x 5
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022
City National Arena, Las Vegas
USPHL Premier
Final Score
Fresno Monsters 2
Cory Ward’s Las Vegas Thunderbirds 4
//Fresno 21-4-1 going into this game; T-Birds 17-6-0; this is a major win for the T-Birds – Lee
Las Vegas goals – Cole St Laurent 13th, Frederick Pinel 10th, Narek Alexsanyan 34th, Samuel Dumont 18th
Las Vegas goalie – Loic Morin
Shots on Goal – Fresno 39-30
@City National Arena, Las Vegas (next to Red Rock Hotel-Casino on Charleston Ave)
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Scoreboard
USPHL Premier
Final Scores
Ontario Jr Reign 7, Seattle Totems 2
Vernal Oilers 7, Lake Tahoe Lakers 4
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There is a record number of votes already in for the 2022 Vegas Hockey Awards which will be announced here on New Year’s Eve – best, Lee, Vegas Hockey...send votes to leesamuels07@aol.com
Today’s votes – Best players – Ryan Williams x 11, Caden Ross x 8, goalie Jacob Brumm x 5; Narek Aleksanyan x 5; Vito Carlo x 4; goalie Sam Peterson x 4, goalie Zach ‘The Wall’ Wickson, UNLV x 4; Steven Avalone x 3; goalie Johnny NG x3
Best Coaches – UNLV coaches Anthony Greener/Nick Robone x 20, coach Brittany Brooks x 14 coach Matt Johnson x 12, coach Wally Lacroix x 12, coach Rob Pallin x 12, coach Cory Ward x 10
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Las Vegas – Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds will take on the USPHL Fresno Monsters today – Tuesday, 2:30 pm – at City National Arena here in Las Vegas. Fresno has a record of 21-3-1 this season.
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Monday, December 19, 2022
Final Score, just in – AAA Anaheim Jr Ducks 15u 1, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u 0 – “We had a strong effort, just couldn’t put one away. Kellen Hardy in goal for us,” said head coach Wally Lacroix. The game was at the Chandler Ice Den in Arizona.
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Breaker – Simon Johnson was the goalie today – Monday – for the Cory Ward-coached USPHL Las Vegas Thunderbirds who played the Wyoming-based USPHL Rocksprings Prospectors at the City National Arena, next to the Red Rock Hotel-Casino on Charleston Ave.
Records updated – Thunderbirds 16-6-0; Rocksprings Prospectors, Wyoming 12-14-1
Final Score – Las Vegas Thunderbirds win 5-2
T-Birds Goals- Frederick Pinel (10th goal this season), Sam Dumont (16th), Cole St. Laurent (12th), Cole St. Laurent (13th), Sam Dumont 17th
T-Birds goalie – Simon Johnson
T-Birds more shots 34-13
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Please continue to vote for the annual Vegas Hockey Awards which will be announced midnight on New Year’s Eve. Email your votes to leesamuels07@aol.com
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Votes for Vegas Hockey awards – Austin Moline x 54; Anze Guidino, All Heart, AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u x 24; Ryan Williams, AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u x 22; Kellen Hardy, goalie, x 21; Brittany Brooks, best coach x 15; Rob Pallin best coach x 21, Cory Ward, best coach x 16; Matt Johnson, best coach x 16; Wally Lacroix, best coach x 16; Best referees – Adam Hendren x 9, Dan Leavitt x 9
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This just in: Coach Cory Ward and his USPHL Las Vegas Thunderbirds will take on the Wyoming-based USPHL Rock Springs Prospectors here in town on Monday Dec 19 at the City National Arena on Charleston Avenue. Game time: 2:30 pm pacific.
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Breaker – AAA Washington Little Caps 15u 3, Wally Lacroix’ AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u 2 at the Chandler Ice Den in Arizona. Kellen Hardy goalie for VJGK 15u. “Our group is disappointed but there is a learning lesson in this story somewhere,” noted coach Wally Lacroix after the game.
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Chandler, Az. – In an absolutely wild maddening finish coach Wally LaCroix and his AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u beat the AAA San Jose Jr Sharks 3-2 here on Sunday. The game was tied 2-2 in regulation, then went into a maddening 9-rounds of a shootout. Kellen Hardy was the Las Vegas goalie. “Strong performance by Hardy – he kept us in the game the entire time. Next we play the AAA Washington Little Capitals here at the Chandler Ice Den,“ said coach Wally.
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This just in: Coach Cory Ward and his USPHL Las Vegas Thunderbirds will take on the USPHL Rock Springs Prospectors here in town on Monday Dec 19 at the City National Arena on Charleston Avenue. Game time: 2:30 pm pacific.
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Bet you didn’t know – The very popular Vito Carlo of Las Vegas has 3 goals, 6 assists this season for NCAA Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, N.H.
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Don’t forget to vote for your favorite player, coach, arena, rink coffee etc for the 2022 Vegas Hockey Awards – send to leesamuels07@aol.com
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Coach Wally Lacroix and his AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u rocked the AAA Des Moines Buccaneers 9-1 on Saturday evening and tomorrow face the AAA San Jose Jr Sharks at 2:15 pm local time at the Gilbert Ice in Arizona. “Kellen Hardy in goal for us in this big game. Our young men came out flying, scoring 4 unanswered goals, took the sails right out of the opposing team. Very strong group effort,” said coach Wally. “Next we play the San Jose Jr Sharks tomorrow – this is all part of the Tier 1 Elite League.”
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Saturday, December 17, 2022
Dollar Loan Center Arena – Henderson, NV
AHL – Live
Henderson Silver Knights vs Abbotsford Canucks
Henderson Silver Knights win 3-0
Henderson goals – Sheldon Rempal 7th goal this season, Lukas Cormier 4th, Bryan Froese 6th
Henderson goalie – Laurent Brosssoit – #1 Star of the Game – 33 saves
Referees included Adam Hendren and Dan Leavitt
Attendance – 4434
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Blaine, Minnesota – Las Vegas coach Rob Pallin and his AA Las Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u won again on Friday, 4-2 over the Park City Ice Miners here in the NAPHL Showcase. Goals came from Anze Gudino, Jordan Khoury, Connor Bintz and Luca Doremus. Assists from Charlie Edwards, A.J. Bauchrowitz and Anze Gudino. Varkis Baligian was in the net for the AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u.
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AHL Update
Friday, December 16, 2022
Dollar Loan Center Arena – Henderson, Nevada
Final Score
Abbotsford Canucks 3, Henderson Silver Knights 2
Shots – Abbotsford 26-20
Goals for Abbotsford – Kyle Rau, Noah Juulsen, Chase Wouters
Goals for Henderson – Pavel Dorofeyev, Patrick Guay
Goalies – Michael Hutchinson for Henderson Silver Knights; Arturs Silovs for Abbotsford
Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the Henderson Silver Knights took the first shot in this game.
Attendance: 4098
From the Blue Line – One of the officials tonight was Dan Leavitt who has worked at UNLV Rebels home hockey games many times this season.
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Cooper Matthews, who played in the Vegas Jr Golden Knights youth organization a few seasons ago, is now playing for the NA3HL Austin Ice Bats in Texas.
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Friday, December 16, 2022
Blaine, Minnesota – Coach Rob Pallin and his AA Las Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u scored a 3-0 win today over the New Mexico Ice Wolves 16u. Las Vegas goals scorers were Ryan Williams, Anze Gudino and Joey Micali. Ryan Williams had one assist and Anze Gudino had an assist. Shayne Tarolla was the goalie for Las Vegas. The game was played on the Super Rink in Blaine, Minnesota. Outside the big rink there is a light snow falling and it is 18 degrees.
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Friday, December 16, 2022
Henderson, NV – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the AHL Henderson Silver Knights have a home day game tonight vs the AHL Abbotsford Canucks. Faceoff 7 pm pacific.
//Flash Update – Game is underway. Gage Quinney fired off the first shot in the game. No score, first period – Lee
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From the Blue Line – The UNLV Rebels back in action on Jan 13-14 vs ACHA D1 Arizona University at the Tucson Convention Center – Lee
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VOTE NOW!
So many deserve a Vegas Hockey Award – please take the time right now to vote for players and coaches in all age groups – names of the best goal scorers, defensemen, goalies and coaches – plus these awards – Best Hockey Arena, Best rink snack bar, best game night music, best rink coffee, best rink parking — send to leesamuels07@aol.com – Keep in mind we do not pick the winners, you do dear readers – Lee
Thank you, Thank you! for all who have voted so far! – send your picks of deserving Las Vegas players, goalies, coaches and ‘Best Rink Coffee’ plus more categories to leesamuels07@aol.com
Votes received – Jason Zucker x 177, Austin Moline x 155, Gage Quinney x 48; Erik Atchison x 45 Jack Lackas x 44, Maddie Mang x 43, AJ Lackas x 39, Mikey Yochum x 37, Jacob Brumm, goalie, x 35; Zach Wickson, goalie, x 34; Landon Pavlisin, Rebels goalie x22, Connor Beers x 15, Casey Beringer x 13, Finn McNabb x 11
Coaches Anthony Greener/Nick Robone x 68; Rob Pallin x 45, Brittany Brooks x 43, Matt Johnson x 39, Wally Lacroix x 37, Cory Ward x 36
Winners will be announced on midnight New Year’s Eve – Lee
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2022 Vegas Hockey Nominations
Voting is now underway – to vote, send email to leesamuels07@aol.com
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Jason Zucker, NHL Pittsburgh Penguins
Gage Quinney, AHL Henderson Silver Knights
BEST OUT OF TOWN LAS VEGAS PLAYERS
Erik Atchison, NAHL Bismarck Bobcats
Tyler Atchison, AAA Windy City Storm 16u
AJ Lackas, EHL New England Wolves
Jack Lackas, AAA Phoenix Jr Coyotes 16u
Austin Moline, Shattuck St. Mary’s Prep
Chase Nehring, AAA Shattuck St. Mary 15u
Zachary Ortolano, goalie, NA3HL Willmar WarHawks – Minnesota
Jerrett Overland, ACHA Arizona University
Bryce Reddick, Del2 Selber Wolfe
Noah Smejkal, GMHL Windsor Aces
Mikey Yochum, captain ACHA D1 Canisius
BEST COACHES OF THE YEAR
Anthony Greener/Nick Robone, UNLV Rebels
Cory Ward, USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds
Matt Johnson, AAA Las Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u
Brittany Brooks, AA Las Vegas Storm girls 16u
Wally Lacroix, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u
Rob Pallin, AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u
BEST GIRL PLAYER IN LAS VEGAS
Maddie Mang, Las Vegas Storm 16u
//dynamite performer on the ice……..
UNLV REBELS
Players
Azzuro Tinling
Mattias Dal Monte
Jayson DiMizio
Paxton Malone
Rob McCollum
Landon Pavlisin – goalie
Vince Benedetto – goalie
Zach Wickson – goalie
UNLV’s Biggest Rival
Any team from Utah
BEST LAS VEGAS THUNDERBIRDS PLAYERS
Narek Aleksanyan
Nicholas Bonaldi
Loic Gosselin
Samuel Dumont
BEST AAA 16u
Jack Lackas, AAA Phoenix Jr Coyotes 16u
BEST AAA VEGAS JR GOLDEN KNIGHTS 16U
Carter Adams
Connor Beers
Quinn Steffen
Ryan Disbrow
Hunter Toms
Jesse Mouzoon
Goalie – Jacob Brumm
BEST AA VEGAS JR GOLDEN KNIGHTS 16U
Luca Doremus
Jordan Khoury
Caden Ross
Anze Guidino
Ryan Williams
Goalie – Shayne Tarolla
BEST AAA VEGAS JR GOLDEN KNIGHTS 15U
Kameron Laskaska – goalie
Forwards/Defensemen
Connor Beers
Casey Beringer
Carson Craig
Zack Gay
Finn McNabb
Jaxon Sabataso
Keegan Stickle
Hunter Toms
BEST HOMETOWN ARENA
City National Arena – off of Charleston Ave., across from Red Rock Hotel-Casino
Dollar Loan Center – Henderson
Las Vegas Ice Center – on the north rink there are banners of Jason Zucker, Brittney Brooks
and many other star Las Vegas star players who skated and played games at this historic arena.
BEST ARENA GAME NIGHT PARKING
City National
Las Vegas Ice Center
Dollar Loan Center – Henderson
BEST RINK COFFEE
City National
Las Vegas Ice Center
Dollar Loan Center – Henderson
BEST GAME NIGHT MUSIC
UNLV Rebels
MOST HATED ON GAME NIGHTS
Johnny Gold and the Barstow Brothers on Christmas Eve when they invade the Pepsi Arena on North Rancho Drive
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The UNLV Rebels are on a semester break – no games until January 2023.
Rebels head coach Anthony Greener said “…..we do exit meetings this week, just discussing what we want to see and what to expect over the break. Then we get three weeks off. We will leave the Wednesday after the Finals and our team is not back until the first of the year. It is a good break for everyone, we get to recharge our batteries and refocus. Plus, spend time with family and friends which is huge.”
ACHA D1 Top 10
Minot 11-0-0
Adrian 16-2-1
Liberty College 11-5-1
UNLV Rebels 10-5-0
Central Oklahoma 18-2-0
Indiana Tech 14-4-0
Lawrence Tech 11-1-4
Jamestown 9-4-0
Calvin University 13-2-2
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Gage Quinney of Las Vegas scored this past weekend for the AHL Henderson Silver Knights
GAGE QUINNEY
2022-3 Season
9 Goals
9 Assists
18 points
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THE SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 SCOREBOARD
USPHL Premier
Cory Ward’s coached Las Vegas Thunderbirds vs Ontario Jr Reign – a very strong team in home games at @ Ontario Center Ice
Final Score – Dramatic late-game goal with 10 seconds to play wins it for Ontario Jr Reign by 4-3. For Las Vegas Thunderbirds Narek Aleksanyan 2 two goals; Gavin Frack scored – Loic Morin goalie for T-Birds
Sunday USPHL Premier Final Score
San Diego Sabers 6, Long Beach Shredders 1
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Saturday Games….
ACHA D1 UNLV REBELS VS D1 OREGON DUCKS AT CITY NATIONAL ARENA
Saturday, Dec 10, 2022
Final Score – UNLV Rebels 4, Oregon Ducks 1
UNLV goals in order – Brenden Felig 6th this season, Paxton Malone 5th, Bradley Golant 7th and Alec Johnson 8th
UNLV goalie – Landon Pavlisin
Shots on goal – UNLV Rebels 33-18
UNLV Rebels head coach Anthony Greener said from the locker room “….this was a tough game obviously for us to win three games in three nights. We didn’t play great the first two periods in this game but a good talking with them got us fired up going in the third period. We really really played well in the third period and it was great to see our team face a little adversity and bounce back to score three times.”
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Saturday, Dec 10, 2022
ACHA D1 Final Scores
Canisius College 7, San Diego State 4
Minot 7, Jamestown 3
Toledo 12, Eastern Michigan 1
Indiana Tech 9, Davenport 2
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Saturday, Dec 10, 2022
AA 16u
St. Louis
Coach Rob Pallin’s AA 16u VGJK Golden Knights 16u 2, AA Chesterfield Falcons 16u 2 (tie)
//Las Vegas goals scored by Cayden Herrera and Tate Morrison. Shayn Tarolla in the net for Jr Golden Knights.
Coach Rob Pallin said after the game “our players gave it their all, playing with a lot of heart and while making quality skilled plays.”
Next game: Tomorrow Dec 11 vs the Nashville Jr Predators AA 16u – 10 am local time.
AAA 15U
Saturday
Game Two
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u 1, AAA Arizona Bobcats 15u 0
//”1-0 win as our group played a strong defensive game – Kameron Laskaska in goal for us,” said coach Wally Lacroix “Two tough defensive games in one day – extremely proud of our group.“
AAA Arizona Jr Coyotes 2, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 0
Game One
Coach Wally Lacroix: “A 2-0 loss – our young men left it all out on the table – we had an awesome team effort. A few missed assignments led to a couple of goals – however, it was a strong game from our group. Hardy in goal for us.”
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AA Girls 12U
AA Arizona Kachinas 2, AA Las Vegas Storm girls 12u team 2 (tie) at Las Vegas Ice Center
Las Vegas had more shots 25-7. Star player Maddie Mang of Las Vegas gave it her all with awesome moves to get the puck deep into attack areas before a very large crowd on the North Rink at the super chilled Ice Center. This looks like, to me, a very special team as the players – no matter how much adversity they may feel during a hard game – really do care for each other – just an observation, Lee….
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Saturday Breaker – Coach Wally Lacroix AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u are scheduled today to take on the AAA Arizona Bobcats 15u at the Ice Den in Chandler, Arizona. Coach Wally said “three games this weekend with big implications for our group. The Coyotes are a Top 25 team in the U.S. National 15AAA – two of our games this weekend will be very tough games.”
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Best Stat of the Day – In UNLV’s two weekend games the Rebels scored 29 times and allowed only one goal – Lee
Friday, Dec 9, 2022
By Lee Samuels
Las Vegas – What a spectacular performance. The UNLV Rebels, coached by Anthony Greener and Nick Robone, unleashed a spread offense which drove deep into attack areas enroute to a 13-1 win over a very strong ACHA D1 Canisius College team from Buffalo before a large crowd at City National Arena on a cold winter evening here in town.
The Rebels 3 Stars of the game were
#1 Nick Flanders
#2 Azzard Tingley
#3 Vince Benedetto – goalie – awesome effort in this game
After the game coach Greener said “……proud of our players – our team – we started off great early, then started to create some bad habits – always play the game the right way and good things will happen. We started the second period with three goals from three different lines. Really, really proud of our players – but the weekend isn’t over yet. We have one more game to play.”
Las Vegas goal scorer – and captain of Canisius College’s hockey team – Mikey Yochum – gave it all he had against a UNLV Rebels team which countered with an amazing effort from Rebels goalie Vince Benedetto who stopped practically everything headed his way.
Mikey’s hockey Mom and Dad were inside City National Arena to root for he and his team.
From the Blue Line – Leroy Garcia, a major Las Vegas roller hockey star in the Micah Sanford era, was at the game – and enjoying it, he said.…..It was very very cold outside of the arena, in the mid-40s with a sharp wind blowing…...
UNLV’s goal scorers in order:
#1 – Luke Burke
#2 – Nick Flanders
#3 – Brenden Fehlig
#4 – Azzaro Tingling
#5 – Nick Flanders
#6 – Paxton Malone
#7 – Gunnar Smith
#8 – Riley Jensen
#9 – Michael Boutoussov
#10 – Brenden Fehlig
#11 – Brendan Manning
#12 – Mattias Dal Monte
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Special to Vegas Hockey
St. Louis – Rob Pallin’s 16AA VJGK team started the weekend strong with a 5-3 win over the Midwest Blackbirds in St. Louis, MO on Friday. Down 0-2 early in the 1st period, Ryan Williams and Caden Ross each scored one to bring the game to a 2-2 tie. Luca Doremus scored the next goal to give VJGK the lead and Carson Rowe netted one to put the team ahead 4-2. The Blackbirds then capitalized on a 3 on 5 power play, closing the gap to 4-3. Conner Bintz then found the back of the net to bring the score to 5-3. Goalie Shayn Tarolla was strong in net and held off numerous power play opportunities.
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By Lee Samuels
Las Vegas – On Thursday evening invading San Diego State took a giant step up into an ACHA D1 game vs the UNLV Rebels who scored a crushing 16-0 win before an awesome crowd last night at City National Arena. It wasn’t a hard game – not much heavy checking etc – as the Rebels went to their skill game to feint and drive towards to the San Diego net.
Here are UNLV’s 16 goal scorers in order:
Brenden Fehlig, Jaxsen Wyatt, Brenden Fehlig, Max Beller, Brendan Manning, Alex Johnson, Paxton Malone, Alec Johnson, Mike Boutoussov, Bradley Golant, Jaedin Ness, Brenden Fehlig, Joey Carollo, Daniel Fisher, Max Johnson and Cole Wyatt. UNLV’s goalie was ‘The Wall,’ the very popular 6’6″, 195 lb Zach Wickson.
From the Blue Line – The more we see Rebels goal scorer Caleb Strong, the more we like his intense, very thoughtful skilled drives to the net….Coach Matt Johnson of the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u was at the game last night….Officials Leavitt and Tannenburg were outstanding in this game – collectively they have an unique style to keep the game temperature down.
Next here – Mikey Yochum of Las Vegas and ACHA D1 Canisius College of Buffalo will be here in Las Vegas tonight – Friday – at City National. Faceoff 7:30 pm. This will be a much more challenging game for the Rebels.
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Thursday, December 8, 2022
Las Vegas – It is Game Night for the UNLV Rebels vs invading San Diego State at the City National Arena. Faceoff 7:30 pm. We will be in our usual spot over at the north rinkboards – Lee
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Las Vegas – The awesome, very skilled Maddison Mang of the AA Las Vegas Storm 16u girls team will be action vs the AA Anaheim Lady Ducks 16u on Saturday 9:15 am over at the Las Vegas Ice Center on Flamingo Avenue. Hope to see you there – Lee
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Wednesday, Dec. 7 – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas scored a short-handed goal – his 6th goal overall this season and then blasted in an empty net goal for the AHL Henderson Silver Knights tonight – the Silver Knights on the road worked hard to a 3-1 win vs the hometown AHL Ontario Jr Reign. Silver Knights defenseman Kaedan Korczak scored the second goal. The game was at the Toyota Center in Ontario, California.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Las Vegas goal scorer Mikey Yochum – with Canisius College in Buffalo – said he’s thrilled to be returning to Las Vegas in a big game for Canisius College vs the UNLV Rebels on Friday night at City National Arena.
“Really excited,” Mikey said. “I am excited about coming home and playing in front of family and friends. Growing up in Las Vegas we never got to play a lot of home games – we were always on the road. We were able to play for coach Greener and coach Robone on Peewee, Bantam and Midget levels. So it’s really going to be fun to play against them and to see each of them again this weekend.”
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Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the AHL Henderson Silver Knights are away from home on Wednesday, Dec 7 taking on the AHL Ontario Reign at the Toyota Center in Ontario Calif.
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Coach Matt Johnson’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u are away from home this weekend playing two road games vs the AAA Phoenix Jr Coyotes 16u at the Ice Den in Chandler. The Coyotes are 14-8-4 this season.
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Our annual Christmas Story is completed and will be posted right here during Christmas week – Johnny Gold and the Barstow brothers are not exactly in the holiday spirit. There are many hometown hockey coaches, rink officials and our cookie-baking host Leah, age 10 – Best to all, see you at the rinkboards – Lee
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Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the AHL Henderson Silver Knight are set to take on the Ontario Reign at the Toyota Arena in SoCal on Wednesday, Dec. 7. Puck drop for the game is set for 7 p.m. PT.
Henderson stands ninth in the Pacific Division. Through their first 22 games of the season, the Silver Knights are 6-15-0-1.
Goaltender Jiri Patera has played in 11 games. He holds a GAA of 3.03 and a save percentage of 0.902. In his most recent start on Nov. 27, against the San Diego Gulls, he posted two goals against, stopping 32 shots.
Jonas Rondbjerg (7G, 7A) is tied with Sheldon Rempal (6G, 8A) and Byron Froese (3G, 11A) to lead the team in scoring with 14 points. Rondbjerg additionally leads the team in goals, and has recorded four points in the Silver Knights’ last five games. Froese has scored five points in the last five games.
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USPHL PREMIER LAS VEGAS THUNDERBIRDS
Head Coach – Cory Ward
TOP 5 GOAL SCORERS
30 – Narek Aleksanyan
16 – Antoine Tourigny
15 – Samuel Dumont
9 – Cole St. Laurent
9 – Frederick Pinel
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Great ready, get set – Triple Trouble! – Bigtime rival San Diego State is coming to town to take on the UNLV Rebels at City National Arena on Thursday, December 8; then on Friday, December 9 Las Vegas star player Mikey Yochum and ACHA D1 Canisus College of Buffalo invades City National Arena. Faceoff 7:30 pm for each game – Lee
And on Saturday, Oct 10 Oregon University comes to town to take on the UNLV Rebels City National Arena – 7:30 pm faceoff!
Here is an easier chart:
Thursday, Dec 8 – UNLV Rebels vs San Diego State, 7:30 pm
Friday, Dec 9 – UNLV Rebels vs Mikey Yochum of Las Vegas and Canisius from Buffalo, 7:30 pm
Saturday, Dec 10 – UNLV Rebels vs Oregon Ducks, 7:30 pm
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Jason Zucker of Las Vegas and the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins
This Season – 2022-23
6 goals, 12 assists, 18 pts – and +6 on the ice
Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the AHL Henderson Silver Knights
5 goals, 12 assists, 17 pts
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Saturday Flash Score – UNLV Rebels 5 @ Grand Canyon University 2
UNLV goal scorers
Brendan Manning
Paxton Malone
Azzaro Tinling
Alex Johnson
Jayson Dimizio
UNLV goalie – Vince Benedetto
Sunday – UNLV Rebels vs Grand Canyon University game was cancelled because of flooding at the home arena – Lee
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Las Vegas – In a high action game from start to finish coach Matt Johnson’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u beat the Arizona Bobcats 16u 5-3 today before a very large crowd in a Sunday afternoon game on the west rink at City National Arena.
This was a high-tension game with a lot of hard checks. Las Vegas had an awesome game with sharp passing and hard skating to win the game.
For Las Vegas Connor Beers had two goals, Quinn Steffen two goals and Danny Madison scored. Goalie Kyle Adrian had an awesome game for Las Vegas.
Matt Johnson, head coach for AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights, said “I thought we played well in this game. Overall this weekend wasn’t our best – we had spurts but not enough consistency. Our D core and goaltending is very strong. They are our glue.
“Even though we scored five times today we are still struggling to score goals overall. Our powerplay today was better – but not at the effectiveness we need. And, we need to stay out of the box. We need to keep the momentum moving in the right direction, keep climbing, always advance, never retreat.”
From the Blue Line – The famous Brent Gough is head coach of the Arizona Bobcats…Again, officiating was awesome during this game – linesmen included the great Cody Castro.
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Here is the first breaking Saturday update: Goalie Kellen Hardy got a shutout as coach Wally Lacroix’ AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u beat the AAA Music City Marauders 14u 4-0 at the Scottsdale Az Ice Den. “Strong performance from all – each and every one,” said coach Wally.
In their second game Saturday coach Wally Lacroix’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u beat AAA Colorado Tigers 8-1. “Very very proud of the overall discipline we had in this game,” coach Wally said.
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Saturday, December 3, 2022 – The Matt Johnson-coached AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u take on the AAA Colorado Springs Tigers 16u at the Dollar Loan Center today in Henderson. Game time 1 pm.
Coach Wally Lacroix and his AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u are coming off that two-goal win over Fairmont Academy in the Chandler Az Ice Den. Fairmont is coached by former NHLer Kevin Bieska.
Coach Wally’s second game Saturday will be against the AAA Colorado Springs Tigers 15u.
These games are in the Western Exposure Tournament.
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By Lee Samuels
Las Vegas – The blue-shirt AAA Anaheim Ice Dogs 16u got their A-Game ignited pretty quickly on Friday night at the cozy City National Ice Arena on Charleston Ave on Friday evening. The AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u countered with their star goalie Jacob Brumm. However repeated waves of enemy firepower took down the VGK 16u by 4-1 before a large crowd inside of the North Rink at City National Arena.
Danny Madison scored for the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u.
It was a hard physical game in all three periods.
“I thought we played well – we just made some mistakes and unfortunately the puck ended up in our net,” said Matt Johnson, head coach of the Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u. “We know our power plays have to get better – but we want to add this – for the most part we thought our competitive nature was right up there all during this game.”
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Coach Wally Lacroix with the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u chalked up a 4-2 win over Fairmont Academy in at the Chandler, Az. Ice Den on Friday night. Kam Laskaska was the goalie for Las Vegas. ‘Our young men competed hard for 60 minutes. Coach Todd (Owen) and myself are very proud of our team.”
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Breaker Breaker – Coach Wally Lacroix and his AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u are at the Western Exposure Showcase in Phoenix and tonight will take on Fairmont Academy – Lee
Austin Moline, a native of Las Vegas and a Minnesota, Shattuck-St. Mary’s Prep Team defensive player, traveled internationally over the Thanksgiving break to compete against one college level and two 20U Hockey Teams from Grenoble and Villard de Lans, France. Shattuck St.-Mary’s had successful play and won all three games leaving with a 3-0 record for the week. This was a once in a lifetime experience. Upcoming this weekend, Austin will compete at home in Faribault, Minnesota against St. Andrews College from Ontario. Games are live on hockeytv.com. The Shattuck-St. Mary’s 18u Prep Team remains #1 in MyhockeyRankings.com.
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Las Vegas – There are some great hockey games here this weekend…..Head coach Matt Johnson of the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u released this schedule of home games:
Final Score Friday, Dec 2, 2022 – AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u 2, AAA Northwest Stars 16u 2 at City National Arena
//Kyle Adrian goalie today for AAA VGK 16u; Ryan Disbrow, Quinn Steffen got the goals vs the powerful AAA Northwest Stars who are from the Seattle area...
Friday, Dec 2, 2022 – AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u v AAA Anaheim Jr Ducks 16u at City National Arena, 7:30 pm — start time is confirmed by coach Matt…...
//AAA Anaheim wins a very high-energy game 4-1……Danny Madison scores for Las Vegas..….Star goalie Jacob Brumm was in the net for Las Vegas.
Saturday, Dec 3, 2022 – AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u v AAA Colorado Tigers 16u at Dollar Loan Center, Henderson, 1 pm…..Colorado Tigers win 4-2; Conner Beers, Ryan Disbrow scored for AAA VGK 16u. Jacob Brumm in net for Las Vegas.
Sunday, Dec 4, 2022 – AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u v AAA Arizona Bobcats 16u at City National Arena, 11 am
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Friday, December 2, 2022 – To nominate a player, coach or exec for the 2022 Best of Vegas Hockey Awards send to leesamuels07@aol.com The awards will be announced on New Year’s Eve – Lee
Here is how the nominations are going so far:
2022 – Vegas Hockey Awards
Nominations
Best Player of the Year – Jason Zucker, NHL Pittsburgh Penguins x 25 votes – winner here 12 straight years
Best Coaches of the Year
UNLV Rebels – Anthony Greener, Nick Robone x 20 votes
USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds – Cory Ward
AAA 16u – Matt Johnson, Las Vegas Jr Golden Knights
AA 16u – Rob Pallin, Las Vegas Jr Golden Knights
AAA 14u – Wally Lacroix, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights
Best Players
NAHL – Eric Atchison, Bismarck Bobcats
St. Mary’s Prep in Minnesota – Austin Moline
Best Goalie – Jacob Brumm, AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u
All Heart
Anze Gudino, AA Las Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u – he really does play with everything he has…..
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Best Hockey Arena – City National Arena x 25 votes; Dollar Loan Center, Henderson x 17; Las Vegas Ice Center x 16
Best Rink Coffee – City National Arena, Las Vegas Ice Center
Best Rink Parking – City National Arena, Las Vegas Center
Best characters in Lee’s annual Christmas Story
Johnny Gold and the Barstow Brothers
Best confrontation at the rink glass on north rinkboards:
The character ‘Genius’ vs hometown hockey Dad Steve Allen years ago at the Pepsi Arena
//Steve still looking for his glasses we are told – Lee
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Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds are off to a 14-3-1 start this season.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Breaker – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the AHL Henderson Silver Knights are back in action on Friday night on home ice taking on the AHL Coachella Valley Firebirds. Faceoff, 7 pm.
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Las Vegas – There are some awesome hockey games coming here this weekend…..Head coach Matt Johnson of the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u released this schedule of home games:
Friday, Dec 2, 2022 – AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u v AAA Northwest Stars 16u at City National Arena, 9:30 am
Friday, Dec 2, 2022 – AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u v AAA Anaheim Jr Ducks 16u at City National Arena, 7:30 pm
Saturday, Dec 3, 2022 – AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u v AAA Colorado Tigers 16u at Dollar Loan Center, Henderson, 1 pm
Sunday, Dec 4, 2022 – AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u v AAA Arizona Bobcats 16u at City National Arena, 11 am
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Get ready, get set – Now is the time to begin nominating for the annual Vegas Hockey Awards – Best players at all levels – Jason Zucker of Las Vegas and the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins has won ‘Vegas Hockey Player of the Year’ 15 times; please nominate best goalies, best Las Vegas hockey goal scorers, best goalies, best coaches from tier hockey level to college level; Best Las Vegas Out of Town Players all levels, Best Hometown Referees, Best Las Vegas Hockey Arena, Best rink coffee. Best Team Mom or Dad at all levels…send your nominations to leesamuels07@aol.com ……Winners will be announced on New Year’s Eve….Best to all, Lee…..
#1 Most Searched – Coach Rob Pallin of Las Vegas and his ‘Early Years’ in Las Vegas….Spencer Poscente, who played a lot of tier hockey in Las Vegas, is now playing for ACHA Eastern Michigan……….
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Sunday – Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the AHL Henderson Silver Knights rocked the AHL San Diego Gulls by 5-2 before a very big crowd of 4,004 at the Dollar Loan Center Arena. Rocco Grimaldi scored twice for San Diego. Rocco grew up and played tier hockey in Anaheim.
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Two big game home games are next for the ACHA D1 UNLV Rebels – and both game will be at the cozy City National Arena on Charleston Ave, next to the Red Rock Hotel-Casino. On December 8 the Rebels will take on San Diego State; on December 9 Mikey Yochum of Las Vegas and Canisus College from Buffalo, N.Y. are coming here as well – Lee
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Saturday, November 26, 2022
Special to Vegas Hockey
Las Vegas – The Rob Pallin-coached Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16AA got a 4-0 shutout win over the So-Cal based AA Goldrush 16u on Saturday morning at the Pepsi Ice Arena. Goal scores for Las Vegas were Caden Ross, Ryan Williams, Luca Doremus and Carson Rowe. Assists from Rowe, Ross, Jordan Khoury, Caden Herrera and Williams. Goalie Varkis Baligian faced 22 shots against for the shutout win. The AA Goldrush 16u team plays their home games at the Lake Forest, Ca. Ice Palace.
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Breaker – The AHL Henderson Silver Knights are off today – Saturday – then return to take on the AHL San Diego Gulls on Sunday at the Dollar Loan Center Ice Arena in Henderson. Game time is 5 pm pacific.
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Most searched today: Vito Carlo, Austin Moline, UNLV alum Brendan Manning and the Rob Pallin-coached ‘Triple Threat Line’ in 1999-2000 season in Las Vegas. Travis Roseberry, JC Caron and Spike Neely were on that awesome tier line which coach Rob put together. In that era – 22 seasons ago – this was considered the best goal scoring line ever here in Las Vegas – Lee
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ACHA D1 RANKINGS
#1 Minot – 11-0-0
#2 Liberty – 10-4-1
#3 Adrian – 14-2-1
#4 UNLV Rebels – 7-2-0
#5 Central Oklahoma – 16-2-0
#6 Jamestown – 8-4-0
#7 Ohio University 12-4-0
#8 Calvin University 13-0-2
#9 Indiana Tech 12-1-3
#10 Maryville University 8-4-3
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Friday, November 25, 2022
Special to Vegas Hockey
Erik Atchison of Las Vegas with the NAHL Bismarck Bobcats had a huge game vs the NAHL Minot Toros. The Bobcats smoked Minot 8-1 with Erik scoring a 1st period shorthanded goal his second short-handed goal in the last two games. Erik then scored his second goal of the game making a great toe drag move cutting to the slot and beating the Minot goalie on the short side. Erik has 3 goals in the last 2 games.
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Breaker – Gage Quinney, wearing his famous #77 jersey, got a lot of ice time Friday for the AHL Henderson Silver Knights in a home game vs the San Jose Barracuda at the Dollar Loan Center Arena in Henderson, NV. Gage looked very sharp. The game was tied 2-2 in third period – then San Jose rattled in 3 late-game goals to win 5-2. It was San Jose’s first win ever at the Dollar Loan Center.
//Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds are off this holiday weekend – Lee
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Friday, November 25, 2022 – Flash Final Score – The AA Fairbanks 16u level hockey team – with their players wearing white jerseys with a large red ‘Fairbanks’ written across the front of their jerseys, rallied near the end of the game to beat coach Rob Pallin’s all-heart AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u 5-4 today on the South Rink in a tournament game at the Las Vegas Ice Center on Flamingo Avenue. The game was tied 2-2, then 3-3 and 4-4 before Fairbanks scored the decisive goal before a large crowd in the bleachers and who were also wrapped around the rinkboards (scoring details coming on this game).
From the Blue Line – No asked me, but we thought the officiating was awesome all week at this big tournament at the Las Vegas Ice Center – Mikey Yochum’s hockey dad Greg was at the rinkboards during this big game today….
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Friday, November 25, 2022 – The dynamic Mikey Yochum of Las Vegas just came off the injury list and skated for Canisus College in a big game vs Mercyhurst last week. Mikey, a center, and Canisius won the game by 5-2.
Coach Rob Pallin’s AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u is in action today – Friday – at 9:45 am – at the Las Vegas Ice Center over on Flamingo Avenue. Hope to see you there, Lee….
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Las Vegas – An AA San Diego Saints 16u team had size and quick unique attack runs to surprise coach Rob Pallin’s AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u by 6-2 before a large festive crowd jammed into the North Rink at the Las Vegas Ice Center on Thanksgiving Day. Shayn Tarolla was the goalie for the Jr Golden Knights. Hometown goal scorers were Ryan Williams and Caden Ross – plus an assist from Jordan Khoury. There were a number of scouts watching this game.
The two teams play again tomorrow – Friday – at 9:45 am at The Las Vegas Ice Center on Flamingo Avenue.
During the game there were flyers distributed regarding a Global Las Vegas Hockey Camp at the Las Vegas Ice Center on June 19-22.
From the Blue Line – There is a large banner of Jason Zucker of Las Vegas mounted on the south wall inside of the Ice Center. Other banners around the arena included Bryce Reddick, Gage Quinney, Kenny Brooks and Britanny Brooks.…we rarely write about arena snack bars etc but the coffee served Thursday at the Ice Center was awesome….
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It is very easy to report game scores – send to leesamuels07@aol.com
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Thursday, November 24, 2022
Las Vegas – Hockey first – then we will all get to the turkey and stuffing! Coach Rob Pallin of the AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u will take on the AA San Diego Saints 16u at 11 am Thursday at the Las Vegas Ice Center on Flamingo Avenue. Check out the Ice Center’s daily schedule of events on their website for the games on Thanksgiving Day
The AA Alaska Oilers 16u are in this tournament as well!!!
Lee..….
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022
It is easy to contact Vegas Hockey – send an email to leesamuels07@aol.com
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The very popular Vito Carlo of Las Vegas has 3 goals, 5 assists this season for NCAA Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. Vito was a big star when he played on tier hockey teams over at the Las Vegas Ice Center on Flamingo Avenue.
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Here is one of the best Thanksgiving gifts of all: the awesome Mikey Yochum of Las Vegas has come off the injury list and is back in action playing for Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. Canisius College plays in the Northeast Collegiate Hockey League.
And who are they playing next?
Mikey and Canisius College will be coming into Las Vegas to take on the UNLV Rebels on December 9 at City National Arena.
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USPHL PREMIER WEST DIVISION STANDINGS
Fresno Monsters 17-3-1
Las Vegas Thunderbirds 14-3-1
Ontario Jr Reign 14-4-0
San Diego Sabers 12-5-1
Bakersfield Roughnecks 6-11-0
Long Beach Shredders 5-17-2
Lake Tahoe Lakers 2-22-0
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Skyler Cameron of Las Vegas 3 goals, 2 assists for the BCHL Nanaimo Clippers, a top 16-4-0 team and a division leader this season in the BCHL. Skyler proudly wears Clippers jersey #22.
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It’s easy to contact Vegas Hockey – send an email to leesamuels07@aol.com
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Here is a flash update on Tyler ‘Fuzzy’ Atchison of Las Vegas: he scored 2 goals and had 2 assists in 3 games last weekend.
Tyler and the AAA Windy City Storm 16u team went 3-0 beating #9 ranked Compuware 4-3, #20 Honeybaked 6-3, and the Oakland Jr Grizzlies 6-2 to start off the HPHL league season.
His older brother Erik with the NAHL Bismarck Bobcats scored a shorthanded goal in an 8-1 thrashing of the St.Cloud Nordsmen. Erik has 3 goals, 3 assists this season.
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Guillaume Dufour scored two goals and linemates Sam Dumont, Gavin Frack and Antonine Tourigny also scored as Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds chalked up a huge road win 5-3 over the Ontario Jr Reign on Sunday.
Today’s readers are from all parts of the USA, Canada, Austria, Finland and Germany – Lee
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Sunday breaker – The very popular Mikey Yochum of Las Vegas has been medically cleared to return to action with Canisius College in Buffalo, New York it was announced today....Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds are in Sunday evening, on the road vs the Ontario Jr Reign who rarely lose on their home ice – Lee
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Sunday, November 20, 2022 – In a thriller before a frenzied jammed City National Arena today Casyn Simmons scored a dramatic OT goal as coach Rob Pallin’s AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u – in an OT/Shootout – beat the Hamilton Whyte-coached Las Vegas Storm High School Team 2-1.
Coach Rob noted “we told Casyn to shoot the puck in the shootout – way too hard to stick handle with 3 inches of snow in front of the net.”
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By Lee Samuels
Las Vegas – Talk about having an edge to your game. Liberty University, whose big ACHA D1 most heated rivals are Adrian and Minot, warmed up at 7 pm at game-speed – which we had not seen a team do before – and then got a bruising 5-2 win over the hometown UNLV Rebels in their home rink before a large festive crowd at City National Arena on Saturday evening.
There were rinkboard-rattling hard checks throughout the game and both goalies dealt with incoming firepower at their nets.
Kyle Quinn and Alec Johnson scored for the Rebels. ‘The Wall’ Zach Wickson was in the net for the Rebels.
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The very popular ‘Miracle on Ice’ Harris Whissel of Las Vegas was at the Rebels vs Liberty University game – his hockey mother and father were there as well.
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Saturday Score Update – Coach Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds lost 6-3 to the Ontario Jr. Reign who are hard to beat on their home ice. Goal scorers for Las Vegas were Cole St. Laurent, Samuel Dumont and Justin Freeman.
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Friday Final Score – Liberty University 6, UNLV Rebels 2 – Alec Johnson and Riley Jensen each had a powerplay goal for the Rebels; Landon Pavlisin goalie for Rebels. Liberty U, a very skilled team, took its time setting up before skating hard on attack runs.
UNLV Rebels will get another opportunity vs Liberty on Saturday 7:30 pm again at City National Arena.
//Also on Friday – The USPHL Premier Ontario Jr Reign scored a dramatic goal in OT as Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds lost 4-3 to the home team in Ontario, Calif. Andrew Bellehumeur, Sam Dumont and Narek Aleksanyan had goals for the T-Birds.
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The big news today is that premier defenseman Bryce Reddick of Las Vegas – who has been playing for the ECHL Greenville Swamp Rabbits in South Carolina for quite awhile – was dealt to Del 2 Selb in Germany. Pokey Reddick, father of Bryce, said “He got an offer he just could not refuse.”
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Friday, November 18, 2022 Las Vegas
One more big Friday game: Cory Ward’s 13-2-0 USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds are away from home playing a very strong USPHL Premier 12-3-0 Ontario Reign team at the Ontario Center Ice Center.
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The UNLV Rebels take on ACHA D1 Liberty University from Lynchburg, Va on Friday and Saturday at City National Area. Game times are 7:30 pm each evening. Lynchburg is bringing lots of their fans with them as well.
“They are good, well coached, skilled,” said Anthony Greener, head coach of the UNLV Rebels. “We need to make sure we are physical and make them pay every chance we get.”
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It’s been nearly seven years since Liberty University’s ACHA Division I men’s hockey team has flown farther West than North Dakota for a hockey game. That was Feb. 13, 2016, when it traveled to Tempe, Ariz., to face Arizona State University in its first season at the NCAA Division I level, a 7-0 setback.
This week, the Flames are in Las Vegas gearing up for Thursday night’s game against NCAA DI Alaska Anchorage — which was swept by ASU over the weekend — at City National Arena, the practice facility for the NHL’s Las Vegas Golden Knights. Liberty, ranked No. 4 in this week’s ACHA DI computer rankings, will then challenge No. 2-ranked UNLV — which knocked it out in the quarterfinal round of last season’s ACHA DI National Championships near St. Louis — in a weekend series on the Rebels’ home ice.
“We’re really looking forward to the opportunity to play three games against two great teams — to play another NCAA Division I program and two games against the (No. 2) ACHA team in the country,” Liberty Head Coach Kirk Handy said before the Rebels dropped from the No. 1 spot. “At end of the day, getting out here on trips like this is important to see where we will stack up at the end of the year. I am excited for our guys. They realize the importance of this series and they’ve been working hard, learning how to compete at a high level consistently in practice, and that translates into games.”
“We’re going to have to bring our A game, for sure,” junior forward Kam Ottenbreit added. “Three (games) in three (nights), it’s going to be the toughest stretch we’ve had, but I think we’re ready for it. The intensity is high. We’re fired up and itching to get going.”
After dropping four out of five games, the first two at new No. 1 Minot State (N.D.) on Oct. 7-8, the Flames have turned things around and are now riding a five-game winning streak into Vegas.
“All the boys are clicking right now,” Ottenbreit said. “The coaches have been holding us a lot more accountable in practice …and everybody has bought in right now and the intensity is super high in the room. The guys are very motivated to get out there and prove that we can play against anybody, with anybody, and we can beat anybody.”
The Flames will get a glimpse of what to expect from the Seawolves and Rebels on Wednesday when they watch them play head-to-head. They may have some down time away from the ice to clear their minds, get some fresh air, and exercise out in the heat of the Mohave Desert in southern Nevada.
“The coaches do a really good job and understand that there are times we need to focus on other things besides hockey, to be able to relax so that when we get to the rink, we’re fully dialed in,” Ottenbreit said.
Scouting Preview Games 15-17: Liberty (10-4) vs. Alaska Anchorage (4-8, 2-8 NCAA DI), Thursday at 10 p.m. EST at City National Arena in Las Vegas; No. 4 Liberty (10-4) at No. 2 UNLV (7-3, 7-0 ACHA DI), Friday and Saturday at 10 p.m. EST at City National Arena. Both games against the Rebels will be streamed live on the UNLV Hockey YouTube channel.
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UPCOMING GAMES
November 18, 2022
7:30 PMUNLV VS LIBERTY UNIVERSITYVenue: City National ArenaPregame Notes- November 19, 2022
7:30 PMUNLV VS LIBERTY UNIVERSITYVenue: City National ArenaPregame Notes
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022 – ACHA D1 UNLV Rebels Flash Live Game Score – 3rd period is underway – NCAA defending national champions Alaska Anchorage Seawolves lead by just 1-0 in an all-out riveting game at the Dollar Loan Center Arena in Henderson, NV – 10 minutes left in the game, still a one-goal game…6:37 left in game, still a 1-0 score….game is getting rougher, more physical…ALEC JOHNSON SCORES FOR UNLV – WE ARE TIED 1-1 IN 3RD PERIOD!…There is 4:21 left in regulation play...hold on, Alaska Anchorage scored two dramatic goals to lead 3-1 late in the game – and that is that, the game comes to a close – NCAA Alaska Anchorage wins it 3-1….
From the Blue Line – UNLV’s goalie in this ultra high-tension game was Landon Pavlisin. UNLV goes right back into action this weekend with two weekend games vs Liberty University over at the City National Arena over on Charleston Ave – Friday/Saturday games – Lee
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Wow, that was something. Gage Quinney of Las Vegas scored for the AHL Henderson Silver Knights in a 7-1 win over the hometown Tucson Roadrunners on Tuesday night.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022 – Tonight is the night! UNLV vs. defending national champions NCAA Alaska Anchorage University @ The Dollar Loan Center Ice Arena in Henderson, NV.
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UPCOMING GAMES
UNLV Rebels head coach Anthony Greener said “This is definitely one of our biggest games in Las Vegas for sure. I am so excited for our boys to have this opportunity.“
Faceoff will be at 7 pm local time
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Coach Matt Johnson and his AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u had an awesome 3-1 weekend in Frisco, Texas
AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u
Final Game of Weekend
6-4 over Houston Wild
//Hunter Toms 3 goals, 1 assist in this game; Kyle Roberson 2 goals; Ben Branco scored; Kyle Adrian goalie
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Jason Zucker of Las Vegas and the NHL Pittburgh Penguins 4 goals, 9 assists and +6 on the ice this season.
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Derek Sutliffe, 30, of Las Vegas – a big star for years in town – has signed with the Evansville Thunderbolts in the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL). Derek is 6’1, 190.
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Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the AHL Henderson Silver Knights go on the road Tuesday/Wednesday to take on the AHL Tucson Roadrunners at the Tucson Convention Center.
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Las Vegas Millionaires Schedule
Western Professional Hockey League
Friday, Nov 18 and Saturday, Nov 19
vs Santa Rosa Ice Growlers
7 pm start each game
Snoopy Ice Arena, Santa Rosa, Ca.
Snoopy’s Ice Arena was owned and built by Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, and it opened on April 28, 1969. It was originally conceived, designed, and operated by his first wife Joyce Schulz.
Saturday, December 17
vs Reno Ice Raiders
11 pm local time
Reno Ice Arena
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Send your game scores – with names of goal scorers and your goalie – to leesamuels07@aol.com
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Want to write about hockey here…..first-time writers always welcome! Lee
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Saturday Scores:
//UNLV Rebels 3, Colorado University 1 – #1 ranked Rebels sweep weekend series in Colorado.
//Zach Wickson goalie for UNLV
UNLV Goal scoring in order:
Grant Smith from Kyle Quinn
Daniel Fisher from Rob McCollum
Nick Flanders from Cole Wyatt
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//Antoine Tourigyn scored 4 times – giving him 20 goals this season – as Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds beat the Long Beach Shredders 6-4 at the Lakewood Ice Center in SoCal.
//Coach Matt Johnson’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u won again on their Texas trip, beat the AAA Northwest Stars 16u 2-1 in OT! Ben Branco, Connor Beers scored. Kyle Adrian in net. The game was in Frisco, Texas.
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Saturday, November 12 – Frisco, Texas – Star goalie Jacob Brumm on coach Matt Johnson’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u today shut down the AAA Ontario Reign 16u 3-0. Ryan Disbrow, Connor Beers and Carter Adams scored for the VGK 16s.
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Friday Final Score – UNLV Rebels 7, @Colorado University 3
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Erik Atchison’s OT Goal Lifts Bismarck Bobcats Over St. Cloud
November 12, 2022
BISMARCK, N.D.–Erik Atchison of Las Vegas had been the victim of bad puck luck for far too long. With only one goal in his first 22 shots on net–not including numerous posts–as a Bobcat, Atchison cashed in the overtime winning goal to defeat the St. Cloud Norsemen 3-2 on Friday.
Atchison skated the puck all the way up through the neutral zone, crossed into the high slot in the St. Cloud end, and fired a shot just over the right leg pad of goaltender Tomas Bolo. The goal came with 9.8 seconds remaining in overtime, meaning Atchison’s opportunity may have been the final chance for either team in the period.
“(Erik) has been well overdue,” head coach Layne Sedevie said. “He had chances again in this game. A really good play, too.”
Both teams exchanged one-goal leads in regulation. Bismarck’s Alexander Palchik and St. Cloud’s Ryan Cutler each scored in the second period. The Norsemen took advantage of a turnover in the Bobcats’ zone to grab a 2-1 lead early in the second. The Bobcats quickly responded with a Vertti Jantunen game-tying goal only 34 seconds later.
“I felt like we deserved that extra point,” Sedevie said. “A couple mistakes, I thought our penalty kill was really good. We had one mistake and it cost us … I thought the guys worked hard and got the end result they deserve.”
The Bobcats outshot St. Cloud 35-26 and were in control of much of the game. The Norsemen’s 35 shots against are nine above their season average, making it an above-average head-to-head performance. Bismarck has now won four of the five games against St. Cloud this season.
The VFW Sports Center crowd, who dug their way out of nearly two feet of snow in the area, saw the Bobcats’ first home overtime victory since April 3, 2021. The club has now won back-to-back games and looks for a weekend sweep tonight against St. Cloud. Tickets are on sale now at tickets.bismarckbobcats.com and on the free Bobcats mobile app.
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Friday – UNLV Rebels Blue-Line Pre-Game Notebook
UNLV Rebels flash update – looks like Rebels starting goalie vs Colorado University tonight will be Landon Pavlisin – 6’0, 180 from Orange, Ca. He has a 2-0-0 record this season with a 1.50 gaa and a 93.8% save percentage…….
1st Period – Jaxsen Wyatt scores on a short-range shot from left side to give UNLV a 1-0 lead……on the Colorado arena signage it says #1 UNLV Rebels vs Colorado……The Colorado fans – and there are a lot at this game – are bundled in heavy winterwear – jackets, scarfs, hats, gloves etc……end of of first period – still 1-0 Rebels….
3rd Period – Rebels went ahead 7-3….
UNLV goal scorers in order:
Cole Wyatt from Azzaro Tinling
Cole Wyatt from Riley Jenson
Bradley Golant from Michael Boutoussov and Kyle Quinn
Caleb Strong from Azzaro Tinling
Azzaro Tinling from Alec Johnson, Nicolas Flanders
Riley Jensen from Jayson Dimizio
Riley Jensen from Cole Wyatt
Rebels goalie – Landon Pavlisin
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At practically the same time the USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds were in action on the road vs the Long Beach Shredders at the Lakewood, Ca. Ice Rink. Cory Ward is the head coach of the T-Birds.
//Final Score – T-Birds win 6-4; Frederick Pinel one goal, Narek Alexsanyan four goals, Kevin Hanly one goal; Joshua Griffith goalie for T-Birds. Long Beach goalie is the very popular Heath Goldsmith from Las Vegas.
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Friday, November 11, 2022
Special to Vegas Hockey
UNLV Rebels head coach Anthony Greener said “Colorado has a good young team – and we cannot take any team for granted. Everyone is chasing us. So I want us to be playing at the top of our game no matter who we play.”
Last night coach Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds crunched the Long Beach Shredders 10-4. Game Two of this 3-game series is tonight at the Lakewood Ice Arena in SoCal. The T-Birds are 11-2-0 this season.
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Austin Moline Update….
This past weekend in New Hope, Minnesota, the 18u Shattuck St. Mary’s Prep Team’s Defenseman, Austin Moline of Las Vegas, placed 1st place in the Elite Hockey League Invitational-International Tournament. Austin created two assists in the championship game for a final score of 5-0 and not allowing any goals scored the entire weekend for the opponents. Defenseman, Austin Moline, has 11 assists this season. The 18u Shattuck St. Mary’s Prep Team remains ranked # 1 in the country for all 18u hockey teams.
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Abbotsford, BC Canada – On the AHL Henderson Silver Knights radio broadcast on Thursday night Gage Quinney of Las Vegas got a lot of mentions as he skated on the Silver Knights #1 powerplay unit vs the hometown AHL Abbotsford Canucks. Gage got a lot of ice time throughout the game which was won by Abbotsford 2-1. The UNLV Rebels were also mentioned on the radio broadcast. The Rebels take on University of Alaska on November 16 at the home of the AHL Silver Knights – the Dollar Loan Center Ice Arena in Henderson, NV.
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//Jason Zucker of Las Vegas and the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins has 3 goals, 6 assists for 9 points and is +2 on the ice this season….
//Ian Williams of Las Vegas 5 goals, 8 assists this season for the USPHL Premier Pueblo Bulls……..
//It all starts at 7 pm Friday evening – the new team in town – The Las Vegas Millionaires – play their first game at the Pepsi Ice Arena inside of the Fiesta-Rancho Hotel Casino on Rancho Drive, Las Vegas.
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Thursday, November 10, 2022
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The UNLV Rebels are gearing up for a big road trip – The Rebels play at Colorado University on November 11, 12. Nick Robone, Rebels coach along with head coach Anthony Greener on the Rebels bench on game nights, says Colorado U “is a young team with a new head coach who’s looking to prove everyone’s wrong. They play with a chip on their shoulders.”
Coach Nick added “we just need to make sure that we stay composed and play within our systems. We believe if we bring our best effort every game night there are not that many teams that can compete with us.“
Head coach Anthony Greener said “Colorado has a good young team – and we cannot take any team for granted. Everyone is chasing us. So I want us to be playing at the top of our game no matter who we play.”
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Breaker – Rocco Grimaldi – remember him? – of the AHL San Diego Gulls one goal, three assists – in a 6-1 win over the hometown Henderson Silver Knights before 4,307 last night at the Dollar Loan Center Arena in Henderson. Rocco has 4 goals, 9 assists this season for San Diego – Lee
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Gia Avalone two assists this season for NCAA D3 Adrian College in Michigan.….AJ Lackas 9 goals, 7 assists this season with EHL New England Wolves…..Zach Pochiro of Las Vegas 2 goals, 2 assists this season with ECHL Allen Americans…. Austin Moline of Las Vegas has 11 assists with the Shattuck St. Mary’s Prep team this season……Vito Carlo of Las Vegas 1 goal, 1 assist this season for NCAA Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H……Chayse Nehring of Las Vegas 1 goal, 9 assists for AAA Shattuck St. Mary’s 15u….Cory Ward’s Las Vegas Thunderbirds begin a three-game trip on Thursday with a road series vs the USPHL Long Beach Shredders at their home ice rink in Lakewood, Ca.
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Hockey Dad Tommy Testa of Las Vegas sends this along our way. “Just wanted to give you a heads up the Las Vegas Millionaires Single A hockey team has its home opener on Fri and Sat Nov 11th and 12th at the Pepsi Arena on North Rancho Drive.” The team has several local players on the roster.
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Bet you didn’t know – Tyler ‘Fuzzy’ Atchison and goalie Logan Perez of Las Vegas are now teammates with the AAA Windy City Storm 16u of Chicago
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Sunday, November 6, 2022 – It was a heartbreaking finish for coach Wally Lacroix and his AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u who lost 5-4 to the AAA Madison Capitals 15u – historically an elite team – in a consolation game today at the CCM Tournament in Omaha. Coach Wally said “we played against a strong team and were down 4-2 late in the third period and had a great push to tie the game. A bouncing puck got past us and they went up 5-4. We pulled our goalie and our young men gave it everything they had – even hitting a post with a shot. Both of our goalies played today. We were very proud of our effort. Our losses here were each by one goal – we competed at a high level in each and every game in Omaha.”
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Saturday, November 5, 2022 – What an awesome thrilling game before a sold out City National Arena on Saturday. Coach Rob Pallin’s AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u won 3-2 over Faith Lutheran High School’s bigger imposing team in one of the best games played here in Las Vegas this season.
The big crowd was really into it. The AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights forwards feathered the puck while passing it on attack runs. Faith Lutheran actually had more shots 26-20 but it was VGK’s quick tricky movements which got them within firing range. The game was 1-1 in the second period, then the AA VGK 16u scored on breakaways to pin down the big win.
Coach Rob Pallin noted after the game “…..we are 3-0-0 against Faith Lutheran but it could easily be 0-3 – we won games by 3-2 shootout, 3-2 OT and this one 3-2. We won each game by a centimeter. I didn’t like our first period, we were totally outplayed. We made some adjustments in the second, third periods and played much better as a team. Our goalies were very very good tonight and we had a very nice powerplay goal.“
Goal scorers for VGK 16u were Ryan Williams, Luca Doremus (2). VGK goalies Varkis Baligian and Shayne Tarolla split time in the net. Each had an awesome game. The AA VGK 16u lead the series vs Faith Lutheran H.S., 3 -0. Assists for VGK in this game came from Caden Herrera, Anze Gudino and Tate Morrison.
There were a lot of hockey folks at the game including Matt Johnson, head coach of the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u. Although the game had ultra heat there were no real problems with players on the ice or with fans from both teams.
Officiating was awesome as well during this game – Lee
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Saturday Breaker – Coach Wally Lacroix’ AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u lost today but are still alive in the big CCM Tournament in Chicago and will next take on the AAA Ohio Prospects 15u on Sunday – such an intense tournament!
“Kellen Hardy (goalie) played a great game – I feel for our young men – we lose 1-0 in the morning but an unlucky draw gave us just a 1:45 break between games. Our young men battled with every ounce of energy they had – Kellen had timely saves to keep us tied 2-2. Not the outcome we wanted losing in a quarterfinal game in a 4 x 4 overtime.
“We play in a consolation game in the morning.”
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Breaker – Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds took down the Bakersfield Roughnecks 11-4 on Saturday at the Lifeguard Arena in Henderson.
TBirds goal scorers
Cole St. Laurent – his 3rd goal of the season
Antoine Tourigny (13th)
Narek Aleksanyan (16th)
Samuel Dumont (9th)
Narek Aleksanyan (17th)
Nicholas Bonaldi (4th)
Narek Aleksanyan (18th)
Samuel Dumont (10th)
Cole St. Laurent (4th)
Narek Aleksanyan (19th)
Cole St. Laurent (5th)
T-Birds Goalie
Joshua Griffith
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Here in Las Vegas the big game today – Saturday 7 pm – will be Faith Lutheran Varsity vs coach Rob Pallin’s over-achieving AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u in a big revenge game. The VJGK 16s beat Faith Lutheran in their first game this season at a jammed City National Arena over on Charleston Ave, next to the Red Rock Hotel-Casino – See you there – Don’t get too close to the rink glass!! Lee
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Saturday, Nov 15 – Coach Wally Lacroix’ AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u lost 1-0 to the AAA Ohio Prospects but still advanced to the CCM Invite Final Four!!! Kam Laskaska was the goalie who played so brilliantly for the AAA VJGK 15u today!
On Saturday the USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds will close out their weekend series vs the Bakersfield Roughnecks at 1:30 pm over at the Lifeguard Arena in Henderson, Nevada.
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Friday Shocker – Wally Lacroix’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u beat the powerful, unbeaten AAA Chicago Blues 4-1 at the CCM Invite Tournament in Illinois. “Kam Laskaska in goal for us.”
Friday – Gage Quinney, who grew up and played tier hockey in Las Vegas, scored for the Henderson Silver Knights during a 3-1 loss to the AHL Bakersfield Condors – Lee
Friday, November 4, 2022
USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds vs USPHL Premier Bakersfield Roughnecks @ Lifeguard Arena, Henderson NV.
1st Period – Las Vegas leads 4-0
/Antoine Tourigny scores first goal for T-Birds
//TBirds 2nd goal – Loic Morin
//TBirds 3rd goal – Narek Aleksanyon
//T-Birds 4th goal – M Norman-Wells
2nd Period
//TBirds 5th goal – Guillaume Dufour
End of 2nd period – TBirds have more shots in the game 38-21
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3rd Period – T-Birds 5, Bakersfield Roughnecks 0
TBirds 6th goal – Narek Aleksanyon
TBirds 7th goal – Nick Bonaldi
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Final Score – T-Birds 7, Bakersfield Roughriders 0
T-Birds goalie – Sam Peterson
Shots on goal – TBirds 60-29
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AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u vs undefeated AAA Chicago Jr Blues 15u in Geneva, Illinois
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Friday, November 4, 2022
Geneva, Illinois – After his AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u took down the AAA Santa Clarita Flyers 2-1 today at the CCM Invite in Illinois, head coach Wally Lacroix said “it really was a hard fought battle. Our men worked hard until the very end. Kellen Hardy was our goalie.” Coach Wally added “Great game for our group who were responsible and disciplined.” Next on the Las Vegas schedule: a big game vs the unbeaten AAA Chicago Jr Blues 15u tonight at 8 pm local time.
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Coach Wally Lacroix’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u are playing in a major tournament today – the CCM Invite at the Fox Valley Rink in Geneva, Illinois. Today the AAA VJGK 15s will play vs the AAA Santa Clarita Flyers (12-4-3) at 12:45 pm local time, then later today play the AAA Chicago Jr Blues 15u (13-0-1) at 8 pm local time – Lee
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Breaker – The T-Birds take on Bakersfield again on Friday, November 4 with an 8 pm faceoff @ Lifeguard Arena, Henderson, NV – Lee
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Gregg Drinnan, the awesome hockey story-teller from Canada, notes……
“If you were wondering, hockeydb.com shows the Cranford Bucks’ announced average attendance at 2,341, third-best in the BCHL. The Penticton Vees (2,710) and Chilliwack Chiefs (2,585) are ahead of them.“
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Thursday’s big game – the USPHL Premier Bakersfield Roughnecks @ Las Vegas Thunderbirds has a 7 pm start time at the Lifeguard Arena in Henderson, NV.
//Final Score – Cory Ward’s Las Vegas Thunderbirds 8, Bakersfield Roughnecks 1
TBirds Goal scorers:
Antoine Tourigny
Narek Aleksanyan – two powerplay goals, plus an an assist
Nick Bonaldi
Samuel Dumont
Beau Kennedy
Brody Wallton
TBirds Goalie
Loic Morin
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
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Breaker – Jason Zucker of Las Vegas scored for the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins in a 6-3 road loss to the Buffalo Sabres last night. Buffalo’s win raises their season record to 7-3-0. The Penguins are now 4-5-2.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
The Cory Ward-coached USPHL Las Vegas Thunderbirds open a 3-day homestand tonight – November 3 – vs the USPHL Bakersfield Roughnecks in Henderson this week! – Game times at the Lifeguard Arena each day in order are 7 pm, 8 pm and 1:30 pm
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UNLV Rebels Ranked #1!!!!!
ACHA D1 Computer Rankings #1 (Games thru 10/30/22)
| Ranking | Name | M1 Record | Previous Ranking |
| 1 | University of Nevada-Las Vegas | 5-0-0 | |
| 2 | Arizona State University | 6-2-0 | |
| 3 | Minot State University | 8-0-0 | |
| 4 | University of Central Oklahoma | 9-2-0 | |
| 5 | University of Jamestown | 4-4-0 | |
| 6 | Adrian College | 9-1-1 | |
| 7 | Liberty University | 4-4-1 | |
| 8 | University of Utah | 4-5-1 | |
| 9 | Ohio University | 8-2-0 | |
| 10 | Stony Brook University | 7-1-0 | |
| 11 | University of Pittsburgh | 6-2-2 | |
| 12 | University of Oregon | 1-2-1 | |
| 13 | Calvin University | 8-0-2 | |
| 14 | University of Rhode Island | 5-3-2 | |
| 15 | Indiana Tech | 7-1-2 | |
| 16 | Maryville University | 5-3-2 | |
| 17 | Illinois State University | 7-2-3 | |
| 18 | Niagara University | 6-3-0 | |
| 19 | Colorado State University | 5-2-1 | |
| 20 | Lawrence Tech | 8-0-3 | |
| 21 | Oswego State University | 7-2-2 | |
| 22 | Grand Canyon University | 3-5-1 | |
| 23 | Grand Valley State University | 9-3-0 | |
| 24 | Indiana University of Pennsylvania | 9-1-1 | |
| 25 | University of Arizona | 3-4-2 |
On Friday, Nov 4, Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the AHL Henderson Silver Knights will be on the road vs the AHL Bakersfield Condors at the Mechanics Bank of America Arena – Lee
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The #1 ranked Nevada Storm 16u AA girls hockey team traveled to San Diego this past weekend for a PCHL (Pacific Coast Hockey League) weekend. The powerhouse Storm went 3-0-1. The Storm was once again led by the amazing Madison Mang who during the tournament netted 9 goals with 5 assists for 14 points.
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Jason Zucker, who grew up playing tier hockey in Las Vegas, has 1 goal, 5 assists so far this season with the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins….Bet you didn’t know Gage Quinney of Las Vegas is an Assistant Captain this season with the AHL Henderson Silver Knights. Gage has dealt five assists so far this season….Rinkrat2 says the season is flying by and is asking how many games are left for the UNLV Rebels….and the answer is: The Rebels have 24 games remaining on their 2022 season.
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Las Vegas goalie Luke Fundator is having an astounding season with the NA3HL Northeast Generals in Attleboro, Mass.
Record 4-0-1
GAA 1.31 per game
94.7% save percentage
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Noah Smejkal of Las Vegas 5 goals, 10 assists this season for the GMHL Windsor Aces in Windsor, Ontario, Canada…..
Vito Carlo, a very popular goal scorer from Las Vegas, has one goal, one assist for NCAA D3 Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, N.H. this season
Heath Mensch of Las Vegas scores again, has 6 goals for the EHL New England Wolves this season
Defenseman Jerrett Overland of Las Vegas two assists this season for ACHA D1 Arizona University.
Gregg Drinnan, the awesome hockey columnist in Canada, notes that the WHL Red Deer Rebels have started the season with 13 straight wins – the first time this has happened in the WHL since 1978.….
Bet you didn’t know the Harris Whissel family – hockey Mom Nancy and her hubby – were at the entertaining, well played UNLV Rebels vs ACHA D1 Arizona State game last weekend at the awesome City National Arena.
Tuesday Fairbanks Arctic Cam – Bitterly cold at 0 degrees, going to rise about to 10-degrees later in the day. Snow and ice packed onto city streets – Lee
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Here is coach Rob Pallin’s AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u team after getting a silver medal at the Halloween Vegas Bash Tournament.
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By Drew…..
Rob Pallin’s VJGK 16AA team takes Silver this weekend at the TCS promoted Halloween Vegas Bash. They finished the tournament with a 3-2 record including 2 shutout games for goalie Shayn Tarolla.
10/28 VJGK 16AA 5-0 win over Fl Jr. Panthers 16AA
10/28 VJGK 16AA 1-6 loss to Montana Wolves 16AA
10/29 VJGK 16AA 2-1 win over Nashville Jr Predators 16AA
10/29 VJGK 16AA 5-0 semi-final win over Fl Jr. Panthers 16AA
10/30 VJGK 16AA 1-7 championship loss to Montana Wolves 16AA
Next showcase is NAPHL in Frisco, TX 11/11-11/13
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Sunday, Oct 30, 2022 – Omaha – Coach Matt Johnson’s AAA Las Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u closed out the weekend with a 2-2 tie on the road vs the AAA Colorado Springs Tigers 16u in the big USHL Omaha Lancers Showcase. VJK goal scorers were Rifiki Lindsell and Ryan Disbrow. Kyle Adrian was the VGK 16u goalie today.
Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022 – It was another ‘W’ for coach Wally Lacroix’ AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u who today beat the AAA Colorado Springs Tigers by 6-2 in Omaha at a major tournament Sunday morning. “We went 4-1-0 for the weekend,” said coach Wally.
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Saturday evening – The UNLV Rebels turned up the heat in the second half and took down ACHA D1 Arizona State by 9-4 before a packed City National Arena over on Charleston Ave. The game got feisty midway when ASU fired off some hard checks but all of that was swiftly countered by the Rebels. And, towering goalie Zach Whickson – all 6’6″ of him – racked up another outstanding game. “Zach played good when we really needed him,” said Rebels head coach Anthony Greener. The Rebels draw big crowds at City National and this was another big festive one.
Rebels goals scorers included Cole Wyatt, Mattias Dal Monte, Azzard Tingling (3 goals), Nick Flanders (2), Bradley Golant and Riley Jenson.
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Coach Matt Johnson of the AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u have been playing in the Omaha Lancers USHL Showcase.
“So far we are 1-2-0 with our team.
1-4 loss to AAA Omaha Mastery (a very highly rated team – Lee) “Hunter Toms scored, assists by Bauer and Steffer,” said coach Matt.
1-4 loss to AAA Colorado Rampage – Hunter Toms scored, Carter Adams got the assist.
1-0 win over AAA Colorado Springs – Ryan Disbrow scored and coach Matt added “we had a spectacular performance from our goalie Jacob Brumm.”
Saturday Breaker – Coach Wally Lacroix and his AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u got an awesome game from premier goalie Kam Laskaska and beat the AAA Rocky Mountain Roughriders 4-2. “Great effort from our group, very proud of our bounce back. We next play another tough game today against the AAA Colorado Rampage this evening.”
Hope to see all of our rinkboard friends on Saturday, 2 pm @ City National Arena on Charleston ave. The UNLV Rebels and Arizona State go at it one more time!
Saturday, October 29 – Coach Wally Lacroix of the AAA Vegas Golden Knights 16u are in Omaha and will take on the AA Rocky Mountain Roughriders 16u at noon Saturday. The
“We put our last game (a loss to AAA Omaha Mastery) behind us. Moving forward doesn’t get any easier with a game against the Roughriders,” said coach Wally from Omaha.
Friday, October 28, 2022 – This just in – coach Rob Pallin’s AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u today worked to a 5-0 win over the AA Florida Jr Panthers 5-0 today at the rink inside of Fiesta Stations Hotel on North Rancho Drive here in town. Anze Guidino three assists for Las Vegas. “Great effort from every single player on our team,” said coach Rob whose team is now 8-6-0.
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Friday, October 28, 2022 – The tier 2 16U girls Las Vegas Storm team went into Denver, Co last weekend and went undefeated becoming the 1st girls team in the state of Nevada to win a Silver Sticks qualifier. The Storm are coached and led by former local standout goalie Brittney Brooks. Brittney has taken over the girls program for the Storm and currently has the #1 ranked tier 2 girls 16u team in the country! The team is well balanced and is led by superstar Madison Mang who led the team with 7 goals and 7 assists including multiple dazzling goals en route to the championship. Madison was a STX 68 participant in Chicago last year and continues to gain traction in the scouting ranks while representing Nevada girls hockey. Good luck to the girls at the Silver Stick National Championship in Sarnia Canada!
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Just in coach Wally Lacroix’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u took down the AAA Colorado Tigers 15u 5-0 this morning in Omaha; Kam Laskaskas was goalie for VGJK. Next on the schedule – a game vs a nationally ranked AAA Omaha Jr Mastery 15u team who are – as coach Wally described “one of the best highly ranked teams in the country.” AAA Omaha wins the game 7-2.
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Friday Midnight Game ACHA D1 Final Score – UNLV Rebels 2, Arizona State 1 at City National Arena; Jayson Dimizio’s short-handed goal won the game. Game Two of this weekend series will be on Saturday with a 2 pm faceoff. This was the first loss of the season for ACHA D1 Arizona State.
UNLV Rebels 3 Stars of the Game
#1 Defenseman Mattias DelMonte
#2 Left wing Jayson Dimizio
#3 Goalie Landon Pavlisin
Note – UNLV’s goalie Landon Pavlisin is unbeaten this season with a 1.50 gaa and a 93.8% save perentage. He is a transfer who played previously at University of Wisconsin-Superior.
Red Alert Update from Rebels head coach Anthony Greener: “We won, but we were not very pleased. It was sloppy with a lot of turnovers. We need to clean up everything, stay engaged for 60 minutes. Play with a purpose. Compete for a full 60.”
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Also last night: ACHA D1 Utah 2, ACHA D1 Grand Canyon 1
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Ian Williams of Las Vegas has 5 goals for the USPHL Premier Pueblo Bulls
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Preview Story………
By: Kayla Faasse
Las Vegas – The UNLV Rebels hockey team will be collaborating with Greek Life for its Midnight Madness matchup against the Arizona State Sun Devils at City National Arena. Faceoff tonight will be at midnight.
“I think [ASU] got much better after they brought in their new coach,” UNLV head coach Anthony Greener said. “He’s done a lot of good things… I don’t think it’s gonna be a cakewalk, like some people think it’s gonna be. They’re coming- they’re 6-0, so it’s definitely going be a tough task for us.”
Previous Match-ups:
The Skatin’ Rebels faced off against the Sun Devils four times during the 2021-22 season, walking away with 3-1 record.
Overall, the Rebels scored 21 goals against the Sun Devils out of the 187 shots taken on net.
The Sun Devils earned 11 goals throughout the four games, only seeing 141 shots against goal.
Forward Nick Flanders was the top scorer against ASU last year, recording three goals and four assists (seven points).
Offense saw Flanders’ entire line dominate the Sun Devils with linemates Michael Boutoussov (three goals and three assists) and Bradley Golant (two goals and four assists) scoring a combined 12 points.
“This is going to be Boutoussov and Brad’s first weekend back together as one,” Flanders said. “I love playing with these guys. They just make the game that much easier. We’re looking at a fun weekend, that’s for sure.”
Defensively, goaltender Zach Wickson saw the ice for 3-of-4 games against ASU with 98-of-106 saves (92.5%). Vince Benedetto was in the net for the final game in Salt Lake City, making 36-of-39 saves (92.3%).
Last Season, ASU saw all three of its goaltenders take the ice against the Rebels.
Blake Bjella played to start the first matchup between the two, seeing 11-of-17 saves (64.7%). Dawson Rodin relieved him in the second and then continued to play the next two games against UNLV.
Rodin overall made 122-of-134 saves (91%), where Erik Garber sat between the poles in the
final matchup, making 27 saves against 30 shots faced (90%).
So Far for 2022-23 Season The Skatin’ Rebels are entering the weekend with an overall ACHA record of 3-0, on the other hand, the Sun Devils are entering the weekend 6-0. Both teams are coming off a bye week.
“It was good for recovery,” defenseman David Lenzin said. “You know, a lot of guys needed a bit of rest so we feel a lot more rejuvenated this week and ready to come hard at ASU.”
To kick off the new season, UNLV has seen 99 shots against the net during its three ACHA games (33 per game), compared to Utah’s 227 shots within six games (37.8 per game).
The Rebels have made 14 goals (4.7 per game), while only allowing six against them.
Compared to ASU’s 34 goals (5.7 per game) and 14 allowed.
Wickson has appeared in two games for the Rebels, sporting 71-of-75 saves (94.67%).
Transfer Landon Pavlisin saw his first victory in the scarlet and gray to close out the series against Utah, skating away with 22-of-24 saves (91.67%).
For the Sun Devils, Garber made an appearance in the first game against GCU making 31-of-33 saves (93.9%) with Bjella taking the ice on night two for 16-of-17 saves (94.1%).
Rebels vs. Sun Devils.
UNLV will host its Greek Life for Midnight Madness Thursday night (Oct. 27) with a 10:30 p.m. tailgate and a 11:59 p.m. puck drop. Saturday will feature a 12:30 p.m. trick or treat event for the young fans followed by a 2 p.m. puck drop.
Fans are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes for the games.
“I work over at LVIC coaching some kids and I know a lot of them are going to be there in the crowd,” Flanders said. “I’m looking forward to seeing all the guys around the rink and seeing a good fan base of young people- they’re always the loudest.”
Follow UNLV Hockey across all social media platforms for live updates throughout the game or stream it live on the UNLV Hockey Youtube channel.
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Coach Wally LaCroix’ AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u are off to a Showcase in Omaha, Nebraska and will take on AAA Des Moines Buccaneers 7 am tomorrow, then face the AAA Rocky Mountain Roughriders 15u in the second game. There are other games on the VGK schedule as the tourament moves on….
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USPHL PREMIER LAS VEGAS THUNDERBIRDS
Congratulations to forward Frederic Pinel and goaltender Loic Morin on earning USPHL Pacific Division players of the week
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UNLV UPCOMING GAMES THIS WEEK
October 27, 2022
11:59 PMUNLV VS ASUVenue: City National ArenaPregame Notes- October 29, 2022
2:00 PMUNLV VS ASUVenue: City National ArenaPregame Notes
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Las Vegas – UNLV Rebels head coach Anthony Greener chats about the ‘Midnight Game’ on October 27 when Arizona State comes into the City National Arena over on Charleston Ave. for a two-game weekend series.
“It’s definitely a strange time for a game at that time – so we will do a pre-game skate 3 pm instead of 9 am. After the pre-game skate our players can rest up, take a nap if they want. Not too worried about all of that.
“ASU really has a good team coming in to play us. We will have to be on our A game – we want to come out fast and go north right away.“
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Heath Mensch of Las Vegas 6 goals for the EHL New England Wolves this season …Noah Smejkal of Las Vegas 5 goals, 9 assists this season for the GMHL Windsor Aces – Lee
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Today’s readers are from all parts of the USA, England, France and Ireland – and more good news – There have been a record-breaking number of hockey folks on Vegashockey.net today. For that, we dearly thank you…….We have a new writer Summer Bottenberg who wrote her very first story on coach Dustin Coldren’s AA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 14u which just won a gold medal in Salt Lake City.……And if you want to write here as well send me an email at leesamuels07@aol.com….Best to all, Lee
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Las Vegas goalie Luke Fundator and his astounding statistics this season with the NA3HL Northeast Generals in Attleboro, Mass.
4-0-0 record
1.31 gaa
94.7% save percentage
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Hockey insider Gregg Drinnnan of Canada noted this in his hockey notebook today:
On Monday night, when F Phil Kessel of the Vegas Golden Knights tied an NHL record by playing in his 989th consecutive game, the attendance in Las Vegas was 17,989. Hmmm.
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Las Vegas – UNLV Rebels head coach Anthony Greener chats about the ‘Midnight Game’ on October 27 when Arizona State comes into the City National Arena over on Charleston Ave. for a two-game weekend series.
“It’s definitely a strange time for a game at that time – so we will do a pre-game skate 3 pm instead of 9 am. After the pre-game skate our players can rest up, take a nap if they want. Not too worried about all of that.
“ASU really has a good team coming in to play us. We will have to be on our A game – we want to come out fast and go north right away.“
UNLV UPCOMING GAMES THIS WEEK
- October 27, 2022
11:59 PMUNLV VS ASUVenue: City National ArenaPregame Notes - October 29, 2022
2:00 PMUNLV VS ASUVenue: City National ArenaPregame Notes
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AA VEGAS JR GOLDEN KNIGHTS 14U WIN THE GOLD MEDAL IN SALT LAKE CITY!
By Summer Bottenberg
October 21-23, 2022 – The Dustin Coldren coached Vegas Jr. Golden Knights 14UAA Bantam team won gold – first place! – at the National Showcase Hockey tournament in Salt Lake City, UT.
The Vegas Jr. Golden Knights Bantam 14UAA team traveled to Salt Lake City, UT this past weekend to compete in the National Showcase Hockey tournament. This tournament featured teams from Dallas, Texas, Vancouver, Washington, St. Louis, Missouri, and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The tournament had 4 round robin games with the first-place team after round robin games advancing directly to the championship match. The 2nd and 3rd place teams would have to face off in the semi-finals to earn a chance to play for the title in the finals on Sunday, Oct.23.
In Vegas’s first round robin game of the tournament, they faced the 7th ranked team in Washington, the Vancouver Jr. Rangers. This game turned out to be a scrappy one with the Jr. Rangers receiving two-2 and 10s, 2-minute minor penalty plus a 10-minute misconduct, and five-2 minute minor penalties totaling 34 penalty minutes for the Jr. Rangers while the Jr. Golden Knights racked up 14 penalty minutes. While the penalty minutes for the Jr. Rangers would prove costly as Vegas scored two power play goals by #32, Tommy Trent (GWG), unassisted, and #72 Noah Luong with the assist from #8, Elliot Murch. The penalty minutes for the Jr. Knights didn’t seem to phase them as two of the 8 goals scored came short handed from #8, Nicholas Gallagher, unassisted, and #67 William Lefebvre, with the assist from #17 Eric Savenkov and Vegas successfully defending a 3 on 5. Goaltender, Zane Parish, almost earned a shutout with the exception of an accidental redirection from a shot from a Vancouver player from the right face-off circle, off of, defenseman, #88 Liam Butsavich’s stick at 1:30 remaining in the 3rd period. Parish faced 12 SOG, while the Jr. Rangers goalie was peppered with 38 shots on goal. Vegas would open up the tournament with a good first game domination with an 8-1 victory with additional goals scored by #8 Elliot Murch (2), #32 Tommy Trent (2), #17 Eric Savenkov (1), and #75 Collin Davis (1).
The second game of the tournament would turn out to be another physical game, again with a lot of penalties, this time against the 10th ranked team in Texas, the McKinney North Stars who Vegas would eventually face again in the semi-finals. Penalty minutes for the North Stars totaled 19 minutes which included a 5-minute major and 10-minute misconduct for boarding #2 William “Larry” Larrison. Vegas would capitalize on the major call with #32 Tommy Trent scoring. Vegas would end up being a frequent visitor of the penalty box tallying 20 penalty minutes over 10 penalties of their own which did not help their scoring opportunities. North Stars got off to a rocky start with the goaltender not controlling his temper and language and earned a misconduct which Vegas’s #88 Liam Butsavich and the power play team didn’t waste any time only taking 15 seconds to score the power play goal on an assist from #8 Elliot Murch. Vegas being in the penalty box frequently, gave the North Stars plenty of opportunities to score, but thanks to the penalty kill lines, they were only able to net one power play goal in the second period during a 3 on 5 to tie up the game at one a piece. Cash Creel would net the game winning goal shortly after to put Vegas up 2-1. #32 Tommy Trent’s power play goal late in the 3rd period would give Vegas some breathing room to hold on to the 3-1 lead and victory. #29 Vinny Vitale was in net for the win for Vegas, facing 14 shots on net while the goaltender for the North Stars would face over double that at 33.
The third game of the tournament Vegas faced the Coeur d’Alene Hockey Academy (CDA) at the Olympic sheet of ice at The Ice Sheet Arena, home of the United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL) Ogden Mustangs. The Olympic sized sheet of ice perhaps allowing Vegas to control the puck more and keep possession not giving many scoring opportunities to CDA, while conversely giving Vegas many scoring opportunities which #26 Tripp Reynolds would take advantage of as he scored a quad, four goals, two in the first period, one in the 2nd and one in the 3rd, including the game winning power play goal in the 1st period leading to the 6-1 victory over CDA. Goals also scored by #67 William Lefevbre, assisted by #28 Nicholas Gallagher, and #32 Tommy Trent, unassisted. Goaltender #31 Zane Parish was in net for Vegas and faced 15 shots while the goaltender for CDA faced 33 shots.
The 4th game of the tournament Vegas faced a tougher opponent in the 5th ranked team in Missouri, also the only other team with the same record as Vegas with 3 wins and 0 losses, the St. Louis Knights. At this point in the tournament, Vegas had the first-place spot due to goal differential, one of these teams were going to come away with a loss. Who would it be? This contest would be decided at the Utah Olympic Oval in SLC, UT. The loss would mean that the loser would have to play an additional game the following morning to get back to the championship game in the afternoon. Which team would grind the hardest for the win? Grind they did. Vegas started off the scoring capitalizing on an interference penalty by St. Louis at 6:23 remaining in the first period with #32 Tommy Trent scoring, unassisted. Vegas had all of the momentum and control in the first period. That control would evaporate in the second period and leading in the third as St. Louis netted the next three goals with the last coming at 12:06 remaining in the 3rd period. The momentum had swung in favor of the St. Louis team. Could Vegas get it back? A strategic time out was called in the third period after the 3rd goal for St. Louis to give Vegas a chance to regroup and to get the momentum swinging back in their direction, and it would. With time running out on the clock, #28, Nicholas Gallagher would score to cut the lead to 1 with an assist by #32 Tommy Trent. With less than two minutes in the game, a broken play off the stick of #93 Evan Vohwinkle would see the puck land on the stick of defenseman #2 William “Larry” Larrison, would walk in the puck to just outside the right face off circle and throw and hard, low shot over the left leg pad and under the left arm of the goal tender tying the game up at 3 goals a piece. After that, we would see St. Louis use their only time out to pull their goaltender and strategize the 6 on 4 man advantage for the remainder of the game. Vegas would battle down in the defensive zone, but losing two key faceoffs giving opportunities to St. Louis to take the lead. Vegas had an opportunity to shoot at the empty net, but were not able to get the shot lined up, resulting in a defensive zone face off. That face off proved to be detrimental to the Vegas Jr. Golden Knights as St. Louis would score on goaltender #29 Vinny Vitale with 35.5 seconds remaining in the 3rd period and Vegas would receive their first loss of the tournament in the final score of 3-4. #29 Vinny Vitale would face 18 shots in the loss while the goaltender for St. Louis faced 22. A relatively balanced game once all said and done at the end. No doubt these two teams would face each other in the championship game.
Now the stage was set, the final round robin game concluded, the play-off games set, the seeding would reveal that Vegas would have to face the McKinney North Stars in their 5th game of the tournament in the semi-finals Sunday morning at 9:30 am again at the Utah Olympic Oval with the victor having a quick turnaround and playing in the championship match at 2:00 pm that afternoon at the same facility. Who would be up to the task? No doubt the McKinney North Stars would be looking for revenge in their earlier loss to the Knights 3-1 and they would be coming at them. Vegas, having faced this opponent before made a strategic change to their style of play and that was to stay out of the penalty box. If they could just stay out of the penalty box and keep rolling their lines, they could possibly route the McKinney North Stars again. This game would see the least penalties of the tournament thus far for both teams with the North Stars only conceding one power play to the Knights which they could not capitalize on and at 6:40 remaining in the 1st period, the North Stars would slot the first goal and take the early lead. Both teams battled back and forth and in the 2nd period, Vegas would tie the game with 10:16 remaining on a shot from #17 Eric Savenkov, assisted by #2 William “Larry” Larrison. Who would win the chance to advance to the championship? That would be decided on a shot from forward #14 Josh Lopez at 4:21 remaining in the third period, assisted by #37 Aiden “Fitzy” Fitzgerald. Vegas would be successful in killing off the remainder of the time with the steady goaltending of #31 Zane Parish facing 6 shots on goal with 5 saves while Vegas again peppering the opposing goaltender with 34 shots on goal. Vegas stuck to their strategy and stayed out of the penalty box, not earning one penalty. While penalty box attendant and father to #28 Nicholas Gallagher, Nick Gallagher, was lonely in the box, he wouldn’t have wanted it any other way, he commented after the game, “you guys stay out on the ice.”
Not many tournaments do you have to play 6 games to win the championship, but this tournament, could see just that if the Vegas Jr. Golden Knights win. Game #6 for Vegas, only game #5 for St. Louis. St. Louis already had the advantage leading into the game, they were able to get a good nights sleep not having to check out of their hotel early in the morning to drive 40 minutes to the rink for a semi-final match at 9:30 am. They didn’t even have to get up early in the cold, snowy weather of Utah to go to the rink to watch the game to see who they might play due to game being live streamed on a parent’s YouTube channel, Larrison Sports Broadcasting. The stars were seemingly already aligning in favor of St. Louis. Could Vegas overcome all of these challenges? Would they be up to the challenge? Which team would have more grit? Vegas would implement the strategy they used in their semi-final game to stay out of the penalty box to give their team a chance against this comparatively skilled team. 1st period would come and go without any penalties nor goals scored. Both teams were battling and bending, but unwilling to break. A little over halfway through the second period, we would see St. Louis net the first goal with 6:08 remaining. 1-0 St. Louis. 3rd period, Vegas would come out hungry, looking for a game winning goal, shortly into the 3rd period, #2 William “Larry” Larrison gets caught pinching in on the attack which allowed a counter 2 on 1 for St. Louis, Vitale makes the initial save which pulls him to the left side of his crease as the puck was dropped back to an awaiting St. Louis player just outside the slot and in the faceoff circle to the right of Vitale. Larrison hustling back on defense recognizes his goaltender out of position and a potential open net shot coming and goes down to one knee and making himself as big as possible to block as much of the open net, very Alec Martinez like block, which could end up being a big play for Vegas. Vegas would dump the puck in to #67 Lefebvre doing the work down below the goal line to maintain possession able to get time to send a centering puck to the front of the net to an awaiting #28 Nicholas Gallagher who would lift the puck over the goaltender for the tying goal with 10:55 remaining in the 3rd period. 1-1 would be the end of regulation time and the teams would head to a 5 minute, stop time, 3 on 3 overtime. After some consultation with Vegas players and coach Dustin Coldren, no doubt working out their 3 on 3 strategy since this would be the first time that the players have encountered this situation in a tournament this season with having not practiced this exact situation much at all during practices. The starting overtime lineup to take the ice for Vegas was #88 Liam Butsavich, #26 Tripp Reynolds, and #32 Tommy Trent. Vegas won the OT face off, #26 Reynolds getting a backhanded chance from the left side of the net in close, but puts it over into the netting, the stoppage allow a change for Vegas where we saw #32 Trent and #26 Reynolds head to the bench and #17 Eric Savenkov and #28 Nicholas Gallagher to the face-off circle. Gallagher forcing St. Louis to drop the puck back to their man behind their blue line and then again forcing that same player to mishandle the puck and allow #88 Liam Butsavich to pick up the puck. With the St. Louis player’s line mates up ice, #88 Liam Butsavich would curl around to the center of the ice unobstructed and fade off towards the right side of the goal line with the puck, but not before sending a shot up over the shoulder of the goaltender for St. Louis and winning the game for the Vegas Jr. Golden Knights in OT. #88 Liam Butsavich was then mobbed by his teammates as well as goaltender #29 Vinny Vitale as the Vegas Jr. Golden Knights earned their first tournament banner for the season. Vitale faced 24 shots on goal in the victory while St. Louis’s goaltender faced 21 shots. Vegas battled all weekend and continued to grind even under the unfavorable circumstances of the final Sunday of the tournament. These boys earned that banner against some stiff competition. The win made for a much more pleasant flight/drive home to Vegas for the team and families who traveled to Salt Lake City, UT.
Vegas Jr. Golden Knights outscored their opponents 25 goals for to 9 goals against. The goaltending duo of Parish and Vitale for Vegas a key part of the victory this weekend. If you would like to follow the Vegas Jr. Golden Knights Bantam AA 14U team, you can request to join their Facebook group “VJGK 14UAA Bantam 2022-2023” and/or subscribe and watch games at Larrison Sports Broadcasting
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Flashback Story – Saturday, October 1, 2016
By Lee Samuels
Las Vegas – Whoever knew Weber State had a dark side to its game.
After getting beat twice by UNLV, Weber State turned up its physicality by about one thousand degrees with scorching hard hits, pileups, jumping on a UNLV player near their bench on Saturday night at the SoBe Ice Arena on North Rancho Drive.
It was rough and it was dirty and Weber State got out of town with a 3-2 win, the first team to beat UNLV this season.
UNLV came into the game short-handed. Star goalie Terry Martin had a hand messed up in the series of games last week in Utah. UNLV’s top goal scorer Dion Antisin, a powerful force on the ice, is listed as unavailable – for how long, we don’t really know.
Yet, UNLV again got a top effort from goalie Erik Eidissen from Sweden. Top defenseman Niklas Giers gave his usual 5-Star effort. UNLV defenseman Steve Terry fired off his precision tape to tape passes. Cody Williams, one of UNLV’s all-time goal scorers, skated hard all night long.
But anyone close to either net got pounded, like real hard.
Before this series began UNLV head coach Anthony Greener said “Weber State is quick, skates real hard and finishes their checks.”
Boy did they ever….
From the Blue Line – Nicklas Giers scored from the slot area for the first UNLV goal….Then on a power play Jake Saxe, on the right side of the Weber State net, fired off a shot which rebounded onto the stick of Axle Anderton who was in the high slot area on the left side. Axle launched a blue-streak low liner which scorched into the net to ignite the UNLV fans….UNLV is now 6-1-0…ASU is coming into town next week, the first game Friday night at the Las Vegas Ice Center (8:05 pm facebook), then on Sunday at the T-Mobile Arena (12:05 pm faceoff).
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Today’s readers again are from all parts of the USA, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, South Africa and the United Kingdom – amazing when you think about it – Lee…..
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Update right here: Gage Quinney of Las Vegas one assist for the AHL Henderson Silver Knights in a 4-3 road loss to the AHL San Jose Barracuda on Sunday evening…. Cory Ward and Matt Oberling are the current coaches for the USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds…….To ‘Mad Dog at the Blue Line’ Tristan Toth of Las Vegas is playing for ACHA D3 University of New England …..It is easy to contact Vegas Hockey – send an email to leesamuels07@aol.com
Gregg Drinnan, the great hockey writer in Canada, notes that the WHL Saskatoon Blades “have not raised ticket prices for the last five seasons in a row.”
Welcome to all our new readers particulary from the Western states in the USA and all throughout Canada…..lot to read, take your time and enjoy – To Joey from “the heartland of hockey in the USA” – yes, the UNLV Rebels are an awesome well-coached club who play a fiery brand of hockey. When you come in during December we and our super scout/reporter Steve Allen would like to meet you – Lee
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This is off topic – we did go to a Boxing Writers dinner on Saturday eve where the great Christy Martin, who was an awesome champion – signed her new book for Mary Margaret and myself. What a nice thing to do. It all took place at The Orleans-Hotel Casino on Tropicana Ave.
Las Vegas – It’s over and done -the USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds beat the WSHL Premier Long Beach Shredders 7-1 over at City National Arena on Charleston Ave., next to the Red Rock Hotel-Casino. Las Vegas had more shots 39-33. Loic Morin, 18, was the goalie tonight for the Thunderbirds who won the first two games in this weekend series. The T-Birds swept the weekend series vs the Shredders who move on and take on the Ontario Jr Reign next Saturday at Lakewood Ice. The Thunderbirds meanwhile will take on the USPHL Premier Bakersfield Roughnecks on November 3, 4 at Lifeguard Arena in Henderson.
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Saturday update – USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds vs USPHL Premier Long Beach Shredders Game 3 of their three-game series today – Saturday – 3:20 pm at the City National Arena on Charleston Avenue, next to the Red Rock Hotel-Casino.
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Red Alert – The Las Vegas Thunderbirds/Long Beach Shredders game on Friday evening is underway right now – no score so far – we are about three minutes into the game – T-Birds starting goalie is Samuel Peterson – T-Birds’ Frederic Pinel, from Canada, scores to give Las Vegas 1-0 lead; Narek Aleksanyan scores for T-Birds who now lead 2-0 in first period…Long Beach just scored…..T-Birds now lead 2-1…..Narek Aleksanyan scores for Las Vegas to make it 3-1……Ludovic Martel, from Quebec, scores for Las Vegas to give T-Birds 4-1 lead. Near end of first period Antoine Tourigny scores for Las Vegas to raise lead to 5-1 vs Long Beach Shredders…..Second period getting ready to start……It is 7-1 Las Vegas lead over Long Beach Shredders…..In 3rd period, Las Vegas Thunderbirds roar ahead and win by 11-3.…There is a 3rd game scheduled here between these two teams on Saturday…..
T-Birds goals on Friday night:
First Period
TBirds -Frederic Pinel
TBirds – Narek Aleksanyan
TBirds – Narek Aleksanyan
TBirds – Ludovic Martel
TBirds – Antoine Tourigny
Second Period
TBirds – Narek Aleksanyan
TBirds – Narek Aleksanyan
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Best Story of the Day from Gregg Drinnan in Canada
THE BEDARD REPORT — The Regina Pats, featuring F Connor Bedard, are scheduled to meet the Vancouver Giants in Langley, B.C., on Nov. 25. It was revealed on Thursday morning that all 5,276 seats in the Langley Events Centre have been sold and that standing room tickets went on sale that morning. . . . Bedard, the favourite to be the No. 1 selection in the NHL’s 2023 draft, is from North Vancouver.
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LAS VEGAS THUNDERBIRDS TAKE DOWN LONG BEACH SHREDDERS 12-3 @ CITY NATIONAL ARENA
Thursday, October 20, 2022 – The USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds took a quick 2-0 lead, then fire-blasted more goals to go ahead and beat the USPHL Premier Long Beach Shredders 12-3 at the City National Arena on Charleston Avenue in Las Vegas. There were very few penalities in this game – Lee
Las Vegas goals
Michael Norman Wells, 3rd goal of the season
Frederick Pinel, 2nd goal of the season
Sam Dumont, powerplay goal
Narek Aleksanyan, short-handed
Andrew Bellhumer
Gavin Frack
Narek Aleksanyan
Samuel Dumont
Frederick Pinel, 3rd goal this season
Samuel Dumont, 2nd goal this game
Loic Gosselin
Antoine Tourigny
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Thunderbirds goalie – Loic Morin
Shots on Goal – T-Birds 30-13
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“My Greatest Goal” – Adam Naglich of Las Vegas
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Adam Naglich, an ’84, grew up in Las Vegas and skated on the ‘Red Line’ with Josh Jasek and Eddie Samuels on a Rob Pallin-coached 2001-02 Las Vegas Mustangs 18u team which won the Pacific District Regionals and played in the U.S. Nationals. From there, Adam played with the BCHL Victoria Salsa, was a captain with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks, played in the ECHL with the Bakersfield Condors and skated in Hungary with Sapa Fehervar
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Captain Adam Naglich (right) of Las Vegas & NCAA Alaska Fairbanks 2005-06
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ADAM NAGLICH
‘MY GREATEST GOAL”
“I would have to say my greatest goal would have to be when I was playing in college with NCAA Alaska Fairbanks.
“I scored against Ohio State in the playoffs. We went on to win the Best of 3 series and got to play in the CCHA Finals at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. It was my senior year and it was the first time that our team made it to the Joe in my time playing in Alaska.
“My linemates at the time were Braden Walls and Ryan Hohl.
“The actual goal wasn’t anything fancy or special. I received a pass right around the top of the left face off circle and put it low glove.
“But it really felt great winning this important series on home ice — something that meant a lot to me and I will never, ever forget it.
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https://www.lvtbirdshockey.com/
If you want to take a look at coach Cory Ward’s USPHL Premier Las Vegas Thunderbirds this is the weekend to do it. All games will be at City National Arena on Charleston Avenue, next to the Red Rock Hotel-Casino. Heath Goldsmith from Las Vegas is the Long Beach’s primary goalie. Long Beach is coming here with a season record of 4-2-0.
Thursday, Oct 20
USPHL Premier Long Beach Shredders @ Las Vegas Thunderbirds 8 pm
Friday, Oct 21
USPHL Premier Long Beach Shredders @Las Vegas Thunderbirds, 8 pm.
Saturday, Oct 22
USPHL Premier Long Beach Shredders@ Las Vegas Thunderbirds, 8 pm
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Rinkrat2 says Johnny Gold and his enforcers the Barstow Brothers will be in town with their unstoppable team over at Pepsi Arena on North Rancho Drive during Christmas week. They have scheduled a game, like usual, on Christmas Eve.
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Breaker – Las Vegas goalie Luke Fundator has some remarkable numbers for the NA3HL Northeast Generals in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Luke Fundator
3-0-1 record
1.15 gaa
95.75 save percentage
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Ashley Printzen – a star Las Vegas goal scorer in ice hockey and in roller hockey for several teams – is not active this season. She last played ice hockey with NCAA D3 Curry College – Lee
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Tuesday – Final Score – AHL Henderson Silver Knights 3, at AHL Ontario Reign 5 at the Toyota Center. Gage Quinney of Las Vegas started in this game for the Silver Knights.
Attendance 5,819
Henderson Goals
1st – Maxim Marushev
2nd – Bryron Froese
3rd – Byron Froese
Henderson Goalie – Michael Hutchinson
Shots on goal – Henderson 30, Ontario 27
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Las Vegas goalie – Dylan St. Cyr, NCAA Michigan State this season: 4 games, 2.29 gaa, 90.6% save percentage.
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Jason Zucker of Las Vegas and the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins battled hard to the very end during a tough 3-2 OT road loss to the Montreal Canadians.
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Cory Ward’s Las Vegas Thunderbirds – USPHL Premier
Team Record – 4 Wins, 2 Losses
Top Scorers
16 pts – Narek Aleksanyan 9 goals, 7 assists
12 pts – Ludovic Marte 7 goals, 5 assists
10 pts – Nicholas Bonaldi 0 goals, 10 assists
8 pts – Antoine Tourigny 6 goals, 2 assists
7 pts – Gavin Frack 3 goals, 4 assists
5 pts – Kevin Hanly 1 goal, 5 assists
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Coach Matt Johnson’s AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 16u got a very significant win, 3-2 over the rugged AAA Minnesota Lakers 16u in Blaine, Minnesota over the weekend. Jacob Brumm, a star goalie, was in net for Las Vegas. “It was indeed a big W – down by two, then we fought back to win 3-2,” said coach Matt. Las Vegas goal scorers were Quinn Steffen, Danny Madison and Connor Beers – Lee
Big goal scorer Heath Mensch of Las Vegas has 5 goals this season with EHL New England Wolves…..Coach Ryan Mattison’s Vegas Jr Golden Knights 14u team is off to an 8-2-0 start this season……..Fairbanks Arctic Cam Today – Clear, very cold in 25-degrees area, everyone there bundled up – Lee
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When the clock strikes 11:59 pm on Friday, October 27 – the ACHA D1 UNLV Rebels will get onto the ice and tangle with a tough opposing team – Arizona State – at the City National Arena over on Charleston Ave., next to the Red Rock Casino – See you there!!! – Lee
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This just in: Las Vegas players Caesar ‘Sammy’ Redoble and Matthew Johnson are playing with ACHA D2 Boise State this season……
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Las Vegas Players Away from Home – 2022-23
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Erik Atchison, NAHL Bismarck Bobcats
Tyler Fuzzy Atchison, AAA Windy City Storm
Gia Avalone, NCAA Adrian College
Steven Avalone, ACHA D1 Lindenwood
Hunter Barto, ACHA Iowa State
Hannah Baxter, AAA Pittsburgh Penguins Elite 19u
Brennan Blasczak, ECHL Savannah Ghost Pirates – Georgia
Anthony Bonaldi, NCAA Nicholas College
Connor Brazil, AJHL Bonnyville Pontiacs – Canada
Skyler Cameron, BCHL Nanaimo Clippers
Vito Carlo, NCAA D3 Franklin Pierce University – Rindge, N.H.
Mykah Carter, AAA Northwest Stars 18u
Ivy Dietrich, AAA Little Caesars Women’s 19u
Dylan St. Cyr, goalie, NCAA Michigan State
Dominic Ditondo, Niagara Falls Canucks
Jared Dudshus, ACHA D2 Utah State
Brett Harpling, ACHA D2 Marian University – Wisconsin
Brendan Harris, ECHL Jacksonville Icemen
Jo Jo Heinzelman, ACHA Cleary University – Michigan
Matthew Johnson, ACHA D2 Boise State
Hunter Keech, USPHL Premier Jersey Hitmen
Jack Lackas, AAA Phoenix Jr Coyotes 16u
Cooper Matthews, NA3HL Austin Ice Bats
Heath Mensch, EHL New England Wolves
Ben Mercurio, EHL Rhode Island
Gunner Moore, NCAA3 University of Wisconsin-Stout
Chase Nehring, AAA Shattuck St. Mary’s 15u
Dylan St. Cyr, NCAA Michigan State
Heath Goldsmith, goalie, USPHL Premier Long Beach Shredders
Austin Moline, AAA Shattuck St. Mary’s Prep 18u
Zachary Ortolano, NA3HL Mason City Toros
Jerrett Overland, ACHA D1 Arizona University
Zach Pochiro, ECHL Allen Americans – Texas
Spencer Poscente, ACHA Eastern Michigan
Deric Prier, Tottenham Thunder – Canada
Bryce Reddick, ECHL Greenville, S.C., Swamp Rabbits
Sammy Redoble, ACHA D2 Boise State
Noah Smejkal, GMHL Windsor Aces – Canada
Andrew Thornton, ACHA University of Oregon
Tristan Toth, ACHA D3 University of New England
Ian Williams, USPHL NCDC Connecticut Jr Rangers
Micah Williamson, NA3HL Butte Cobras
Mikey Yochum, ACHA Canisius College – Captain
To update here send to leesamuels07@aol.com
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Sunday, October 16, 2022 – Coach Wally Lacroix and his AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u closed out their week in Blaine, Minnesota today with a 5-2 win over the Janesville Jets. Kam Laskaskas in the net for Las Vegas.
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Saturday – Final Score – Alaska Anchorage 2, UNLV Rebels 1
//Jayson Dimizio, unassisted, scored the Rebels goal. The awesome Landon Pavlisin was Rebels goalie.
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Saturday – Jason Zucker of Las Vegas one assist for the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins in a 6-2 win over Tampa Bay Lightning.
Saturday – Final Score – AHL Henderson Silver Knights 6, Tucson Roadrunners 2
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Blaine, Minnesota – Coach Wally Lacroix AAA Vegas Jr Golden Knights 15u beat AAA Colorado Tigers 7-0. Kellen Hardy, who is having an awesome season, in net for Las Vegas. Next game will be vs the AAA Janesville Jets. “All around great effort by our group,” coach Lacroix said.
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