SHSHL Statistics as of 1-29-19

Suburban High School Hockey League Leaders

 

Scoring Leaders                              GP        G      A      Pts

Coleman Peppelman LM                 11      31      19      50

Bryan Gary Wiss                             10      31       18     49

Sean Gary Wiss                                11      27      21      48

Dean Keller PW                               12      23      21      46

Vincenzo DeMaio LM                     12      26      18      44

Adam Bostock LM                           12      16      25      41

Tyler Greenstein NP                       13      16       17     33

Ari Nordlinger UD                            11      18      14     32

Jake Weikel PW                               12      16      15     31

Steven Avellino Tr                           10      24       6      30

Chris Trefz CBW                               11      7        23     30

Perry Carpenter Ab                         12      19      11     30

Reis Bracio CBS                                13      18      11     29

Eric Slater  Pr                                    9        22      6        28

Aidan Keogh PW                             11       20     8         28

Nathan Oh NP                                 13       10    17        27

Colin Franzoni PW                          12       16    11        27

Devin Green  LM                             11        11   15        26

Robert Seewagen Nesh                 11        16     9         25

Jake Nelson NP                                12        15    9         24

Matt Cade Wiss                               11         11   13       24

Sean Gorman CBE                           10        18     5        23

Jared Albano NP                              13        7      16      23

Josh Kaufhold NP                            12       8        15     23

Bobby Markus WT                          12       13      9       22

 

 

 

Goals Against                                  GP      Min     GAA

Luke Stranik Pr                                9         425     2.37

Oscar Levin CBS                              11       456     2.53

Chris McIntyre CBE                        8          240     2.60

Nick Ebbinghaus NP                      8         384       3.00

Brett Magloff CRS                          6         256       3.00

Andrew Zanoni NP                         5         240      2.80

Matt Ogonowski CBE                     7         336      3.14

Joe Gambino HH                           11        478       3.41

Steve Glik Nesh                             11        453       3.50

Ben Yuter PW                                11        483       3.88

 

Save Percentage                        GP         Min        Save Pct.

Chris McIntyre CBE                     8          240       .912

Steve Glik Nesh                           11         453      .900

Luke Stranik Pr                            9           425      .900

Oscar Levin   CBS                        11          456      .880

Jonathan Pritchard Soud          12           533     .879

Jeremy Kennard                         7            313       .879

Jimmy Sweeney CRS                  6            256      .879

Joe Gambino HH                        11          478      .876

Jeremy Wedul  Tr                       10          480       .873

Brett Magloff CRS                      6             256      .870

 

 

 

SHSHL Standings as of 1-29-19

Suburban High School Hockey League Standings

Class AA Continental and National Divisions

Won      Lost      Tied    Pts

C.B. South (9-3-1)                                        7              0          1       15

North Penn (8-2-3)                                     6              1           2      14

Neshaminy (5-4-2)                                      4              3            1       9

Pennridge    (7-2-1)                                     4               1            0       8

C.B. East (8-3-1)                                            4               3            0       8

C.B. West (6-6)                                               4              3           0        8

Pennsbury (4-5-2)                                         3             4            0         6

Council Rock South (5-5-2)                          2            3            2          6

Abington (3-6-3)                                             2           4            2          6

Truman (3-6-2)                                               2          4            1           5

William Tennent (3-8-2)                              1         6              2           4

Souderton (1-11-1)                                       0        8               1            1

 

 

Class A American Division                   Won      Lost       Tied      Pts

Wissahickon (8-1-2)                                   6           1             2          14

Lower Moreland (7-2-3)                            4            2            3          11

Plymouth Whitemarsh (9-3)                    5            3           0           10

Hatboro-Horsham (7-4-1)                         4            4           1           9

Upper Dublin (3-9)                                    0              9           0          0

Walter Jewell and How Wintersport Came to Be—A Historical Account

A lot of people have devoted considerable time and energy over the last four-and-a-half decades to make the Suburban High School Hockey League what it is today.

But if any one individual was particularly instrumental in getting the league off the ground, it likely would be Walter Jewell. He was present at the creation.

A native of Kent, England, Jewell emigrated to Canada with his family in 1956 and settled in Orangeville, Ontario, about an hour’s drive northwest of Toronto, and started coaching youth hockey there.

Three years later, the family moved to the United States, to Haddonfield, New Jersey and Jewell got involved with hockey at the old Cherry Hill Arena. He also began sponsoring exchange trips, taking teams from New Jersey north to Orangeville while a Canadian squad came to New Jersey in alternate years.
Those trips continued after Jewell settled his family in Glenside in 1966, began coaching hockey at the Wissahickon Skating Club, and launched an exchange with the Merrition Athletic Association in St. Catherines, Ont.

In October of 1971, Jewell put together a team, actually, two of them, to play in the Penn Jersey Hockey League, which operated at the original Grundy Rink in Bristol.  By this time he and his wife Iris owned a skate shop, which operated in the old Willow Grove Park Lanes bowling center, which was located near where the Willow Grove Mall is today. One team skated under the name of the Wintersport-Abington Hockey Club and the other as Willow Grove. The Wintersport Skate Shop sponsored one team and the Willow Grove Rotary Club the other. Jewell himself coached both teams, which were comprised primarily of Abington High School players.

The Wintersport team finished second in the Penn Jersey League’s regular season that year, 1971-72, but instead of participating in the league playoffs, Jewell took his teams to Conwall, Ontario on an exchange trip instead.

By this time, Jewell got the idea of building rink of his own, at least in part because ice time at Grundy was scarce. Eventually, he and his attorney Ray Reinl, formed the Willow Grove Ice Rink Corporation with the goal of constructing a rink on York Road in Willow Grove. Their plan was to have the rink up and running by July of 1972. Jewell and Reinl didn’t meet that target date but Wintersport Skating Arena, as it was called, opened its doors somewhere around November 11, 1972 and the skate shop, naturally enough, moved into the facility.

Once Wintersport was up and running, Jewell launched a league for high-school aged players, including his own two teams, which he removed from the Penn Jersey League. Abington won the league title, defeating a team called the Northeast Sabres 3-2 in the championship game.

The following season, 1973-74, Wintersport became the home of was then called the Suburban Collegiate High School Hockey League. Anecdotal evidence suggests the league consisted of eight teams: North Penn, Abington, Hatboro-Horsham, Lower Moreland, Upper Moreland Philmont (or Willow Grove), Northeast, and Plymouth Whitemarsh.

The 1973-74 season of course was the most memorable in the history of hockey in the Philadelphia area; it concluded with the Flyers winning their first Stanley Cup. The team’s success on ice, combined with the organization’s commitment to not just growing the game but educating the public about it, sparked the growth of high-school hockey throughout the region.

Walter Jewell continued to be involved in hockey for many years. He passed away in Salisbury, Maryland in July of 2007 at age 83.

 

 

Hockey Happenings is engaged in an ongoing effort to document the history of the Suburban High School Hockey League. We encourage those who played or coached in the league in its early years to contact us.

 

We thank the Upper Moreland Historical Association for their assistance in researching this account.

 

Hatboro-Horsham 6, Lower Moreland 5

WARWICK— Hatboro-Horsham and Lower Moreland kicked into overdrive Friday night. The Hatters and the Lions played run-and-gun hockey most of the evening before the Hatters emerged with a 6-5 win in a Suburban High School Hockey League American Division matchup at Revolution Ice Gardens.

Ben Lerner scored two goals for the Hatters who improved to 7-4-1 overall and squared their divisional record at 4-4-1. Marcus Soucy provided a goal and two assists.

Hatboro-Horsham coach Gianni Lafratta praised Soucy’s work with the puck. “He put the pressure on,” Lafratta said, “he created opportunities for his teammates. It was everything we preach; put pressure on the puck carrier, make them make mistakes, and we go the other way.”

Five different Hatboro-Horsham players scored goals and 10 Hatters got onto the scoresheet.

Adam Bostock delivered a hat trick for the Lions (7-2-3, 4-2-3) who were without Coleman Peppelman, the SHSHL’s leading scorer, who was away on club duty.

The first period was, to say the least, up tempo. It was Bostock who got the scoring started, 3:25 into the period. It was the first of five goals in the first frame, which ended with the Hatboro-Horsham holding a one-goal advantage. Seth Lerner, Aidan Esack and Ben Lerner scored for the Hatters before Bostock added a second goal for the Lions.

Bostock tied the game 2:08 into the second period on a brilliant move up the middle of the ice through the Hatter defense before beat netminder Joe Gambino.

But with Peppleman absent and only eight skaters available, Lower Moreland coach Gus Scalfitti had to make some adjustments. “I rotated the guys,” he said, “but we definitely were missing a big, big chunk of our offense.”

Ben Lerner scored his second goal of the game to put the Hatters up 4-3 just 25 seconds after Bostock completed his hat trick. By period’s end the Hatters held a 6-4 lead.

The key stretch of the third period came early on when the Hatters were able to kill consecutive penalties. Gambino made three big saves in a stretch of half a minute to kill off the first one.

The junior said he was able to refocus while his team was shorthanded. “You can’t worry about it,” he said. “You’ve just got to fight and keep playing.”

Tyler Scolnick scored for Lower Moreland with 4:51 left in the game to set up a wild finish. The Lions swarmed the net in the waning seconds before the final buzzer came to the Hatters’ rescue.

“I think for most of the game, we had control,” Lafratta said. “(At the finish) We got out of hand in our own defensive zone, scrambled, not doing the things we needed to do to support our goaltender.”

By Rick Woelfel

Hatboro-Horsham 3 3 0—6

Lower Moreland 2 2 1—5

First-period goals: Adam Bostock (LM) from Vincenzo DeMaio and Simon Pezalla, 3:25; Seth Lerner (HH) from Marcus Soucy, 5:17; Aidan Esack (HH) unassisted, 5:53; Ben Lerner (HH) from Seth Lerner and Alex Howieson, 7:58; Bostock (LM) from Devin Green, 12:10.

Second-period goals: Bostock (LM) unassisted, 2:08; Ben Lerner (HH) from Kyle Mullen, 2:33; Green (LM) from Alex Silverman, 5:51; Howieson (HH) from Vince Tarsi and Sayvion Jones, 7:08; Tarek Elsabash (HH) unassisted, 7:43.

Third-period goal: Tyler Scolnick (HH) from Bostock and Green, 11:09.

Shots: Hatboro-Horsham 31, Lower Moreland 23; saves: Joe Gambino (HH) 18, Jacob Lungin (LM) 25

 

The most significant stretch of the high-school hockey season is straight ahead. The Suburban High School Hockey League and the Atlantic Prep Athletic Conference are in the final weeks of the regular season.

Following that; the league playoffs  and the 40th Flyers Cup tournament. We’ll be following all the action here at Hockey Happenings and here’s your opportunity to be part of it all.

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Atlantic Prep Athletic Conference Making Its Mark

The Atlantic Prep Athletic Conference has completed exactly two thirds of his inaugural season. LaSalle, Malvern Prep, Holy Ghost Prep, and St. Joseph’s Prep each have three conference games remaining, one each against each other.

APAC Commissioner Jim Britt expressed satisfaction with how the league has evolved. “It is a great start to what we hope is an ever-expanding and developing environment,” he said. “The kids are reacting well because of the support that the institutions, the school administrations, the high-quality coaching staffs that are involved.

“The kids are reacting and progressing as we’d hoped. It is a great environment to develop the students both through hockey and through the academic environment and it’s an exciting time for those programs. I’ve been very pleased with how well teams have been playing, the pace of the games, the skill quality, the fact that people are focused on playing the game right. You strip away some of the stuff that has marred (high-school hockey) in the past and it makes it a great experience for everyone involved. They’re very happy with it.”

Britt notes that a strong conference with a membership of schools committed to hockey is a major step forward for the sport.

“I think it’s important,” he said. I have been involved with high school hockey for over 20 years in a lot of different capacities. I have some very close friends who have given heart and soul, blood sweat and tears, to develop strong programs. I think what we’re doing here with the Atlantic Prep Athletic Conference is the next step.

“I know coaches in various programs that are doing a bangup job in the Suburban League and the Intercounty League and (the APAC) takes it to the next step, it takes it to the next level of commitment by the institutions. And that’s important. It’s important at every level of these students’ development, that all of the adults are on the same page, all the adults are pulling for the right things, are trying to do the right things.”

In addition to facing each other three times each, the four APAC schools are all playing a group of four New Jersey institutions; Gloucester Catholic, St. Augustine, Princeton Day School, and the Hun School. Could the APAC expand?

Britt says the member schools are cautiously in that regard. “The approach is to basically take it one step at a time,” he said. The idea is to make sure that we’re doing it not just for the right way, but for the right reasons and that we don’t missing anything. That we’re not forgetting anything because of the way that we are structuring this.

“Having said that, we have had some discussions about the possibility of having other programs joining the conference.”

Batting weather complications, the SHSHL will conclude its league season on February 12. Playoff dates have yet to be announced.”

 

Wednesday January 30 Malvern Prep vs Holy Ghost Prep 7:00 at Wells Fargo Center

Friday, February 1  St. Joseph’s Prep at LaSalle   5:00 at Hatfield

Wednesday, February 6 Malvern Prep at Lasalle 4:00 at Hatfield

Holy Ghost Prep at St. Joseph’s Prep 4:30 at Class of 1923 Rink

Monday, February 11 LaSalle at Holy Ghost Prep 4:00 at Grundy

Tuesday, February 12 St. Joseph’s Prep at Malvern Prep, 3:55 at Ice Line

The most significant stretch of the high-school hockey season is straight ahead. The Suburban High School Hockey League and the Atlantic Prep Athletic Conference are in the final weeks of the regular season.

Following that; the league playoffs  and the 40th Flyers Cup tournament. We’ll be following all the action here at Hockey Happenings and here’s your opportunity to be part of it all.

Contact us to promote your product or service here at Hockey Happenings right through the Flyers Cup and the Pennsylvania state championship.

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APAC Standings. 1-24-19

Updated standings of the Atlantic Prep Athletic Conference as of January 24, 2019

 

 

Standings                      Won       Lost      OTW      OTL      PTS

LaSalle (13-5)                   5             0           1            0          17

Malvern Prep (10-3)        4             2          0             0         12

St. Joseph’s Prep (6-12)  1             4          1             0          5

Holy Ghost Prep (5-9)      0             4          0             2         2

 

Each team receives: 3 points for a regulation win

2 points for an overtime win

1 point for an overtime loss

North Penn 5, Central Bucks West 3

It took the North Penn Knights a while to get going Wednesday night. But once they got their engines going it was full speed ahead.

Jake Nelson, Tony Tuozzo and Jake Albano scored third-period goals to propel North Penn to a 5-3 non-league win over Central Bucks West at Hatfield Ice. The win extended North Penn’s winning streak to five games and improved its record to 8-2-3 overall. The result will not count in the Suburban High School Hockey League Class AA standings but will factor into the seedings for the Flyers Cup tournament in March. The Knights and the Bucks (6-6) will play their league game against each other on February 20 to conclude the regular season.

The first three goals of Wednesday’s affair were of the shorthanded variety. Chris Trefz started things off for West at 5:54 of the first period when he scored off a two-on-one situation following a turnover at the West blue line. The goal came while the Bucks’ Matt McCarthy was in the box serving a hooking penalty.

Pavel Serhiayenka, who assisted on Trefz’s goal, scored one himself with 2:17 left in the opening period on another shorthanded situation, one that arose when the Bucks drew a bench minor for too many men on the ice. Serhiayenka put in a rebound of Jake Lang’s original shot off a two-one-one situation; North Penn goaltender Andrew Zanoni could not be faulted on either goal.

The Knights got on the board exactly two minutes into the second frame on Ryan Cunningham’s shorthanded effort.
Roughly three minutes after that the pace of the game picked up, which worked to North Penn’s advantage. Jared Albano tied the game at the 12:47 mark of the middle period, the first even-strength goal of the game.

Jake Nelson put the Knights in front with a power-play goal just 21 seconds into the final period. Lang responded for the Bucks with a power-play goal of his own at 4:12, but the Knights had the upper hand from there.

“I thought (North Penn) played hard,” said West coach Dave Baun. “They played well, they played hard, they skate hard. But, the game that they play isn’t our game.

“Puck movement is our game. And when our team can move the puck well and skate hard without it, like we did in the first period and half of the second, then we’re a good team.  But, as the guys get tired, they sort of lose it a little bit and they default into some other game that isn’t our game.”

Tuozzo, a freshman, scored what proved to be the winning goal for the Knights 9:06 into the third period during a scramble that developed at the doorstep of West goaltender Anthony Kennard. The goal came while Lang was in the box for the Bucks serving a double minor (tripping/unsportsmanlike conduct).

“(Tuozzo) has played well all season for us,” said North Penn coach Kevin Vaitis. “He’s sort of moved up, playing with Albano and (Nathan) Oh the last couple games and he’s contributed, gone out there and worked hard, done the things that we’re asking him to do, and he got rewarded with the game winner tonight.”

Tuozzo said he’s making the adjustment to varsity hockey. “After a couple games I kind of got used to it,” he said. “I know where I should be, know where not to go and stuff like that. It’s very different.”

Albano scored his second goal of the evening for the Knights with 3:57 left in the game to provide insurance.

North Penn had a 47-21 edge in shots. West goaltender Jeremy Kennard made 42 saves. the loss snapped a four-game West winning streak.

 

 

C.B. West 2 0 1—3

North Penn 0 2 3—5

First-period goals: Chris Trefz (CBW) from Pavel Serhiayenka, 5:54 (sh); Serhiayenka (CBW) from Jake Lang, 14:43 (sh).

Second-period goals: Ryan Cunningham (NP) from Nathan Oh, 2:00 (sh); Jared Albano (NP) from Tony Tuozzo, 12:07.

Third-period goals: Jake Nelson (NP) from Tyler Greenstein, :21 (pp); Lang (CBW) from Serhiayenka and Trefz, 4:12 (pp); Tuozzo, from Albano, 4:06; Albano (NP) unassisted, 12:53.

Shots: C.B. West 21, North Penn 47; Saves: Jeremy Kennard (CBW) 42, Andrew Zanoni (NP) 18.

Records: Central Buck West (6-6), North Penn (8-2-3)

 

SHSHL Alters Class AA Playoff Criteria

The Suburban High School Hockey League has altered its Class AA playoff-selection criteria. This season, the eight playoff teams will be selected based on points/regular-season record. In recent years, the top three finishers in each division qualified for the playoffs, along with two wild card selections.

The change means that in essence, the 12 Class AA teams are playing in one division, which they’ve been doing since last year in terms of scheduling, since each team plays one league game against each of the other Class AA teams.

The current Class AA standings are as follows (League Games Only)

Won      Lost       Tied      Points    League Games Remaining

North Penn                               6           1             2        14                    2

Central Bucks South              6            0             1       13                     4

Pennridge                               4             1             0       8                      6

Central Bucks West              4              3            0        8                     4

Central Bucks West              4              3            0       8                      4

Neshaminy                           3               3            1       7                      4

Council Rock South            2               2            2        6                     5

Abington                             2                3            1        5                       5

Truman                               2               4            1         5                     4

Pennsbury                         2                4           0         4                     5

William Tennent             1                 6           1         3                    3

Souderton                        0                 7           1          1                   2

 

 

 

Suburban High School Hockey League By the Numbers As of 1-22-19

Suburban High School Hockey League Update

 

Scoring                                           GP      G        A      Pts

Coleman Peppelmn LM                11      31      19      50

Vincenzo DeMaio LM                    11      26      17      43

Sean Gary Wiss                               10      24      17      41

Dean Keller PW                               11      21      20      41

Bryan Gary Wiss                             10      25       15     40

Adam Bostock LM                          11      13       24     37

Tyler Greenstein NP                       12      16       16    32

Steven Avellino Tr                           10      24       6      30

Jake Weikel PW                               11      16      13     29

Chris Trefz CBW                               10      6        22     28

Eric Slater Pr                                     9        22      6       28

Colin Franzoni PW                           11     16      11      27

Reis Braccio CBS                               12      15      11     26

Nathan Oh NP                                  12      10      16     26

Ari Nordlinger UD                            10      14      11     25

Robert Seewagen Nesh                  10      15        9     24

Matt Cade Wiss                               10      11       13    24

Perry Carpenter Ab                         10      16       8      24

Josh Kaufhold   NP                           11       8       15    23

Jake Nelson NP                                 11       14     9      23

Aidan Keogh PW                              10       17     6      23

Devin Green LM                               10       10    13    23

Bobby Markus WT                           11       13     8     21

 

Goals Against Average                  Min    GAA

Luke Stranik Pr                              425      2.37

Oscar Levin CBS                            456      2.53

Chris McIntyre CBE                      240       2.60
Andrew Zanoni CBW                   240       2.80

Nick Ebbinghaus NP                    336       3.00

Joe Gambino HH                          430       3.23

Matt Oganowski CBE                  288       3.33

Steve Glik Nesh                            432      3.56

Jacob Snellenberg Ab                 335       3.87

Michael Henderson Wiss           480       3.90

 

(Min. 240 minutes played)

 

Save Percentage                          Min.    GA     Save Pct.

Chris McIntyre CBE                     240      13       .912

Steve Glik Nesh                            432     32       .902

Luke Stranik Pr                             425     21       .900

Joe Gambino HH                          430     29       .885

Jonathan Pritchard Soud            432     68       .880

Oscar Levin CBS                           456      24       .880

Jimmy Sweeney CRS                   256      21       .879

Jeremy Kennard CBW                265       25       .873

Jeremy Wedul Tr                         480      48       .873

Andrew Zanoni NP                      240      14       .854

 

(Min. 240 minutes played)