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)

 

SHSHL Standings

SHSHL Standings Through games of 1-18-19

Class 2A                                          W      L      T      Pts

North Penn (7-2-3)                       6       1     2        14

C.B. South (8-3-1)                        6       0     1         13

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

C.B. East (7-3-1)                           4       3      0        8

C.B. West (6-5)                             4     3      0          8

Neshaminy (4-4-2)                      3       3       1     7

C.R. South (5-4-2)                       2       2    2         6

Abington (3-5-2)                         2       3      1      5

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

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

William Tennent (3-8-1)            1        5      1      3

Souderton (1-10-1)                     0       7      1       1

 

Class A

American Division                       W      L      T      Pts

Lower Moreland (7-1-3)                5     1      3        13

Wissahickon (8-1-2)                      5      1      2        12

Plymouth Whitemarsh (8-3)         5        3      0    10

Hatboro-Horsham (6-4-1)            3     4     1          7

Upper Dublin (3-8)                       0      8     0         4

The top eight teams in Class 2A will qualify for the playoffs irregardless of division.

The top four teams in Class A will qualify for the playoffs.

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Flyers Cup Finals Set For Wells Fargo Center

Sunday, March 17 will not only be the day to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day but also a day to celebrate interscholastic hockey.

Five Flyers Cup championship games will be played on that date at the Wells Fargo Center.

The finals will determine champions in the New Jersey/Delaware and Girls Divisions, as well as Eastern Pennsylvania boys’ champions in Class A, Class AA, and Class AAA. Game times have not been announced.

The Flyers Cup has been an annual tradition since it was first contested 1980.

Neshaminy 6, Abington 2

BRISTOL‑ The point has come in the Suburban High School Hockey League season, when points are becoming precious. Neshaminy picked up two important points in the standings Thursday night.

Rob Seewagen scored three goals and added a pair of assists to propel his team to a 6-2 win over shorthanded Abington at Grundy Arena that was last seen heading for the exit at the final buzzer to beat the approaching snow.

The win lifted Neshaminy to 4-4-2 overall and 3-3-1 in league play. Seewagen himself leads his team in scoring with 15 goals and nine assists for 24 points.

The sophomore got things started by scoring the game’s first goal 1:57 into the first and assisting on Jacob Helms’s effort 62 seconds later.

“A lot of these kids I’ve grown up with,” Seewagen said. “Not only on the ice are we clicking, but in the locker room we’re really tight, we have a really good bond.”

Seewagen said the size of the squad lends to and increases the significance of the closeness of the group. “We don’t have a lot of guys,” he said. “On any given night, we only 13-14 guys, including the goalie. It’s definitely difficult when you’re out there every other shift, but when we’re that close like that, every shift you’re out there you’re playing for each other.”

The Galloping Ghosts (3-5-2, 2-3-1) got back in the game for a time when consecutive penalties to Joey DeMatteo (cross checking) and Joey Buday (tripping) gave them a two-man advantage for 56 seconds.

Neshaminy was able to kill one penalty buy not the second; Tommy Rourke scored the power-play goal at the 6:12 mark of the period, only to see DeMatteo answer back at 8:53.

Abington took the ice down four skaters and one backup goaltender for various reasons. Coach Ken Brzozowski said he team is still evolving. “We work hard in practice,” he said. “We’re missing a little bit of that translation from what we do I practice to the games. I think one we can get that to click we’ll continue to be competitive at the (Class AA level).”

Seewagen and Helms scored second-period goals for Neshaminy in a span of just 50 seconds.

Perry Carpenter, Abington’s top sniper, scored to make it a 5-2 with 4:07 left in the middle period before Seewagen completed his hat trick 6:44 into the third.

 

 
Abington 1 1 0—2

Neshaminy 3 2 1—6

First-period goals: Rob Seewagen (N) from Joey DeMatteo, 1:57; Jacob Helms (N) from Seewagen, 2:59; Tommy Rourke (A) from Joe Stelacio and Elijah Coston, 6:24 (pp); DeMatteo (N) from Joseph Hornung, 8:53.
Second-period goals: Seewagen, from Charles Potash, 7:15; Helms (N) from Potash and Seewagen, 8:05; Perry Carpenter (A) from Elijah Coston, 11:53.

Third-period goal: Seewagen (N) unassisted, 6:44

Princeton Day School 4, Holy Ghost Prep 0

BRISTOL—The struggle continued for Holy Ghost Prep Thursday afternoon. Luke Antonacci scored two goals as the Princeton Day School shut out the Firebirds 4-0 in a nom-league encounter at Grundy Arena.

The Firebirds (4-9) have now lost seven straight games.

The Panthers (8-7) were in control early on. Drew McConaughy beat Sean Joyce with a backhander at the 8:28 mark of the first frame to give his team a 1-0 lead. Antonacci made it a 2-0 game at 11:19.

The Panthers wound up outshooting the Firebirds (4-9) 17-3 in the first period. “We had a good first shift,” said Thomas McNulty, one of the Firebird captains. “And then after that, we kind of went downhill, we lost our intensity. It seemed like we weren’t all in today.”

Kevin Flahile extended the Panthers’ lead with a goal at the 6:41 mark off the second period before Antonacci added his second goal of the game 4:50 into the third period with a shot from the right point.

Jeremy Siegel pitched the shutout in goal. It was the fourth straight win for the Panthers and their second over over an Atlantic Prep Athletic conference team in 24 hours; Princeton Day bested LaSalle 4-2 on Wednesday.

Princeton Day coach Scott Bertoli said his team was able to take advantage of the Firebirds’ relative youth on the blue line. “I think we recognized that we’re young on the back end,” he said. “I like the fact that we got pucks deep and penetrated. We had a ton of opportunities.

“I give their goalie credit … that could have been a four or five-goal game and I thought he hung in there.”

In the wake of Thursday’s loss the Firebirds continue to look for solutions for what has become an extraordinarily difficult puzzle.

“We’ve been in a little bit of a slump,” McNulty said, “and honestly, we’re not used to that at all. This is my fourth year on the team and I’ve never experienced anything like this.
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“We’re slowly trying to piece together this puzzle and figure it out but it just comes down to our work ethic. And yes, a lot of guys left last year but we just need to put in the work and I think we’ll start to click.

Notes—The Panthers outshot the Firebirds 33-15. Laura White, who refereed, works games for the International Ice Hockey Federation.

Princeton Day 2 1 1—4
Holy Ghost Prep 0 0 0—0
First-period goals: Drew McConaughy (PDS) from Stephan Gorelenkov, 8:28; Luke Antonacci (PDS) from Colby Auslander and Ty Eastman, 11:19.
Second-period goal: Kevin Flahile (PSD) from Gibson Linnehan and Chris Cecelia, 6:41.
Third-period goal: Antonacci (PDS) from Gorlenkov and Cecelia, 4:50.
Shots: Princeton Day 33, Holy Ghost Prep 15; Saves: Jeremy Siegel (PDS) 15, Sean Joyce (HGP) 29.

North Penn 5, C.B. East 4

WARWICK—It was a game that gave both coaches reason to smile. Jake Nelson’s goal with 6:21 left in the game gave North Penn a 5-4 win over Central Bucks East Wednesday night in a first-rate Suburban High School Hockey League matchup at Revolution Ice Gardens.

Nelson scored the game winner in the midst of a goal-mouth scramble, pushing the puck inside the right post past East netminder Matt Oganowski. The Patriots contended that the net became dislodged before the puck crossed the goal line, but referee Kevin Emore was in an ideal position and signaled immediately that it was a good goal.

With the win, the Knights (7-2-3, 6- 1-2 in league play) extended their unbeaten streak to four. The 14 points they’ve accumulated are the most of any Class AA team in the SHSHL.

Tyler Greenstein scored a goal for the Knights and assisted on three others, including the game winner. “Coach (Kevin Vaitis) just told us we had to be physical right off the bat,” he said, “and we were, and that helped us get right into the flow of the game and helped us with the speed and getting the pucks in deep.”

That aggressive approach helped North Penn take a quick 2-0 lead, Greenstein started things off 4:04 into the first frame after scooting down the right wing and beating Oganowski from just inside the right circle. Josh Kaufhold extended the lead with Greenstein getting the primary assist just 21 seconds later.

Sean Gorman got East (7-3-1, 4-3) on the scoreboard at the 11:42 before the Knights Luke van Why answered with a power-play goal at 13:34.

In the second period, it was the Patriots’ turn to step up. Connor Kelser and Gorman scored goals 80 seconds apart to make it a 3-3 game just 2:02 into the period. Kaufhold put North Penn back in front at 10:22 but Phil McIntyre re-tied the game for East at 12:18 mark.
Both goaltenders stepped up in the second period as well. North Penn’s Nick Ebbinghaus denied Nick LoCastro on a breakaway at the midway point of the session while Oganowski turned aside Nathan Oh with just over five minutes remaining.

Nelson’s effort was the only goal in the third period.

“I’m definitely pleased with getting two points coming out of tonight’s game,” Vaitis said. “I thought we did a number of things well.

“(East) is a good hockey team and I think they’ve proved it with some of the games they’ve played this year and some of the teams they’ve beaten.”
Despite the loss, East coach Ken Latchum believes his team is headed in the right direction. “I take (the loss) over a couple of the lousy wins we have,” he said. “We played a great game.

“I like the way they battled. From the top line all the way down.”

 

 

 

North Penn 3 1 1—5

C.B. East 1 3 0—4

First-period goals: Tyler Greenstein (NP from Jake Nelson, 4:04; Josh Kaufhold (NP) from Greenstein and Luke van Why, 4:25; Sean Gorman (CBE) from Rob Kern, 11:42; van Why (NP from Greenstein, 13:34 (pp).

Second-period goals: Connor Kelser (CBE) from Dan Tori and Max Ermigiotti, :42; Gorman (CBE) from Kern and Matt Cipriano, 2:02; Kaufhold (NP) unassisted, 10:42; Phil McIntyre (CBE) from Tyler Godown and Kelser, 12:18.

Third-period goals:  Jake Nelson (NP) from Kaufold and Greenstein, 9:39.
Shots: North Penn 31, C. B. East 21; Saves: Nick Ebbinghaus (NP) 17, Matt Oganowski (CBE) 26