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Arcadia University Limiting Hockey Spectators

Until further notice, the general public will not be permitted in the Gray Rink at Hatfield Ice for Arcadia University hockey games. The university has revised its spectator policy due to Covid concerns. That policy reads in part:

Attendance at home indoor athletic events will be limited to University community members and approved guests. There will be no general admission, and Arcadia will not permit fans from visiting institutions. Arcadia students, faculty, and staff with a valid KnightCard will be admitted to the event. Also, guests of Arcadia student-athletes may be added to a spectator pass list. 

The revised protocols impact the Kuch Center (including Lenox Pool and Alumni Gymnasium) and Hatfield Ice Arena and pertain to the sports of men’s and women’s basketball, men’s volleyball, men’s and women’s swimming, and men’s and women’s ice hockey.

Spectators that are allowed inside Arcadia athletic events are required to wear a mask, per the university’s indoor masking policy. 

SHSHL Update for 12-14-21

 National/Continental-Class AA     W     L     T    OTL     Pts

Pennridge (6-0)                                  3      0     0       0        6 

Souderton (5-2)                                  3      1     0      0        6

Council Rock South (4-1-1)               2      1     0       0       4

Bensalem (3-2)                                   1      0     0      0        2

Central Bucks East (2-4)                    1     1     0      0        2

Central Bucks South (1-5-1)              1      1     0      0       2

Neshaminy (4-1-1)                             1      1     0      0        2

Pennsbury (3-2-1)                              1      1     0      0        2

North Penn (1-5)                                 0      2    0       0       0

Central Bucks West (3-3)                  0      2     0      0        0

Council Rock North (1-4)                  0      3     0      0        0

American Division-Class A                  W    L   T    OTL      Pts

Abington (4-1)                                        3     0  0     0          6

Plymouth Whitemarsh (4-0)                 2      0  0     0       4

Wissahickon (2-3)                                   2     0  0     0          4

Upper Dublin (3-3)                                 2    1   0    0           4

Quakertown (1-5)                                  1      3  0     0          2

Hatboro-Horsham (1-4)                        0    3  0     0             0 

William Tennent (0-6)                           0      3  0     0          0

Scoring

Class AA                                                  G      A      Pts

Shane Siegmund (PB)                           9       10      19

Karson Grainey (CRN)                         10      5        15

Max Gallagher (Nesh)                         8       7         15

Kevin Koles (CRS)                                 6      7        13

Nick Hahan (CRN)                               6       7         13

Kevin Pico (Pe)                                      6        7      13
Alex Hood (Bens)                                 9        4     13

Class A                                                     G       A      Pts

Matt Kramer (Ab                                   13      7      20

Jack Bocul (UD)                                    12      5      17 

Joe Stelacio (Ab)                                   5     11      16

Nick Hussa (Wiss)                               4        10       14

Will Hussa (Wiss)                                 9       5        14

Matt Cholaj (Ab)                                   8       6      14

Goals Against

Class AA                                     Minutes       GA           GAA

Ryan Pico (Pr)                             301              7            1.19

Liam Rogers  (CBW)                  204             10          2.50

Brian Nelson (Nesh)                  206             11           2.72

Carson Lopez (CRS)                   311              18           2.95

Ricky Gonalez (Bens) 252 17 3.44

Class A                                     Minutes       GA           GAA

Kolton Galie (PW)                   144              8              2.82

Sam Nemec (Ab)                     252             10             3.44

Michael Bonnani (Wiss)         252             25           4.76

Emmett Kepniss (UD)             148             17            5.51

Save Percentage        

 Class AA                                   Minutes       Shots     Saves       Save Pct.

Ryan Pico (Pr)                          301                  232        225         .970

Brian Nelson(Nesh)                206                  165        154         .933

Liasm Rogers (CBW)               204                  239        129         .928

Carson Lopez (CRS)                311                   229        211         .921

Ricky Gonzalez (Bens)            252                  163        146         .896

Class A                                  Minutes        Shots    Saves        Save Pct.

Kolton Galie (PW)               144               73          65            .890

Sam Nemec (Ab)                 153               78          68            .872

Michael Bonnani (Wiss)     252              168         143          .851

SHSHLUpdate for 12-6-21

Standings

 National/Continental-Class AA     W     L     T    OTL     Pts

Pennridge (5-0)                                  2      0     0       0        4 

Souderton (4-2)                                  2      1     0      0        4

Pennsbury (3-1-1)                              1      0     0      0        2

Council Rock South (3-1-1)               1      0     0       0       2

Neshaminy (4-0-1)                             1      0     0      0        2

Central Bucks East (2-3)                    1     1     0      0        2

Bensalem (2-2)                                   0      0     0      0        0

Central Bucks South (0-5-1)             0      1     0      0        0

North Penn (1-4)                                 0      1    0       0       0

Central Bucks West (2-3)                  0      2     0      0         0

Council Rock North (1-3)                  0      2     0      0        0

American Division-Class A                  W    L   T    OTL      Pts

Wissahickon (2-2)                                   2     0  0     0          4

Abington (3-1)                                        2     0  0     0           2

Upper Dublin (2-3)                                 1    1   0    0           2

Plymouth Whitemarsh (3-0)                 1      0  0     0        0 

Hatboro-Horsham (1-3)                        0     2  0     0          0 

Quakertown (1-4)                                  1      2  0     0          0

William Tennent (0-5)                           0      2  0     0         0

Scoring

Scoring

Class AA                                                  G      A      Pts

Shane Siegmund (PB)                           9       9      18

Karson Grainey (CRN)                         10      5        15

Max Gallagher (Nesh)                         8       6        14

Nick Hahan (CRN)                               5       6         11

Brendan Macainsh (PB)                      6       4       10

Seth Grossman (Soud.)                    6       4       10

Kevin Pico (Pr)                                  6       4       10

Class A                                                     G       A      Pts

Matt Kramer (Ab                                   12      6       18

Will Hussa (Wiss)                                   9       5       14

Joe Stelacio (Ab)                                    3      11      14

Matt Cholaj (Ab)                                    8       6       14

Jack Bocul (UD)                                     10     4      14  

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Holy Ghost Prep Headed North

 It’s a trip that has become a tradition in the Holy Ghost Prep hockey program, one that offers a plethora of benefits, on and off the ice. The Firebirds are in Jamestown N.Y. this weekend for the National Scholastic Invitational.

The tournament brings together some of the finest scholastic hockey programs in America while at the same time allowing the players to spend quality time together off the ice.

Senior Brian Butler is making the trip for the second time.

“It’s really just having the house and all the guys hanging around together,” he said. “And then, just remembering that we’re there to win the tournament; that’s really the bottom line.”

Butler says the time spent together off the ice helps the players get to know each other as people, particularly their younger teammates.

“Definitely, we have the core group of guys that I play club with,” he said, “but, with the newer guys this year, especially the two freshmen, the trip just means everything. It’s really important just to get to know everybody, and just bond to the team, and I think that can only help us, especially going into the playoffs.”

Butler says the upperclassmen on the roster take on the responsibility of assisting the newcomers.

“It’s really our job to make sure the underclassmen feel comfortable,” he said, “and I just remember my first time in Jamestown (two years ago), the seniors did a great job. That’s what we’re going to try and do here.”

Holy Ghost Prep coach Gump Whiteside is taking a team to Jamestown for the 13th time.

“We use it as a team builder,” he said. “A chance to get away from school. Just be by ourselves, eat together, play games together, just get to know one another away from the rink a little bit.”

Whiteside emphasizes the importance of the seniors’ role on the trip. “The seniors that are going way with us have obviously experienced this tournament,” he said, “and played a major part in the tournament, and they play a major part in the success of our team.

“The underclassmen really look up to them for guidance and support, I’ve always said our leadership group is an extension of our coaching staff and I think this year with Luke (Pappareso)  Brian, and Sean (Marshall), I think it’s quite evident that they’re truly the leaders of the team and kind of set the tone.”

The Firebirds were scheduled to open tournament play Friday evening at 6:15 against DeMatha (Md.) before playing two more games on Saturday against Medina and Cathedral Prep. Sunday’s schedule if any will depend on the results of those games.

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Arcadia Teams Fall

Aurora Men 6, Arcadia 3—James Spaagaren scored two goals, including the first in program history, but the Knights fell 6-3 Saturday afternoon in a non-conference game at Hatfield Ice. Carson Asper also scored for the Knights (0-2) to tie the game at 3-3 before Aurora took command with three goals.

Lucas Brine made 38 saves in goal while taking the loss.

Worcester State Women 5, Arcadia 0—The Arcadia women’s hockey team opened its inaugural season Saturday evening with a 5-0 loss to Worcester State at Hatfield Ice. Arcadia coach Kelsey Koelzer, a Hatboro-Horsham High and Princeton grad, made history by officially becoming the first African American woman to coach an NCAA hockey team.

Arcadia Women Ready for Debut

History is being made this weekend at Hatfield Ice as the Arcadia Knights open their inaugural season of NCAA Division III women’s hockey. The Knights will face off against Worcester State Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 12:15.

For Head Coach Kelsey Koelzer, the start of the regular season concludes nearly two years of preparation.

“It’s exciting,” she said, a little nerve wracking. Just seeing all of our hard work and seeing the progress that we’ve made. But overall, it’s really exciting.

“It’s nice to start to get into game play. It was 690-some days from the time that I got hired to when our players even moved on campus. And even then, once you get there, you don’t start to get working with them until the first week of October, so there’s another month. And even now, we’ve been all practice for the last three or four weeks.
So, to get to actually play some games and get into kind of crunch time is really exciting.”

Game time will be a new experience for all 19 players on Koelzer’s roster. None have ever played college before; in fact 18 of the 19 are freshmen. But all have taken on the challenge of helping build a startup program.

“It’s not for everyone,” Koelzer said, “but you kind of (sort) that out in the recruiting process as well. The players know that not every day is going to go our way. And you have a lot of adjustments to make.

“We needed players that could pick things up quickly and know that they’re going to be picking up minutes from the beginning and have to just roll with the punches and be okay with making mistakes and getting out there the very next shift.

“So, I think there is a slightly different mindset because the players don’t get to hide behind upperclassmen. They all kind of have to pick it up at the same time and help each other and really just roll with our bumps and bruises.”

SHSHL Sets Alignment for 2021-22

A total of 17 varsity teams will skate under the Suburban High School Hockey League banner this season. Eleven Class AA teams and six Class A squads will be in the fold when the 2021-22 season commences on Wednesday, November 3.

There will be some changes in the makeup of the league; Council Rock North will return to the Class AA sector. Bensalem will skate in Class AA this season while Truman, which was a Class A team a year ago, will not field a varsity team this winter.

The Class AA National Division will include defending champion Pennsbury, along with Neshaminy, Council Rock South, Council Rock North, and Bensalem. The Continental Division will encompass North Penn, Souderton, Central Bucks East, Central Bucks West, and Central Bucks South.

The American Division will feature the league’s Class A schools, including defending champion Wissahickon, Plymouth Whitemarsh, Hatboro-Horsham, Quakertown, William Tennent, and Abington.

Launch of Arcadia Hockey Program Marks the Start of a New Era

             A new era is dawning at Arcadia University. Beginning this fall the university will put men’s and women’s NCAA Division III varsity hockey teams on the ice. The Knights will play their home games at Hatfield Ice and compete in the United Collegiate Hockey Conference, which includes teams in Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland.

The 25-game regular season will commence on Halloween Weekend. Several teams in the hockey-only conference, including Arcadia, are members of the Middle Atlantic Conference in other sports, including Wilkes, Lebanon Valley, and Stevenson. Kings, which did not field a team last season, is also part of the MAC.

The Arcadia men’s team is coached by Vincent Pietrangelo a Michigan native who has been on the job since September of 2019.  Before coming to Arcadia, he spent three years as an assistant at the SUNY at Canton. Prior to that he was an assistant at Division I Ferris State.

Pietrangelo, who played college hockey at Division III Finlandia University has always wanted to build his own program and embraces the challenges that accompany that, notably in the area of recruiting.

“A startup program isn’t for everybody,” he said. “I guess the one unique thing is, I have a special opportunity for guys to come in and help write the history of something and build something from the ground up.

“So, that’s the kind of players that I’ve been going after, guys pretty much like myself. I took this job on (because) I wanted to start a program from scratch. It’s been my dream job, and I want guys to have that same kind of passion, that are saying ‘I want to be part of something, I want to be one of the founding members and take this program from starting to something great.’”

One challenges Pietrangelo has faced is attracting players who can meet Arcadia’s academic standards.

“Obviously finding kids that meet that academic requirement is something I have to look at,” he said. “But I guess just getting the word out that we are starting a program and having a program was the biggest challenge.

“Year One was just kind of watching kids, letting the hockey world know that Arcadia is starting. I was able to grab five really good kids that were pretty connected in the world and were able to also kind of help me recruit. I did that up until the pandemic hit. That was very challenging, once the pandemic hit, to recruit. instead of being able to meet a player face to face at the rink, I’m having to watch a lot more video and do a lot more phone calls. I’m more of a personal recruiter, I like to be face to face. So, that was kind of a new challenge for me.”

Like all players coming into NCAA hockey. Pietrangelo’s players will have to make some adjustments, and make them in a hurry.

“We practice every day,” he pointed out, which is a very different transition for a lot of my guys that are coming in. They’re used to playing 60 games a year in junior. Now they’re only playing 25 but it’s a lot more taxing than a lot of people think just because every day these student-athletes have to get up and go to class and study. 

“They’re in the weight room, then they come to practice. That takes a toll on their bodies. All my guys are coming in at 21 as freshmen. They’ll be playing against some seniors that are 25, 26 years old.”

La Salle 5, Father Judge 0

HATFIELD—In the end, it could be said La Salle did what was necessary. Michael Casey scored three goals and Chris Wnek added two more as La Salle shut out Father Judge 5-0 Tuesday night in a Class AAA Flyers Cup quarterfinal game at Hatfield Ice. The second-seeded Explorers, who have now won seven straight, will face Holy Ghost Prep in a Thursday semifinal (6:30 at Hatfield Ice).

In theory the Martin could have been much wider. The Explorers (9-4) outshot the seventh-seeded Crusaders (6-6-1) 47-14 over the course of the 48 minutes.

But Father Judge goaltender Colin McKee was the best player in the building by far. He made 40 saves before leaving the game with an injury with 90 seconds remaining in the third period.
La Salle dominated the first period, outshooting the Crusaders 11-4 but came away with just one goal, courtesy of Casey during a power play at the 11:01 mark off a setup from Dan Whitock. The goal came while Father Judge’s Sean Ford was sitting in the penalty box serving an interference minor.

Casey extended the Explorers’ lead 6:44 into the second period during another power play. The goal game just six seconds after the Crusaders’ Shawn Miller was flagged for high sticking.
But that was all the Explorers could do in the first two periods against McKee, who spent most of that time under heavy enemy fire; his team was outshot 34-8 over the first 32 minutes and the Explorers charged the Crusader net with impunity during much of that span.

“Their goalie played tremendous,” said La Salle head coach Wally Muehlbronner.

Both sides spent considerable time in special-teams situations. The game featured 17 minor penalties.

The third period, which included eight penalties, saw La Salle extend its lead. Chris Wnek beat McKee at the 4:30 mark before scoring his second goal of the night during a power play at 11:50.
With three minutes to go, McKee was pulled for an extra attacker and Casey completed his hat trick into an empty net with 2:08 left in regulation.

Muehlbronner left the rink happy to be advancing but otherwise dissatisfied. “How many two-on-ones did we give up by not playing a simple, smart game like we have been?” he said. “It’s a two-goal game going into the third period, Judge had some really good opportunities and their goaltender is playing phenomenal. That’s a tough game.”

Muehlbronner made it clear his players must step up their games if they hope to attain their goal of winning the 12th Flyers Cup in school history. “Hopefully they understand they were probably lucky to win tonight,” he said, “and we’re lucky to be moving on.”

Father Judge 0 0 0—0
La Salle 1 1 3—5
First-period goals: Michael Casey (L) from Dan Whitock and David Kimmel, 11:01 (pp);
Second-period goal: Casey (L) from Andrew Budzynski, 6:44 (pp);
Third-period goals: Chris Wnek(L) unassisted, 4:34; Wnek (L) from Tim Whitock, 11:50 (pp); Casey (L) unassisted, 13:52.
Shots: Saves: Colin McKee (FJ) 40 and David Marcelinho (FJ) 2, Liam Gross (L) 14