SHSHL Reveals Divisional Alignments

The opening of the 2019-20 scholastic hockey season is drawing closer. With that fact in mind, the Suburban High School Hockey League has finalized its divisional alignments for the coming year. A total of 18 teams will skate under the SHSHL umbrella this season.

Thirteen teams will be classified as Class AA and divided into two divisions. The Continental Division will consist of defending Class AA Champion Pennridge, Central Bucks South, Central Bucks East, Central Bucks West, North Penn, Souderton, and newcomer Quakertown.

The National Division will include Abington, Council Rock South, Neshaminy, Pennsbury, William Tennent, and Council Rock North, which is returning to the SHSHL and Class AA this year after playing as an impure team last season because of a player shortage.

The 13 Class AA teams will all face each other once in league play. If the same playoff format is followed that was utilized last year, divisional alignments will be meaningless; the top eight teams will qualify for the playoffs regardless of division.

The Class A American Division will feature five teams, headed by defending champion Wissahickon. The Trojans will be joined by Hatboro-Horsham, Plymouth Whitemarsh, Lower Moreland, and Truman, which is moving down from Class AA. Upper Dublin will not be skating in the SHSHL this season.

The five American Division teams will play each other three times each, making for a 12-game league season. Four teams will qualify for the playoffs.

The official start date of the SHSHL campaign is still to be announced.

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Wissahickon Wins SHSHL Class A Crown

By Rick Woelfel

HATFIELD TOWNSHIP—Bryan Garry scored six goals and assisted on two others to lead Wissahickon to a 16-6 win over Lower Moreland Thursday night in the Suburban High School Hockey League Class A championship game at Hatfield Ice.

The game was halted with 6:09 left in the third period via the 10-goal mercy rule.

It’s the fourth confirmed SHSHL title for the Trojans who also won Class A titles in 2006, ’10, and ’15; (Wissahickon may have won additional titles on two other occasions but that has not been documented).

“This feels like a great reward,” said Wissahickon coach Ken Harrington. “We had one of our (defenseman) with a broken wrist, we had a couple unfortunate things happen. These last two games are the first games where we’ve had all 13 players on our roster.”

Sean Garry provided three goals and four assists for top-seeded Wissahckon (13-4-2). Daniel Glazer added two goals and three assists. Nicholas Hussa scored twice while three other players scored one goal each.

Coleman Peppelman scored three goals and added an assist to pace top-seeded Lower Moreland (12-3-3). Vincenzo DeMaio scored Twice and Noah Gazzara once.

The Lions had just eight skaters and a goaltender in uniform and were without forward Adam Bostock and defenseman Devin Green who were serving suspensions.

Sean Garry’s two goals helped Wissahickon build a 3-1 lead at the 5:29 mark of the first period but Gazzara and Peppleman scored back-to-back goals to draw the Lions even.

Bryan Garry scored his first goal of the night with 3:33 left in the period. It was the only power-play goal of the game (there were just two penalties called in the game) and put Wissahickon up for good at 4-3.

The Trojans broke the game open by scoring four straight goals in a span of 6:46 to go up 8-4 4:52 into the second period. By the end of the second stanza the margin was 12-5.

Lower Moreland coach Gus Salfitti said his player simply ran out of gas.

“It’s obviously a whole different game when you’remissing two of your top skaters,” he said. “I didn’t expect a blowout like this, but (the Trojans) are quick, they got rested, they’re out there every other shift, they’re better, players and they absolutely outskated the heck out of us.”

Lower Moreland 4 1 1—6

Wissahickon 5 7 4—16

First-period goals: Sean Garry from Daniel Glazer, :27; Sean Garry from Bryan Garry and Glazer, 2:22; Vincenzo DeMaio (LM) unassisted, 3:08; Nicholas Hussa from Ty Schiff, 5:29; Noah Gazzara (LM) from Arthur Rubenstein, 6:53; Coleman Peppelman (LM) from Tyler Scolnick, 7:46; Bryan Garry from Matt Cade, 13:27 (pp); Hussa from Cade and Ben Junker, 13:56; Peppelman (LM) from Gazzara, 15:45.

Second-period goals: Junker from Bryan Garry, 3:06; Nolan Ryan unassisted, 3:42; Bryan Garry from Sean Garry, 4:52; DeMaio (LM) from Peppelman, 6:31; Bryan Garry unassisted, 7:03; Glazer unassisted, 10:52; Bryan Garry unassisted, 11:10; Bryan Garry from Sean Garry and Glazer, 13:11.

Third-period goals: Glazrt from Sean Garry, 3:06; Bryan Garry from Sean Garry, 5:47; Peppelman (LM) from Gazzara, 6:03; Sean Garry unassisted, 9:50; Cade 10:51, unassisted

* Game called with 6:09 left in the third period due to the 10-goal mercy rule.

Shots: Lower Moreland 33, Wissahickon 53; Saves: Jacob Lungren (LM) 37, Michael Henderson (LM) 27

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SHSHL Finals

Suburban High School Hockey League Championship Results

Class AA

Pennridge 2, Central Bucks South 0

Class A

Wissahickon 16, Lower Moreland 6

Details of these games coming. Check back later

Wissahickon 3, Plymouth Whtemarsh 2 OT

By Rick Woelfel

The result left the victors ecstatic and their defeated foes in agony. Two teams played a quality hockey game and left Hatfield Ice Wednesday night separated by the slimmest of margins.

It took Bryan Garry’s power-play goal 26 seconds into overtime to give the Wissahickon a 3-2 win over Plymouth Whitemarsh in a Suburban High School Hockey League Class A semifinal.

The win moves the second-seeded Trojans (12-3-2) into Thursday’s final against top-seeded Lower Moreland (8:40 at Hatfield Ice).

The winning goal came during a four-on three situation that got its start when minor penalties 20 seconds apart late in the third period left each team a man down heading into the 15-minute sudden death (five skaters against five) overtime period.

When John Cubbin was whistled for tripping just 11 seconds into the extra session, the third-seeded Colonials were two men short and the second-seeded Trojans had a lot of open ice to work in.

Gary’s goal came on a wrister from around the left circle and put a damper on a brilliant performance in goal by the Colonials’ Ben Yuter, who made 42 saves and was challenged repeatedly.

“Three goals in 45 shots on net,” said Plymouth Whitemarsh coach Josh Aiello.

Wissahickon coach ken Harrington was impressed Yuter’s effort, as was everyone else in the building. “We got a lot of shots on goal,” he said. “We just couldn’t get the rebounds. He did a superb job, hats off to him.”

The teams have now split four meetings this season. Gary said he was not surprised that Wednesday’s game was close.

Garry said he was expecting the fourth meeting of the year between the two teams to be a tightly contested affair

“We’ve played them before and they’ve been close games” he said, “so I just expected it be another close game.”

The Trojans’ Dan Glazer started the scoring just 1:25 into the first frame. Gavin Mulligan tied the game for Plymouth Whitemarsh at the 15:16 mark off a Wissahickon turnover in the neutral zone.

Aidan Keogh scored on a wraparound move from behind the goal 6:05 into the third period to give Plymouth Whitemarsh a 2-1 lead. Sean Gary tied the game for Wissahickon with 3:40 left in regulation but Yuter made some big saves down the stretch to force overtime.

Plymouth Whitemarsh 1 0 1 0—2

Wissahickon 1 0 1 1—2

First-period goals: Dan Glazer from Sean Garry, 1:25; Gavin Mulligan (PW) from Peter Troy, 15:16.

Third-period goals: Aidan Keogh (PW) from Jake Weikel, 6:05; Sean Garry from Bryan Garry, 13:20.

Overtime goal: Bryan Garry from Sean Garry, :26 (pp).
Shots: Plymouth Whitemarsh 21, Wissahickon 45; Saves: Ben Yuter (PW) 42, Michael Henderson 19

SHSHL Playoff Game Times Set

The brackets have been finalized for the 2019 Suburban High School Hockey League playoffs. Action gets underway Monday, February 25 with four Class AA quarterfinal games and continues on Wednesday the 27^th with semifinal games in Class AA and Class A. The championship games in each class will be played at Hatfield Ice on Thursday, February 28.

Central Bucks South is the four-time defending champion in Class AA; if they successfully defend this year it will extra blush a new league record. Hatboro-Horsham meanwhile will be trying to defend the Class A crown.

It should be noted that the results of the SHSHL playoffs will have no impact on the Flyers Cup seedings which are scheduled to be announced on Sunday.

Monday, February 25

Class AA Quarterfinals

1 C.B. South vs. 8 Council Rock South 7:00 at Rev. Ice Gardens

4 C.B. West vs 5 Neshaminy 8:40 at Rev Ice Gardens

3 North Penn vs 6 Pennsbury 8:40 at Hatfield Ice

2 Pennridge vs 7 Central Bucks East 7:00 at Hatfield Ice

Wednesday, February 27

Class AA Semifinals

Upper Bracket winners 7:00 at Revolution Ice Gardens

Lower Bracket winners 7:00 at Hatfield Ice

Class A Semifinals

1 Lower Moreland vs 4 Hatboro-Horsham 8:45 at Rev. Ice Gardens

2 Wissahickon vs 3 Plymouth Whitemarsh 8:45 at Hatfield Ice

Thursday, February 28

Class AA Final 7:00 at Hatfield Ice

Class A Final 8:45 at Hatfield Ice

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SHSHL Update Through 2-10-19

Suburban High School Hockey League Standings

Class AA W L T Pts

Central Bucks South (10-3-1) 8 0 1 17

North Penn (9-2-3) 7 1 2 16

Pennridge (10-2-1) 7 1 0 14

Central Bucks West (8-6) 6 3 0 12

Central Bucks East (9-4-2) 5 4 1 11

Neshaminy (6-4-3) 4 3 2 10

Council Rock South (6-6-2) 3 4 2 8

*Abington (3-7-4) 2 5 3 7

Pennsbury (5-7-3) 3 5 1 7

Truman (3-9-2) 2 6 1 5

William Tennent (3-10-2) 1 7 2 4

Souderton (2-12-1) 0 9 1 1

The top eight teams will qualify for the SHSHL playoffs

• Abington defeated Pennsbury and would have the edge in a tiebreaker

Class A W L T Its

Lower Moreland (9-2-3) 6 2 3 15

Wissahickon (9-2-2) 6 2 2 14

Plymouth Whitemarsh (9-4-1) 5 4 1 11

Hatboro-Horsham (8-4-2) 5 4 2 12

Upper Dublin (3-11-0) 0 10 0 0

Top four teams qualify for SHSHL playoffs

Scoring GP G A Pts

Coleman Peppelmn LM 13 35 22 57

Bryan Gary Wiss 11 31 18 49

Sean Gary Wiss 11 27 21 48

Adam Bostock LM 14 21 27 48

Vincenzo DeMaio LM 14 29 18 47

Dean Keller PW 14 23 21 44

Eric Slater Pr 12 26 13 39

Jake Weikel PW 14 19 20 39

Ari Nordlinger UD 13 22 14 36

Tyler Greenstein NP 14 18 17 35

Aidan Keogh PW 13 22 12 34

Reis Braccio CBS 14 20 13 33

Chris Trefz CBW 10 8 25 33

Perry Carpenter Ab 11 21 11 32

Steven Avellino Tr 12 24 6 30

Nathan Oh NP 14 11 18 29

Robert Seewagen Nesh 13 17 11 28

John Gray Soud 13 16 12 28

Colin Franzoni PW 14 17 11 28

Devin Green LM 12 11 16 27

Goals Against Average Min GAA

Luke Stranik Pr 537 2.05

Chris McIntyre CBE 336 2.29

Oscar Levin CBS 466 2.47

Nick Ebbinghaus NP 432 2.78

Andrew Zanoni NP 240 2.80

Brett Magloff CRS 256 3.00

Joe Gambino HH 526 3.19

Matt Oganowski CBE 384 3.25

Steve Glik Nesh 501 3.64

Jeremy Kennard CBW 393 3.79

(Min. 240 minutes played)

Save Percentage Min. GA Save Pct.

Chris McIntyre CBE 336 16 .920

Luke Stranik Pr 537 23 .909

Steve Glik Nesh 501 38 .895

Jeremy Kennard CBW 393 31 .888

Joe Gambino HH 526 35 .884

Oscar Levin CBS 466 24 .882

Jonathan Pritchard Soud 629 92 .876

Jeremy Wedul Tr 576 60 .871

Brett Magloff CRS 256 16 .870

Jimmy Sweeney CRS 304 27 .859

(Min. 240 minutes played)

SHSHL Standings

Suburban High School Hockey League Standings as of 2-5-19

Class AA (National and Continental Divisions)

W L T Pts

Central Bucks South (10-3-1) 8 0 1 17

North Penn (9-2-3) 7 1 2 16

Pennridge (9-2-1) 6 1 0 12

Central Bucks West (7-6) 5 3 0 10

Neshaminy (5-4-3) 4 3 2 10

Central Bucks East (8-4-1) 4 4 0 8

Pennsbury (5-5-3) 3 4 1 7

Council Rock South (5-6-2) 2 4 2 6

Abington (3-7-3) 2 5 2 6

Truman (3-8-2) 2 5 1 5

William Tennent (3-9-2) 1 7 2 4

Souderton (2-11-1) 0 8 1 1

Class A (American Division) W L T Its

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

Lower Moreland (8-2-3) 5 2 3 13

Plymouth Whitemarsh (9-3-1) 5 3 1 11

Hatboro-Horsham (7-4-2) 4 4 2 10

Upper Dublin (3-9-0) 0 9 0 0

SHSHL Standings and Statistics Through 1-11-19

Suburban High School Hockey League Standings

Class 2A

National Division W L T Pts

C.R. South (5-3-2) 2 3 2 6

Abington (3-4-2) 2 2 1 5

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

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

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

William Tennent (3-7) 1 4 0 2

Continental Division W L T Pts

North Penn (6-2-3) 5 1 2 12

C.B. South (6-3-1) 5 0 1 11

Pennridge (6-2-1) 4 1 0 8

C.B. East (7-2-1) 4 2 0 8

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

Souderton (1-10) 0 7 0 0

Class A

American Division W L T Pts

Lower Moreland (6-1-3) 4 1 3 11

Wissahickon (6-1-2) 4 1 2 10

Plymouth Whitemarsh (7-3) 4 2 0 8

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

Upper Dublin (3-7) 0 7 0 4

Playoff qualifiers will include the top four finishers

Scoring

GP Goals Assists Points

Coleman Peppelman LM 10 28 17 45

Sean Gary Wiss 9 23 17 40

Bryan Gary Wiss 8 24 14 38

Vincenzo DeMaio LM 10 22 16 38

Dean Keller PW 10 15 19 34

Adam Bostock LM 10 11 22 33

Steven Avellino Tr 9 24 6 30

Tyler Greenstein NP 11 15 13 28

Nathan Oh NP 11 10 16 26

Colin Franzoni PW 10 15 9 24

Eric Slater Pr 8 19 4 23

Devin Green LM 10 10 13 23

Perry Carpenter Ab 9 15 8 23

Jake Weikel PW 10 15 7 22

Ari Nordlinger UD 9 13 9 22

Reis Bracio CBS 10 11 10 21

Chris Trefz CBW 9 5 16 21

Matt Cade Wiss 9 10 11 21

Jake Nelson NP 10 13 8 21

Josh Kaufhold NP 10 6 14 20

John Gray Soud 10 12 8 20

Logan Hurwitz CRS 10 8 12 20

Bobby Matkus WT 10 13 7 20

Goals Against Ave.(Min. 240 minutes played) GP Min. GAA

Luke Stranick Pr 8 377 2.54

Chris McIntyre CBE 8 240 2.60

Andrew Zanoni MP 9 240 2.80

Nick Ebbinghaus NP 10 288 2.83

Joe Gamibino HH 9 384 2.88

Matt Ogonowski CBE 9 240 3.00

Oscar Levin CBS 9 360 3.20

Steve Glik Nesh 9 384 3.75

Michael Henderson Wiss 9 432 3.89

Jacob Snellenberg Ab 9 240 4.20

Save Percentage (Min 240 minutes played) GP Min Sv Pct.

Chris McIntyre CBE 8 240 .912

Steven Glik Nesh 9 384 .903

Luke Stranik Pr 8 377 .901

Joe Gambino HH 9 384 .901

Jonathan Pritchard 10 432 .880

Oscar Levin CBS 9 360 .872

Jeremy Kennard CBW 9 265 .872

Jeremy Wedul Tr 9 384 .869

Jacob Snellenberg Ab 9 240 .863

Matt Ogonowski CBE 9 240 .856

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Plymouth Whitemarsh 7, Wissahickon 4

HATFIELD TOWNSHIP—On some nights, a single occurrence can turn a hockey game on its axis and send it in an entirely new direction. So it was at Hatfield Ice Wednesday night.

Leading by a goal in the waning moments of the second period but facing a two-man disadvantage, Plymouth Whitemarsh not only successfully killed both penalties but scored a shorthanded goal to boot and went on to a 7-4 win over previously unbeaten Wissahickon in a Suburban High School Hockey League American Division encounter.

Colin Franzoni and Dean Keller scored two goals each and Ben Yuter made 33 saves in goal but the win was made possible in large part by what happened late in the middle period and early in the third.

Keller had just scored a goal to put the Colonials up 4-3 when, with 2:08 left in the middle period, Franzoni was sent to the box for high sticking. With 51 seconds left in the period Desmond Brock was corralled for a hooking infraction, leaving Plymouth Whitemarsh two men short for 46 seconds.

As the clock wound down inside the final half minute of the period the Colonials iced the puck. Two Trojans headed back to retrieve it but the Colonials’ Jake Weikel got to the puck first behind the Wissahickon net and spotted Franzoni waiting in front. The junior proceeded to put the puck past Trojan netminder Michael Henderson with nine seconds left in the period.

“I just busted all the way (down the ice) Franzoni said. “(Weikel) got the open pass, I shot it and it went in.”

Franzoni’s second goal of the game didn’t mean the Colonials (7-3, 4-3 SHSHL American) could rest easy. Dan Glazer scored for Wissahickon (6-1-2, 4-1-2) 56 seconds into the third period to bring the Trojans within a goal at 5-4. But Gavin Mulligan and Keller scored goals at 6:14 and 12:26, respectively, to give the Colonials some insurance.

The winners were outshot 37-24 but Yuter, a junior, was on top of his game. He said the key was maintaining his concentration. “Just staying intense the whole time and just watching every shot in,” he said,”and just seeing where everyone is, and just playing every shift like it’s my last.”

After losing a 13-8 shootout to Lower Moreland last Thursday, Yuter said it was important for he and his mates to step up Wednesday night.

“It was very important,” he said, “because we’ve always had a big rivalry against Wissahickon. They’re undefeated (prior to Wednesday) and we just need to show them what’s up and who is boss in this league.”

That issue won’t be settled until season’s end but Wissahickon coach Ken Harrington acknowledged Plymouth Whitemarsh was the superior team on this occasion.

“They were outworking us over and over,” he said. “We weren’t adjusting; they were collapsing on us and we weren’t adjusting.”

Harrington acknowledged his team still has some work to do. “We looked real sluggish,” he said. “A couple guys were under the weather, they were game time decisions, but no excuses. They’re were outworking us and the one-on-one battles, they won a lot of them.”

Plymouth Whitemarsh 2 3 2—7
Wissahickon 2 1 1—4
First-period goals: Colin Franzoni (PW) from Ben Lucas, 9:10; Bryan Gary from Sean Gary, 9:31; Peter Troy (PW) from Dean Keller, 15:06; Sean Gary from Bryan Gary and Nick Hussa, 15:36 (pp).
Second-period goals: Aidan Keith (PW) from Troy, 5:43; Bryan Gary from Sean Gary, 11:55; Keller (PW) unassisted, 12:29; Franzoni (PW) from Jake Weikel, 15:49 (sh).
Third-period goals: Dan Glazer from Ty Schaffer, :56; Gavin Mulligan from Desmond Brock, 6:14; Keller (PW) from Franzoni, 12:26.
Shots: Plymouth Whitemarsh 24, Wissahickon 37; Saves: Ben Yuter (PW) 33, Michael Henderson 17

By Rick Woelfel

SHSHL Update. for Tuesday 12-18

Class 2A

National Division W L T Pts

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

Council Rock South (4-2-1) 1 1 1 3

Truman (2-2-2) 1 1 1 3

Abington (2-3-2) 1 1 0 2

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

William Tennent (2-5) 1 3 0 0

Continental Division W L T Pts

North Penn (5-1-1) 4 0 0 8

Central Bucks South (5-2) 4 0 0 8

Pennridge (4-1-1) 3 1 0 6

Central Bucks East (5-1-1) 2 1 0 4

Central Bucks West (2-4) 0 2 0 0

Souderton (0-9) 0 6 0 0

Class A American Division W L T Pts

Wissahickon (4-0-1) 4 0 1 9

Lower Moreland (3-1-2) 2 1 2 6

Hatboro-Horsham (2-2-1) 2 2 1 5

Plymouth Whitemarsh (3-2) 2 2 0 4

Upper Dublin (1-5) 0 5 0 0

Council Rock North and the co-op team of Upper Moreland/Archbishop Wood are playing independent schedules.

Scoring Leaders GP G A Pts

Dean Keller PW 7 11 16 27

Coleman Peppleman LM 7 16 9 25

Vincenzo DeMaio LM 7 14 10 24

Tyler Greenstein NP 7 14 8 22

Eric Slater Pr 6 16 4 20

Adam Bostock LM 7 7 12 19

Nathan Oh NP 7 7 12 19

Colin Franzoni PW 7 11 7 18

Sean Garry Wiss 5 10 8 18

Reis Braccio CBS 7 10 7 17