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Congratulations to the following AYHL players for making the NHL Central Scouting Final Ranking List.

Alex Velischek – Ranked #63 New Jersey Colonials – 18 U Midgets Forward – 6’0” – 200 lbs Kinnelon, NJ     DOB – 1990 08-09 Stats – 7G 7A – 14 PTS-15 GP Nick Sorkin – Ranked #128 Team Maryland – 18 U Midgets Forward – 6’1” – 160 lbs Rockville, MD    DOB – 1991 08-09 Stats -  7G 14A – 21 PTS-14 GP Eric Knodel – Ranked #205 Philadelphia Jr. Flyers – 18 U Midgets Defense – 6’6” – 215 lbs West Chester, PA DOB – 1990 08-09 Stats - 2G 13A – 15 PTS-16 GP

The Belleville Bulls put forth one of their strongest efforts of the playoffs, defeating the Niagara IceDogs 5-2 Tuesday night in St. Catharines.  The victory gives Belleville a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Conference Semi-Final series with the IceDogs with game five to be played Thursday night at the Yardmen Arena.  Bulls Captain Eric Tangradi paced Belleville in the win with four goals and five points.          Belleville Bulls

When the Jr. Flyers hired new Junior Head Coach and General Manager Jerry Domish, they knew it would create a bit of a buzz in the junior hockey community, but even they were surprised to find out that that the team and Coach Domish were going to be one of the feature cover stories in this month’s USA Junior Hockey Magazine. Click on the link below to see the magazine, and read the article that has Junior Hockey buzzing.

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The Elis, who got their 10th win over a ranked team, connected on the type of scoring play that makes the sport so beautiful to watch. Nick Jaskowiak sent the puck up the left side to Brian O'Neill, who had his head up enough to see Backman (18th goal) making a bee-line for the far post. The freshman winger fired a perfect lead pass to his outstretched linemate, who one-timed it past Ben Scrivens at 14:12. "Brian [O'Neill] is a great player. He saw the Cornell D going to Arco [Mark Arcobello]. All I had to do was put it into the open net," said Backman, who was named the tournament's most valuable player. "I am more happy about winning than scoring three goals."     Jr Flyers Alumni Mike Matczak is also on the Yale Championship team.

All-Rookie Team G - Jody O'Neill, Dartmouth D - Jeff Buvinow, Brown D - Keir Ross, Cornell F - Patrick Cullen, Rensselaer F - Doug Jones, Dartmouth F - Brian O'Neill, Yale

Fast forward four years. The West York and Philadelphia Junior Flyers alum is a senior forward for the Robert Morris University Colonials and is still scoring at a prolific rate. His team is ranked nationally at its level. In late February, the 22-year old Javitt became the first player in the 14-year history of the program to record 200 career points. He capped the week by being named the Eastern Collegiate Hockey League's Most Valuable Player as his team was winning the ECHL title for the second consecutive season.     Javitt did it on the strength of a senior season reminiscent -- statistics-wise -- of his high-flying high school days. To date, he has scored 33 goals and dished out 52 assists in 36 games this year for the 29-7-0 Colonials, who are preparing for this weekend's American Collegiate Hockey Association national tournament as the No. 8 seed.

Javitt's 85 points, believe it or not, are only one better than linemate Luke Bennett, a sophomore hailing from Anchorage, Alaska, whose stat line reads 24-60-84. And Javitt's third linemate, sophomore Bryan Chiavetta, is a Lower Dauphin graduate and fellow former Junior Flyer teammate, who has added 31 goals and 44 assists. That's 244 points by one line in 36 games. As a result, RMU currently boasts three of the top seven scorers in the entire nation at the ACHA Division I level.

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The Jr Flyers Midget Major team is heading to the National Championships for the 13th year. This years National Championships will be held in Pittsburgh PA. The Jr Flyers Midget Major team has won it's 17th Atlantic League title earlier in the season. The right to go to Nationals would be the winner of a best of five series against the defending Atlantic League Champions, the NJ Colonials.     Game 1 was played Thursday night at Ice Works in Aston PA. The Jr Flyers came out of the gate flying. Sean Coll scored from Kyle Curley and Tom Seravalli just a 1 1/2 into the game. Less than 2 minutes later Kyle Curley scored from Matt O'Brien and Eric Knodel. With a little more than 4 minutes played in the game Billy Latta made it 3-0 picking the upper corner off the face off win from David Macalino. NJ changed goaltenders.

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The first period ended without any more scoring. The second period was more aggressive as the Jr Flyers were assessed 4 penalties and NJ Colonials 3. Half way through the 2nd period Andrew Lamont scored the Jr Flyers 4th goal from David Macalino. Donald Oliveri added the 5th Jr Flyers goal a minute later. The Jr Flyers were up 5-0 at the ice cut.    NJ came out after the ice cut playing much more aggressively. Alex Velischek (Committed Providence D1) blasted one by Justin Fielding from the high slot just minutes into the period. Matt Willows scored a power play goal half way through the period ending the scoring for the night. Jr Flyers won game one 5-2.

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   Game 2 was played Saturday afternoon. This would be the best game of the series. The NJ Colonials need to win to tie the series at 1-1. The Jr Flyers struck first when Kyle Curley scored from Sean Coll and Tom Seravalli. NJ's Matt Willows scored a 2 man advantage power play goal with 2:51 left in the first to tie the game at 1 a piece. Willows scored again to give the Colonials the lead for the 1st time in the series. Billy Latta tied the game 4 minutes later unassisted. Lamont scored from Latta and Oliveri early in the 3rd for the lead. Kyle Curley scored from Seravalli and Varley for the 2 goal lead. NJ pulled the goaltender for the extra attacker only to have Latta steal the puck and score into the open net. NJ pulled their goalie again and Alex Velischek scored to close the game to 5-3. NJ continued to play with the extra attacker until Sean Coll stole the puck and scored into the empty net. Final score was 6-2. Jr Flyers out shot the NJ Colonials 27-26.

    Game 3 was played Sunday morning. This game would be a let down from the previous two games. NJ Colonials did not field a full bench. Players decided to stay home to rest for the High School Playoff game scheduled for Sunday evening. The NJ Colonials Tom Croonquist scored first and Sean Coll from Brian Newman scored a minute later for a first period 1-1 tie. After a regroup on the bench David Macalino scored two goals on his first shift of the period. Croonquist added his 2nd of the game to close within one until Brian Christie scored and Tom Seravalli added another in the third for a 5-2 final.     NOTE: Justin Fielding was strong in net for the Jr Flyers.    Coaches at the game: Hobart D-3, Worcester State D-3, Neumann D-3, Saginaw Spirit OHL

Squirt Minor Defenseman James Marooney earns Atlantic Youth Hockey League Playoff Award as the All American Defenseman (Picture Insert) while team mate Jason Grande earns the AYHL Playoff Award as Great American Goalie. The Jr Flyers organization is proud of the whole 1999 Squirt Minor team for becoming a AYHL Playoff Finalist.

    The Jr Flyers opened the tournament against traditional power, Culver Academy. Culver is a military prep school located in Indiana. The Jr Flyers jumped on Culver scoring 5 first period goals. Billy Latta opened the scoring unassisted, followed by Tom Seravalli from Zack Sarig. Sarig then blasted one past from the blue line past the stunned goaltender. Latta scored his 2nd from Lamont and Matt O'Brien scored the 5th from Kyle Curley. Culver's Scott Snyder scored with a minute left in the first to spoil Justin Fielding shutout bid. Andrew Lamont scored the only goal in the 2nd period from Sarig just 3 minutes in. The 3rd period the Jr Flyers broke it open with David Macalino scoring the 7th goal and Matt O'Brien added his 2nd from Sean Coll. Culver scored 2 late goals to finish the game with an 8-3 score.  NOTE: shots were 42-31 in favor of the Jr Flyers

     Game number two was against the Chicago Fury a team from the Chicago division of the Mid West Elite Hockey League. Chicago opened the scoring when team stat leader Alex Kubiak put one in at the 8 minute mark. The Jr Flyers stormed back 23 seconds later when Sean Coll scored from Kyle Curley and Eric Knodel to tie the game at 1-1. Billy Latta put the Jr Flyers in the lead when he scored assist from David Macalino. Matt O'Brien added another to open a two goal lead. Chicago would score with 27 left in the period to close the game back to one. Chicago's Jackson Bray tied the game early in the 2nd period at 3-3. Latta from Lamont scored 1 1/2 minutes later to put the Jr Flyers up 4-3 and Brian Christie added some insurance scoring from Conner Varley. The Jr Flyers would need this goal when Chicago's Bray added his 2nd with 4 minutes left in the period. The penalty filled 3rd period slowed play down and the Jr Flyers were able to hold Chicago off the board for the 5-4 win.  NOTE: Chicago out shot the Jr Flyers 31-22.

     Game three would be mostly a verbal battle against the #1 team LA Kings from the West Division of the Midwest Elite League. LA's Kevin Fraize would open the scoring with 6 minutes left in the 1st period and just 3 minutes later Jake Campbell added another. The Jr Flyers needed to regroup after the ice cut stop worrying about the nonsense going on and get back to playing hockey. The Jr Flyers went back to work with 5:13 left in the 2nd period Kyle Curley got the Jr Flyers on the board with the assist from Zack Sarig. Andrew Lamont then tied the game less than a minute later, again an assist to Sarig. Brian Christie with assistance from Dan Dupell scored his 2nd game winner in a row with less than 10 minutes left to play. Sean Coll added the empty netter from Tom Seravalli and Eric Knodel for a 4-2 final.  NOTE: The LA Goalie was the best goaltender we faced this year. Jr Flyers out shot LA 56 to 27.

     The Semi Final Game was against the Chicago Young Americans the #1 team in the Chicago Division of the Mid West Elite Hockey League. The Young American defeated Honeybaked the top team in the Detroit division, in OT to advance to play the Jr Flyers. The Jr Flyers Sean Driscoll opened the scoring with an assist from Billy Latta and Eric Knodel just 3 minutes into the game. Unfortunately this would be the only offense the Jr Flyers would get. Chicago's Curry tied the game at 1-1. After the ice cut the Jr Flyers were on the power play Mike Fallon cut across the blue line and bounced one in past Justin. Then Fallon scored his 2nd on a nice power play tip in goal that Justin had no chance on. The final goal was a breakdown on power play rush leading to a 2 on 1 shorthanded goal scored by Tim O'Brien. Final 4-1  NOTE: Chicago out shot the Jr Flyers 34-26. Overall a good weekend, a few of the players were able to showcase themselves to the USHL, NAHL, OHL, and College scouts in attendance. Because of their weekend play a few of the players were offered tryouts with USHL teams

    JR FLYERS MITE MAJOR TEAM TAKES CENTRAL MASS OUTLAWS PRESIDENTS DAY TITLE - The Philadelphia Jr. Flyers mite major (2000) team, still feeling the effects of recent illnesses affecting a number of players, displayed great courage and determination over the Presidents Day weekend in capturing the championship of the 8-team Mite Division in the 8th Annual Central Mass Outlaws Presidents Day Classic at the New England Sports Center in Marlborough, Massachusetts.  The team went 5-1 over the four days of the tournament, beginning with a 4-1 win on Friday night over the host team, the Central Mass Outlaws.  They returned to the ice early on Saturday morning and met a determined Tewksbury (MA) Red Rangers team that took a 1-0 lead into the third period and held it until the persistent Flyers scored to knot the game with 7:05 remaining.  Not to be denied, the Flyers scored the game winner with 3:38 left to gain their second win in the preliminary round.  That afternoon, playing their third game in less than 24 hours, the Flyers met a disciplined New Hampshire Avalanche team in a back and forth game that was tied at 2-2 in the third period until, with 5:41 left in the game, the Flyers surrendered the go-ahead goal.