Columbus Police Hockey: CPD Hockey News
Wednesday, September 24Bulldogs Beat CFD to win for 3rd year in a row.
2008 COLUMBUS POLICE vs. COLUMBUS FIRE HOCKEY CHALLENGE
The 2008
COLUMBUS POLICE vs. COLUMBUS FIRE
HOCKEY CHALLENGE
MARCH 16, 2008
IMMEADIATLY FOLLOWING THE 3:00 pm.
COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS vs. DETROIT RED WINGS
NATIONWIDE ARENA
BENEFITING
THE OHIO SLED HOCKEY PROGRAM
Enabling kids and adults with physical disabilities the chance to experience hockey.
For tickets, please contact the Columbus Blue Jackets group ticket sales at
246-4306
Monday, February 18
CPD Wins in 2008 Columbus Fire Tournament
The Bulldog's won their division in the 2008 CFD Tournament. In a four game series, CPD beat Get Behind the Badge 5-2, The Greater Cincinnati Firefighters 7-2 and tied Bufalo Transit Police 3-3. That set up the championsiip game between CPD and BTP. Tied at 3-3 at the end of regulation and overtime, the game went to a shootout. Blake Griffith, CPD's first shooter, scored the only goal of the shootout while goalie Mike Robison stopped all five BTP shooters, giving CPD a hard fought victory.
Monday, February 18
CPD gets beat up by GCNK Firefighters.
The Bulldogs took a trip to the USBank Arena in Cincinnati for the 3rd Annual charity game with The Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Firefighters. The money rasied for the Shriners Burn Center of Cincinnati could have been donated back to CPD as we were burned for 4 goals by a team more interested in fighting than playing hockey. CPD attempted a comeback down 3-0 with 2 goals from Bruce McKenna before finally being beaten 4-2. The game ended with the ejections in seperate incidents of Darin Householder, Todd Aiello and Fletcher Farr who had grown tired of battling the hometown referees as well as the GCNK goons.
Monday, February 18
CPD again beats CFD in the 2007 Hockey Challenge.
After going down 2-0 in the first period, CPD recorded 4 unanswered goals to again best CFD 4-2. Scott Polgar stood tall in the net in his final game as the Bulldogs recovered from a slow first period to win for the second year in a row. Todd Aiello and Bruce McKenna each scored for CPD and Darin Householder netted 2 goals for CPD, who worked hard in pulling out a victory in a penalty filled game that benifited the Columbus Blue Jackets charity, Hats for Heroes.
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Saturday March 11th at Nationwide Arena the Columbus Police hockey team beat the Columbus Fire Hockey team 7-3. The game was played right after the Bluejackets overtime win vs. the Oilers. The Police team had the new uniforms on as they skated out for the pregame warmups. The game started out with a goal from Darin Householder with just 20 seconds off the clock. Householder netted 2 on the night. Todd Aiello and Bruce Mckenna each had huge games with 2 goals each. Team co-captain , Fletcher Farr , had a goal as well. The other co-captain,Blake Griffith, kept the team together and set the tone with his hustle. The defense for the Bulldogs was stellar which was led by Lowell Smittle. Goaltender Scott Polgar had 26 saves on the night. The 3 goals for CFD were scored by, # 9 John Shaw , 2 on the power play. CPD hockey would like to thank the following for making the night so great : CFD Hockey , Columbus Bluejackets , Game Officials , DJ Bryan Hayes and Hats for Heroes !. Pictures of the game will be on line soon.
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The hockey team finished in 3rd place in the middle bracket of this years' tournament. C.P.D. finished 2-2 with victories over Get Behind The Badge and Columbus Fire. The Bulldogs fell short of beating Cleveland Fire and the tournament champs Pittsburgh Police. Team Captain, Blake Griffith , said afterword " I think this is a great tune up for the big game at Nationwide". Leading scorers for the Bulldogs were Householder, Aiello , Griffith and Polta.
The Bulldogs would like to thank the Columbus Fire team for putting together another great tournament, good job Kevin !!!
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Columbus Police Hockey WINS the 1st annual " Battle of Ohio ". The boys in blue played the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Fire hockey team in Cincinnati. C.P.D. came away with the win due to a strong overall effort from the 11 players who made the trip. Mike Robison and Darrin Householder netted 2 goals each with Blake Griffith scoring 1 with 2 assist. Todd Aiello burried an empty net goal to finish the game. Scott Polgar had 22 saves on the day as the team won 6-4. The game was played to raise money for Burn victims in the Cincinnati childrens hospital. The trophy will be on display at the Columbus Police Academy.
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The Columbus Police hockey team played in a charity game along with the Columbus Fire team and some NHL stars to raise money for pediatric cancer. Pepsi was the lead sponsor for this event. NHL players played while in the lockout if the 2004-2005 season. The NHL players were , Kevin Dineen,Jean-Luc Grande Piere,Luke Richardson,Jody Shelly,Andrew Cassels,Trevor Letowski,Geoff Sanderson,Robert Esche,Mark Reechi and of course Tyler Wright. Special thanks to Chris Spielman and Simon Frazier for being the coaches for this event. We would also like to thank Jeff Rimer and George Matthews for the hard work they put in.