Welcome to the website of the Green Brook Hockey Club, one of New Jersey's finest youth inline roller hockey leagues. We are an outdoor inline hockey league open to kids from all towns and municipalities. ALL SKILL LEVELS ARE ACCEPTED. Our divisions are 17 and under, 13 and under, 10 and under, 8 and under, and Learn to Play. Our games are played primarily and Saturdays and Sundays. We have a 10 game schedule plus playoffs, which include all teams. The success of our league has been based on our volunteers and the great kids we've had in the league. We ask anyone interested in serving on the board, working the concession stand, helping with rink maintenance, or anything else to help the league, to please contact us by e-mail at gbhc@comcast.net. To check out all of the things going on around our league, just click on the "GBHC News" tab. For Registration and other forms and handouts just click on the "Registration and Handouts" tab. For our "Feature Game of the Week, click on the "Pictures" tab; for scheduling info click on the "Schedules" tab; for all other info, simply click on the appropriate tab at the top!

Our playoffs are now going full blast, but rain and snow have impacted the schedule. The new playoff schedule is as follows:

Tues., Dec 1st:

7:30 PM: U17 First Round - Rangers 5, Bruins 2
 

Thurs., Dec. 3rd:

6:30 PM: U13 First Round - Ducks 7, Blackhawks 3 

7:30 PM: U13 First Round - Blue Angels 9,Phantoms 2 

 

Sat., Dec. 5th:

10:00 AM: Learn to Play-off

11:00 AM: U8 First Round - Snipers 3, Bears 0

 

Sun., Dec. 6th:

12:30 PM: U10 First Round - Lightning 6, Checkers 1

1:45 PM: U10 First Round - Wolfpack 4, Sharpshooters 3

3:00 PM: U13 Second Round - Titans 7, Blue Angels 2 

4:15 PM: U13 Second Round - Panthers 8, Ducks 1 

5:30 PM: U17 Second Round - Rangers 9, River Rats 7 

6:45 PM: U17 Second Round - Devils 6, Mudcats 4 

 

Mon., Dec. 7th:

6:00 PM: U8 First Round - Cyclones 5, Vipers 1

 

Tues., Dec. 8th:

6:00 PM: U8 3rd Place Game - Vipers vs Bears

7:00 PM: U8 Championship - Snipers vs Cyclones 

 

Wed., Dec. 9th:

6:30 PM: U13 3rd Place Game - Ducks vs Blue Angels

7:30 PM: U13 Championship - Titans vs Panthers

 

Thurs., Dec. 10th:

6:30 PM: U17 3rd Place Game - Mudcats vs River Rats

7:30 PM: U17 Championship - Devils vs Rangers

 

Fri., Dec. 11:

6:30 PM: U10 Championship - Lightning vs Wolfpack

 

Sat., Dec. 12th:

12:00 PM: U10 3rd Place Game - Sharpshooters vs Checkers 

Our Feature Game of the Week for Week 8 of our Fall 2009 season came from the U10 Division - the Performance Dynamics Group Sharpshooters vs the Boretz Orthopaedics Checkers. The Sharpshooters got the early jump in this one, as Jordan Green, Jared Venutolo, and Ryan Ewald scored goals in the first six minutes of the game, making it a 3-0 game for the Sharpshooters. The Checkers got on the board before the period ended though, as Chris Liebau scored unassisted to cut the lead down to 3-1 at halftime. In the second half, the Checkers tried mightily and worked hard, but the Sharpshooters would take control of the game and score six more unanswered goals to notch a 9-1 victory. Anthony Kuzmenko and Ross Pila scored two goals each, and single goals were scored by Anthony Buccino and Jordan Green. The Sharpshooters' Ryan Ewald and Jordan Green also had two assists in the game each, and Jared Venutolo also added one. Goalies in the game were Michael Wright of the Checkers and Thomas Rau for the Sharpshooters. You can catch all the great action shots we got from the game in our pictures section of the website!!

The Green Brook Hockey Club is proud to announce its new inductees into its 10, 15, and 20 Season Clubs this season!! We like to thank all of these players and their parents for supporting the league for so many seasons!! OK, our new inductees are as follows:

10 Season Club:

• Michael Bereheiko
• Katelyn Bereheiko
• Matt Celeste
• James Hansell
• Lauren MacWhinney
• Kevin MacWhinney
• Mathew Todtenkopf
• Kyle Bickerton

15 Season Club:

• Eric Harding
• Bailey Green
• Tyler Hardgrove
• Justin Turlip

20 Season Club:

• Spencer Iverson
• Michael Lester
• Billy Stevens

We will be presenting award cetificates to these players during our playoffs and will also be adding their names to our plaques in the display case at our rink.

The league offers its congratulations to all these players and and of course, much thanks for supporting our league throughout the years!! 

On Sunday, October 11th we announced the winners of all of our raffles and have also now determined the winners of our fastest shot contest. Our raffle (blue ticket) winners are as follows:

Grand Prize - Pulsar Men's watch: The Renzo Family

$25 Shogun 22 Gift Certificates:

- The Bereheiko Family

- The Bickerton Family

- The Graham Family

- The Buonvicino Family

- The Nieliwocki Family

Perch Hockey Custom Made Jerseys:

- The Reiss Family

- The Buccino Family

- The Petrozelli Family

- The Bickerton Family

Just Hockey $20 Gift Card:

- The Chaparro Family

Coca Cola Tote bags:

- The Sarnowski Family

- The Russomanno Family

 

All of these gifts will be available for pickup at the concession stand this coming weekend. we congratulate our winners and ask them to pick up their items at the shack!! We also wanted to thank all of our GBHC families for supporting the league so well with this raffle, which netted the league over $500.00.

OK, now our contest winners! As we mentioned previously, our Most Accurate Shot Contest was won by U10 player Ryan Boettcher, who won a new hockey bag! The winners of our fastest shot contest are:

U8 Division: Brett Miller

U10 Division: Thanasi Tsivgas

U13 Division: Ben Neri

U17: Winner to be decided this weekend (Oct. 17-18)

Each of these winners will receive a new hockey stick, for pickup at the concession stand this weekend.

Again, we thank all of our families and players for participation in our raffles and in our contests!!

Our friends at Just Hockey are offering a 10% discount off of all your hockey needs at their store!! If you're in need of new equipment and need good advice and a good deal, why not stop by their store, which is located at 647 Bound Brook Road (Route 28) in Middlesex. Just Hockey, who is also one of our team sponsors, will be on hand Opening Day with some terrific hockey items throughout most of the day. Either way, stop by this proud supporter of the Green Brook Hockey Club and make sure to be ready for the upcoming season with the best hockey stuff around!!


We want to thank Chris Jorda of Chris Jorda Photography for being our Fall 2009 Opening Day photographer for us!! Chris was able to get alot of get photos and portaits that day, so we invite everyone to visit his website at www.printroom.com/pro/G2 for some really great pictures and packages as well. You can place your order with Chris by contacting him at cj@chrisjorda.com . Relive those great Opening day moments and have those special times forever by ordering from Chris' great gallery of GBHC photos!!

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First Round

Event Capital Ducks 7, Walls & Doors Blackhawks 3

Ducks Goals: Luke Rizzoli (4), Xavier Deida, Dillon Robinson, Jennifer Hansell. Assists: Dillon Robinson (2), Luke Rizzoli, Matt Celeste. Goalie: Sam Robinson.

Blackhawks Goals: Derek Siegal (2), Colin Chang. Assists: Colin Chang. Goalie: Travis Page.

Stooney's Auto Transport Blue Angels 9, Geico Phantoms 2

Blue Angels Goals: Becky Turlip (2), Ben Neri (2), Kaylan Daly, Aaron Standish, Corey Neiper, David Truesdell, Bryan McCracken. Assists: Ben Neri (3), Kaylan Daly, Becky Turlip, Bryan McCracken, David Truesdell. Goalie: Dustin DeMarsico. 

Phantoms Goals: David Roushdy, Danny Hicks. Assists: Justin Scalera, Joseph Rau, David Roushdy. Goalie: Lauren MacWhinney. 

During the Summer of 2009, many volunteers help put together our new rink system and helped with other projects around our rink, allowing us to celebrate our 10 year anniversary in great fashion for our Fall season!! This project involved many tasks that needed to be done, and the numbers of volunteers we had to help out with this project was truly something special. The project started off with the dismantling of our old rink, as well as the fencing around the rink. Once the new rink was delivered, it took a real team effort to do the new rink layout, piece everything properly, make sure the rink was shimmed for good drainage, and secure the boards to the surface. On top of this, we still had other things we needed to address and our volunteers did so in fine fashion!! We had the fencing and netting to reinstall and secure around the boards. We had to fill many holes around the rink area. We had to put down sealer on both sides of the the rink. We also had to reinstall the player bench boxes and scorekeeper areas and clean them out as well and had to install kickplating at the bottom of each new rink panel. A couple of the league moms, Barbara Todtenkopf and Keri Benscoter, pitched in and cleaned out and sorted all of our equipment sheds. Finally, the last chore was to seal all the cracks that existed on the rink surface, a job done nicely by Dan Parascondola and Bob Sarnowski. In all it was a great effort, and we thank the following people who chipped in their time to make it all happen: Dan Parascondola who led and coordinated the entire effort, with Bob Sarnowski and Matt Zientek, who also put in many many hours of their time as well. Other star players in our New Rink Project were:

Jerry Russomanno

Vinny Russomanno

Danny Russomanno

Pete Brady

Dean Miller

Lou Castellanos

Andrew Serge

Mike Quigley

Anthony Parascondola

Bob Robinson

Sherry Bickerton

George Aller

Joe Villa

Tony Coco

Rich Nieliwocki

John Giamundo

Ed & Anthony Lubrano

Greg Mas

Jeff Greenman

Mark Green

Keri Benscoter

Gene Bradley

Dennis Costello

Tom Sammon

Check out all the pictures we got during the summer, of our rink project, just click on the pictures section of the website and then scroll to our New Rink Project Photo Album.

Again, many thanks to all of the people that chipped in, es[pecially those that showed up numerous days!! The new rink is truly a proud accomplishment for the league, made only possible by those people who are truly dedictaed to seeing this league become the success that it has!!

All Board of Directors meetings are held the first Thursday of each month, unless otherwise specified. Due to our playoffs the first week in Dewcember, the next upcoming board meeting is scheduled for Thursday, December 10th. The first 15 minutes are an open forum to the public, while the remaining portion of the meeting is closed to board members only. The Green Brook Town Hall is located at 111 Green Brook Road in Green Brook.


Wow!! What a terrific start our Fall 2009 season had as our Opening Day festivities on Saturday, September 26th included some great fun and excitement for everyone!! The day started off with our players getting their jerseys for the season prior to our Opening Day ceremonies, and then joining their teams on the rink for the ceremonies to kick off another exciting season of hockey! Our ceremonies started with league President Tom Sammon announcing 2 important celebrations for this season: First, the Green Brook Hockey Club is proudly celebrating 10 years of great hockey fun this year, and secondly, we celebrated the opening of our brand new rink system which we constructed over the summer. All the people that helped out during the summer months to construct the rink were honored as they were asked to come forward and take a bow. They then proudly held up our new 10 year anniversary sign for a great photo, which you can find in our pictures section under the "Opening Day ceremonies" album. We had Mike Quigley, who was there at the league's very beginning, to tell us how it all began and he even held up a jersey from the first ever season at the Green Brook Hockey Club, which we will have on display at our rink. We also had our Mayor, Melanie Marano, on hand to speak to our Opening Day crowd for a couple of minutes about what the league has meant to the town. she then proceeded to do the now traditional first shot of the season, against Aaron Ahr, one of our U8 division goalies. As a final touch to our Opening Day ceremonies, we had former NHL Devils' player Grant Marshall on hand. Grant spoke to the kids about how great it is for them to have a program such as this, and that even NHL players such as himself did not have youth roller hockey leagues such as ours when they were growing up. He then took a shot on Aaron as well and then joined everyone in a group shot, which can be found in our pictures section, as well the top of this article. We also had photographer Chris Jorda on hand for some great photos, which can be ordered through his website at www.printroom.com/pro/G2 . We had our contests and raffles as well, and had the New Jersey Devils Mascot on hand to round out the day. We also want to thank our friends at Just Hockey for being on hand to help with hockey needs for our players. Just Hockey, located at 647 Bound Brook Road (Route 28) give GBHC families a 10% discount on their purchases! To view all the pictures we got from our ceremonies, events, and games from Opening Day, just go to the Pictures section of the website. Opening Day for Fall 2009 was truly a great day and a wonderful way to start our 10 year anniversary season!!

The Green Brook Hockey Club requests that all parents, players, and fans obey all of our rules around the rink area. These rules include the following:

1) No standing, sitting, or skating on our handicapped ramp (For handicapped use only!!!)
2) No dogs are allowed at the rink or on the school grounds.
3) Players, refs, and coaches only are allowed in the area in the back past the gate.
4) Do not leave trash around the rink area. Also, please help out by picking up any trash you see around the rink! Starting in Fall 2009 we have recycling bins around the rink. We ask that everyone please recycle their plastic bottles, etc. and put all other trash in the trash bins.
5) Do not park anywhere on the basketball court area or on the sides of this area as well.
6) Do not direct any disparaging remarks at our players or our refs. Anyone heard doing this will be subject to ejection from the rink area.

Our annual scholarship award, known as the Matt Paltjon Memorial Scholarship, was awarded for 2009 to Patrick Sammon. The award goes to a player that has displayed a good sense of sportsmanship, scholastic ability, volunteerism toward the Green Brook Hockey Club, and service to the community. Dave Paltjon presented the award to Patrick during our playoffs, on Sunday, June 7th, 2009, with Patrick's friends and family present at the rink. Last year's recipient, George Aller, was also on hand to help present the award to Patrick. During the presentation, Patrick's accomplishments in the areas that are necessary for the award, were noted by Mr. Robinson. These included league activities such as being one of the few members of the 20 season club, volunteering for rink chores, helping out at the concession stand, refereeing and scorekeeping a number of seasons, and serving as a junior coach for a number of seasons in the league. He also played ice hockey for St. Joseph's High School in Metuchen, and his scholastic achievements there included being awarded an "Excellence in French" award and a Founders Scholarship to La Salle University. Patrick's community service achivements included such things as church community projects, church administrative tasks, and a trip to New Orleans with a group to do construction work on homes that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Patrick's is now attending La Salle University, where he is majoring in Digital Arts and Multimedia Design. When presenting the award to Patrick, Dave Paltjon noted other family members of his that had attended La Salle, thus making the presentation of the award named in honor of Dave's son an even more pleasurable one.

Pat finished his playing career in style, by notching the Championship winning goal in overtime for his team in June 2009. On behalf of the Green Brook Hockey Club, we wish Pat all the best and thank him for his many season's with the Green Brook Hockey Club!!

Wow!! What a great time everyone had on Saturday, November 1st, 2008 when the New Jersey Devils Alumni Association held a clinic at our rink for all our kids !! Former Devils players Grant Marshall and Rob Scrlac were on hand to show the kids alot of great skating tips, as well as some interesting stick handling moves. Of course, they also provided some overall great hockey advice as well. Grant and Rob then signed autographs afterwards and everyone had a great time, as the kids got t-shirts, autographs, and most importantly, alot of great hockey learning that day!! The Devils have posted pictures from the clinic on their own website, and the link to those pictures is as follows: 

http://devils.nhl.com/team/app?service=page&page=MediaGalleryBrowser&type=3 

 We thank all the kids that were at the rink that day, and most importantly we thank the New Jersey Devils for putting this great clinic on for us!! All pictures we got ourselves that day have now been posted in the Pictures section of the website!!

New Jersey Devils Add The GBHC As An Official Rink Partner

The Green Brook Hockey Club is proud to announce that the New Jersey Devils have added our rink as one of their featured rinks and has made us an official Rink Partner!! This allows us to participate in the Devils' contests and also provides exposure for us on the Devils website. You can check out the Devils' Rink Partner page, which is at http://devils.nhl.com/index.html . We have provided a link to the Devils website as well, by just clicking on the title to this article.


During any season, those that have signed up for the Work Bond program, volunteer for 2 hours of work to be done at our rink in a number of ways. The most common way is to work at our concession stand. To sign up for the stand, simply ask the stand supervisor for the volunteer sign up sheet and assign yourself to a date that fits your schedule. Other ways of fulfilling the Work Bond obligation involve participating in specified maintenance cleanup days at the rink. Coaching and serving on the Board of Directors are yet other ways as well to fulfill the Work Bond. There can be other volunteer works to fulfill the Work Bond obligation as well, at the discretion of league officials. Those that do not complete the necessary 2 hours of volunteer work will have their work bond checks cashed after the season concludes. Again, thanks to all our volunteers, who really help make the Green Brook Hockey Club rink a fun place to be!!


Wow!! Another yet another incredible milestone for our website was acheived in 2009, as we reached an amazing 80,000 hits!!! As always, we extend special thanks to all the people that contribute to the league and help make the website the success that it is: our volunteers, parents, sponsors, and most importantly...our players!! 90,000 hits - Amazing!!! Thanks everyone for helping make the website the success it has been!!!

- Webmaster Tom Sammon


Every once in a while people ask about the pictures we take for the website and whether or not they might be available at a higher resolution. The answer is - yes! In fact, all our pictures are taken at a resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels. The reason why the pictures on the website are not kept at the 1600 x 1200 resolution is because that size resolution would overfill computer screens too much and you'd have to scroll down and across just to see 1 picture. Secondly, if we kept that resolution there's no way we'd be able to put that many pictures on the web - our webspace would be completely depleted after just a few pictures at that resolution. If there is anyone that wishes to have a high resolution copy of a particular picture printed for them or even e-mailed we can do so by request. Simply send us an e-mail at gbhc@comcast.net and we'll arrange with you to have the picture sent or given to you at the higher resolution.


Each week throughout the season we provide all our Green Brook Hockey Club members with updates about league info and important news items concerning the league. Quite often we'll have important announcements concerning various things such as re-scheduling of games, special events, and so on. The e-mails we use are the ones that people have provided either on their registration form or by e-mails sent to our e-mail address. ALL E-MAIL ADDRESSES ARE KEPT PRIVATE AND ARE NEVER SHARED WITH THIRD PARTIES. If have you have not received any updates from us recently, it means we do not have your e-mail address. Either you may not have provided us with one on your registration form or the one you provided no longer works. In some cases, the address given was not legible enough for us to use properly. Also, some e-mail programs may be diverting our e-mails into a Bulk or Spam folder. You can resolve this by adjusting the settings for your e-mail program so that it allows e-mail from our address. To be on our e-mail update list, simply send us an e-mail at gbhc@comcast.net. For AOL e-mails, we ask that you use our alternate e-mail address, which is greenbrookhockeyclub@comcast.net. Thanks and again, please send us your e-mail address right away to get our updates!!

- Tom Sammon
GBHC Webmaster & League Communications


The Green Brook Hockey Club extends its deepest appreciation to the New Jersey Devils and to Ken Daneyko, who made our Fall 2005 Opening Day one of the most special ones ever! Shortly after Ken arrived and said hi to everyone, he went right to work signing plenty of autographs and taking pictures with many of our players. After a while, Ken took a moment to do a couple of puck drops for one of our U8 games, which thrilled those guys to no end. Ken then conitinued to autograph sticks, pucks, pictures, and even some of our players' jersey's (looks like those won't get washed for a while!). Finally, Ken posed for some pictures with Dave Paltjon and family with the new Matt Paltjon scholarship plaque, which of course, honors the yearly recipients of our scholarship award. Again, we thank Ken and the Devils for all they did to help open our Fall 2005 season in a very special way. To see pictures of Ken Daneyko from our Fall 2005 Opening Day, just click on our "Pictures" section of the website and click on the "Ken Daneyko visits" option. What a fantastic day it was!


What a great day Saturday, September 23rd, 2005 was when former Devils and Rangers player Bruce Driver joined the Green Brook Hockey Club for a great time at our rink. Bruce stayed and signed autographs during the first couple of our U8 division games that day and chatted with alot of our players and parents about hockey life. Bruce also did a puck drop during one of the U8 games and stayed and talked a while longer with some of our players, parents, and coaches. All in all we had a terrific time with Bruce and we thank the New Jersey Devils for arranging for Bruce to be on hand at our rink! Thanks Bruce!!

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