Green Brook Hockey Club: Welcome

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!!

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!!

Siskin Family Chiropractic Cyclones 5, DiMola's Pizza Vipers 0

Cyclones Goals: Christian Hoppeler (3), Brett Miller, Peter Ciliberto. Assists: Christian Hoppeler. Goalie: Domenick Montecalvo.

Vipers Goals: None. Assists: None. Goalie: Aaron Ahr.

Caruso-Dellomo Construction Snipers 9, Krutis Excavating Bears 1

Snipers Goals: J.J. Martin (5), Natalie Lizak (2), Rebecca Brady, Jacquline Lee. Assists: J.J. Martin (2), Rebecca Brady, Amanda Hode. Goalie: Shayne Heluk.

Bears Goals: Anthony Aquino. Assists: None. Goalie: Colin Savulich

DiMola's Pizza Vipers 3, Krutis Excavating Bears 1

Vipers Goals: Gavin Costello (2), Mathew Katz. Assists: Mathew Katz. Goalie: Aaron Ahr.

Bears Goals: Will Benscoter. Assists: None. Goalie: Glen Diamond

Shogun 22 Wolfpack 4, Boretz Orthopaedics Checkers 3

Wolfpack Goals: Mathew Piro (4). Assists: None. Goalie: Zach Giamundo.

Green Brook F.O.P. Lodge #23 Lightning 6, Performance Dynamics Sharpshooters 2

Lightning Goals: Spencer Savulich (2), Philip Ciliberto, Brian Reiss, Jessie Shapiro, John Hoppeler. Assists: Spencer Savulich, Michael Stalenyj, Jonathan Chang, Brian Reiss, Philip Ciliberto. Goalie: Reese Robinson.

Sharpshooters Goals: Ryan Boettcher, Jordan Green. Assists: Justin Todtenkopf. Goalie: Thomas Rau.

Performance Dynamics Sharpshooters 5, Shogun 22 Wolfpack 3

Blue Angels Goals: John Hermann, Ben Neri. Assists: Ben Neri. Goalie: Dustin DeMarsico.

Just Hockey Devils 5, Earth Thebault Rangers 3

Mudcats Goals: Colin Bradley (6), Stephen DeTorres (2), Jason Stupay (2), Chris Lubrano, Spencer Iverson. Assists: Colin Bradley (3), Spencer Iverson (3), Stephen DeTorres (2), Zach Iverson. Goalie: John Carl Gibbons

River Rats Goals: Georgie Margelis (5), Corey Paltjon (2), Cody Sorrentino. Assists: Georgie Margelis (3), Bryan Serge (2), Corey Paltjon, Anthony Sorrentino. Goalie: Dov Landau.

Just Hockey Devils 7, Atlantic Fence Bruins 4 

Devils Goals: Justin Capella (2), vinny Martin (2), Phil Hessemer, Nicky Martin, Tyler Hardgrove. Assists: Nicky Martin, Justin Capella, Tyler Hardgrove, Phil Hessemer. Goalie: Al Nieliwocki.  

Bruins Goals: Peter Chang (2), Damien Quense, Billy Stevens. Assists: Matt Todtenkopf (2), Julien DeOliveira. Goalie: Nick Coco.

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!!

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.