The New Jersey Grizzlies have added Coaches, Players and Personnel to their 2008-2009 squad. General Manager Denis Jelcic announced that last season's Coaching Staff of Ken Peters, Frank Benincasa and Mark Koblentz would be retained. Jelcic also added that he would add Robert Fulton Jr as their 5th coach. "Bob brings a lot of energy and knowledge of the game to the table, let's just say that if not for Bob, we probably wouldn't be where we were in the travel hockey world." said Jelcic. He also added that Arlene Lobay would continue her position with the NJ Grizzlies website as well as Ken Pileggi his position by default as Assistant General Manager. The Grizzlies have named their roster for the 2008-2009 season. It will be as follows:
Professional Roster
#27, Phil Cocozzo, F #92 Kris Moore, F #73 Nick Pileggi, F #98 Kurtis Peters, F #68 Jeff Grabowski,F #8 Tom Youmans, F #77 Mark Wyckoff, D #00 Chris Wolf, D #2 James Manganaro, D #22 Robbie Fulton, D #13 Ricky McGuire, D #29 Andrew Goworek, G #31 Nuno Costa, G
Minor Roster
#9 Jeffrey Auger, F #11 Shane Brower, F(Injured) #89 Tim Fulton, F #4 CJ Gilcrist, F #5 Joe Schmelzer, F #42 James Steneck, F #91 Dave Rooney, F #97 Declan Quinn, F #88 Parker Murray, D #55 Jeff Turner, D #11 Eric Sommers, D # 7 David Koblentz, D #30 Nick Benincasa, G #35 Ryan Wolf, G
2008-2009 Coaching Staff:
Denis Jelcic, Ken Peters, Bob Fulton, Frank Benincasa, Mark Koblentz, "We are very happy with where we are as opposed to last season at this time, but we know we have a lot more work ahead of us as well." says Jelcic. The Grizzlies have started camp and had three weeks to review and dispose of players and the team will have camp until opening day in November every Sunday morning.
Look for more information to follow.
