Practice Summary - 11/9/24

The coaching staff was concerned that today's practice would be light in terms of attendance. There was a rumor circulating that several Dare Devils players were on the Auburn basketball team charter flight that was diverted due to player shenanigans. If there were Dare Devils on that flight, there were only a few - to the relief of the coaches, practice was heavily attended (although Shea Passikoff, Owen Silverstein and James Cooney were conspicuously absent). Coach Myles, Coach Eric and Coach Steve Toledo ran the drills while Coach Bernard, given a brief reprieve from the bunker, made sure order was maintained throughout practice. Veterans Captain Ryan Griffin, Reese Citro, Nick Ritter, Will Trampota, Ryan Tomkievicz, Patrick Law and Matty Brighton led the charge in the advanced portion of practice while newcomers Charlie Alterman, Victoria Garay and Matthew Amato continued their significant progression in the learn-to-skate session. One of our other first year players, Jesse Lanzkowsky, started off strong but had to get off the ice early due to a skate blade malfunction. Hopefully Coach T can sort that out and get Jesse back up and running next week.

Next week, Shea Passikoff and James Cooney will be joining forces with the Long Island Blues and competing in the Special Hockey National Tournament in Blaine, MN. For the players not traveling to Minnesota next week, we will have practice on Saturday, 11/16, but it will be at a different time slot than normal. We will start with the learn-to-skate session going from 6pm to 6:45pm and the advanced/intermediate practice running from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.