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The Florida Eels Premier team nosed out as the Charleston Colonials  edged the Eels 4-3. The Eels make no excuses. They simply dd not have it tonight. We were right there but couldn’t close the barn door so to speak. We had our chances and wavered a bit in the D zone. These lapses triggered a void in the Win Column. So we chalk it us and taking it as part of our development.

Tomorrow is what we look to and don’t dwell. We learn from it but don’t over think it.

We have an outstanding squad. You take the good and learn from the losses.

 

Four Florida Eel Premier Players Hit Major Milestones Reaching 200 + Points In Their Junior Careers.

21 Jan by Frank Scarpaci

Four Florida Eel Premier Players Hit Major Milestones Reaching 200 + Points In Their Junior Careers.

The Florida Eels are proud to highlight several major milestones in some of its key players:

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TJ Zebley a forward, passes 200 points in the USPHL as a junior player: GP 146 Goals 82 Assists 122 Total Points 204. Zebley, a 2000, is an extremely talented player. He is on the radar for numerous NCAA coaches. A first-class individual as well strong leadership skill. Great character.

Gage Dill a 2001 forward with Total Junior games played at 152. He has 75 Goals 128 Assists Total Points 205. This young man can score at will. A natural goal scorer. He is a shifty player great hands and few players in junior hockey have his upside. He makes everything look so easy. Very high hockey IQ. Top NCAA college prospect.

Jake Court is 5 points shy of the 200-point mark. He played 156 junior games. He has 80 goals and 125 assists for 195 total points. Now that is impressive. He started his youth hockey with the Eels mite program and has played with the Eels right straight through juniors. He “bleeds Eels Green.” Jake is truly an iron man with the Eels. He has tremendous work ethic to go along with his high skill set. Jake is tough as nails. Solid character. Top college prospect. Taurin Haddon- Harris a 2001 forward. He is new to the Eels Junior program this season. He has a combined Prep and Junior career of 84 goals 123 assists for a total of 207 points. He is a very gifted forward explosive speed that lends to his knack for scoring. Another high character individual. Very high hockey IQ. Plays with a high compete level. Top College prospect.

The Florida Eels are proud  to highlight several  major milestones in some of its key players:

 

TJ Zebley a forward, passes 200 points in the USPHL as a junior player: GP 146 Goals 82 Assists 122 Total Points 204.  Zebley,  a 2000,  is an extremely talented player. He is on the radar for numerous NCAA coaches. A first-class individual as well strong leadership skill. Great character.

 

Gage Dill a 2001 forward with Total Junior games played at 152.  He has 75  Goals  128 Assists  Total Points 205. This young man can score at will.  A natural goal scorer. He is a shifty player great hands and few players in junior hockey have his upside. He makes everything look so easy. Very high hockey IQ. Top NCAA college prospect.

 

Jake Court is 5 points shy of the 200-point mark.  He played  156  junior games. He has  80 goals and  125 assists for 195 total points. Now that is impressive. He started his youth hockey with the Eels mite program and has played with the Eels right straight through juniors.  He “bleeds Eels Green.”  Jake is truly an iron man with the Eels. He has tremendous work ethic to go along with his high skill set. Jake is  tough as nails. Solid character. Top college prospect.

 

Taurin Haddon- Harris a 2001 forward. He is new to the Eels Junior program this season. He has a combined Prep and Junior career  of 84 goals  123 assists   for a total of 207  points.  He is a very gifted forward explosive speed that lends to his knack for scoring. Another high character individual. Very high hockey IQ. Plays with a high compete level. Top College prospect.

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Tristan Roost  2000 forward. Another  newcomer to the Eels this season. Tristan played  in 147 junior games. He has 47 goals 82 assists 129 points. Tristan is another very gifted player. Has ripened this year as an Eels into a solid goal scorer. Very high hockey IQ. Excellent overall skill set. High character individual.

Florida Eels Pre-Game Snapshot: This Wednesday The San Diego Sabers (Premier) Northern Cyclones (Elite)

This Wednesday the Florida Eels Premier and Elite team head into the heart of the Hub City at the Advent Center Ice in Wesley Chapel and square off against two opponents from across the USA. The Premier team takes on a team from the Pacific Division the San Diego Sabers. The Eels have never played any team from California so this ought to be a great experience for the players. While the Elite squad faces off once again against the Northern Cyclones.

The Premier team will be playing in its 3rd game of the Hub City event. They played 1st against the Jersey Hitmen and won 12-3 and in their 2nd game they handedly defeated the CJR 10-1. That is 22 goals for in two games and only allowing 4. The boys have all cylinders firing at this point. They have been playing with a high-octane offense while not losing sight of their defensive responsibilities with a solid 2 GAA in those games it makes these wins more impressive. The Sabers have struggled a bit this season and no doubt they are hungry for a win. This is an organization with solid history. Indeed, last season in the WSHL, in 51 games played, they garnered 31 wins and 18 losses. That is pretty solid. They made the trip out to Florida to compete in the Hub City event with their eye on developing their players and making them better overall. They are hoping this will rekindle their winning ways. You can count on the Eels not to take them lightly. There is nothing more dangerous than playing a team as hungry as the Sabers. The Eels take no team for granted. They take no win for granted. They go out and play their game no matter what the scenario or who the opponent is. The Eels are in a major battle with the Tampa Juniors in the standings, so every point is critical here on out.

The Elite team has their 4th game of the Hub City when they play the Northern Cyclones on Wednesday. They have won all 3 games heretofore in the Hub City. It will be their 2nd game against the Cyclones. The first game the Eels won 5-2 But the Eels know full well the Cyclones are an extremely talented team. They have some very good players. In fact, 8 of the Eels Elite players played against the Cyclone all stars and our boys will tell you they are very talented. The Cyclones are well coached, and you can expect them to come in with a different game plan. The Elite team like the Premier team will not take them for granted nor will they come to the game being complacent. The Eels are battling it out in the standings and these 2 points are very important whether it means climbing ahead or preventing it from slipping to 3rd place. This will make for an extremely competitive game on Wednesday.

The Premier team plays at 1:20 PM

The Elite team plays at noon

Come join us in Tampa or if you cannot make it join us on HockeyTV.

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Another exciting day at the Hub City Event. Today six of our Eels Premier players competed in the USPHL All Star Event. In the Premier Division the All Stars were divided into two Divisions. The American and National Divisions. Our Florida boys played in the National Division against players from the North

The following Eels players were selected to play:

T J Zebley, Gage Dill, Alex Caron, Tristan Roost, Cade Swygert and Demeed Podrezov.

In the game Gage Dill and Tj Zebley scored a goal each.

This was a game in the making. It was the first All Star team/game in 15 years in the USPHL Premier Division. It was an excellent atmosphere for the boys. They got to play with and against so many players from around the league. In Florida we had players from the Tampa Juniors, the Florida Jr Blades and the Florida Eels. Joining the Florida Division were players from the Jersey Hitmen and the NY Aviators. The intangible ingredient here is the fostering of USPHL camaraderie and interleave sportsmanship

From the Florida coaching staff was  Premier coach Frankie Scarpaci and Tampa Juniors Head Coach Garrett Strot

What an incredible event for the Florida Players to compete in the Hub City All Star event against the players from the Northern team All Stars.  The Florida All Stars were selected to the American Division where as the Northern opponents were in the National Division. Team Florida was made up of players from the Florida Eels the Jr Blades and the Tampa Juniors.

The Florida Eels had the following players selected to this all star team: Mathieu Rioux, Anthony Zebley, Kaleb Harrop, Matt Clift, Landen Engles, Vincent Cartier, Ryan Chambre and Jake Mork

Joining me as coach was former NHL star player Filip Kuba. Coach Kuba was great with the players. What an experience to have him there.

This was so exciting for our guys. The league set this up like a NHL style operation. Top of the line jerseys, A Light show, the introduction of each player, 3 stars of the game, players of the game from each team and a game MVP

It was first class all the way. The other intangibles here was that our Eels guys got to play with players from the Jr Blades and The Tampa Juniors. This brought an entirely different element to the game and our hockey community.  For one game they were not adversaries. They were teammates. We as coaches and administrators hope that this will foster camaraderie amongst them. That they will bring back this unique experience and a heightened sportsmanship in the Florida junior hockey community.

As one of the coaches for Team Florida i was very impressed with all the boys on the team. Yes for sure they were all very talented. But the character of the boys in the locker room, on the bench and on the ice. First class all the way. All of their teammates and coaches should be indeed extremely proud of them.

USPHL Premier Hub City All-Stars

Team National (Red)

Forwards

Demeed Podrezov, Florida Eels (‘00)

Gage Dill, Florida Eels (‘01)

T.J. Zebley, Florida Eels (‘00)

Tristan Roost, Florida Eels (‘00)

Stanley Lucas, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘00)

Aaron Frenkel, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘00)

Connor Reed, Tampa Bay Juniors (00)

Cameron Croteau, Florida Jr. Blades (‘01)

Jason Tynan, New York Aviators (‘00)

Ross Jaldung, New York Aviators (‘01)

Jay Finan, Jersey Hitmen (‘01)

Zachary Ostrowski, P.A.L. Jr. Islanders (‘01)

Vladislav Suhhodolov, San Diego Sabers (‘03)

Defensemen

Cade Swygert, Florida Eels (‘00)

Lazarus Kaebel, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘01)

Jack Anderson, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘02)

Kyle Lindholm, Florida Jr. Blades (‘00)

Nathan Albrecht, New York Aviators (‘00)

Johnny LaMacchia, Jersey Hitmen (‘00)

Goaltenders

Alexandre Caron, Florida Eels (‘01)

Cade Kujawski, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘00)

Michael Marino, New York Aviators (‘02)

USPHL Elite Hub City All-Stars

Team American (White)

Forwards

Anthony Zebley, Florida Eels (‘04)

Kaleb Harrop, Florida Eels (‘01)

Matthew Clift, Florida Eels (‘01)

Mathieu Rioux, Florida Eels (‘02)

Landen Engles, Florida Eels (‘03)

Ryan Bahula, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘03)

Adam Custable, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘03)

Jack Fleer, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘02)

Tim Ruf, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘02)

Rory Neish, Florida Jr. Blades (‘02)

Derrick Hambling, Florida Jr. Blades (‘03)

Alex Broadhead, Florida Jr. Blades (‘03)

Defensemen

Filip Kuba, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘04)

Nash Cobbs, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘03)

Vincent Cartier, Florida Eels (‘03)

Ryan Chambre, Florida Eels (‘03)

Jeremy Pizzola, Florida Jr. Blades (‘04)

Matthew Walters, Florida Jr. Blades (‘02)

Goaltenders

Jacob Mork, Florida Eels (‘02)

Evan Spinella, Tampa Bay Juniors (‘03