The second year, Port Huron became the Roanoke Valley Vipers. picks his words with great care when discussing what he calls "the legal issues" of the last few years. Jason Chen explains the effect in depth before New Jersey plays Wednesday. ", "Dad, if this guy had two eyes, he might be one of the greatest NHL players ever! The first happens on the field, court, or ice. None of this fazes the 47-year-old Brenda. In a nod to waste management he named his team the Trashers; the logo was a garbage can armed with a hockey stick, the Zamboni resembled a trash truck and the mascot was called Scrappy. In court, Matty the Horse was ruined and old, hard to understand. See latest post and follow all instructions. And it all ended in an FBI raid and subsequent indictment that landed Galante in the slammer, along with the infamous gangster Matthew Ianniello, aka Matty the Horse, the then-86-year-old capo di tutti capi of the Genovese crime family. Wagner generally played on one- or two-game contracts, and promised AJ that he would take care of the Frostbite. John has two sons who also like to play hockey. At 24, Rupp had already spent two seasons in the majors. In this way, they happened across, in addition to all sorts of other malfeasance, evidence of those no-show jobs, which ultimately resulted in additional charges against Galante. Wingfield was back in uniform, having healed from the slew-footing by Elzinga that had broken his leg in several places. Soon, a 3-on-3 scrimmage was underway with Brenda, for the first time in her life, facing shots in a real game. It was happening at the FBIs office in New Haven, where, by the spring of 2005, a handful of agents were deep into an investigation of Galantes garbage business. Important: An official team/league url or a team document must be provided for us to update player stats. Timo Meier's fantasy hockey value trends up after the New Jersey Devils acquired him. Wingfield challenged a Kalamazoo player, Josh Elzinga, to a fight. pursues his new sports passion, boxing management. But Jimmy Galante was smart, and the G-men could never quite nail him. Throughout his busy professional career, he has also participated in numerous hockey schools around the country. I wound up having words with the referee, and unbeknownst to me, he was a full-time police officer in upstate New York, Galante told me. Marc's experience as a professional Triathlete and coach with Team USA brings an understanding of the whole body and the athlete to the Ice. Initially, just as a spectator. He ended up reaching over the bench and grabbing the Adirondack coach, trying to pull him over the boards. They were both in waste management, and both possessed an undeniable charm that compensated for their rough edges. Such a city will have many of the bad elements of a metropolis and few of the good. Dissatisfied with the response he got from police, DeLuca went to Galante. She accepted and over the next two years would occasionally hit pucks around, even after the Trashers ignominiously folded in 2006. "Lemme get this straight," he said. (Prosecutors ultimately dropped the case for lack of proof. The gangster shrugged: What can I say, right? The Galantes hired J. Todd Stirling, a son of former Islanders coach Steve Stirling, as the inaugural coach. DeLuca ended up resigning from office because of the scandal. Depending on whom you ask, Jimmy Galante was either one of its mobsters or a legit businessman whose waste-removal company had become associated with the Mafia. Playing against the Trashers was "a s--- show," said Chris Chaput, who was a center for the Elmira Jackals in 2005--06. As Wagner was escorted there, he broke free to make a dash toward the opposing bench. You have to understand, Dave MacIsaac, who played 62 regular-season games for Danbury, told me. Marc was a professional Triathlete for over 10 years. What happened today in history (27 February): Sandeep Singh and Constantine I were born, Leonard Nimoy and Chandra Shekhar Azad died, World NGO Day, Bayern Munich was founded, Pakistan retaliated . You'll be the president. Adam has over 25 years of hockey experience as a player and coach. "It was loud," says A.J., "and security was very, let's just say, flexible." They happily agreed. The team was largely the same, with a few additions, including yet another minor-league-hockey legend, David Beauregard. The Trashers' marquee player was Brent Gretzky, Wayne's kid brother. December 03, 2005. If asked why they hadnt made it, theyd tell you no one had ever really given them a shot. A tale of goons, no-show jobs, and a legendary minor-league franchise that helped land its owner in prison. drives his white Mercedes more than three hours to White Deer, Pa., where Jimmy is serving his sentence at the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex. General Manager of the Augusta RiverHawks of the SPHL (2009), General Manager of the Jacksonville Barracudas of the SPHL (2004-2009), Played in 5 leagues over the course of his professional career, Played in the Sunshine Hockey League; Southern Hockey League; ECHL; Atlantic Coast Hockey League; and the World Hockey Association 2, St. Thomas University Graduate (Fredericton, NB, Canada) on an Athletic Scholarship. We were maybe the toughest team to ever play this game. Asked what hes up to these days, he said, Enjoying life.. Federal authorities had grown interested in the Connecticut waste-management industry. The doors to the visiting team's penalty box were also welded together, so opponents had to fling themselves over the boards to enter the box. Some fights started spontaneously, following a big hit. But for the Trashers, there was a third game, although neither Jimmy nor AJ knew about it. U.S. Hockey Report provides exclusive amateur hockey news reporting and scouting services in the United States and Canada. The charge was later dropped due to a lack of clear evidence, but Brosal fined Galante an undisclosed amount and suspended Harper for five games. They led the league in penalty minutes. It was one of those things where wed say, Hit this guy. But no one could catch him. Same for Mike Rupp. "I said, 'Sure,' which, to my dad, was like signing a contract. (Colella denies this.) MIKE RUPP wore a look of confusion. But he would become something of a hockey Crash Davis: He would play through 2013, retiring at 37. Says St. Clair, "It still feels like I got kicked in the f------ chest. did his homework," says former Trashers center Drew Omicioli, "putting in research and hard work to build the team.". Facebook gives people the power to. The Washington Capitals have signed defenseman Nick Jensen to a three-year contract extension worth an average annual value of $4.05 million. Josh Elzinga has an equally impressive professional playing career and has served as Adam's Assistant Coach for the past 4 seasons. Says Pomposello, "Jimmy's old school. The Trashers traveled in a luxury coach; they played card games and talked all night. Its all Ive known for my whole life, she said. First of all, he was a really good player, AJ explained, and second, the name recognition.. Currently, Al isanAssistant Coach of the 05 AAA Florida Alliance Elite team. 's account.). That matchup was marred by a brawl that kicked off when Trashers left winger Brad Wingfield attempted to fight Kalamazoo's Josh Elzinga, who declined the invitation. 's high school Jimmy paid to refurbish the football stadium. A.J. puts it, "it got real, real fast." Also, its funny as hellThe Sopranos meets Slap Shot. So Greg stitched together multiple chest protectors what he called a Frankenstein model to ensure her safety. The Trashers still trigger strong responses in Danbury, too. Danbury, Connecticut, is the ultimate small city. Josh Elzinga Defense Born Sep 3 1984 -- Burbank, IL [38 yrs. Danburys equipment manager would soak the Trashers jerseys in Crisco before they played the Frostbite so the opposing goons couldnt get a firm grip. Gilles is a Level 4 Hockey Coach with USA Hockey. In keeping with the menacing nickname they gave themselves, the Trashers dropped their gloves at every opportunity, gleefully racking up penalty minutes. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. - Premium Design on your profile page (optional) Follow. Though he scored on the play, he lost sight in his left eye. A Cree from Saskatchewan who sometimes sported a multicolored Mohawk, he stood barely 5'10" but had a chin of granite and relished punching above his weight class. (I wanted to bring something back to the community, Galante told me when I spoke with him in February.) "We loved those fansI mean loved," says Omicioli. Not a subscriber? Nothing.. "But you got to stir it up sometimes.". The United States government came in and seized my assets, and one of the assets was the team, Galante told me. Last seen in the 2003-2004 season with the Chicago Steel (USHL). While David-Alexandre Beauregard was no goon, he fit into the Danbury menagerie. For this he was banned for life from the UHL. They weren't just happy to go to games. Thirty-two other individuals, including Matty the Horse, were charged as part of the investigation. MICHAEL J. LEBRECHT II FOR SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (A.J.). But it wasn't just the players who were punished. He was suspended from the UHL for life., And then there was the broken-leg game. People who tell the story start with the date, as if recalling an event of historical importance: December 1, 2004. I wouldnt look for the most penalty minutes, he told me. "Every character they had, we had. He'd already played 12 seasons of pro hockey: a total of 13 games in the NHL, followed by years of wandering the minors. Having collected 563 goals over the course of his 15 seasons in various leagues, Duhart gave the Trashers a second genuine scoring threat. Through United States Ice Rink Association Gilles has acquired his Hockey Director Certificate, Human Resources Management Certificate and Programming, Marketing and Promotions Certificate. The jerseys featured the team mascot, Scrappy, a garbage can with the lid raised just enough to reveal two almond-shaped eyes peering from the darkness. He had me arrested in the locker room. Good hotels, a beautiful locker roomseveral players remember their tenure on the team as their most satisfying time in pro hockey. According to the subsequent indictment, the investigation was part of an effort to thwart illegal practices in the trash hauling industry. It had been kicked off by a complaint. When Jimmy returned from work, his son greeted him with the big news. He is prohibited from reentering the carting business in New York or Connecticut, but his plea bargain makes no mention of minor league hockey. Josh Elzinga, a blueliner for the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Wings, did that for him. acted decisively. Investigators alleged that by paying a quarterly $30,000 "mob tax" to Matthew (Matty the Horse) Ianniellothen the highest-ranking member of New York City's Genovese crime familyGalante's companies had muscled out potential competitors and charged counties and businesses inflated carting rates. They called back, and I said, Do you want to trade that one-eyed guy? His first game with us, he had [a goal and an assist]. Workers were still welding in seats 90 minutes before the first game, but opening night was a success: A sellout crowd of about 2,500 showed up, and Danbury beat Adirondack 3--1. A.J. In his first semester of college A.J. Needless to say it was gobbled right up.The documentary has taken the hockey and sports worlds by storm. Gilles was the Lead Hockey Instructor for National Hockey Development for 4 years. The rest of the game doubled as a near riot. ", HAVING A son named A.J. "The camaraderie with the Galante familythe laughs, the dinnersit's sad," Pomposello says, his voice catching. Galante was a philanthropist; a pediatric suite in the emergency department of Danbury Hospital was named for his family. From March 2014: The oracle of ice hockey. There was an incident where one of our players attacked one of the Adirondack coaches, and that ended up in the Toronto Star. For himself he built a skybox equipped with a kitchenette and a flat-screen TV. You did right by him and were loyal, and he would do anything for you. The most famous tough-guy team ever was whothe Broad Street Bullies, 7475 Flyers? He searched two places, one actual, one virtual. SON CONNOR IS NOW PLAYING IN THE USHL (WATERLOO BLACKHAWKS), Played in over 1,000 games in the NHL, AHL, Swedish Elite League, Finnish National League and more, Private hockey instructor with Saveology.com Iceplex team, Former Assistant Coach for the Florida Everblades (ECHL) during the 09-10 season, Currently the Director of Hockey Operations at TPH Ft. Lauderdale, National Hockey League (NHL) Alumni for the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings, 2013-current -Coach with the Florida Alliance/Southeast Elite Program, 2012-current -Coach with the Florida Jr. Everblades, Player for the United States men's ice hockey team in three Olympic's (2002, 2006, and 2010), Playedfour years at the University of WisconsinMadison, This website is powered by SportsEngine's. We're here to win.". The lockout sent NHL stars into the cold. So in 2004 Galante sank his money into the hockey equivalent of Double A ball. And the fans, from section 102 and beyond, still miss their team. For 5 years John was with N.I.S.T.C as the Hockey Director and for 3 years he was with theGlobal Hockey School. Frank The Animal Bialowas, a legend in hockey circles, had played three games in the NHL, then spent the rest of his career in the minors, rambling from rink to rink, like a bad man in a Western. SHOWTIME The Trashers didn't just start fights. Galante passed him a note that asked, Do you want me to have someone pay him a visit? A.J. He's 27 now. GET THE PICTURE? In a 2004 altercation with Josh Elzinga of the Kalamazoo Wings, Wingfield's season was cut short when he gruesomely broke his leg from a Elzinga slew-foot (the act of sweeping out someone's leg.) And fans werent the only ones who found the Trashers; players did too. I first heard it from a father on the sidelines of a Little League game soon after I moved in. But AJs favorite was Brad Wingnut Wingfield. They also saw the Trashers as a kind of validation: Someone believes in Danbury. The Danbury Whalers of the Federal Hockey League now play downtown, and it's fair to wonder whether they would be there were it not for the hockey culture Jimmy Galante started and the arena he built. "I want to trade for Beauregard," A.J. Now and then, he liked to make an elaborate gesture, something attention-getting. I remember asking, Why does he have the full mask? Someone told me, Hes only got one eye. Hed lost vision in the othera stick through the visor. A view of the scene Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, as the cleanup continues at the site of a Norfolk Southern freight train derailment that happened on Feb. 3, in East Palestine, Ohio. View the profiles of people named Josh Elzinga. Brenda St. Clair can serve as an inspiration to goaltenders and all hockey fans throughout the world. A.J. Home; Fights. What does that mean? And what's more entertaining than a bunch of crazy guys getting into fights?". He took a shot at us, AJ told me. After the game Wingfield told a local reporter, "It felt great to get back at Elzinga but I would have liked to have seen him leaving the ice on a stretcher or in a body bag.". ", "WE LOVED THOSE FANS," SAYS OMICIOLI. One night, he got into a shouting match with a stranger who turned out to be the visiting teams general managerthe result being a call to AJ from Richard Brosal, the UHL commissioner, followed by a short suspension. Gretzky, at 32, was in the descent portion of his career. It will have desperate people, lost causes, and crime. THE SOUND TRACK of the Starrett City Boxing Club in Brooklyn is on full blast: the thrumming of the speed bag, the grunts of a fighter absorbing shots, the whistle every three minutes to denote the end of a round. Furthermore, according to authorities, in April 2005 Galante had met with Louis DeLuca, a longtime Connecticut state senator. AFTER THE FALL While Jimmy (below right) serves out his prison sentence, A.J. Not that they just rubber-stamped Galante's application. Originally from the Metro Detroit area, Craig grew up playing youth hockey in Michigan within the Detroit Little Caesars organization. Which was the point: The Danbury Ice Arena was the sort of place where you could get into it with a random bozo in the bleachers, and he would turn out to be the head of the opposing team. The league set an annual salary cap of $275,000, with a $2 luxury tax for every dollar spent above the threshold. "Oh, everyone knew the deal," says Omicioli, "but [we] didn't care. VS. 1st Period - 7:13 . I fined him. My father said, out of nowhere, If I ever buy a hockey team, youre going to run it. I was like, Yeah, sure. Then, two days later, he said, Okay, I bought the team. True to his word, Galante made his son the teams general manager. He almost looked like Waynethe same intelligent eyes and long face, the same scraggly mall-rat hairbut not quite. The Trashers were even able to land a few genuine NHL players, one of whom was Mike Rupp. They were always pulling them out late, clearing the bench, fighting and celebrating. During his four years of collegiate playfor the Miami OH Redhawks (CCHA), he received the Terry Flannagan Humanitarian Award recognizing Ernie's strong character and leadership skills both on and off of the ice. That meant late-night sessions on hockeydb.com, where he searched for telling stats. It has survived not only five centuries, 25. december. Mid-season, thats when we really caught fire, AJ told me. So while Greg, 49, can walk, his wife is paralyzed, relying on a motorized wheelchair to move around. Upon his release he had rebuilt his empire and now, according to The Hartford Courant, was worth more than $100 million. "Frank would have been a hell of a Danbury Trasher," A.J. All told, he played just five games for them. It held fewer than 3,000 seats, the fewest in the UHL, but it had a jewel-box intimacy. Now it's probably best known for its massive federal prison, which housed Lauryn Hill and has been featured in Orange Is the New Black. Skokie Hockey is pleased to announce that Adam Elzinga will join the 2016-17 coaching staff as the Head Coach of our 2007 team (Squirt 2). 355 following. Then AJ had gotten hurt. In 2003, from their desks above what was once center ice, agents began investigating Jimmy Galante. On June 8, 2006, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office announced that Galante was the subject of an indictment that included charges of fraud, extortion, racketeering, tax fraud and conspiracy. The Galantes told Trashers who were suspendedinvariably for fightingto watch the games from the 102 seats. I figured it would be like a video game, controlling players and all that. Two months into the season, the games turned nasty. Get access to our unique free agency lists and many more premium features, Drafted 2001, 4 #48 overall by Cedar Rapids Roughriders in the USHL Entry Draft, Drafted 2000, 8 #157 overall by Windsor Spitfires in the OHL Priority Selection. Players were welcome to stay at the Galantes' gargantuan home and, in one case, not even asked to leave after using Roseanne Galante's laptop to download Internet porn. On Oct. 15, Jimmy began serving his time. While other UHL franchises were notorious for penny-pinching, the Trashers traveled in a luxe team bus. She had tears in her eyes and was thanking us so much. For a few hours, hockey had given Brenda a sense of normalcy to which Vogel can relate. Josh Elzinga vs. Mark Versteeg-Lytwyn, November 24, 2006 - Port Huron Flags vs. Kalamazoo Wings. said. So I reached out to a guy I knew in the Quebec League and said, Get me Chad Wagner., Chad Wagner was one of the most feared hockey fighters of the era. We knew the reality: It was hockey, but it was also entertainment. Jimmy Galante tried to get onto the ice through the penalty box. Gretzky reportedly earned $100,000, which would have left little for the rest of the team. | View as text League Information Josh Elzinga played in four leagues over the course of his career. His accomplishments includeover 30 wins across the World, along with competing with Team USA at World Championships. The Danbury Trashers earned respect with their fists as often as their sticks. 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