Marc specializes in the full spectrum of athlete development. As Wagner was escorted there, he broke free to make a dash toward the opposing bench. The Washington Capitals have signed defenseman Nick Jensen to a three-year contract extension worth an average annual value of $4.05 million. Al grew up and was raised in small-town Manitoba and played all levels of minor and senior hockey. Having been a professional player, coach, and instructor for over 15 years, Gilles has been able to help continue to grow youth hockey programs across the state of Florida. It's possible Wylie could return on a one-year deal that is a significant raise from the $2.38 million he earned last season. Theyd gotten close in 2005; now they intended to kick the son of a bitch in. ", HAVING A son named A.J. 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. This article appears in the May 2018 print edition with the headline The Mobster Who Bought His Teenage Son a Hockey Team., The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? We knew the reality: It was hockey, but it was also entertainment. An 11-year-old girl in Detroit had to get staples in her head after . "You had blue-collar guys banging on the glass. ", Jimmy expects to be released this summer. While David-Alexandre Beauregard was no goon, he fit into the Danbury menagerie. A.J. recalls, "even the commissioner was like, 'I would advise against that. Take control of your EliteProspects profile! 355 following. Little separated the team from its fans, physically or culturally: They mostly made nothing, were going nowhere, and knew unfairness. Furthermore, according to authorities, in April 2005 Galante had met with Louis DeLuca, a longtime Connecticut state senator. 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. Now he was turning up with his gear at a regional airport, being greeted too enthusiastically by what looked like a high-school kid claiming to be his new GM. A.J. says, shifting uneasily in his seat. The cornerstone of Marc's approach is focusing on making each hockey player a better athlete. Jimmy Galante purchased an expansion franchise in the United Hockey League, the equivalent of Double A baseball. In the Trashers-Frostbite game, however, he inflicted no real damage even though he spent three periods looking for a fight, ran up 43 penalty minutes and even made a run at the Adirondack goalie. Needless to say it was gobbled right up.The documentary has taken the hockey and sports worlds by storm. The wiretaps captured Galantes associates recalling a trip to Mount Kisco, New York, where they wentas Michael Gustafson, the lead assistant U.S. attorney who handled the case, would later state in courtto retain the services of a leg-breaker known as the Carpenter. Also caught on tape was Galante telling an associate to deliver a message to a would-be canary: Long Island says hello, referring to Matty the Horse Ianniello. Wagner had once set a West Coast Hockey League single-season record with 503 penalty minutes. 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. ", Roseanne Galante, reasonably, asked her husband and son if they had any idea what they were doing. 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. Says Pomposello, "Jimmy's old school. Now and then, he liked to make an elaborate gesture, something attention-getting. In professional sports, there are usually two games taking place. Coach Ernie's leadership, motivational skills, training skills, and exceptional training ethics bring exciting elements to Southeast Elite Hockey. Josh Elzinga vs. Brad Wingfield, December 03, 2005 - Kalamazoo Wings vs. Danbury Trashers . They were always pulling them out late, clearing the bench, fighting and celebrating. Seven players were sent to the penalty box. It will have desperate people, lost causes, and crime. The fans in section 102 who had once heckled him for his one eye instantly embraced him. Josh Elzinga, Danville -- 5'11" late '84 is the younger brother of Adam Elzinga, an '82 who played for Danville last year (and recently made the OHL's Peterborough Petes). Following a successful junior hockey career, he played four (4) years of college hockey at Eastern Michigan University, where he was a CSCHL All-Star in 2001. There were hundreds of fans like Greg and Brenda St. Clair, a Danbury couple who went halfway through the season to check out the new team. He scores like it's drinking water. The closest team to Danbury, the Frostbite played in Glens Falls, New York, just three hours away by luxury coach. Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Adam Elzinga, 1982-07-23 Burbank, IL, USA USA. In court, Matty the Horse was ruined and old, hard to understand. And, according to court papers filed by the U.S. Attorneys office, his business disputes occasionally ended in violence: For nearly two decades, Galantes enterprise promoted a climate of fear through violence, threats of violence, economic sanctions and threats of economic sanctions. Brad WingfieldWingnutchallenged Elzinga: Drop em; lets get it on. Some say he did it for the same reason he owned a race-car squad: He loved to compete. Mathieuhas had a lengthy professional career that spanned over a 14 year period. Gilles was the Lead Hockey Instructor for National Hockey Development for 4 years. As with hockey, he had no real connections when he started, but he figured, How hard could it be to break in? The second place AJ looked was where any other fan might have: hockeyfights.com, a website that aggregates footage of brawls on the ice. FUNNY THING about Connecticut: It's one of the wealthiest states, but it also has a good many broke cities and hard-ass working-class towns. Could there be a better symbol of the link between fans and team? wasn't the only reason Galante drew comparisons with Tony Soprano. Al has coached youth hockeyfor the last 9 years and isa level 5 USA Hockey coach. If Micahs short careerhes currently 10 years oldwere, God forbid, to come to a sudden end, Id gladly enlist a mobster to buy him a team so he could still have a future in hockey. ", "Dad, if this guy had two eyes, he might be one of the greatest NHL players ever! Jimmy Galante tried to get onto the ice through the penalty box. 2023 ABG-SI LLC. Let's just say hindsight is 20/20. Predictably, Wingnut went after Elzinga, administering a considerable beating and triggering another near riot. At 32, Todd was younger than some of the players. Matty the Horse spent 18 months in the big house, but he survived it, dying a free man in August 2012. MIKE RUPP wore a look of confusion. She accepted and over the next two years would occasionally hit pucks around, even after the Trashers ignominiously folded in 2006. Thats where he told me his story, amid the light and heavy bags, in the regulation ring. The UHL had a salary cap that limited teams to a total of approximately $275,000 for the whole roster. A case involving a minor-league hockey team also nailed Matty the Horse. A tale of goons, no-show jobs, and a legendary minor-league franchise that helped land its owner in prison. "You better not lose again. Brenda has cracked three ribs her first time on the ice she crashed into the boards and years later nearly broke her middle finger trying to make a save. It was four years to the day from the Trashers' first game. The team was largely the same, with a few additions, including yet another minor-league-hockey legend, David Beauregard. "Frank would have been a hell of a Danbury Trasher," A.J. Elzinga declined, but as Wingfield skated away, Elzinga pulled on his jersey and stuck out a foot to trip him. The Trashers would sell out the arena regularly as fans of various ethnicities, ages and collars converged to cheer them on. The New York Times described him as a Danbury trash hauler suspected of mob ties who had a story right out of The Sopranos., From December 2019: Scorseses elegy for the American gangster. Theres nothing sadder than a small city. Wiretaps of thousands of phone calls between Automated Waste Disposal employees and representatives of other trash companies in 2004 and '05 revealed a variety of criminal activities. He fashioned his club as the bad boys, the evil empire of the UHL: If we cant beat you, were at least gonna beat you up. We still got eight goons.. Craig is aUSA Hockey Certified Level 4 coach; his background includes being a former Head Hockey Instructor for Maximum Development Hockey based out of Windsor, Ontario Canada, coaching numerous Southeast Elite AAA select teams and coaching within the Junior Everblades organization for over 15 years, winning multiple state championships. Yet three Trashers earned more than $100,000 apiece. He was a great owner." To circumvent the cap, Galante regularly doled out cash bonuses, gave some players exorbitant living allowances and gave others checks for housing after their allowances had already been paid. We would yell down during warm-ups, Come on, youre going to be skating for us next year! And theyd look at me and rub their fingers, and Id reach in my pocket and pull out my wallet, and theyd start laughing., Beauregard was one of my favorites, AJ said. Others started formally, proposed and accepted in the way of czarist-era duels: One morning, as AJ was driving to schoolhe was by then a freshman at Manhattanville College, in Purchase, New York, a 40-minute commute from New Fairfieldhe heard Barry Melrose talking smack about the Trashers on ESPN Radio. And Brenda was given a new on-ice opportunity when Mad Hatters goalie Jeff Hill jokingly yelled at her to Be a man. Wins came in bunches. 2006-2007 Regular Season . In return, Jimmy asked only that the players make hospital visits or speak at schools. (Jimmy was allowed to answer only a few questions by email sent through A.J. It was all over the blogs and hockey-fight sites, the craziness. ", In their box above center ice the Galantes heckled refs and sometimes pelted opposing players with Skittles. Hockey Fights is an entertainment site with no direct affiliation to the National Hockey League, its teams, or NHLPA. He reportedly spent more than $3 million to expand the rink from a 600-seat bandbox to a 2,500-seat showplace called the Danbury Ice Arena. . A later indictment alleged that in 1992, Galante and associates conspired to set fire to a truck from a rival carting firm and kidnap a driver at gunpoint. After a few minutes of glaring at them in lacerating silence, Galante dumped the contents of the basket. "You need a wild card," says A.J., "so we decided we would beat people to submission. He was a star in the UHL, having scored 43 goals for the Port Huron. "We did our due diligence, and they put in the proper paperwork and were professional," says Richard Brosal, then the UHL's commissioner. 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]. In the mid-to-late 1970s, he started his own company, Automated Waste Disposal, and by 2004, hed built it into a trash-collection empire of companies valued at about $100 million. None of this fazes the 47-year-old Brenda. Though he scored on the play, he lost sight in his left eye. AJ called it a coincidence: Changes in the league made continued play impossible, he said, not the legal problem. Of course, his dads arrest played a role. The injury barred him from the NHL, so he was down among the minor-league rabble. Galante had contributed to DeLuca's campaignsand those of many Connecticut politiciansbut this was personal. Everyone, however, agrees that he did it at least in part for his son, AJ, who was 17. Launching an expansion hockey team in Danbury seemed less like a vanity play than a natural progression. All would plead guilty, as would Galante. Timo Meier's fantasy hockey value trends up after the New Jersey Devils acquired him. 14U A - Josh Elzinga 14U AA - Eric Ricard and Johnny Pelletier 16U A - Dylan Forsythe and Devon Rodriguez 16U AA USPHL - Tony Lessel 18U AA - Peter Jerabeck Coach's Bios Will be released the week prior to tryouts For more information contact: Tony Lessel, Hockey Director TonyL@floridaeverblades.com - 239-948-7825 x1303 Mid-season, thats when we really caught fire, AJ told me. In his 56 games with the Trashers, Wingfield piled up 496 penalty minutes. No slow dissipation for the Trashers, no aging and decline. The 200405 Trashers blew through the UHL like a freak storm. Two months into the season, the games turned nasty. The NHL bars players who are blind in one eye, so Beauregard was consigned to a career in the minors. Now and then, AJ would watch a game from Section 102. Lets face it: What else does Danbury really have?. In the first period Wagner instigated a fight, and an all-out brawl broke out. Teaching athletes to learn and howto think, over just going through the motions of drills, brings the best out of each athlete. The Trashers traveled in a luxury coach; they played card games and talked all night. Thirty-two other individuals, including Matty the Horse, were charged as part of the investigation. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. Parents were warned to keep children away. Brenda got tattoos of the names of her favorite players. When he caught wind of a local kid who couldn't afford college, he quietly wrote a tuition check. Their goons fight our goons. The Kalamazoo Wings were a Minor Professional hockey team based in Kalamazoo, MI playing in the United Hockey League from 2000 to 2007. The first happens on the field, court, or ice. DeLuca ended up resigning from office because of the scandal. We only use official stats. The Trashers still trigger strong responses in Danbury, too. TEMPE - Despite a third period push, an injury-riddled Arizona State hockey team fell 4-2 to Alaska Fairbanks on Friday night's series opener at Mullett Arena. Catalyzed by their new scorer, the Trashers cruised through the regular season, finishing 48--17. One player told me he did actual work in waste removal for Galantenothing no-show about his job. Danbury is a blue-collar town, and they could relate to the players, Galante told me. Sign up for EP Premium and verify your profile to access these benefits. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. And fans werent the only ones who found the Trashers; players did too. Somehow they got the message upstairs. So in 2004 Galante sank his money into the hockey equivalent of Double A ball. Torres said he lost confidence at . I know its not healthy, but I cant help myself. Team Information. Danburys equipment manager would soak the Trashers jerseys in Crisco before they played the Frostbite so the opposing goons couldnt get a firm grip. Paul,originallyfrom Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with teams such as Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and the Colorado Avalanche. The Trashers were hosting the Kalamazoo Wings, and Brent Gretzky was being shadowed by the Kalamazoo defenseman Josh Elzinga. about getting back into sports. Marc was a professional Triathlete for over 10 years. Pick your poison. Recalls Galante, "It was obvious he was thinking, What did I get myself into? "The Danbury Trashers were the Syracuse Bulldogs of the movie Slap Shot," says Pomposello, the all-purpose assistant. 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. Then, as A.J. Galante named his team for the family business: the Trashers. Young Blood, Goon, they were all there. His accomplishments includeover 30 wins across the World, along with competing with Team USA at World Championships. 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.". At 4 a.m. the players would be out in the parking lot, huddled in their underwear. was on the phone with agents for some of the best hockey players in the world. "Listen," he said, "my dad is coming home for dinner at 7:30, and if I don't have a goal scorer by then, I'm in big trouble." , New Brunswick, Canada, Gilles Richard is the current Vice-President of Hockey Operations for Southeast Elite Hockey. Mike DeWine and First Lady Fran DeWine are set to visit the toxic train derailment site in East Palestine Wednesday for an update on the removal of the hazardous waste from the wreck. Rumun Ndur ended up seeing red and going batshit crazy, AJ told me. He had once set a record in the West Coast Hockey League with 503 penalty minutes in a single season. says wistfully. Gretzky, at 32, was in the descent portion of his career. Wingfield challenged a Kalamazoo player, Josh Elzinga, to a fight. Such a city will have many of the bad elements of a metropolis and few of the good. That spring, when A.J. I'll own it. After hearing ESPN hockey commentator Barry Melrose, a co-owner of the Frostbite, trash the Trashers on the radio, an enraged A.J. Galante was a philanthropist; a pediatric suite in the emergency department of Danbury Hospital was named for his family. A legion of small business owners still talk about how, on Trashers game nights, downtown blazed to life. And the fans, from section 102 and beyond, still miss their team. And that wasn't all. John was the originalfounding member of the South Florida First Youth Hockey League. ", A.J. starts innumerable sentences, "My dad always says.", Usually so engaging and candid, A.J. A.J. "You got us a guy with one eye? For himself he built a skybox equipped with a kitchenette. The documentary does a great job capturing on the emotional story of Wingfield and his strong relationship with both A.J. The rest of the game doubled as a near riot. You'll be the president. Wingnut went down awkwardly, and a crack could be heard in every part of the arena: Wingnuts left tibia and fibula. Marc believes in helping each athlete to decipher through the plethora of good and misinformation to achieve optimal performance. Currently, Al isanAssistant Coach of the 05 AAA Florida Alliance Elite team. We play a team like the Frostbite, a team with maybe two goons. He also played one season for the Russia Omsk of the KHL. It was one of those things where wed say, Hit this guy. But no one could catch him. Game Two is what people remember. (I wanted to bring something back to the community, Galante told me when I spoke with him in February.) A violent, brutal melee from start to finish. puts it, "it got real, real fast." He took a shot at us, AJ told me. AL hasattended many coaching seminars and clinics around North America. November 24, 2006. That is it.. Good hotels, a beautiful locker roomseveral players remember their tenure on the team as their most satisfying time in pro hockey. The team slogan was Bad Boys Talkin' Trash. Charlie has coached numerous Southeast Elite AAA teams throughout the years, bringing home many championships. (A.J. He was a star in the UHL, having scored 43 goals for the Port Huron Beacons the previous season. Most dismaying to the citizenry of Danbury, the Trashers' 2006--07 season was canceled. Like Mike Tyson in his prime.". The Trashers featured some of the most storied names in hockey violence. Originally from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, Gilles Richard is the current Vice-President of Hockey Operations for Southeast Elite Hockey. But Galante got around it in classic mob fashion: no-show jobs. Southeast Elite is proud to announce the Mathieu Garon with be an instrumental member of the Southeast Elite organization as a goaltender instructor. Asked how the payback made him feel, Wingnut said great, but I would have liked to have seen him leaving the ice on a stretcher or in a body bag.. After he was drafted, Vogel invited the couple to Pennsylvania for training camp in August. "We loved those fansI mean loved," says Omicioli. The rowdiest spectators were cordoned off in Section 102, directly behind the visitors bench. was fined and suspended for nearly coming to blows with an executive from another team during a game. Also, its funny as hellThe Sopranos meets Slap Shot. "After games you'd have these blue-collar guys next to wealthy real estate developers. Josh Elzinga vs. Mark Versteeg-Lytwyn, November 24, 2006 - Port Huron Flags vs. Kalamazoo Wings. He was born in the Bronx but grew up in bucolic South Salem, New York; did a stint in the Air Force; and then took a job driving a garbage truck. Paul is currently the Hockey Director for the Miami Toros Hockey Program, where he brings an extremely high level of playing and coaching experience to the Kendall Ice Arena. SON NATE WAS DRAFTED BY MISSISSAUGA IN THE 2021 OHL DRAFT. For instance, Galante and a few trusted associates burned a competitors truck in 1992after first binding the driverto send a message to stay out of the Connecticut market, and in 2006, damaged the tires of a competitors truck after that carter refused to back down on a $50/month account. Within a few weeks the town's tattoo artists had learned to replicate the trash-can logo. 2013-current Head Coach of the 2005 AAA Florida Alliance/Southeast Elite Program, 11 years in professional hockey in the AHL, ECHL, and Europe, More information about Marc can be found at, Over 13 years as a Professional Triathlete with 35 overall victories, Oldest Pro to ever compete in Pro World Championship 2006, Junior Hockey- Ohio Juniors Collegiate Hockey Ohio University, Private lessons and Camps Specializing in European Power skating. A promotional video could have doubled as a Dexter ad, with blood spatters on the ice. Adam has over 25 years of hockey experience as a player and coach. (He also forfeited his ownership in 25 trash-hauling firms.) In 2003, from their desks above what was once center ice, agents began investigating Jimmy Galante. Brian was born and raised in Detroit Michigan. The roster was constantly in flux, but it usually had more enforcers than players in need of protection. We had 10 goons! said. It had a great economic impact on the entire downtown.". But for the Trashers, there was a third game, although neither Jimmy nor AJ knew about it. Jim grew up and played minor hockey in Toronto, Canada. Josh Patterson (F) 2000-2003: 3: Peterborough Petes: Lukas Krajicek (D) 2000-2003: 3: Peterborough Petes: Jon Howse (F) 2000-2003: 3: Peterborough Petes: Not Activated Sections Endorsements The winning goal came in the third overtime. A.J. says. People were like, What the hells going on over there? And theyd do some research and see how young I was, and the fatherson dynamic and the type of fighters. And the noisemy God, the noise! The Trashers were even able to land a few genuine NHL players, one of whom was Mike Rupp. He ended up reaching over the bench and grabbing the Adirondack coach, trying to pull him over the boards. Next year were going to kick the son of a bitch in!, It was like that with the Trashers. All Rights Reserved. VS. 1st Period - 7:13 . Listen to the trailer for, the interview ending abruptly when a teacher walked by. Galante, at 17, come to run a minor league hockey team with NHL talentand, in turn, take a leading role in Slap Shot meets GoodFellas meets Hoosiers? Players - FM Leaders; Teams - FM Leaders . Mahfuz riad. Every great team needs a great rival. 2005-2006 UHL Fight - Danbury Trashers Brad Wingfield Takes Revenge On Josh Elzinga Who Ended His 2004-2005 Season On A Slew Footing Incident The Broke Winge. 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. That May they played their hated rival, Kalamazoo, in the Colonial Cup finals. But as Wingnut moved away, Elzinga stuck out his skate and grabbed Wingnuts jersey. 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. Throughout his busy professional career, he has also participated in numerous hockey schools around the country. AJ considered it unfair to fans if a game had fewer than three fights. He did have a weakness, though. 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). Additionally, Charlie is the Head of Academics for TPH, Estero. Dissatisfied with the response he got from police, DeLuca went to Galante. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? It held fewer than 3,000 seats, the fewest in the UHL, but it had a jewel-box intimacy. So we knew Jimmy had resources.. I remember being so pissed, I had to do something. 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. 2023 The Hockey News, Roustan Media Ltd, Get the latest news right to your inbox > Sign up here. Jimmy pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, tax fraud, and wire fraud. THE NEW HAVEN division of the FBI is located downtown, on the old site of the New Haven Arena, a prime hockey venue that housed minor league teams from the 1930s to the '70s. But AJs favorite was Brad Wingnut Wingfield. In 2004, this meant buying a minor-league-hockey franchise and installing it at the local youth rink, the Danbury Ice Arena. When an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. Besides, what choice did he have? Defense. Josh Elzinga Defense Born Sep 3 1984 -- Burbank, IL [38 yrs. It had to do with the acoustics. When A.J. After a life-threatening hockey injury suffered at 18 years of age with a prognosis that he may never be able to play the game again, his passion for hockey and his desire to succeed expectations fueled his rehabilitation and lead him to become an all-rounded athlete who has . He paid the funeral costs of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq and donated $200,000 to a nonprofit that provided financial assistance to soldiers serving overseas. "Lemme get this straight," he said. 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. The lockout sent NHL stars into the cold. No one likes to put on wet clothes. In the late 1990s Galante had been sentenced to a year and a day in a federal prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion. Jimmy was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault. Born Jul 23 1982 -- Burbank, IL. Then AJ had gotten hurt. 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