BKN Aviators ~ Time To Teach FISH a Lesson

From the desk of:   THE SKATES OF FLATBUSH

 

BROOKLYN AVIATORS:  You Can't Let Something Like a Broken Bus Get In Your Way!  Get Back To Work and Beat THE FISH.




Oh...!  What happun? 


A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to Danville last week....   We had a..., uh..., a little hiccup in the season folks.  Last weekend's games scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights against the Dashers out in Danville, Illinois, were cancelled because the... uh,  Aviators' team bus broke down.


I know a guy who could have fixd it!  He's got an awesome set of tools.


While someone attends to the bus, the A's have hockey to be played tonight in The Hangar.  Smell that?  That's right.  that unmistakable waft of Cod Fish can only mean one thing....  -  Well, make that two things if you're familiar with Jamaica Bay.  But that smell can only mean one other thing; the Cape Cod Blue Fins are in town.


Man, I'm really starting to dislike these guys.  We're ten points better than them in the standings.  But they've played us like we were the Washington Generals on ice.  The Fish lead the season series four games to two and have won the last two meetings.  The Blue Fins shut-out the A's 3-0 last time they met.


Missing games last week have taken a toll in the standings.  The A's are now twenty-two points behind the FHL leading New Jersey Outlaws.  The 1000 Islands club is running a loose second with forty-four points this season.  Then there's the pack -  Danbury is in third place with 33 points, Akwesasne is next with 32 points, followed by the A's with 31 points.


And by the way..., your Aviators have a newly named Captain.   Coach Miller tabbed defenseman Jarrett Rush as the team's next Captain.  He will be sporting the "C" on his jersey for the first time tonight against the Blue Fins.  The promotion to Captain fills the void left open when former Captain, Steve Obelnicki, was lost for the season to injury.  Additionally, fellow defenseman KC Timmons and Andrew Owsiak have been named the Alternates.


Now that everything is in place and we are on home-ice.... Let's Get It On!

TONIGHT

Cape Cod Blue Fins

vs.

BROOKLYN AVIATORS

FROM

HANGAR FIVE

Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn

 

Mike.BTB

BKN Aviators ~ Friday Night Fillet-O-Fish

From the desk of:  THE COOLEST GUYS IN BROOKLYN

BROOKLYN AVIATORS:  The Skates of Flatbush Have a New Adversary on the Block This Season. 


Entering tonight, the A's have lost their last two straight games both to the Danbury Whalers.  Since last season, the two teams have cultivated a fierce rivalry together.  Whenever Brooklyn and Danbury get together, they literally make a mess.  At some point in the game, the ice gets littered with dropped gloves as opposing players go off and fight in a corner somewhere.  They've competed in tough games against each other for sure.  But Danbury remains just that; our rivals.



There's a new team in the FHL folks, that has now officially earned this Brooklyn hockey fan's ire.  They might be new, but after only three games against them, The Cape Cod Blue Fins have officially been declared an adversary....by me!



Back on October 28th, in our first meeting against Cape Cod, the Fish posted a 3-2 overtime win in Hyannis.  Then on November 5th, Cape Cod made their inaugural visit to Brooklyn and slapped us up inside Hangar Five with a second consecutive overtime victory over the A's; this time by a 5-4 score.  The Aviators finally gained a measure of revenge in their return visit to Hyannis on November 11th with a 6-1 clubbing of the Fish.  Tonight, we invite the Blue Fins back to Hangar Five again for what I hope will be a season series tying win for Brooklyn's Coolest.  More importantly, the A's are still skating for their first win on home-ice.  They are 0-2-2 when playing off Flatbush Avenue in this young season.  And so, it's time to take back the block Boyz...



As mentioned, Brooklyn has lost two straight.  Both team's last game was Wednesday night.  The Blue Fins defeated Danville 6-1 for their third win and seventh point of the season.  The A's have twelve points and sit in fourth place.  Cape Cod is seventh in the circuit.  Garrett Peters is their stand-out scorer with seven goals and ten points.  Chris Ferazzoli continues to be Brooklyn's lead scorer with six goals and fourteen points.

Friday Night

Cape Cod Blue Fins

vs.

BROOKLYN AVIATORS

From

Hangar Five off Flatbush Avenue

BROOKLYN

Mike.BTB

BKN Aviators ~ Road Rage in Cape Cod; Danbury Tonight

From the desk of:  THE COOLEST GUYS IN BROOKLYN

BROOKLYN AVIATORS:  A Hockey Game Broke-Out During the Cape Cod Friday Night Fights.




After suffering two over-time losses in two meetings against the Cape Cod Blue Fins this season, the A's finally exacted a measure of road rage Friday night.  In meeting number three, Brooklyn won convincingly by a score of 6-1 up in Hyannis, Mass.  The win also snapped a two game losing streak and comes on the heals of an over-time loss to Vermont on Thursday.



After making a relief appearance in Thursday night's game, Coach Miller gave goalie Peter Dundovich the start in Cape Cod.  And he did not disappoint.  He faced fifty-one shots and stopped fifty to secure his first victory of the season.  The game was a much needed confidence builder for Brooklyn's back-up goalie that will no doubt earn him more starts in the coming weeks.



Vladimir Nikiforov scored in the first period.  KC Timmons and Jordan Bernier added goals in the second period.  Chris Ferazzoli took care of everything else.  He scored a goal in each period; two on the power play, and one at even strength for a hat trick.



That's the way the game turned out.  But this is what really happened. 



I guess after two previous hotly contested games against each other, the two teams may have already had enough of each other and perhaps wanted to express themselves a little bit because the game got chippy quite early.  The first period was an exchange of trips, roughing and slashes.  But by the second period, sportsmanship took a back seat as play really degenerated.  First period slashing and roughing turned into second period Fighting; Boarding; Instigating; Misconducts; and Third-Man-In majors.



All that good will towards each other carried over into the third period as they acted out this time with another Unsportsmanlike penalty, more trips and cross-checks too.



In total, Brooklyn was arraigned on sixteen counts of thuggery worth forty-nine minutes, while Cape Cod was charged with thirteen violations and fifty-one minutes of punk time. 



What a great win! 



So while Brooklyn's blood is still boiling, it seems like a perfect time to take on our chief rival; Danbury Whalers; tonight in The Hangar and see if we can finally secure our first home-ice win of the season. 






Yeah!

TONIGHT

Danbury Whalers

(2-3-0)

vs.

BROOKLYN AVIATORS

(3-1-3)

From

HANGAR FIVE off FLATBUSH AVENUE,

BROOKLYN

Mike.BTB

BKN Aviators ~ A's Harpoon Whalers; Blue Fins Are Next

From the desk of:  THE COOLEST GUYS IN BROOKLYN

BROOKLYN AVIATORS:  After Spearing the Danbury Whalers, the Kings County Coolest are Looking to Hook Some Blue Fins.



Mission accomplished.  The sortie over Danbury hit it's mark; eight times to be exact.  Return to base.



Brooklyn's Coolest quieted down the Friday night Danbury crowd with a three goal barrage in the first period, then sent the Whalers' faithful home gagged after Brooklyn dropped another five goals on them in the third.



Newest Aviator, Vladimir Nikiforov opened up the scoring midway through the first period with a power play goal; his first as an Aviator.  Brooklyn followed that up with two more goals before the first period expired.  Jordan Bernier scored at even strength at the 17:36 mark, assisted by Nikiforov, making the score 2-0.  Then just as the period expired, Chris Jones scored the A's second power play goal of the period, unassisted.



Danbury got one back in the second period when centerman Chris Siefert scored on A's starting goalie Lee Thomas.  Brooklyn's defense kept the Whalers' shots against their goalie limited to roughly ten per period.  Thomas faced thirty-one shots in total; stopping thirty while the A's finished the night with fifty-three shots.  Other than the lone Danbury goal, it was all Aviators this night.



Brooklyn scored at 3:10 into the third period on Jordan Bernier's second goal of the game; assisted again by Nikiforov.  Then over the next seven minutes, Brooklyn continued to lace Danbury with four more goals.



Chris Ferazolli and Vladimir Nikiforov joined Bernier as Brooklyn's multiple goal scorers of the evening.  Ferazolli cashed in after Bernier's earlier third period goal.  Then new blue-liner Ken Trentowski snuck in his first goal as an Aviator to make the game a 6-1 affair.



On a later power play, Chris Ferrazolli scored his second goal of the period at the 7:57 mark.  Then forward Vladimir Nikiforov capped off one hell of an Aviator debut for himself, in what was an overall formidable performance by Brooklyn, with his second goal and fifth point of the night, as he had three assists on the evening as well.



Tonight, a little pay-back is in order.  In game two of the season, the Cape Cod Blue Fins defeated Brooklyn 3-2 in overtime up in Hyannis, Mass.  Back home in the Hangar this evening, it's time for Brooklyn to even the score with those Fishy characters.

Saturday Night is Alright for Fighting...

Cape Cod  Blue Fins

vs.

BROOKLYN AVIATORS

From

HANGAR FIVE

off Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn

Mike.BTB