BKN Aviators ~ Vermont Has WILD Third Period

From the desk of:  THE COOLEST GUYS IN BROOKLYN

BROOKLYN AVIATORS:  The Extra Session is Proving to be a Problem.  They Drop Another Over-Time Game, This Time to the Vermont Wild.


Brooklyn's Coolest swung open the doors to Hangar Five for Thursday night's first ever contest against the visiting Vermont Wild.  One of this years FHL expansion teams, the Wild were still in search of their first victory this season as they arrived on Flatbush Avenue for this evening's game.



Anthony Iaquinto started off the Aviators' weekend by putting the team up early in the first period when he netted Brooklyn's first goal at the 2:31 mark.  He was assisted by Colin Ronayne and Jarrett Rush.  At the 15:34 mark of the first period, Jesse Felton received a whistle for tripping.  A minute and a half later, Vermont's Anthony Pisano scored on the power play to knot the game at a goal apiece.



Vermont's James Brooks got called for holding just before the first period expired.  So the A's started the second period on the power play.  Brooklyn cashed in and regained the lead on Chris Ferazzoli's goal at the 1:23 mark.  He was assisted by Chris Jones and Vladimir Nikiforov.



At 15:49 still in the second, the Wild got whistled for a check-from-behind penalty putting Brooklyn on another power play.  Only this time, Brooklyn's PP suffered a breakdown twenty-two seconds into the man-advantage and allowed Vermont's Jason Dolgy to score short-handed and tie the score at two all.  But with five seconds left before the second period expired, a Chris Jones shot found net to put the Aviators back on top by a 3-2 score heading into the second intermission.  Jones' goal was assisted by Jesse Felton and Andrew Owsiak.



Then in the third period, things got very WILD for Brooklyn; maybe a little too Wild.  Vermont spent the first ten minutes of the period tying the game for a third time, and finally taking their first lead of the night by scoring three straight goals.  A 3-2 Aviator lead suddenly became a 5-3 deficit.  All three goals; two coming from Vermont's Konstatine Kalmikov; came at even strength.



Over the following several minutes, the A's regrouped and roared back to tie this game at five goals apiece.  Chris Jones scored on a power play; assisted by K.C. Timmons and Vladimir Nikiforov.  Then at the 13:36 mark, Casey Mignone tied the game at five.



But unfortunately that's the way regulation time ended.  The Aviators were headed towards over-time yet again.  And in the extra sessions this season, they haven't fared too well.  Tonight turned out to be no exception either.  The Aviators dropped this over-time game as well as the end came rather quickly I might add.  Just twenty-nine seconds into the over-time, Vermont's Jason Dolgt, scored for Vermont and gave the Wild their first win of the season.



Tomorrow the Aviators touch down in Cape Cod to play those slippery Fish again.  Two times this young season, they beat us in over-time; most recently last weekend in The Hangar.  So it's high time the A's snag a hook in the Blue Fin's mouths ....and reel in a win this time in Hyannis.

FRIDAY NIGHT

BROOKLYN AVIATORS

vs.

Cape Cod Blue Fins

From

Hyannis, Mass.

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

BKN Aviators ~ Ex-Mates & Outlaws Ruin Hangar Five Opener

From the desk of:  THE COOLEST GUYS IN BROOKLYN







BROOKLYN AVIATORS:  New Jersey Outlaws Spoil A's Opening Night.  The Rivalry Is Born!


MATTHEW PUNTURERI PROVIDES MAJOR ASSISTS AGAINST HIS FORMER TEAM.


Veni; Vidi; Puntureri. 



Former Aviators' forwards; Matthew Puntureri and John Goffredo; made their triumphant returns to Brooklyn Saturday night by picking apart their former team, assisting on six of New Jersey's seven goals scored Saturday night against A's starting goalie; Thomas Lee.



The expansion New Jersey Outlaws made their first visit to Hangar Five and proceeded to announce their presence with authority on this, Brooklyn's Opening Night game.  They got to work right away scoring at the 3:38 mark of the first period on a Kevin Cooper goal; with the second assist going to Puntureri.



After KC Timmons got whistled for hooking 5:47 in, with less than twenty seconds left in Brooklyn's penalty kill, Travis Kauffeldt scored for N.J. assisted by Puntureri again, giving them a 2-0 lead.



Almost four and a half minutes later, KC Timmons assisted on Brooklyn's first score when Chris Jones' shot found net, cutting the New Jersey lead to one.



Then the Aviators lost their grip on the first period by surrendering two more New Jersey goals inside the nineteenth minute of play.  They gave up two goals within sixteen seconds of each other to be more exact.  At 19:08, Outlaw-Tyler Barr scored with John Goffredo credited with the sole assist.  Then at 19:28, Travis Kauffeldt scored his second goal of the period as Matthew Puntureri was credited with another assist and his third of the period.  The first session ended with New Jersey staked to a 4-1 lead.



KC Timmons figured into the A's scoring again, making it a 4-2 game by converting a power play goal in the opening minute of the second period.  But New Jersey put themselves up by three again when Luke Flicik score at 16:01 making it a 5-2 game, and remained that way after forty minutes of regulation.



New Jersey took to the ice in the third period intent on finishing off the A's.  And seven seconds into the period, they scored to make it a 6-2 game.  Travis Kauffeldt completed the hat-trick and Matthew Puntureri was credited with his fifth assist of the evening.



When Jesse Felton got whistled for tripping at 5:07, New Jersey's Kevin Cooper converted the man-advantage with his second goal of the game and giving the Outlaws a 7-2 lead.



With the game out of reach, the Aviators still showed a little fight in them before time expired.  Jesse Felton scored a power play goal at 10:12 and at 10:50, Anthony Monte followed up with Brooklyn's fourth goal of the night.



The New Jersey Outlaws took the first game of this new feud 7-4 on Brooklyn's home ice.  That won't sit too well around here.  The rivalry is born.

GAME THREE FINAL

New Jersey Outlaws  7

Brooklyn Aviators     4

NEXT GAME

Friday - November 4, 2011

BROOKLYN AVIATORS

@ 

Danbury Whalers

Mike.BTB

BKN Aviators ~ Flyin' High; Win Game One

From the desk of:  THE COOLEST GUYS IN BROOKLYN

BROOKLYN AVIATORS:  Comeback Against Defending Champs In Season Opener With Disciplined Play and Composure.



For the Aviators, the memory of losing and watching the Warriors hoist the Championship Trophy on home ice to end Brooklyn's most previous season no doubt rushed back to their minds upon taking the ice Thursday night in Lewiston, Maine for a return engagement against Akwesasne.  But for a night, the Aviators displayed more discipline and composure than did the defending FHL champions.  And for Coach Miller, watching both characteristics play directly into their Opening night victory must have been especially satisfying considering many of his players are still learning how to play together.  For their efforts in the season's first game, they adhered to many key fundamental values.  The A's won Thursday night by grinding the game out a little longer than the Warriors did, and playing an increasingly cleaner and sharper game against the Warriors the longer the contest went on.



It seemed over the first two and one half periods, the A's carried the play; spent less time in the box; got more shots on net; and appeared to be the more disciplined team.  Yet Akwesasne and the scoreboard were unyielding, reflecting a 2-1 score in the Warriors' favor after fifty minutes of regulation time.



Over that span, Akwesasne even put Brooklyn on the man-advantage three times as many as the A's allowed the Warriors.  Both teams combined to go a woeful 0-12 on the PP to that point.  And frustratingly, the Aviators accounted for 0-9 of that.  Chris Ferazolli wound up scoring the first goal of the Aviators' season at even strength.  At the time, his score only served to cut a 2-0 Akwesasne lead in half.  But the defense and Thomas Lee set about ensuring Ferazolli's goal would factor into the outcome.



The Warriors opened the FHL's 2011-2012 scoring this season at 15:55 of the first period on a Miguel Delisle goal past A's starting net minder; Thomas Lee.  And that's how the initial period ended.  Brooklyn managed thirteen shots on goal in the period as Akwesasne unleashed seventeen with one finding net.  Penalties put Brooklyn on the PK three times but they held the Warriors scoreless during the man advantages.



Brooklyn clamped down and limited the Warriors to just four shots on goal the entire second period.  Yet one shot still managed to find net behind Thomas Lee.  At the 7:03 mark of the second session, Akwsasne's Pierre Dagenais scored to make it a 2-0 game. 



Then, just under four minutes later at the 10:50 mark, Chris Ferazzoli's first goal of the season finally put Brooklyn on the scoreboard.  He was assisted by Jordan Bernier and Chris Jones.  Brooklyn put fifteen shots on goal during the second period and behind their defense, the A's game started to gel.  But the second period ended with the A's still down by a 2-1 score.



While the teams traded second period goals, they traded second period punches as well.  Things began to get chippy back when Akwesasne's Carter Trevisani and Brooklyn's Jordan Bernier closed out the first period with roughing penalties.  Then tempers flared between Akwesasne's Ahmed Mahfouz and Brooklyn's Anthony Iaquinto when they dropped the gloves at the 10:58 mark of the second session.  Both received five for fighting.  And bad attitudes prevailed the rest of the period.



Midway through the third period and two power play opportunities later, the Aviators' tying goal still remained elusive.  Then, at 13:23 of the third, Brooklyn's patience was rewarded.  Their attention to detail finally paid off when Anthony Iaquinto scored for Brooklyn and tied the game at two apiece.  The assists came from Andrew Owsiak and Jarrett Rush.



At the 14:14 mark, Akwesasne's penchant for penalties this night opened the door to another Hangar-sized opportunity.  Brooklyn cashed in as the power play finally hit pay dirt when Jordan Bernier buried the go-ahead goal to make it a 3-2 game.  The goal was assisted by Andrew Scampoli.



After allowing seventeen shots on goal in the first period, the defense kept the number of shots against goalie Thomas Lee relatively low the rest of the way.  Four shots in the second period and eight in the third were all Akwesasne could muster.  Meanwhile, Brooklyn peppered Warriors' goalie David Plouffe with fourteen shots in the third period and forty-two overall.  Additionally, the Aviators did very well to stay out of the box.  And even though Brooklyn's power play was 1-10 Thursday night, they scored on the one opportunity that mattered most; their last.



And so Aviators' victory number one came in rather dramatic fashion Thursday night.  If this game is an indication, then it's going to be a fun Winter folks.



Game two of the new season will be Friday night in Cape Cod against the Blue Fins before the Coolest Guys In Brooklyn come home for their Saturday Night Showdown against their newest rival, the New Jersey Outlaws, who now feature former A's fan favorites, Matthew Puntureri and John Goffredo.

FRIDAY NIGHT

BROOKLYN AVIATORS

vs.

Cape Cod Bluefins

From

Somewhere in Massachusetts

Mike.BTB