First year, he was playing for the Port Huron Beacons, killing us. No one wanted to fight him, AJ said. Wagner was apologetic, and A.J. There was no other number. The second goes on in the front office: signing players, making trades. Jon (Nasty) Mirasty averaged more than eight minutes of penalties over 25 games. I'm not just hungry; my stomach is growling. In his first semester of college A.J. Though the camp was postponed until September, the St. Clairs decided to head south, meeting Vogel at Ice Line in West Chester, where he learned to skate as a kid. But Galante got around it in classic mob fashion: no-show jobs. 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. So we knew Jimmy had resources.. 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. 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. On Dec. 3, 2005, Kalamazoo visited Danbury. 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. The former Director of Hockey Operations for the Jacksonville Ice and Sports Complex, Gilles is no stranger to youth hockey. From November 2019: My family story of love, the Mob, and government surveillance. When linesman James Harper approached him, they engaged in a shouting match, and Jimmy reportedly gave Harper a fat lip. He knows how to treat people. Jason Chen explains the effect in depth before New Jersey plays Wednesday. Maybe because Im Italian and in the garbage business.. Tampa Bay fans still include him among their grievances: a wasted pick. Wagner had once set a West Coast Hockey League single-season record with 503 penalty minutes. Jim grew up and played minor hockey in Toronto, Canada. The government seized most of his assets, including 25 trash companies and a string of race cars. SON TY WAS DRAFTED AND SIGNED BY THE TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS IN 2021. I never had one bad thing happen in my dealings with Jimmy Galante.". MICHAEL J. LEBRECHT II FOR SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (A.J.). Catalyzed by their new scorer, the Trashers cruised through the regular season, finishing 48--17. Mahfuz riad. Marc specializes in the full spectrum of athlete development. 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. Her neck was really bothering her that night and she said, I dont think Ill be going to get on the ice, Vogel recalled. The team slogan was Bad Boys Talkin' Trash. That spring, when A.J. In September 2008, U.S. District Court judge Ellen B. Burns sentenced him to 87 months in prison. Players' wives were put on the payroll of Galante-owned companies though they performed no discernible duties. Some of the UHL's East Coast teams were either moving to other leagues or folding. During a pretrial hearing assistant U.S. attorney Michael Gustafson characterized Galante as a "manipulating, controlling, hands-on bully." The Danbury arena, meanwhile, has returned to its old existence as a youth rink. Within a few weeks the town's tattoo artists had learned to replicate the trash-can logo. It turned into a brawl. After the game they'd come back and greet the players. It was a violent league made of players on the way up, players on the way down, and some players simply holding on, happy to live in the limbo of the minor leagues. DeLuca believed his granddaughter's husband, Mark Colella, had physically abused her. Featured in the NETFLIX documentary Untold: Crime & Penalties, the story of the Danbury Trashers relives the short and tumultuous history of an old United Ho. He was an owner of Automated Waste Disposal, a conglomerate of at least 25 trash-hauling businesses that held a near monopoly in western Connecticut and Westchester. Thank you." According to the indictment filed with the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, in addition to skating for the Trashers, several players (or their wives) were on the payrolls of his various companiessalesperson, sales manager, whatever. 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. Sign up for EP Premium and verify your profile to access these benefits. 117 Followers, 355 Following, 69 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Josh Elzinga (@jelzinga86) 117 Followers, 355 Following, 69 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Josh Elzinga (@jelzinga86) jelzinga86. [The attitude was,] You're supposed to be courteous in minor league hockey? The United Hockey League's $300,000 franchising fee for a new team? 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. conducted one interview, for a New York Times story, while walking through his high school, where cellphones were banned; he had to hang up on the reporter when he passed a teacher in the hall.) Craig resides in Estero, Florida with his wife Amy, son Cayden (9), who plays for the Junior Everblades 10U teamand daughter Sophia (12), who currently plays for the Girls Florida Alliance 12U AAA team. Important: An official team/league url or a team document must be provided for us to update player stats. Thats where he told me his story, amid the light and heavy bags, in the regulation ring. Galantes payments were characterized as a mob tax to ensure his companies primacy in the trash trade. Elzinga refused. (The indictment alleged that the Trashers' player payroll was in excess of $750,000, but the team reported that it hadn't gone over the UHL salary cap of $275,000.) However, hed been to prison for tax evasion. 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. - Connect directly with players, coaches, teams, scouts and agents (optional) They also saw the Trashers as a kind of validation: Someone believes in Danbury. She accepted and over the next two years would occasionally hit pucks around, even after the Trashers ignominiously folded in 2006. Mathieuhasbecome a staple in the Tampa area over the last 2 years coaching kids and offering private lessons at Lightning Hockey Schools and Camps, Lightning Community Hockey Development, Lightning Made, Street Lightning, Chase Your Dreams, Future Goals and as a goalie consultant for the Lightning Development Camp. THE PLAYERS KNEW THAT THEIR OWNER WAS, WELL, CONNECTED, BUT THEY DIDN'T CARE. As evidence that Galante was prone to violence, the prosecution played footage of him purportedly striking the official during the infamous Kalamazoo game. I first heard it from a father on the sidelines of a Little League game soon after I moved in. The second year, Port Huron became the Roanoke Valley Vipers. Within weeks, the agent was seated beside the boss himself in the owners box at the Danbury Ice Arena, cheering as the Trashers skated out. Now, the younger Galante has embraced boxing instead of hockey. We were paid, and everything was first class. I sit in Section 102 and let the other parents have it. They had scorers and skaters and playmakers and defensive stalwarts. "You shoulda seen Rupp," Galante recalls, laughing. One team employee had the inspired idea of buying fresh fish and placing it in the HVAC ducts above the visiting locker room. Galante spent $3 million to refurbish the Danbury Ice Arena. NHL hockey fights, brawls, scrums, roughs, hits,. It had to do with the acoustics. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. After he was drafted, Vogel invited the couple to Pennsylvania for training camp in August. He went online to find the main switchboard number for the Roanoke Valley (Va.) Vipers, left a message and eventually made contact with his counterpart. The issue was a letter he wanted Harper to send the commissioner, absolving Galante: Tell him that it is fucking imperative that we get that letter that Harpers gonna write to Brosal. Galante added what the referee should say in the letter: After coolin off and thinking about it for a few days I was just as much at fault. Harper never sent such a letter, but another wiretap captured Viento on the phone with Brosal: I was asked to give you a call, but not to give you a call, so that you would never be put in the predicament where somebody said that you were called. (Brosal denied any effort at coercion. In many ways, the first round of that postseason was the high point: the Trashers versus the Frostbite, best of seven. "Right from day one, they've said they wanted to be the bad boys of hockey, the most hated team, the Evil Empire," Marc Potvin, coach of the Adirondack Frostbite, one of the Trashers' rivals, disapprovingly told the Toronto Star in February 2005. It was all new to him, but he was sure of the player he wanted most: Brent Gretzky, the brother of the NHL legend Wayne. After hearing ESPN hockey commentator Barry Melrose, a co-owner of the Frostbite, trash the Trashers on the radio, an enraged A.J. For himself he built a skybox equipped with a kitchenette and a flat-screen TV. That matchup was marred by a brawl that kicked off when Trashers left winger Brad Wingfield attempted to fight Kalamazoos Josh Elzinga, who declined the invitation. The team's actual payroll would later be estimated at $750,000. "He even bought the beer," says Paproski. Something was off-brand, faded; he was like a dollar bill thatd been through the wash. Hed already played 12 seasons of pro hockey: a total of 13 games in the NHL, followed by years of wandering the minors. Gretzky reportedly earned $100,000, which would have left little for the rest of the team. Theres nothing sadder than a small city. Ten years ago, Connecticut waste-management king Jimmy Galante started a minor league hockey team and put his teenage son, A.J., in charge. He graduated from Manhattanville with a business management degree in 2008 and bought into a New York City company that sells heating oil and diesel fuel. 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. 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. But his passion for sports never faded. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. "I got lectured a lot by Mr. Brosal, our commissioner," A.J. "I didn't know s--- about hockey either," volunteers Greg, a propane tank repairer. "When we got him," A.J. He found skill players on the internet, assembling his squad the way he might have assembled a fantasy-football team. A.J. Says St. Clair, "It still feels like I got kicked in the f------ chest. As Wagner was escorted there, he broke free to make a dash toward the opposing bench. Josh Elzinga vs. Mark Versteeg-Lytwyn, November 24, 2006 - Port Huron Flags vs. Kalamazoo Wings. A violent, brutal melee from start to finish. Some say he did it as a civic benefactor, to give a depressed city something to rally around. You have to understand, Dave MacIsaac, who played 62 regular-season games for Danbury, told me. FACE-OFF Backed by some of his father's truck drivers in 2004, A.J. Teaching athletes to learn and howto think, over just going through the motions of drills, brings the best out of each athlete. But for the Trashers, there was a third game, although neither Jimmy nor AJ knew about it. A.J. A.J. The Galantes told Trashers who were suspendedinvariably for fightingto watch the games from the 102 seats. AFTER THE FALL While Jimmy (below right) serves out his prison sentence, A.J. Josh Elzinga player profile, stats and championships. A legion of small business owners still talk about how, on Trashers game nights, downtown blazed to life. Elzinga declined, but as Wingfield skated away, Elzinga pulled on his jersey and stuck out a foot to trip him. He also played one season for the Russia Omsk of the KHL. Wagner generally played on one- or two-game contracts, and promised AJ that he would take care of the Frostbite. It was populated by the die-hard, the angry, and the drunk. It was a twist Elmore Leonard might have considered improbable. Now and then, AJ would watch a game from Section 102. Gretzky, at 32, was in the descent portion of his career. After he was released on $1 million bond, he was asked whether he had any comment. 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. The Washington Capitals have signed defenseman Nick Jensen to a three-year contract extension worth an average annual value of $4.05 million. The constant sitting has led to excruciating backaches. Wagner's career stats in the league: two games and 73 penalty minutes. They were the cream of the UHL, one of its best teams and a pet project of hockey celebrities: The franchise was owned in part by the former NHL coach Barry Melrose and the ESPN broadcaster Steve Levy. "My dad always put me in sink-or-swim-type situations," he says. Then Jimmy went about being the Jerry Jones of the UHL. sensed a fight coming, he headed down near the ice to capture it on his camcorder. began moonlighting as a boxing manager. Nothing.. (VOY: "Shattered") Following the loss of the USS Voyager, Johnson was devastated, but he held out hope that Janeway and the rest of the crew were alive longer than most people did. If you search Jim Duhart, those are what you find: Jim Duhart versus Tom Clayton, Jim Duhart versus Jason Taylor. Wingfield's skate caught on the ice, and as he fell back his left tibia, fibula and ankle broke with such force that the crack could be heard in the stands. He was a star in the UHL, having scored 43 goals for the Port Huron Beacons the previous season. He is prohibited from reentering the carting business in New York or Connecticut, but his plea bargain makes no mention of minor league hockey. We knew the reality: It was hockey, but it was also entertainment. Wingnut. Having collected 563 goals over the course of his 15 seasons in various leagues, Duhart gave the Trashers a second genuine scoring threat. The state senator had also told an undercover agent that he would use his influence to discover anything that could hurt Galante and "blunt it as best I can." Yet in some ways Galantes biography seemed unlike that of a traditional hood. Her style may be unorthodox, but she fits right in between the pipes. One player told me he did actual work in waste removal for Galantenothing no-show about his job. You did right by him and were loyal, and he would do anything for you. felt that the Trashers needed a goal scorer. He allegedly kicked a referee. was on the phone with agents for some of the best hockey players in the world. 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. 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. 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. 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. In return, Jimmy asked only that the players make hospital visits or speak at schools. What happened Josh Elzinga? Toward the trade deadline, we were going through a slump. "Listen, for all you guys who don't have a sack, I've brought enough balls for everyone," he said. Dissatisfied with the response he got from police, DeLuca went to Galante. - Premium Design on your profile page (optional) ", Roseanne Galante, reasonably, asked her husband and son if they had any idea what they were doing. The Trashers traveled in a luxury coach; they played card games and talked all night. signed him for another game against Adirondack, in Danbury on Feb. 23, which was also WWE Night. Season. "We're probably not going to want to participate," he said haltingly. Launching an expansion hockey team in Danbury seemed less like a vanity play than a natural progression. 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. That is it.. Ice hockey coach and former NHL forward who won a gold medal in 1980 with the U.S. Olympic hockey team. what happened to josh elzinga hockey. 's account.). Player after player came by the house to show support. Last seen in the 2003-2004 season with the Chicago Steel (USHL). Severely injured by a terrible cheap shot from an opponent, Winger is able to rehab his broken leg and get his revenge exactly 367 days later.The film footage is sort of grainy (unless you watch the documentary for some unique angles), but until this film, the audio from the home broadcast of the Danbury Trashers has never been available. made connections over the summer with agents, scouts and middlemen who could deliver that goalie from Manitoba or that playmaker from Quebec. Josh Elzinga vs. Brad Wingfield, December 03, 2005 - Kalamazoo Wings vs. Danbury Trashers. In the first period Wagner instigated a fight, and an all-out brawl broke out. So in 2004 Galante sank his money into the hockey equivalent of Double A ball. One day in November, an employee at the Ice Arena was proud to show the building until he was told his visitor was interested in writing an article on the Trashers. Like Danbury, once the producer of many of the world's hats. They led the league in penalty minutes. HOCKEY IS BACK!!!. 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. Because adult-sized chest protectors were too big for her, she initially wore one meant for children. Brenda got tattoos of the names of her favorite players. But as Wingfield skated away , Elzinga stuck his leg out and pulled back on the left wing's jersey. Danbury, Connecticut, is the ultimate small city. When Jimmy returned from work, his son greeted him with the big news. By accepting an offer he couldn't refuse. The team didn't take itself too seriouslyand didn't take any crapwhich was pitch-perfect for Danbury. Like Mike Tyson in his prime.". The game was still knotted after two overtimes. "He made fans feel like they were an integral part of the team. The judge let Galante remain out of prison pending trial but put him under house arrest. And how is this kid running a hockey team?". Listen to the trailer for, the interview ending abruptly when a teacher walked by. "Especially for a guy with one eye. That's all we needed to hear. And the noisemy God, the noise! Its all Ive known for my whole life, she said. Pick your poison. The second place AJ looked was where any other fan might have: hockeyfights.com, a website that aggregates footage of brawls on the ice. 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. When the signal comes, they pull on a fresh shirt, put on the gear, head out. Josh Elzinga vs. Brad Wingfield, December 03, 2005 - Kalamazoo Wings vs. Danbury Trashers . There was only one problem: it wasnt protecting her sides, leaving her exposed, and often, black and blue. At a press conference on April 1, Galante also introduced the team's 17-year-old president, who had just bought a suit for the occasion. Jimmy was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault. Though he lived with his wife and two children in suburban New Fairfield, he was beloved in nearby Danbury, where he had his office. In the summer of 2005, federal agents raided Galantes offices, coming away with more than $500,000 in cash and more than 5,000 boxes of documentsreceipts, account books, you name it. Asked what hes up to these days, he said, Enjoying life.. "You can't have him," Roanoke Valley's GM responded. She started playing hockey, in her wheelchair. Brenda, confined to a wheelchair because of spina bifida, had never been to a pro hockey game. First of all, if you look at the bus, it was pretty sick, Mario Larocque told me. It will have desperate people, lost causes, and crime. Maybe it was better that way. While David-Alexandre Beauregard was no goon, he fit into the Danbury menagerie. "Before games we'd be mobbed," says Tom Devine, owner of the Two Steps Downtown Grille. 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. Josh Elzinga NOT the Josh who broke Brad Wingfield's leg . "I cut a foot off the visitors' bench," says Pomposello, "so they'd be all squished together." They stayed in the best hotels and ate at the best restaurants. Although Jimmy and A.J., with their contempt for other franchises, took pride in letting proxies handle league board meetings and conference calls, Brosal says they were fine corporate citizens of the UHL: "Jimmy would get fined, and he would argueWho do you think you are?and five hours later the money was wired into the account. He was a great owner." The Trashers' most notorious festival of violence had taken place on Dec. 1, 2004, when they hosted the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Wings. John also has coached with the Florida Jr. Panthers and Florida Panthers Hockey Schools for many years. The injury barred him from the NHL, so he was down among the minor-league rabble. John has two sons who also like to play hockey. persisted. All told, he played just five games for them. He had once set a record in the West Coast Hockey League with 503 penalty minutes in a single season. He has talked casually with A.J. "I loved every player," Jimmy asserts. But even Wingnut had nothing on Chad Wagner. Mario Larocque was different: Hed been taken in the first round of the 1996 NHL draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning. Needless to say it was gobbled right up.The documentary has taken the hockey and sports worlds by storm. Having failed to agree with players on a new contract, major-league owners canceled the season. In 1980, after the Houston Oilers barely missed a trip to the Super Bowl, Coach Bum Phillips gave their fans a famous pep talk. 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. 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. "People love to watch him perform. Marc uses a basis of skating and skills rather than hockey concepts oversystems through proper small area games. 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