After nearly 20 years on Long Island, the New York Apple Core has relocated it’s marquee EJHL franchise to Brewster Ice Arena. You can read more about the move in The Journal News on Sunday, but this is essentially a team of elite players working to land a spot on a college roster.
There are five locals on the 24-member squad – Rich Prunesti (New Rochelle), Colin Reilly (Pelham), John Redgate (Suffern), Matt McMorrow (Pearl River) and Tommy Nolan (Mahopac).
After going 2-1 during a showcase in Massachusetts last weekend, the Apple Core will be hosting the Connecticut Oilers tomorrow at Brewster Ice Arena. Face off is set for 8 p.m. To celebrate the new season, there will be no admission charge for spectators.
2012-13 New York Apple Core EJHL Roster
2 Ben Jentsch D 94 6’1 190 R Hartland, WI
4 Jordan Cosby F 93 6’2” 200 R Norcross, GA
5 Kyle Menges D 94 6’1 185 L Novelty, OH
7 Matt McMorrow F 94 6’1” 160” L Pearl River, NY
8 Chad Goldberg F 93 5’11” 180 R Agoura Hills, CA
9 Colin Reilly F 94 5’10” 195 L Pelham, NY
11 Tommy Nolan F 93 5’9” 170 R Mahopac, NY
12 John Redgate F 94 5’9” 150 L Suffern, NY
17 Ray Boudiette D 94 6’2” 200 L Redding, CT
18 Justin LaCorte F 92 5’11” 185 L Pompton Plains, NJ
19 Nolan Pues F 94 6’1” 170 R Long Beach, NY
20 Kyle Zelanka D 93 6’0” 175 L Hewlett, NY
21 Mike Laffin F 95 5’11” 170 L Hopewell Jct, NY
23 Connor Finocchio D 94 5’11” 180 L Parkland, FL
24 Matt Smethurst F 94 5’10” 185 L Rexford, NY
25 Shawn LaCorte D 94 5’11” 175 R Pompton Plains, NJ
31 Sal Magliocco G 92 5’10” 185 L Roslyn, NY
40 J.J. Ganss F 94 5’4” 155 L Montvale, NJ
50 Tyler Young F 93 5’10” 185 R Sayville, NY
71 Yuriy Sokayev D 93 5’11” 180 L Staten Island, NY
74 Kevin Dluhy G 94 5’10” 160 L Branchburg, NJ
77 Mike LaFrenier D 92 5’10” 185 R Addison, IL
94 Joe Mitchell F 94 5’11” 175 R Williamsville, NY
96 Rich Prunesti F 93 6’2” 185 R New Rochelle, NY
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Mike- last year you featured RCDS’s Shayne Bingham playing for Miami of Ohio’s DI team. Looking at the roster of Core’s oppnent tonite, I see Bingham on the CT Oiler team.
So what happened to the RCDS kid at Miami? I had thought it was a reach for him to be on the team even as a practice player anyway. Good hes still playing
No frankie sherding? What is up with that?
Former New hartford star arrested on murder charges, sad!
http://www.uticaod.com/features/x1931755024/Former-New-Hartford-hockey-standout-charged-in-womans-death?img=3
Applecore Junior A is the best free hockey you will find anywhere in the area.
pay bia $8000 to keep your dream alive?
more like 12,000
so w/ 24 kids on the roster at $12k, bia is collecting $244k. At $6 hours of ice time a week @ $500 per hour the cost to bia in ice time is $75k. Sounds like a great deal to someone . . but not necessarily the players.
Real Junior hockey is not pay to play.
i’d say if you are 19 and still paying to play you should give it up . . unless paying to play includes tuition at a very good university
These young men are doing what they love…playing high-level hockey. Whether they’re doing it to get into college or just to give “The Dream” a shot, I say good for them. Their parents are willing to foot the bill and as the saying goes – you’re only young once. No regrets and no “what ifs”. What could be wrong with that?
Since the only True Freshman in NCAA hockey come from the National DevelopmentTeam playing Juniors at 19 is a decent chance to be picked up by a Div I or Div III team. Maybe they show up at 20 to College but they still have 4 years of eligability. In this job market so many college grads are not finding jobs out of school. So I see this as a good return on investment for some.
When you consider travel, hotels uniforms and some gear the 12K is not a winfall for the owners of these teams. Then factor in Frank Breti as the coach and I think a bunch of these kids will be on College Rosters pretty soon.
What were power rankings be to start the year for both Division 1 and Division 2 for section 1 and why
I meant to say what are yours
good return on investment for a very few, bad for most, especially if you consider opportunity cost.
Old School Mountie said it best – if the parents are willing to foot the bill for their kids to chase a dream then those players are lucky. They will never have to look back and ask themselves, “I wonder if”. Some do it for the dream and others do it for the love of hockey.
and BIA is happy to oblige at $5k profit per kid
The Eastern has some very good players who “paid to play as a 19 year old”. Chris Wagner from Boston played juniors locally on the Jr Bruins a few years back and after completing a super soph season at Colgate this past April , signed a pretty big entry level contract with the Ducks. That is return on investment.
yes, maybe that contract will enable him to pay back the investment of the other 200 kids who didn’t make it.
WOW!!!- fannot game, NSOCB, BIA & OSM – your not serious are you?
College is an investment to learning how to think, exposure to new and different things one would not be exposed to and to gain marketable skills for an ever changing competitive world.
Minimizing that focus or delaying the continuation of that process is probably doing a young man more harm than good.
In life everyone has different decisions to make, some players do a post graduate year in prep school hoping to get noticed, some play junior hockey, some go to work for a year and then go to college, everyone’s situation is different. People make choices for reasons that fit their family situation; no one should judge another person for their decision to delay college for a year for whatever personal reason they want. In a perfect world a kid graduates high school and does 4 years of college and gets a job and everyone is happy. Unfortunately we do not live in a perfect world.
As far as Brewster Ice Arena making money, yes they are making money, they own a business and when you own a business, you have bills to include; insurance, salaries, rent, taxes just to name a few of the expenses. How would the BIA stay open if they did not make money?
For full disclosure I just use the name BIA because my kid’s team plays out of the rink; I am not affiliated with the rink. I use BIA to have fun with the southern HS parents who go back and forth about BIA and its teams.
But the comments about the rink making money as if they are committing a sin is ridicules, it is a business and when you own a business your goal is to make money and satisfy your customers. I see many satisfied customers walking in and out of BIA every day I when am present. I see parents beaming with pride when their kids are having fun at a party on the ice, playing hockey, learning to be a figure skater or anything else the kids enjoy at an ice arena. I watch as the grown men play in an adult league and they have a blast still trying to get that last grasp of being a competitive athletic. BIA is a fun place to be, as a spectator, I enjoy watching all the happiness that BIA brings to families.
Smart Hockey – The unemployment rate for recent college graduates is over 50%. These newly- minted worldly thinkers find themselves living back at mom and dad’s house with no job prospects and a mountain of debt. Why rush toward that? Why not chase the dream for another year or two?
i have nothing against BIA making as much money as they can . . . but full disclosure of how much money they are making is ok also if someone feels like pointing it out.
BIA and and applecore advertise all over their website and at the arena those players that have “made it”. No mention of the 95% who don’t and how much above actual cost they are paying for the privilege of wasting two years not moving forward with their lives.
So, just pointing it out.
Everyone can and should make their own choices.
There appears to be, however, a lot of corruption in youth hockey in general w/o singling out any single program. Until this year, USA hockey required all member youth organizations be “not for profit” “501” organizations. As such they got certain tax benefits. Many organizations seem to play very fast and loose with the rules of 501 organizations
Hello All!!!
Damn, return on investment, you sure are focused, on what I am not sure. Obvioulsy you know how everybody should live their life and will be happy doing it your way. i wonder just how happy you are?? With your boring job, wife, 2.5 kids, a cat and a dog, I bet you even have the stick figure family on the back of your minivan.. you should write a book, so we all know what choices are the CORRECT ONES… for a boring, stable, predictable and very safe life.
Please explain to me “not moving forward with their lives..”?? Enjoying what one is doing, going places, meeting new people, learning how to be part of a team, chasing a dream? none of these are moving forward through life? One day you will realize you have regrets, I would bet one of them will be not pursuing something you loved, and instead doing what was expected, going to college and getting a job. There is much more to life than that.. Stop and look around once in a while, you might like something out there, that doesn’t fit into your little plan.
BIA, postman and Old School Mountie- What ever you guys (or girls) are smoking, I want some!!!
BIA – There is a hugh difference btw not having the money for college or delaying to do community service and “I want to smack a puck around for a few more years and delay becoming an adult”. Lumping all of your rationales into one does a major disservice to those legit reasons.
postman- You can do both!!! BTW that regrets thing is very overrated. Pretty shallow dream if your goal is play Div 3 hockey, aim a bit higher, from your post, I know you have it in you.
Old School Mountie- Are you smoking Crack? Let me get this straight, because time are tough and competition to get ahead is harder then it’s ever been, you suggest doing less ?
Repeat after me, “Would you like to supersize that coke with your happy meal”.
Come on idiots!!! Use as much energy, attention and devotion at school as you do in hockey!!!!
Use the same commitment you put into your tenth windsprint, in AP Biology!!!!
Education and acquired knowledge build off of repeated exposure, Delaying 9 times out of 10 hurts, please don’t cite the one time little Johnny ran counter to everyone and became Steve Jobs, most of the people who did that end up Supersizing Cokes.
Smart Hockey – It seems evident from the angry tone in your posts that:
1) You tried the Junior/College hockey path and didn’t make it or;
2) You hate hockey (not sure why you’d be on this blog) or;
3) You hate your job at McDonalds and living in Mom’s basement.
There is no shame in #3…just ask Ned Bigby!
OSM there is a difference btw anger and sarcasm, and f I’m not mistaken your the one citing living back at Moms house after college due to tough economic conditions. Where do you think you are going to live if all you have is a GED, Park Ave clipping coupons with the Republican candidate?
I also played D2 hockey (dating myself) and did quit to broaden my life experience. I was one hell of a player during pick up and you know what, I made a ton of friends, met some great girls that I would never have met if I would of stayed on the team and eventually got a great job from a friend who a terrible hockey player but a very smart businessman!!!
I also love hockey, smart hockey, get it?
smart hockey . . . what makes you think he could possibly get it?
We are going to have some fun this year “smart hockey”!!
Looking forward to point/counterpoint with postman and smart hockey.
ROI- I believe in the healthy exchange of ideas. I believe that everyone here is smart enough and objective enough to “get” a well thought out position regardless of their personal views. With that said, I am not above throwing out the occasional zinger to bring about a good laugh.
Wait till that Mammo guy starts passing wind on this blog if you really want to experience a foul smell.
What are you guys talking about? If I wanted to learn about returns on investments I would have taken an economics class at Community College.
Smart Hockey, what Mammo guy are you talking about?
What a complete dingleberry Smart Hockey is. Did he actually write “I believe that everyone here is smart enough and objective enough to “get” a well thought out position regardless of their personal views”? Boy did you come to the wrong site.
He also wrote “College is an investment to learning how to think, exposure to new and different things one would not be exposed to and to gain marketable skills for an ever changing competitive world.” That’s funny. College is actually a place to sleep late, take a few classes, party, hang out and stall as long as you can before getting in to the real world.
I have a feeling Smart Hockeys only marketable skill is sucking farts out of movie seats… I think he learned that in Film 101 at Monroe College.
Wow – maybe OSM’s Bigby comment will get old Nedley to fire up his keyboard…..
Judging by your command of the English language “Smart” hockey, you should have stayed on the ice. How’s that for sarcasm?
Smart Hockey
Why drag that “Mammo guy” into this? You already succeeded in riling up the usual blog suspects and now that wasn’t enough? You had to go for the gratuitous flatuous insult of an innocent bystander?
Ha ha ha ….
Sounds like Smart Hockey ‘doth protest too much” .....meaning he really is just jealous…....probably of Mammo guy’s incomparable skill at turning a phrase.
Amazing what one can learn while sleeping late in college.
More admiration, than envy. As far as Rocket Fuel , his shtick is getting a bit old, anyone can go the Animal House route when riffing on this subject. I think it’s time RF broke out some new fresh material. Don’t get me wrong, he’s very good at what he does, but a one trick pony.
This guy is not only smart… he’s a geenyus. Is there a mensa blog for this guy?
I can’t wait to start to blog about power leagues. First I need to look at my old material on the subject and then try to freshen it up to impress geenyus hockey here.
My name is Rocket Fuel, not Rocket Science for a reason.
Your boring me. Maybe you have jumped the shark?
now all the visiting teams get to change in the awesome mold covered locker rooms
Maybe BIA can spen some money and clean up the place
woops should be SPEND some money