PIHA Semi-Pro & Minor Week 1

Semi-Pro

After the first week in the PIHA Northeast conference the boys went 3-1 on the weekend. After going through some changes by moving some Minor players up (Logan Cain, Andy Russo, Josh Fontaine) and adding new Goaltender (David Wax) to the mix this season. The changes definitely looked for the better after week one. 

The first game of the season was against the LI Snipers who already played 2 games earlier in the day. Sniper goaltender O'Leary stood on his head and secured the win for the Snipers. The 2nd game of the day was against the Suffolk Sting. Impact went up 4-1 after the first period with Sting scoring a goal late in the 2nd period to make it a 4-2 game. John Lechmanski ended up scoring a empty net goal to win the game 5-3. Game 3 was against the RI Mistfits.  Impact went up 2-0 after the 1st period and ended up running away with the game scoring 4 more in the 2nd period with a final score of 6-2. The last game of the day was against the Flamingoes. Impact opened up with 2 quick goals in the 1st 4mins of the game. David Wax got the first Impact shut up this season after the Impact beat the Flamingoes 5-0.  High scorers for the day was Greg Kubrak, John Lechmanski,  John Ninivaggi tallying 6 points each 

Minor

After the first weekend of PIHA Minor games. The squad went 3-1 on the weekend! With some players moving up to Semi-Pro this season we had some roster spots that needed to be filled. 6 new players are now on the squad and a big revamp from last year. High scorers this weekend went to Corey Nill, Mike Prainito and new player Josh Diblanda with 4 points a piece. We also had 5 others with 3 points a piece. Everyone who played this weekend had at least 1 point on the weekend.

Game 1 of the season was against the newly formed Grizzlies Minor team and a 4-2 victory against the new comers. The next game was against the Suffolk Sting. After a Impact lead 2-1 after the first the Sting would tie it up with 8mins left in the 2nd on a Power Play goal and sealing the deal a little after and beating the Impact 3-2. Game 3 was against the new Flamingo Minor squad and Impact showed the dominance right off the bat scoring a goal within 21 seconds into the game and another one shortly after. The Impact Squad would go up 4-0 after the first and finishing the game with a 5-1 victory. In the last game of the night it was against the Grizzlies we saw earlier. The game ended with a 4-1 win for the Impact squad.