Throughout his busy professional career, he has also participated in numerous hockey schools around the country. In the Trashers-Frostbite game, however, he inflicted no real damage even though he spent three periods looking for a fight, ran up 43 penalty minutes and even made a run at the Adirondack goalie. But as Wingfield skated away , Elzinga stuck his leg out and pulled back on the left wing's jersey. Their goons fight our goons. The most famous tough-guy team ever was whothe Broad Street Bullies, 7475 Flyers? I remember being elated, guys tumbling over the boards like wed won the Stanley Cup. The Trashers went on to win that series, but lost the next. Two months into the season, the games turned nasty. Says St. Clair, "It still feels like I got kicked in the f------ chest. 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. A legion of small business owners still talk about how, on Trashers game nights, downtown blazed to life. For 5 years John was with N.I.S.T.C as the Hockey Director and for 3 years he was with theGlobal Hockey School. His job was to be the Kevin Costner to Brent Gretzkys Whitney Houston. The team didn't take itself too seriouslyand didn't take any crapwhich was pitch-perfect for Danbury. All get tossed. The team was largely the same, with a few additions, including yet another minor-league-hockey legend, David Beauregard. But his passion for sports never faded. "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. The Trashers were even able to land a few genuine NHL players, one of whom was Mike Rupp. Workers were still welding in seats 90 minutes before the first game, but opening night was a success: A sellout crowd of about 2,500 showed up, and Danbury beat Adirondack 3--1. They were always pulling them out late, clearing the bench, fighting and celebrating. Gilles was the Lead Hockey Instructor for National Hockey Development for 4 years. says, shifting uneasily in his seat. Featured in the NETFLIX documentary Untold: Crime \u0026 Penalties, the story of the Danbury Trashers relives the short and tumultuous history of an old United Hockey League team that married WWE Wrestling with the innocence of The Mighty Ducks to offer a brand of hockey never before seen. So in 2004 Galante sank his money into the hockey equivalent of Double A ball. Then AJ had gotten hurt. picks his words with great care when discussing what he calls "the legal issues" of the last few years. Gustafson would later describe Galante as a manipulating, controlling, hands-on bully., When I asked Galante why hed become a fixation for prosecutors, he said, I have no idea. Gretzky, at 32, was in the descent portion of his career. He currently resides in Southwest Florida with his wife, Wendy, and their two children. Sep 30, 1984 Position D Age 38 Height 5'11" / 180 cm Place of Birth Burbank, IL, USA Weight 183 lbs / 83 kg Nation USA Shoots L Youth Team - Status Retired Brother: Adam Elzinga Team Staff profile of Joshua Elzinga also available Use/Embed statistics Default Per Game Average Coaches Played For Player Statistics Regular Season + Postseason Thank you." A Cree from Saskatchewan who sometimes sported a multicolored Mohawk, he stood barely 5'10" but had a chin of granite and relished punching above his weight class. It was populated by the die-hard, the angry, and the drunk. Jimmy owned a stock car racing team and had long talked about becoming a sports magnate. Good hotels, a beautiful locker roomseveral players remember their tenure on the team as their most satisfying time in pro hockey. Al has coached youth hockeyfor the last 9 years and isa level 5 USA Hockey coach. Eventually, Donny Grover, a former Trashers defenseman, noticed Brenda in the stands and invited her onto the ice. Now he was turning up with his gear at a regional airport, being greeted too enthusiastically by what looked like a high-school kid claiming to be his new GM. Like Danbury, once the producer of many of the world's hats. When an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. Winger Frank (the Animal) Bialowas, a former runner-up for Mr. Manitoba, was not much for impulse control either. From November 2019: My family story of love, the Mob, and government surveillance. "Before games we'd be mobbed," says Tom Devine, owner of the Two Steps Downtown Grille. about getting back into sports. "It was loud," says A.J., "and security was very, let's just say, flexible." Jimmy pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, tax fraud, and wire fraud. With the NHL idled by a lockout that would scuttle the 2004--05 season in mid-February, the UHL became a haven for restless NHL players wanting to play to stay in shape. Team Information. It was a clean shot [but] they came right at AJ, and he had a very severe knee injury, couldnt play hockey anymore. If you search Jim Duhart, those are what you find: Jim Duhart versus Tom Clayton, Jim Duhart versus Jason Taylor. He knows how to treat people. A.J. He searched two places, one actual, one virtual. Having failed to agree with players on a new contract, major-league owners canceled the season. , New Brunswick, Canada, Gilles Richard is the current Vice-President of Hockey Operations for Southeast Elite Hockey. Danburys equipment manager would soak the Trashers jerseys in Crisco before they played the Frostbite so the opposing goons couldnt get a firm grip. The story of Galantes team has become legend in Fairfield County, where I live. It held fewer than 3,000 seats, the fewest in the UHL, but it had a jewel-box intimacy. After a few minutes of glaring at them in lacerating silence, Galante dumped the contents of the basket. 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. "You shoulda seen Rupp," Galante recalls, laughing. On Dec. 3, 2005, Kalamazoo visited Danbury. Elzinga refused. - Verification Badge on your profile, Post a scouting report/trivia/player comment in English (visible here), 2001, 4 #48 overall by Cedar Rapids Roughriders, 2000, 8 #157 overall by Windsor Spitfires. Submit changes (incorrect DOB, missing stats, incorrect stats, social media links etc) using a web form and we will review your update request within 24 hours and update accordingly. The New York Times described him as a Danbury trash hauler suspected of mob ties who had a story right out of The Sopranos., From December 2019: Scorseses elegy for the American gangster. In 2015, AJ opened a boxing club across from the Danbury arena. I was on the bench, Doug Christiansen told me. "Jimmy's a guest of the government, and I love that man." Wingfield was back in uniform, having healed from the slew-footing by Elzinga that had broken his leg in several places. Josh Elzinga has an equally impressive professional playing career and has served as Adam's Assistant Coach for the past 4 seasons. Josh Gratton vs Adam Elzinga - Sep 5, 2001 - YouTube NHL hockey fights, brawls, scrums, roughs, hits, cheap shots, and other incidents. If you have any questions or problems with the league statistics contact: League Admin "You better not lose again. showed off the aggressively down-market style the Trashers brought to the UHL. We still got eight goons.. AJ called it a coincidence: Changes in the league made continued play impossible, he said, not the legal problem. Of course, his dads arrest played a role. I know its not healthy, but I cant help myself. "It comes right from the top.". December 03, 2005. Gilles is a Level 4 Hockey Coach with USA Hockey. Currently, Al isanAssistant Coach of the 05 AAA Florida Alliance Elite team. ", Roseanne Galante, reasonably, asked her husband and son if they had any idea what they were doing. Now it's probably best known for its massive federal prison, which housed Lauryn Hill and has been featured in Orange Is the New Black. 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. 's high school Jimmy paid to refurbish the football stadium. Guess what? He was a defenseman and hit a kid, Galante said. "It was definitely a unique group of individualsas well as management!" One of the featured players, Brad \"Wingnut\" Wingfield plays a significant role in the film. He took a shot at us, AJ told me. "We loved those fansI mean loved," says Omicioli. The Trashers traveled in a luxury coach; they played card games and talked all night. By Chris Kazarian The legend of the United Leagues Danbury Trashers was cemented midway through the teams first season in a game against the Kalamazoo Wings. ", THE TRASHERS finished their inaugural season 44--29, and their second year unfolded much like the first: a lot of winning, a lot of fighting. The fans in section 102 who had once heckled him for his one eye instantly embraced him. All would plead guilty, as would Galante. My son plays there eight or nine times a year. The documentary does a great job capturing on the emotional story of Wingfield and his strong relationship with both A.J. Josh Elzinga Position: D Birthday: Sep 30, 1984 From: Burbank, IL United States Height: 5'11" Weight: 190 lbs. A promotional video could have doubled as a Dexter ad, with blood spatters on the ice. It started becoming urban legend.. That meant late-night sessions on hockeydb.com, where he searched for telling stats. You'll be the president. DeLuca pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of threatening. . Gilles was the Lead Hockey Instructor for National Hockey Development for 4 years. And fans werent the only ones who found the Trashers; players did too. Initially, just as a spectator. Mike DeWine and First Lady Fran DeWine are set to visit the toxic train derailment site in East Palestine Wednesday for an update on the removal of the hazardous waste from the wreck. The NHL bars players who are blind in one eye, so Beauregard was consigned to a career in the minors. Josh Elzinga player profile, stats and championships. In many ways, the first round of that postseason was the high point: the Trashers versus the Frostbite, best of seven. Galante, at 17, come to run a minor league hockey team with NHL talentand, in turn, take a leading role in Slap Shot meets GoodFellas meets Hoosiers? The one thing that has given her joy in recent years is hockey. Some say he did it for the same reason he owned a race-car squad: He loved to compete. It was all over the blogs and hockey-fight sites, the craziness. "Al Davis, he was a wild man with a team full of outlaws, and that's how I wanted to be. As he explained, No matter what type of day you had when you go out on the ice for an hour, hour and a half or two hours you forget everything that happened that day and you focus on that black little puck. Mario Larocque was different: Hed been taken in the first round of the 1996 NHL draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning. In the indictment filed by the U.S. Attorneys office, Galante was charged with 72 counts, including extortion, witness tampering, and racketeering. We're here to win.". On such nights, I suppose Im just like Galante was, rooting for my son in the crazed way understood by all hockey parents. 355 following. In 2004, this meant buying a minor-league-hockey franchise and installing it at the local youth rink, the Danbury Ice Arena. and Jimmy Galante. 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. One team employee had the inspired idea of buying fresh fish and placing it in the HVAC ducts above the visiting locker room. - EP Contact Book listing of your profile (optional) The cornerstone of Marc's approach is focusing on making each hockey player a better athlete. He's crazy.' Ten years ago, Connecticut waste-management king Jimmy Galante started a minor league hockey team and put his teenage son, A.J., in charge. You'd look across the ice, and they had eight to 10 heavyweights looking for a fight. Ohio Gov. Greg St. Clair, the fan who accompanied his wheelchair-bound wife to games, marked the occasion by getting a tattoo on his left calf of Scrappy the mascot shooting a puck emblazoned with the letters fbi. You have to understand, Dave MacIsaac, who played 62 regular-season games for Danbury, told me. It was four years to the day from the Trashers' first game. After a life-threatening hockey injury suffered at 18 years of age with a prognosis that he may never be able to play the game again, his passion for hockey and his desire to succeed expectations fueled his rehabilitation and lead him to become an all-rounded athlete who has garnered respect from coaches and players on all levels. Theres nothing sadder than a small city. Wingfield broke his leg in several places during a Dec. 1 game at the Danbury Ice Arena against Kalamazoo when he was tripped by the Wings' Josh Elzinga in the final seconds of the second. The rowdiest spectators were cordoned off in Section 102, directly behind the visitors bench. The result was a kind of frontier justice. starts innumerable sentences, "My dad always says.", Usually so engaging and candid, A.J. 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. We just figured, Were going to make a team everyone loves to hate, AJ said. First year, he was playing for the Port Huron Beacons, killing us. Jon (Nasty) Mirasty averaged more than eight minutes of penalties over 25 games. NHL hockey fights, brawls, scrums, roughs, hits,. We play a team like the Frostbite, a team with maybe two goons. "I cut a foot off the visitors' bench," says Pomposello, "so they'd be all squished together." Before a big game a team employee might check into the visitors' hotel and pull the fire alarm. When the signal comes, they pull on a fresh shirt, put on the gear, head out. By the second round, they had nothing left. She would go there (the Danbury Ice Arena) every single day and sit around in the stands for a total of probably eight hours just to watch an hour of practice, Greg said. Such a city will have many of the bad elements of a metropolis and few of the good. But Jimmy Galante was smart, and the G-men could never quite nail him. The UHL had a salary cap that limited teams to a total of approximately $275,000 for the whole roster. But haberdashery isn't what it used to be, and Danbury has struggled to find a new commercial base. Listen to the trailer for, the interview ending abruptly when a teacher walked by. It was a special experience, my best in minor league hockey. But they also swap remember-that-time-when stories about those two years they ran that crazy-assed hockey team. Not that they just rubber-stamped Galante's application. But AJs favorite was Brad Wingnut Wingfield. Barely two months into the season Ndur was suspended for 20 games after fighting not just opposing players but also officials and opposing coaches. They weren't just happy to go to games. The UHL comprised 14 teams, including the Quad City Mallards, the Elmira Jackals, the Flint Generals, the Fort Wayne Komets, the Kalamazoo Wings, and the Adirondack Frostbite. He also played one season for the Russia Omsk of the KHL. "People would make comments: 'Aren't you afraid of him? The constant sitting has led to excruciating backaches. was taking calls from players and agentsincluding, he says, Sean Avery'sasking for a Danbury roster spot. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. "When we got him," A.J. "He must've thought he was on Punk'd or something. 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. Steve Lynch has been coaching ice hockey for over 20 years. made connections over the summer with agents, scouts and middlemen who could deliver that goalie from Manitoba or that playmaker from Quebec. After a life-threatening hockey injury suffered at 18 years of age with a prognosis that he may never be able to play the game again, his passion for hockey and his desire to succeed expectations fueled his rehabilitation and lead him to become an all-rounded athlete who has . Players were welcome to stay at the Galantes' gargantuan home and, in one case, not even asked to leave after using Roseanne Galante's laptop to download Internet porn. In his 56 games with the Trashers, Wingfield piled up 496 penalty minutes. The rivalry between the teams developed fast. (Colella denies this.) - Connect directly with players, coaches, teams, scouts and agents (optional) And it all ended in an FBI raid and subsequent indictment that landed Galante in the slammer, along with the infamous gangster Matthew Ianniello, aka Matty the Horse, the then-86-year-old capo di tutti capi of the Genovese crime family. Marc believes in helping each athlete to decipher through the plethora of good and misinformation to achieve optimal performance. Hed been named with several others, including Trashers Coach J. Todd Stirling, who pleaded guilty to taking part in the salary-cap fraud. I'm not just hungry; my stomach is growling. Born 1984-09-30 in Burbank, Illinois. "He even bought the beer," says Paproski. The league set an annual salary cap of $275,000, with a $2 luxury tax for every dollar spent above the threshold. Wingnut went down awkwardly, and a crack could be heard in every part of the arena: Wingnuts left tibia and fibula. Galante was a philanthropist; a pediatric suite in the emergency department of Danbury Hospital was named for his family. During a 1994 junior hockey game he was on a breakaway when he caught a high stick under his visor. was on the phone with agents for some of the best hockey players in the world. Frank The Animal Bialowas, a legend in hockey circles, had played three games in the NHL, then spent the rest of his career in the minors, rambling from rink to rink, like a bad man in a Western. "Then everyone would ask for the check so they could be there for face-off. They had, what, three goons? "Of course, if we had to do it again, would we have accepted that franchise? The winning goal came in the third overtime. I suspended him. An email sent to the team asking Rupp to share his recollections of the Trashers elicited this curt response: "Mike is not available for your story." Others started formally, proposed and accepted in the way of czarist-era duels: One morning, as AJ was driving to schoolhe was by then a freshman at Manhattanville College, in Purchase, New York, a 40-minute commute from New Fairfieldhe heard Barry Melrose talking smack about the Trashers on ESPN Radio. In the spring of 2003, while playing for the New Jersey Devils, Rupp had scored a game-winning goal in the Stanley Cup finals. Matty the Horse spent 18 months in the big house, but he survived it, dying a free man in August 2012. When Jimmy returned from work, his son greeted him with the big news. It had a great economic impact on the entire downtown.". Playing against the Trashers was "a s--- show," said Chris Chaput, who was a center for the Elmira Jackals in 2005--06. AFTER THE FALL While Jimmy (below right) serves out his prison sentence, A.J. [The attitude was,] You're supposed to be courteous in minor league hockey? Everyone, however, agrees that he did it at least in part for his son, AJ, who was 17. No slow dissipation for the Trashers, no aging and decline. Craig is aUSA Hockey Certified Level 4 coach; his background includes being a former Head Hockey Instructor for Maximum Development Hockey based out of Windsor, Ontario Canada, coaching numerous Southeast Elite AAA select teams and coaching within the Junior Everblades organization for over 15 years, winning multiple state championships. It will have mobsters. Through hockey, Brenda has served as an inspiration for others, from children learning the sport to those like 25-year-old Eric Vogel, a fellow goalie drafted by the expansion Southwestern Pennsylvania Magic of the Federal League in June. Marc was a professional Triathlete for over 10 years. It had to do with the acoustics. It was a different day of hockey., Life for the Trashers was life on the road, going from small city to small city. If asked why they hadnt made it, theyd tell you no one had ever really given them a shot. But even Wingnut had nothing on Chad Wagner. Jimmy Galante was arrested on June 9, 2006, not long after the final game of the season. The team slogan was Bad Boys Talkin' Trash. Yet three Trashers earned more than $100,000 apiece. Gretzky reportedly earned $100,000, which would have left little for the rest of the team. Says Andy Paproski, a lifelong resident of Danbury (pop. In 2003, from their desks above what was once center ice, agents began investigating Jimmy Galante. Some of the UHL's East Coast teams were either moving to other leagues or folding. Coach Ernie's leadership, motivational skills, training skills, and exceptional training ethics bring exciting elements to Southeast Elite Hockey. The gangster shrugged: What can I say, right? The team's actual payroll would later be estimated at $750,000. That May they played their hated rival, Kalamazoo, in the Colonial Cup finals. Could there be a better symbol of the link between fans and team? He caught Josh Elzinga in a corner, called him out, beat him down. Southeast Elite is proud to announce the Mathieu Garon with be an instrumental member of the Southeast Elite organization as a goaltender instructor. MIKE RUPP wore a look of confusion. Most teams rode in a rickety, Partridge Familystyle bus. That spring, when A.J. Between periods, players take off their jersey and pads. He's 27 now. There was only one problem: it wasnt protecting her sides, leaving her exposed, and often, black and blue. Jimmy Galante purchased an expansion franchise in the United Hockey League, the equivalent of Double A baseball. 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. Still, Vogel wanted something to remember the moment by, so he donned his goalie gear to take some photos with Brenda on the ice. Thirty-two other individuals, including Matty the Horse, were charged as part of the investigation. "Listen," he said, "my dad is coming home for dinner at 7:30, and if I don't have a goal scorer by then, I'm in big trouble." For video of the Danbury Trashers mixing it up, download SI's tablet version, free to subscribers, at SI.com/activate. "You can't have him," Roanoke Valley's GM responded. He wore a full face mask. Then, as A.J. 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 Trashers had the Adirondack Frostbite. Section 102 became a subtribe whose members had nicknames like Capone and Jackass. In the late 1990s Galante had been sentenced to a year and a day in a federal prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion. "I got lectured a lot by Mr. Brosal, our commissioner," A.J. Still, as one might expect from a teenage GM, the roster was dense with goons. Galante spent $3 million to refurbish the Danbury Ice Arena. As Wingfield skated away,. For all that's happened, the kid still idolizes his father. Some say he did it as a civic benefactor, to give a depressed city something to rally around. Jimmy was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault. They called back, and I said, Do you want to trade that one-eyed guy? His first game with us, he had [a goal and an assist]. First of all, he was a really good player, AJ explained, and second, the name recognition.. In his first semester of college A.J. Theyd gotten close in 2005; now they intended to kick the son of a bitch in. had been a serviceable defenseman in high school and had followed the Devils, so he reckoned he knew the sport well enough. Josh Elzinga vs. Mark Versteeg-Lytwyn, November 24, 2006 - Port Huron Flags vs. Kalamazoo Wings. Important: An official team/league url or a team document must be provided for us to update player stats. THE PLAYERS KNEW THAT THEIR OWNER WAS, WELL, CONNECTED, BUT THEY DIDN'T CARE. So Im like, How the hell am I going to get a trade? I ended up taking this Vipers fan booklet and calling the merchandise number. None of this fazes the 47-year-old Brenda. Maybe because Im Italian and in the garbage business.. They had scorers and skaters and playmakers and defensive stalwarts. Yet the father delegated personnel moves to the son. (Prosecutors ultimately dropped the case for lack of proof. 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. Having been a professional player, coach, and instructor for over 15 years, Gilles has been able to help continue to grow youth hockey programs across the state of Florida. Game Two is what people remember. The players exchanged looks of confusion. Wagner was apologetic, and A.J. The league's 13 other owners were happy for the cash infusion. I first heard it from a father on the sidelines of a Little League game soon after I moved in. Home; Fights. . The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? "You need a wild card," says A.J., "so we decided we would beat people to submission. When it came time to negotiate Gretzkys contract, AJ turned the deal over to his father. A.J. The FBI had sent an agent undercover to pass himself off as a rogue salesman and befriend the men around Galante. Pick your poison. Sign up today to get the best features and analysis from the NHL and beyond. Still, the joy of playing the sport makes her feel, in her own words, on top of the world, far outweighing any pain she has endured. . Defense. Like Mike Tyson in his prime.". 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