Announcement
| CLASS AAA Penguin Cup Preview ~ 2015-2016 | |||||||||||||
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| 2016 PA HOCKEY CLASS 'AAA' PLAYOFF PREVIEW | |||||||||||||
| When you look at Class AAA with 11 schools, every team who madde the playoffs has been pretty battle tested to face the competition | |||||||||||||
| on a night in night out basis. It's anyone's ballgame in AAA and if you don't believe me, I will bet that at least one upset will happen | |||||||||||||
| if not more. NA is playing very well and looks to be the favorite, but Central has played very well in the 2nd half. Cathedral Prep could | |||||||||||||
| sneak in a steal the show and Butler is a nice team looking to go one step further than a year ago. Peters, Seneca, Canon Mac and Bethel | |||||||||||||
| are all on the road and represent programs with recent history of Penguins Cup success over the past five years. Let the games begin | |||||||||||||
| and may the best team win a represent West Pa in the Pennsylvania High School Hockey Championship in its 41st year . | |||||||||||||
| > | IT IS ANYONE'S BALLGAME IN AAA | ||||||||||||
| 1 | NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS | ||||||||||||
| HEAD COACH: MIKE BAGNATO | |||||||||||||
| TOP PLAYERS: ERIK CHIDESTER - JOE ZAPPIA - JOE HUBERT - | |||||||||||||
| OUTLOOK:North Allegheny is a team who got embarrased a year ago and has been playing with a chip on its shoulder in the 2nd half of this season to prove otherwise | |||||||||||||
| 2 | CENTRAL CATHOLIC VIKINGS | ||||||||||||
| HEAD COACH: BILLY CONNELLY | |||||||||||||
| TOP PLAYERS RETURNING: SAM DELUCIA - JAKE TEPE - RYAN HAAG - NATE CAVA | |||||||||||||
| OUTLOOK: Central has played desperate hockey in the 2nd half of the 2015-16 season and has gotten timely goaltending which is a great recipe for playoff success | |||||||||||||
| 3 | CATHEDRAL PREP RAMBLERS | ||||||||||||
| HEAD COACH: CRAIG BARNETT | |||||||||||||
| TOP PLAYERS: JACK BECKER - JOE KELLY - JAKE KUCHARSKI - DILLON ELLIOTT | |||||||||||||
| OUTLOOK: Cathedral Prep won the Class AA title a year ago and has continued its run in Class AAA. This is a dangerous team of veterans and youth and could | |||||||||||||
| take the AAA title by storm | |||||||||||||
| 4 | BUTLER GOLDEN TORONADOES | ||||||||||||
| HEAD COACH: PAT HAMMONDS | |||||||||||||
| TOP PLAYERS RETURNING: JON FAIR - CONNOR SCOTT - TREVOR GILLIAND - BEN RODGERS | |||||||||||||
| OUTLOOK: Butler made the dance a year ago and has experience and some top end talent to take this team to the promised land in 2016 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | PETER TWP INDIANS | ||||||||||||
| HEAD COACH: RICK TINGLE | |||||||||||||
| TOP PLAYERS: WILL BARNES - CONNOR GIELEROWSKI - MATT AMELIO - ZACH GIELEROWSKI | |||||||||||||
| OUTLOOK: Peters Twp has the deepest hockey program in all Class AAA and will need goaltending and to pick up scoring to move forward in the Penguins Cup AAA chase | |||||||||||||
| 6 | SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS | ||||||||||||
| HEAD COACH: ANTHONY RACO | |||||||||||||
| TOP PLAYERS RETURNING: CHRIS LIPNICKY - ALEX CRILLEY - SHANE GALIS - ALYSSA PETERSON | |||||||||||||
| OUTLOOK: Seneca Valley is a very good team with depth who will need to rise to the occasion to pull upsets in the Penguins Cup field | |||||||||||||
| 7 | CANON MCMILLAN BIG MACS | ||||||||||||
| HEAD COACH: JOE RODELLA | |||||||||||||
| TOP PLAYERS RETURNING: LUC LAVELLA - JAKE MCLELLAND - JACK CLENDENIAL - CONNOR HARTNETT | |||||||||||||
| OUTLOOK: The Big Macs ran the table with one goal games through the 2015 playoffs before falling short to Holy Ghost a year ago and has its work cut out in 2016 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | BETHEL PARK BLACKHAWKS | ||||||||||||
| HEAD COACH: JIM 'MORT' MCVAY | |||||||||||||
| TOP PLAYERS: ANTONIO ESPOSITO - TYLER KRUSZEWSKI - EVAN OAKLEY - TRE LOWE | |||||||||||||
| OUTLOOK: Bethel Park may be one of Class AAA's most dangerous teams and if Tre Lowe gets hot, the Hawks could be in for a magical run | |||||||||||||
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