Jr Rangers EHL Start the Season with a 3-2 Loss

The Boston Jr Rangers EHL team start off the season with a Sunday Matinee with the Connecticut Wolfpack at home in Tewksbury.  It was not the game that the team was expecting to have.

The Jr Rangers started the game off with a tough first period giving up 22 shots to the Wolf Pack.  The Jr Rangers did start the scoring the firsts goal with a beautiful rush up the left side by Drew Dawson. He blew around the defense of CT and scored walking in alone.  The rest of the period was not as good for the Jr Rangers. They took 6 minutes in penalties.  The Wolfpack scored on the first one with a shot from the point and then scoring on the rebound.

Then a few minutes later the Wolfpack scored on centering pass from the corner that was scored on the back door.

The Jr Rangers tied the game in the third off a shorthanded goal from Michael Beers.  Beers put pressure on the defense of the Wolfpack that turned it over to Beers, and he raced in on a breakaway putting the puck under the cross bar.

The game did not remain tied for long as the Wolfpack scored on a rush were the Jr rangers defense lost track of a Wolfpack forward going to the net scoring a n empty net goal.

"We need to do a better job in front of our goal," said coach Mario Martiniello, "all three goals were scored in the slot area."

The Junior Rangers look to get in the win column on Wednesday when they host the Cyclones at 1pm at Breakaway

EHL Captains Named

The Boston Jr. Rangers are proud to announce the captains for the upcoming EHL season. The captain of the team will be Tyler Theodoulou. Tyler was an important part of last years team. He will be counted on to be a key contributor on and off the ice this year.   "Tyler has come such a long way since the beginning of last year. He was the obvious choice to lead this years club," said coach Mario Martiniello.  

The two assistants will be Chris Hinrichs and Greg Stoya. Chris Hinrichs is a returning member of last years AJHL club. He too has shown tremendous growth in the last year and Rangers expect even bigger things this year.  He will be counted on to lead the defense core.  

Greg Stoya had a monster year last year with he Junior Rangers MET Team posting 40 + goals. He helped lead the team to division championship, and was one win away from heading to nationals.  The Rangers will look for him to bring the same winning ways to this years EHL campaign. 

Congratulations to these three. There are many other Rangers that will be counted on to be leaders this year. These 3 won't be able to do it alone. Everyone must step up to make this year the best that it can be. 

Training camp ends with a Blue Victory

The Boston Junior Rangers closed camp today with a victory from the Blue team 6-3. Both teams played a strong game with the score being 1-1 mid way through the first. The Blue team team struck late in the the first to go up 2-1 of a turn over in the corner and Greg Stoya picked up the lose puck and snapped the puck far side.

The Red team came out in the second determined to tie up the game but it was the Blue team that scored first off a 2 on 1 rush and Donaldson scored off a wrist shot over the goalies glove. Red came back and scored off a rebound goal from Dawson. 

The third period started off a little slow. Then blue struck off a beautiful feed from Theodoulou to Donaldson who banged the puck into the open net to make it 4-2. Red team struck again to score a rebound goal. It was Blue team that took control from this point forward. The line of Theodoulou, Stoya, and Donaldson took control and scored 2 more times. They should be a fun line to watch this year.  

With training camp coming to close the teams were divided into the EHL and MET clubs. Both teams will take a few days off and get pack at it with practice on Tuesday. Both teams will then head to Connecticut on Saturday to scrimmage the wolfpack. Then on Sunday the wolfpack head to Tewksbury to complete the home and home scrimmages.