FDNY Hockey

 
The B. C. Matthew Ryan Memorial Scholarship Fund was founded in memory of Battalion Chief Matthew Ryan, who lost his life on the third floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Chief Ryan had 28 years of service with the Fire Department, working 19 of them in Brooklyn. Two of his biggest passions were the FDNY and playing hockey. Therefore, the scholarship was set up as follows below.

 
Applicants must meet both the following criteria:

 

1. Must be the daughter or son of an active, retired or deceased (both Line-of-Duty and Non-Line-of-Duty) member of the Fire Department.

1. The firefighter must be an active, retired or deceased hockey player on the FDNY hockey team, a firehouse team, a town hockey team, a local team or a league team.

CHARITY HOCKEY GAME vs NEW YORK WHALERS FOR FIREFIGHTER WILLIAM TOLLEY L-135 ON MAY 13, 2017
The FDNY Hockey Team will be playing the New York Whalers in a charity hockey game to raise money for the family of Firefighter William Tolley who tragically lost his life this past month.  Game will take place at the Northwell Health Ice Center in Eisenhower Park - East Meadow, NY on Saturday May 13th at 4:30pm.  $10 ticket donation at door (kids under 10 are free).
A gofundme page has been set up for the event. Any donations to the family can be made at
https://www.gofundme.com/fdny-william-tolley-charity-game

FDNY Hockey team would like to thank all the firehouse teams that participated in the 8th Annual King of the Wheels. Congratulations to the winners of each division.

298/127 won The A Division sponsored by The New York Firefighters heart and lung
289/138 won The B Division sponsored by MSA
287/136 won The C Division final sponsored by MCU
280/132 won The D division sponsored by Haix
305/151 won The E division sponsored by Sideline Swap

The 8th annual King of The Wheels is coming up and emails were sent out to team captains.  The deadline for registration and payment is November 21st.  It will be held at Skate Safe in Old Bethpage from December 5th to December 16th.  Each team will play one day the 1st week (round robin) and one day the 2nd week (playoffs).  All teams will play 3 games the first day and at least 2 games the second day.

Forms can be found here: Flyer and Registration Form
The round robin will be played from December 5th to December 9th.  Please list in order what days are best for your house on the registration form.  Please indicate any days that don't work for your house that week on your registration form as well.  We are planning on using Wednesday December 7th, Thursday December 8th and Friday December 9th for the round robin.  If the rink schedule changes or we have an increase in teams from last year then we will use different or additional days. Once the schedule is made it can't be changed.

Please check on any house functions, boys night outs, weddings, ice hockey schedule and anything else that might cause a conflict. The playoffs will be held December 12th to December 16th and the day you play will be determined by how your team does in the round robin.

Playoffs could be any day the week of December 12th.  It is looking like Thursday December 15th and Friday December 16th but these dates could change due to the rinks schedule.  An additional day may be added if needed to accommodate more teams.

The rink is under new management so some things have changed and we might need to adjust to the new management.  That is why I'm uncertain of some of the days.  They need to see what rink time on what days they need for kids clinics and classes they offer every day.

PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT GAMES COULD START AT 8AM THIS YEAR FOR BOTH ROUND ROBIN AND PLAYOFFS

Another season has come and gone.  The FDNY Hockey Team would like to take this opportunity to thank all our fans and supporters for making our season such a success. With your help we were able to make a donation to FDNY Fire Family Transport Foundation (http://www.firefamilytransport.org/) to purchase a new van for their fleet. The central focus of the Foundation is assisting the families of firefighters in their times of greatest need, in transporting firefighters, family members and department personnel to and from medical institutions both for care and family support.
 
After the closing of the Nassau Coliseum, we had to move the game back to New York City to Madison Square Garden for the 43^rd Annual FDNY-NYPD Charity Hockey Game. This year’s game saw a sold out crowd of almost 17,000 fans. The FDNY Team fell behind a couple goals early in the first period. Joe Sanger made it 3-1 with 5:57 to go in the first period. Anthony Antenucci and Tom Reno scored in the second period. The NYPD led 6-3 at the beginning of the third period. Chris Princiotta scored halfway through the third to make it 6-4. The FDNY had a 5 on 3 power play with 10:22 left on the clock. Chris Princiotta scored again with 2:22 on remaining in the game. FDNY hit the post with under a minute to play but were unable to tie it up. Even though we outshot the NYPD 51-37 we came up a little short in the 6-5 loss. Chris Princiotta was the FDNY MVP of the game with 2 goals and 1 assist.  A special thanks goes out to our scorekeeper Larry ‘Redlight’ Feilich and team photographer Dennis Whittam. Photos of the game and previous games can be seen at http://www.nyfirephotos.com.
 
The King of the Ice Tournament (www.FDNYkingoftheice.com) moved to Northwell Skating Center at Eisenhower Park. We were able to have 2 rinks going this year and cut the tournament down to 8 days. Thank you to all FDNY members that participated. Congratulations to E-14/E-65 on winning the 21^st Annual King of the Ice. The King of the Wheels Tournament was another success heading into its 7^th year. Thank you to everyone that came out for it.
 
Over the past months we have received many emails for purchasing team merchandise. We would like to announce that we have partnered up with Sideline Swap (https://sidelineswap.com/FDNYHockey) to sell our team merchandise. We will be selling t-shirts for men, women and kids, sweatshirts, hats and jerseys.
 
Again, the FDNY Hockey Team would like to thank all our fans and supporters. Without you we wouldn’t be able to make the charitable donations that we do. See you again next year.
 
Tom Reno – General Manager
Derek Kern – Manager
Frank Heal - Secretary
 

The 43rd Annual FDNY vs NYPD Annual Hockey Game will be played this year at Madison Square Garden on April 9, 2016 at 7pm.  Tickets available now though the team or email FDNYhockey25@gmail.com for groups of 8 or more tickets.  Tickets will be available at the MSG Box Office or Ticketmaster.com around Feb 1.  This year we will have assigned seating and NO GENERAL ADMISSION so get your tickets from team members right away.

 

The FDNY Hockey Team will be playing at the 2015 World Police Fire Games this summer in Fairfax, VA. The opening ceremony will be June 26th at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. Their games will begin on June 27th at the Ashburn Ice House.
Here is their schedule for the first round:
6/27 at 11:40am vs Boston PD ------- WON 3-1
6/28 at 8:15am vs Winnipeg Fire ---- WON 3-2
6/29 at 5:25pm vs Alberta RCMP

http://www.wbab.com/events/events/fundraisers/fdny-vs-nypd-benefit-hockey-game/eCkzfM/

The FDNY and NYPD Hockey Teams will battle it out on Sunday, April 12th at 1:00pm for the 42nd Annual Hockey Game at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.  Please come support New York's Bravest and Finest.  The FDNY lost last year after winning the previous 5 games with an overall record of 23-16-2.  Come take part of the tailgating festivities before the game.  Tickets are available NOW through Team Members for $20, Nassau Coliseum Box Office for $21 or Ticketmaster for $30.  Any questions can be emailed to info@fdnyhockey.org.

The FDNY Hockey Team would like to announce for the new 2014-15 season that Tommy Reno will be taking over as the General Manager /Coach and Derek Kern will be the new Team Manager.  Pete Gillespie will continue on as Assistant Coach and Frank Heal will continue on as the Team Secretary.

At this time the organization would like to thank long time General Manager Billy Kammerer and Team Manager John Fortunato for all their years with the team. Billy started playing with the team in the 1973-74 season and became the General Manager in the 1979-80 season.  John played for the team from 1981-1994 and after that he became part of the management team. Also, Patrick Cleary will be leaving as well. He and John ran the King of the Ice Tournament for many years.  The King of the Ice Tournament will be taken over by Frank Heal and Tommy O’Shea.  Derek Kern will continue to run the King of the Wheels Tournament.

Tryouts for the upcoming season will beginon Tuesday, September 23^rd and 30^th at Abe Stark Arena in Coney Island from 11am-1pm.  Any questions please contact Derek Kern at (631)487-4810 or email team at info@fdnyhockey.org.  Please checkwww.fdnyhockey.org orwww.facebook.com/fdnyhockey for updates to tryouts.

Players are asked to bring both white and red jerseys for tryouts.