This years marks the 10th Annual King of the Wheels Roller Hockey Tournament for the FDNY. Participants are for current/retired FDNY firefighter and officers ONLY. It will once again be at Skate Safe in Old Bethpage from November 5th-16th. Here are the details for the tournament:Each team will play one day the 1st week (round robin) and one day the...
On Saturday, March 24, 2018 the FDNY faced off with the NYPD in the 45th Annual Charity Hockey Game. First Deputy Commissioner Laura Kavanagh represented the FDNY in the opening ceremony, and a moment of silence was held for members who made the Supreme Sacrifice this year in the line-of-duty - Lt. Christopher Raguso, Lt. Michael Davidson, Fire Marshal Christopher "Tripp" Zanetis and FF. William Tolley - and all those lost to illness as a result of the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center.
The FDNY Hockey Team made a $15,000 donation to the Ray Pfeifer Foundation. MCU made a $5,000 donation to the FDNY/NYPD Hockey Teams. Our team sponsor, Haix, also participated in the pre-game ceremony. It also was a celebration of 50 Years of Bravest Hockey, founded back in 1968, by members Tim Gallagher, Ed McLoughlin and Gene Scott. Ed dropped the ceremonial puck with long time GM Billy Kammerer for the FDNY while Gerry Cassagne dropped it for NYPD and also Bobby Tolley, brother of FF. William Tolley.
The puck dropped at noon and the NYPD started the scoring with a quick power play goal from McAleer (Lopes) at 19:02. John Sullivan (Kern) tied it up on a power play goal at 16:51, tying the score 1-1 for the 1st period.
Steve Romano scored an unassisted goal at 15:28 of the second period. Power play goals later in the second by Finest player Gambardella (Harrigan) at 5:51 and Bravest player Joe Sanger (Zeilman) at 4:41. So after the second period it was New York’s Bravest leading 3-2.
NYPD’s Lopes (Harrigan) tied it up with a little over two minutes into the 3rd period. Chris Princiotta (Keane) gave the FDNY a 4-3 lead a little less than half way through the third but it was NYPD’s Gabay (Antiok, Antianades) who tied it up and end in regulation 4-4.
Due to the New York Rangers playing later that evening the teams had to be off the ice by a set time so it went straight to a 3-man shootout. Being the home team, NYPD decided to shoot last so the Fire Department was shooting first.
Shooters for FD were: Shooters for PD were:
6 - Elfant – scored 13 - McAleer – missed s
16 - Kelly – missed 77 - Gambardella – missed
12 - Romano – missed 21 - Antianades – scored
7 - Kern – missed 72 - Antiok – missed
13 - Antenucci – scored 20 - Morales – missed
Anthony Antenucci’s game winning goal lifted the FDNY to a 5-4 victory. Goaltender Kurt Pflumm recorded 44 saves for the day and landed the MVP for FDNY. FDNY now leads the 45 year series with a 25-18-2 record.
Thank you to Don LaGreca and Rick DiPietro for broadcasting the game on ESPN and EJ Radek for interviewing Pete on NHL Network. Thank you to all our fans for your support!!! See you again next year.
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
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 23rd and 30th 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.
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
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.
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 43rd 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 21st Annual King of the Ice. The King of the Wheels Tournament was another success heading into its 7th 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 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:
The FDNY Hockey Team 2018 King of the Ice Tournament will be moving to the Freeport Rec Center in Freeport, NY. It will run from February 26 - March 21.
2018 SCHEDULE IS NOW UP
The application will be released on January 5th at noon at www.FDNYkingoftheice.com. The tournament will be going back to 96 teams so spots will be very limited.
Here is a breakdown of the days we will play:
Feb 26...9:00-3:40pm
Feb 27...9:00-3:40pm
Feb 28...9:00-3:40pm
Mar 1...9:00-3:40pm
Mar 2...9:00-3:40pm
The 45th Annual FDNY vs NYPD Charity Hockey Game will take place on March 24th, 12pm at Madison Square Garden.
TICKETS FOR THIS YEARS GAME ARE SOLD OUT!!!!
This year will we will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the FDNY hockey Team.
Donations can be made at https://icehockeyheroes.com/game-details
The FDNY and NYPD squared off on Sunday, April 14th for the 40th Annual Hockey Game at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The NYPD took a 1-0 lead one minute into the first period with a goal by Collis (Sessa, Venticinque). The FDNY tied it up at 7:50 in with a goal from Jim Becker (Mullan). Later on in the period NYPD's Ryan (Sessa) scored at 13:44 to make the game 2-1.
Wes Cookingham scored 3:43 into the 2nd period from the point off a pass from Eddie Bohan. Four minutes later Kurt Bruckbauer scored from the point from a pass from Jim Becker. That would do it for the scoring for the second period. NYPD had three power play opportunities and FDNY had one but no one was able to score on them.NYPD started off the 3rd period on a power play but FDNY was able to kill it off. No more scoring for the entire 3rd period. NYPD had its final chance at 19:39 and pulling their goalie for a 6 on 4 power play but the excellent penalty killing and strong play of goalie Shawn Mullan lead to a 3-2 FDNY victory.
This was the 5th year in a row the FDNY has won the annual hockey game bringing there final record to 23 wins, 15 losses and 2 ties. FDNY Goalie Shawn Mullan was the teams MVP stopping 25 shots and assisting on a goal.
For Professional photographs of this years FDNY-NYPD game please visit nyfirephotos.com
