Day 2 Highlights: Shootout Madness, Domination on the Ice and so Much More at the T1ER East NAHL Experience

Sam Mannewitz secured the win in the blue paint

The T1ER East NAHL Experience continues and the event featured fast-paced hockey at the 18U and 16U levels. With all the action wrapped for Saturday, here are a few games that were must-watch moments! Click here to see all the results.

18U:

Philadelphia Little Flyers and Seacoast Performance Academy squared off in a Saturday morning matchup that saw the Little Flyers take a 4-2 win. Both teams would start with quick-paced action back and forth. Connor Davis of the Little Flyers would start the scoring off with an even-strength tally assisted by Carter Morrison and Nick Yashin. Seacoast would be quick to answer on the power play with Payel Goryachev scoring his first of the weekend, assisted by Louis-Thomas Bedard. The Little Flyers would earn a late power play, and with just two minutes remaining, Danny Guller would score his second goal of the season, assisted by Danny Garvin and Benjamin Holdsworth. The first intermission would end with Philadelphia leading 2-1. The second period would start out with both teams trading chances. With the Little Flyers on the power play, Seacoast would score a short-handed goal by Carson Paglia unassisted. The second would ultimately end tied 2-2, shaping up for an exciting third period. Alexander Placeres of Little Flyers and Noah Stasa with Seacoast would both make outstanding saves throughout the beginning of the third period, keeping both teams in the game. Hayden Hoffmaster would get the go-ahead goal for the Little Flyers with just 10:28 remaining in the period. Nicholas Labuono would add an insurance marker on the penalty kill assisted by Riley Andrews. Seacoast would have two more chances on the power play, but Philadelphia was successful in killing it off. The final buzzer would sound with both teams playing later today. Philadelphia will take on the South Hills Panthers, while Seacoast takes on the New Jersey 87’s.

The New Jersey Jr. Titans and Danbury Jr. Hat Tricks faced off Saturday afternoon for their second games of the day. Both teams would be coming off losses and look to get back in the win column. The first period would begin with both teams trading chances, but each goalie keeping the game scoreless. With just 5:08 remaining in the period, Jack Leary would start off the scoring with a great goal for Danbury, assisted by Ian Johns. This duo would not be done there with just 30 seconds later, Ian Johns adding a goal for himself, assisted by none other than Jack Leary. Danbury would add a third goal just under a minute later, with Jeffrey Saul scoring his 16th of the season, assisted by Leo Begert and Nick Keglewitsch. Danbury would go into intermission with a commanding 3-0 lead. New Jersey would not be out of the fight yet, with Brandon Thompson starting off the second period with a goal of his own, assisted by Alex Sonvico and Stephan Davis. Danbury would add another goal by Ethan Moore at the 7:10 mark. With the game being 4-1, the Hat Tricks would earn a power play and capitalize with Leo Begert scoring assisted by Stephen Degaray and Joel Goldman. The second period buzzer would sound with Danbury leading 5-1. The third period would be quiet on the goal front with Sarkis Zhamkochyan scoring the lone goal for the Titans to bring the final to 5-2. Danbury would earn the victory and look to continue the success on Sunday.

16U: 

The Philadelphia Little Flyers and the Wasatch Renegades faced off in an exciting matchup that ended in a shootout. The two teams would waste no time starting the scoring, with six goals happening in the first period alone. Ethan Hillanbrand would start off the scoring for the Little Flyers at the 15:36 mark. Just a minute later, Ryker Connors would add the tying goal for the Renegades. At the 10:34 mark, Owen Herrick would get the go-ahead goal, assisted by Bruce Adams. They would not have the lead very long with Hillanbrand capitalizing for his second goal of the game on the power play. Exactly one minute later, Ryder Harrison of the Renegades would regain the lead with a goal of his own, unassisted. With under three minutes left in the period, Jayson Ronsvalle of the Little Flyers would tie the game up 3-3 to head into the second intermission. The Little Flyers would earn an early power play off a Renegades penalty. Ronsvalle would score his second of the game, assisted by Anthony Berretta at the 15:07 mark. The game would remain 4-3 heading into the third period with the Renegades battling to tie the game. Both teams would trade power plays in the third, but to no avail, with the score remaining the same. With just three minutes remaining, Samson Wahlberg would score for the Renegades, tying the game 4-4 and setting the two teams up for overtime. The Renegades would be able to hold the Little Flyers to no shots in the extra frame, but were unable to capitalize on their own two shots. The shootout would be a long one, going 17 rounds with only five goals total being scored. Bruce Adams of the Renegades would be the hero, scoring the game-winning goal, and Sam Mannewitz made 15 saves, saving 11 straight, as his team battled their way to earn the well-deserved win.

The Danbury Jr. Hat Tricks squared off with the Long Island Gulls in an afternoon affair. Heading into this contest, the Gulls were hungry to secure their first win of the weekend, while the Jr. Hat Tricks were looking to extend their winning ways into Saturday. The matchup kicked off with Danbury striking first. At the 8:33-minute mark of the opening period, Michael Suarez finds the back of the net unassisted to give the Hat Tricks the advantage. The scoring would continue with less than a minute on the clock when Nick Funaro tallied another Danbury goal, making the contest 2-0 heading into the second frame. The middle period would feature Long Island lighting the lamp for the first time in the contest. A name you will remember from this matchup is Andrew Firth from the Gulls. The skater first tallied a goal on the man advantage to cut the Hat Tricks’ lead in half, thanks to an assist by Gavin Carlson. Danbury’s Suarez would score his second of the day when he lit the lamp at the 14:40 minute mark. Almost 10 minutes would pass of both teams trading chances when Danbury’s Anthony Papa would find the back of the net to give Danbury the 4-1 lead. With four minutes on the clock in the second, Long Island’s Firth would score thanks again to an assist by Carlson. As the contest moved into the final period, Firth would score twice within 20 seconds of each other. He would first tally his hat-trick goal and then notch his fourth of the game. Both tallies were done with the assistance of Carlson. With the contest now tied at 4-4, the Gulls looked to have made a comeback push. However, the Hat Tricks were not done offensively on the ice.  Danbury’s Nathan Nesbitt scored the game-winning goal at the 3:51 minute mark in the final period, and not far behind him was Tre Gasparino, scoring 40 seconds later for the Jr. Hat Tricks. The last goal of the contest would be the hat-trick goal for Danbury’s Suarez, helping to lift his team to a 7-4 victory. The Long Island Gulls might have fallen, but Andrew Firth spotlighted a four-goal performance, scoring every goal for his team.