Posts on ‘January 23rd, 2009’

According to a press release by the EPHL, the Brooklyn Aces have signed forwards Eddie Chlanda and Derek Kern and defenseman Chris Robinson.

In addition, they placed team captain Chad Wilcox, who is suffering from an injured knee, on injured reserve.

In six games in the SPHL this season with the Twin City Cyclones, Chlanda has four points. In two seasons at Curry college, the 26-year-old scored 69 points in 54 games.

Kern saw his last action in 2004-05 with the Kansas City Outlaws of the UHL, where he scored seven goals and added 12 helpers in 71 games.

Robinson, who is an instructor at the youth hockey clinic at Aviator, also has been out of action for a few years, spending his last season with the Lincoln Stars of the USHL in 2004-05, where he scored two points and had 146 PIM in 46 games.

All three will be in the lineup tonight, which will also mark Robinson’s pro debut.

According to wikipedia, the population of the Northern Rockhopper penguin has “declined by 90% since the 1950s, possibly because of climate change, changes in marine ecosystems and overfishing by humans.”

Despite that shocking information however, the Rockhoppers that wear skates in New Jersey aren’t worried about going extinct any time soon.

With three of the top offensive players in the league in Kyle Bozoian (17 goals & 18 assists), Chris Ferazzoli (15 goals & 20 assists) and Tom Boudreau (15 goals, 19 assists) and a pair of solid danglers in Drew Sanders (30 points in 24 games) and Logan Bittle (19 points in 15 games), Jersey can take it to any team in the league offensively. They also have a more than solid netminder in Nick Niedert (9-10 3.87 GAA), who has stopped the top flight Brooklyn offense before.

With Danbury Mad Hatters top scorer Igor Karlov gone to Russia, it appears as well that New Jersey has clearly become the second-best team in the EPHL.