Key Losses:<\/strong> None<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Last season marked a major transition point for the Fresh Kills franchise. During the offseason, half of the team seceded to form the Tompkins Square Riots, leaving new captain Dave Sokolyansky with some large gaps to fill on the roster, most notably in goal.\u00a0 However, this daunting task may have turned out to be a blessing in disguise.\u00a0 For years, with veterans such as Kevin “The Planet” Foster, “Hollywood” Jeff Lesser, and the Sokolyanskys leading the team, Fresh Kills had developed a reputation for being a haven for BTSH’s aging stars.\u00a0 Captain Sokolyansky decimated this notion with his crop of young offseason acquisitions.<\/p>\n
To fill in between the pipes, Sokolyansky added fellow New Jersey native Patrick Barch, who made an immediate impact with four shutouts during the 2010 season, including one in the playoffs.\u00a0 Sokolyansky also added Barch’s roommate Nick Hobbs, who brought college level hockey experience and youthful gusto to the team.\u00a0 Justin “The Boss” Ross was also new to the team and surprised BTSH with 12 goals to lead Fresh Kills and finish 10th in the league.\u00a0 Sokolyansky notes, “We’re looking forward to the follow-up seasons from Pat Barch, Justin Ross and Nick Hobbs, who were all excellent in their first seasons, and who could easily do even better still.”\u00a0 Not yet finished, the sage captain also added 20-year old Scott Lee from the Mathematics, making the team even younger.<\/p>\n
Despite the success of Sokolyanksy’s male rookies, he also points out how important the women of Fresh Kills are, especially Serene Tan.\u00a0 He remarks, “She isn’t flashy, but I think that people will slowly learn who she is this year and recognize her as one of the top few females.\u00a0\u00a0Along with Alice [Bertoni] and Natasha [Sweeten], Steph [Opitz], and Sarah [Garonzik], I think our females are one of our biggest assets.”<\/p>\n
Fresh Kills is coming off a very successful 2010 campaign already, which included the Donohue Division championship.\u00a0 Although the team suffered a disappointing overtime loss to the Happy Little Elves in the quarterfinals of the playoffs, Sokolyansky is excited for Fresh Kills’ promotion to a new division (and conference) and is looking to have an even better year in 2011 now that his rookies have a year of experience under their belts.\u00a0 He concludes, “We’re obviously very happy with our season last year, as we had a team that was half rookies and still finished in second place in the entire league in the regular season. The last-minute playoff loss to the Elves was obviously a bummer after our good regular season, but we’ll hopefully do better this year.”<\/p>\n
Entity They Resemble, According to Rich Glanzer:<\/strong> Matt Saracen<\/em> (QB from Friday Night Lights<\/em> [TV show]). Saracen is good not great, but he has the heart of a champion. After top QB Jason Street became paralyzed, he led the Dillon Panthers to the state championship. Fresh Kills are former champions, and though they aren\u2019t an elite team, they always seem to make a run, much like Matt. They are a longshot but have the talent to win it all.
\nFast Fact:<\/strong> Eugene Rha never travels anywhere without his personal stylist.<\/p>\nROSTER<\/strong>
\nPatrick Barch
\nAlice Bertoni
\nKevin “The Planet” Foster
\nSarah Garonzik
\nNick Hobbs
\nAriel Imas
\nMatt Kazior
\nScott Lee
\nPatrick Moore
\nSteph Opitz
\nAndrea Paparella
\nEugene Rha
\nBrice Rosenbloom
\nJustin “The Boss” Ross
\nNick Scott
\nDave Sokolyansky (C)
\nMike Sokolyansky
\nNatasha Sweeten
\nSerene Tan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Can Not Recall Being In This Photo Color: Royal Blue Year Founded: 2002 2010 Regular Season Finish: 10-4-0-2 (1st, Donohue Division; 3rd overall) 2010 Playoff Result: Lost to Happy Little Elves in quarterfinals Conference: Schumacher Division: Donohue 2010 Leading Scorer: Justin Ross, 12 goals Team Song: Outkast – So Fresh and So Clean Key […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[153,27,18],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-team-previews","tag-2011-season","tag-fresh-kills","tag-team-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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