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2010 Virginia State Tryouts
April 24h-25th at Shooters (Midlothian, VA)
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The State of Virginia has some highly talented teams and players that love the game of roller hockey. Without an NHL team in the home state of Virginia, hockey fans seem to have fallen in love with the Washington Capitals and especially Alexander Ovechkin...but who could blame them! In fact, the request for the #8 is the most asked for jersey # by far in Virginia each summer and rivals the Pennsylvania request for #87.
With so many great organizations in Virginia like the Rattlers, Mad Dogs, and Mavericks it is no wonder that the state produces such great talent each year. Make sure everyone lets others in the state know to register online for your state team!
Hopefully we will see more players at tryouts this year. You can register now online. See you at the rink!
All photos by
IDI Photo.
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2000 AAA/AA Division | 
The Virginia 2000's ended up with a 2-2 record after round robin was over. Virginia would be able to take Ohio and Texas but would end up falling to Pennsylvania and Missouri in two close games. Zachary Jones smoked the competition and finished with astonishing 19 goals and two assists for 21 points.
In the quarter finals, Virginia would light the lamp against Florida and take them by the score of 11-6. With that win, Virginia would match up against a powerful Team Michigan team who finished 4-0 during round robin. The undefeated Michigan team would take Virginia 8-3 which would send Virginia to the bronze medal game against Missouri. Virginia would get some revenge on Missouri and beat them 13-9 to crown them bronze medalists!
Zachary Jones would take home the Warrior Top Sniper award, Warrior High Scorer, Team North America, and represent Virginia in the Great Skate All Star Game. Casey Adams would also join Zach in the Great Skate All Star Game.
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1999 AAA/AA Division |
With a 1-3 record, Virginia would finish with the #10 seed and compete in the 1999 AA playoffs. This team was led by Jackson Wille and Daniel Succop where they both finished round robin with three points. Teammate and goaltender, Connor Denisar finished his first four games with 46 saves and a .630 save percentage.
After a 3-2 win over Tennessee, Virginia would match up against a strong team from Georgia. At the end of the first period, Virginia would go up 4-3 but Georgia would come storming back with six goals. Georgia would take Virginia 9-4 which would force Virginia to play Texas in the bronze medal game. Virginia would drop a 3 lead and Texas would score four unanswered goals to take home the third place hardware.
Daniel Succop would go on and represent Virginia in the Great Skate All Star Game.
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1997 "A" Division |
 Stephen Heskett led the charge for Virginia 97 "A" and finished with three goals in four games. Austin Harrington played stellar in between the pipes and stopped 46 pucks out of 78 shots on net. Although Virginia finished round robin with a rough record they were able to pull a tie out against Illinois. Come playoff time, Louisiana would take Virginia 4-0 to stop any chances that they had in finishing with a medal.Virginia's Stephen Heskett would represent his team in the Great Skate All Star Game. |
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1996 AA/A Division |
 Virginia 1996 AA would finish round robin undefeated with a 3-0-1 record. Wins came against Florida, Michigan, and Indiana and their tie came against Tennessee. Kyle Eng "razzle and dazzled" and finished up with five goals and four assists for nine points.In the playoffs, after taking Pennsylvania and Tennessee they would match up against a powerful team out of New York. Virginia would soon go up by a 4-1 score but that wouldn't be enough to hold NY back. New York would work hard and plug one goal at a time to tie the game up at 4-4. Suddenly New York would bury another goal to give them the win and make this 1996 AA game one of the of the best games in State Wars history!Kyle Eng, Isaiahh Miles, and Alex Deyoung would all take home the Great Skate All Star honors. Liam Rucker would also take home the Great Skate Top Sniper award and Alex Deyoung would end taking the Great Skate Top Goalie award. |
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1995 "A" Division |
 Goaltender, Zach Sanford was the talk of Virginia 1995 "A" at State Wars last summer. During round robin, Zach stood on his head and stopped 73 of 99 shots on goal. Teammate, Sam Connelly also helped out his team where he recorded three goals and one assist.During the playoffs Virginia would end up matched up against Ohio in the quarter finals. Brent Shaffer would find a feed from Christopher Merrix and put Virginia up 3-2 but Ohio wasn't going to lay down easy. Ohio would storm back with two late goals to give them a one goal lead and the game to move on to the next round. |
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1994 "A" Division |
 Virginia's Nick Succop would end up leading Virginia 94 "A" in scoring with three points and teammate Matt Tingle would lead his team with two goals. Alex Vasiliou had a stellar performance in net where he stopped 73 out of 100 pucks on net for a .730 save percentage.In the quarter finals, #7 Virginia would go on to face the #1 seed Michigan. Michigan would bury an early power play goal which got their train rolling. They would go on to a big 8-0 win over Virginia and move on to the semi finals. Despite losing, Virginia's Nick Succop would go on and play in the Great Skate All Star Game. |
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1992 "A" Division |
 Virginia 1992 "A" would finish round robin undefeated with a 2-0-2 record. Their two wins would come against Georgia and Wisconsin and ties would come against Colorado and Florida. Blake Owens would lead his team with six goals and an assist for seven points including one game winning goal.Virginia would take Tennessee in the quarter finals by the score of 3-2 but would fall to Colorado in a 6-1 game. With a semi final loss, Virginia would go on to the bronze medal game where they would face New York. With New York leading the game 4-3 with just a couple minutes left in regluation, Virginia's Gared Ferrier would tie the game up to send it into overtime. Seven or so minutes into overtime, Tyler Parynik would snipe a goal to give his team the win and the bronze medals!Blake Owens, Colt Taylors and Erik Albers would all go on to represent Virginia in the Great Skate All Star Game. Patrick Sheehy would also add a Great Skate Top Goalie to his collection. |
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1991 "A" Division |
 Going 3-0-1 during round robin competition is a great confidence booster going into the playoffs. Virginia was able to took down Manitoba, Missouri, and Michigan during round robin and tie their first game of the tournament against Colorado. Brian Beatson ended up with six goals and four assists for ten points.In a hard fought game, Virginia would take on Manitoba again in the semi finals where they would win 6-4. With the win over Manitoba, Virginia would move on to the finals where they would face Missouri would they beat earlier in round robin. You would have to think that their confidence level would be sky high! Virginia would finish the first period on top 2-1 with goals from Andrei Brooks and Drew Lensing. However, Missouri would tie the game up at 2-2 to send the game into overtime. Missouri's Dalton Mulverhill would strike again and Virginia would go home with the silver medal.Brian Beatson would take home the Warrior High Scorer award and Bobby McMullen would add a Great Skate Fastest Skater award as well.Andrew Lensing, Brian Beatson, Jordan Pohl, and Bobby McMullen would all play in the Great Skate All Star Game. |
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Senior AAA Division |
 Virginia always has a solid showing in the Senior AAA division and they always match up well against the other teams. Virginia would fall in their first two games by only two goals against Manitoba and New York. In Virginia's last round robin game they were able to tie Colorado II by the score of 1-1. Jonathan Vu would be able to bury a goal from a pass by Brandon Blankenship. Brian Fleury would lead the squad with three points. |
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Senior AA Division |
 Virginia wouldn't have much luck in the Senior AA division last summer. Losing a couple close games can really just take the spirits away from your team. During round robin, Connecticut was able to take a 2-1 game that Virginia had under finger nails. Phil Cave, Cam Eskam, and Cass Eskam all tied the team lead in points with three. |
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Masters AAA/AA Division | |
Each year at State Wars, the Masters division is always is highly competitive and full of talent. In 2009, Virginia competed in their first ever year at State Wars. Although they didn't fair too well during round robin the guys got better and better. Goaltender, Bryan Koerper played outstanding and stopped 42 pucks for a .600 save percentage.
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Turning Back the Clock : The Pride of VA for many years, the '91s
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