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EHL NH AVALANCHE FINISHES FIRST REGULAR SEASON WITH A BANG

By Admin, 02/27/18, 6:45PM EST

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The NH Avalanche EHL regular season has come to an end and what a successful season it has been regardless of the final playoff outcome.  Finishing the season as New England Division Champs, Northern Conference Champs and with an impressive 39-7-4 record overall.  To add to that list the team will send more than 18 players to the NCAA College hockey level, YES 18 PLUS PLAYERS.  That is an accomplishment in itself for a first year program but this is not your every day junior program.  With Head Coach Chris Cerrella behind the bench along with Owner/Assistant Coach Mario Martiniello the tandem has more than 15 years of high level Head Coaching experience and they total well over 200 NCAA college hockey commitments in those years as well.  It is no surprise that the NH Avalanche quickly became a top path to college hockey in the Northern Mass, Southern NH area.  

So far this season the Avs have seen not only team success but they have seen some individual success as well.  Assistant Captain Jarrett Slear (Plymouth State Commit, Ranked 13th in Div III) will finish 9th in the EHL with 62 points during the regular season.   Veteran Dman James Zanca will finish the regular season in the top 3 in scoring as a defenseman with 35pts and is a commitment to University of New England who is ranked 4th in Div III college hockey.  To make the Avs even tougher to play against this season both goaltenders Mike Paglucca and Nick Sorgio have been the best one/two punch in the EHL by far.  Paglucca is second in the EHL with 21 wins on the season and boasts a 2.26gaa with a .930sv% and is committed to SUNY Potsdam Div III for the 2018-19 season.  Sorgio is tied for 4th in the EHL with 18 wins and sits in first with a 1.24gaa and first with a .946sv% and is a Lebanon Valley Div III commitment.  These mentioned players make up just a fraction of the success that the team and the individual players have achieved this season.  "This has been a very fun team to coach that is for sure, yes we battled adversity all year like every other team but they always found a way.  Playoffs is a new season and anything can happen and no matter what happens in the playoffs we have had a ton of success on and off the ice this year. We could not be more proud of these young men as a staff and the ones going off to college hockey are going to be impacts where they are going," said Chris Cerrella.

The Avalanche will await their playoff opponent and will have two weeks off to prepare in practice and study film in preparation for their playoff push.  The rest comes at the right time as some key players have missed some time recently with injury and will have a chance to get  prepared for playoffs.