Six Kings in the Show in 2008!

The South Shore Kings have had more kids drafted by NHL teams than any AAA organization in the country, but this season has been unprecedented as six of our alumni were all playing in the NHL in January.  Ryan Whitney 83’/BU (Scituate) (53 GP-11/17-28 pts) quarterbacks the high powered power play of the Pittsburg Penguins playing with super stars Sydney Crosby & Evgeni Malkin.  Ryan’s brother Sean 89’ is heading to Cornell next year and is a great 6’5” D candidate for this Junes Draft.  Mike Ryan 80’/NU (Milton) is taking a regular shift for the Buffalo Sabres (44 GP – 4/4 – 8pts). Mike Mottau 78’/BC (Stoughton) (51 GP-3/11-14 pts) is the Kings only Hobey Baker Award winner, and he has been taking a regular shift with the N.J. Devils.  Also from the same 78’ Kings Team comes Bobby Allen BC (Randolph) (15 GP) who has taken regular shifts in 15 games for the Boston Bruins up until suffering a concussion.  Brian Boyle 84’/BC (Hingham) scored 3 goals in his first 4 games playing for the Los Angeles Kings.  Brian is the first South Shore King to stay a King all the way to the NHL!  Lastly, Keith Yandle 86’ (Milton) (22 GP-3/3-6 pts) is taking a regular shift for Wayne Gretzky’s Phoenix Coyotes. 

Other King’s playing well in the AHL and ECHL are Joe Rooney 85’ (Canton), Carl Corrizzini 81’ (Framingham), and Adam Pineamlt 86’.  As mentioned above Sean Whitney 89’/Cornell, along with Jimmy Hayes 89’/BC, and Derrick Pallis 89/Princeton are all high on the NHL’s Central Scouting list for this year’s draft.

Kings Prep Highlights – 2008

Nobles fell just 1 point short of attaining its 4th straight New England Prep Tournament Birth.  Captain Mike Griffin (Hingham-Brown) along with Matt Marshall 88’ (Hingham-Vermont-Tampa Bay), Nick Resor 88’ (Westwood-Middlebury), Derrick Pallis 89’ (Medfield-Princeton), along with Mark Hourihan 91’ (Lynnfield), Kevin Hayes 92’ (Dorchester), Gus Young 91’ (Dedham) and Geno Lane 92’ (Plymouth) led a solid group of Kings to a 20 win season.

Over at St. Sebastian’s Bobby Sugrue 92’ (Mansfield) played his second year of varsity.  He was joined by fellow 1992 Kings, Donny McGurl, who had a great freshman season in goal, Cam Butler (Brockton), and Tom O’Regan (Needham) along with Desmond Bergin 93’ (Natick) All had strong 1st years for the Arrows.  Milton Academy’s defense was backboned by Jonathan Mleczko 92’ (Dorchester) and Michael Megnia 92’ (Barnstable).  Sean Whitney 89’/Cornell (Scituate) captained a strong Cushing Academy squad while Matt Shakespeare 89’ (Walpole-Maryland/Lacrosse) captained a strong Governors Academy team.  The feisty and creative Cam Brown 93’ (Natick) led Rivers in scoring as a freshman.  At Xavarian, Chris Wagner 91’ (Walpole) along with Chris Kennedy 92’ (Natick), Nathan Hardiman 92’ (Randolph), Mark Homer 90’ and Kyle McDonald 91’ (Stoughton) have all had great years.  Stephen McManus 92’ led Westwood to the Division III State South final.  Steven Kelly 90’ (Milton) had a great season at Deerfield.

Kings College Highlights – 2008

The Boston college power play has seen Anthony Aiello 86’ (Braintree-Minnesota) as a mainstay.  He is joined by Matt Lombardi 87’ (Milton) and Brian Gibbons 88’ (Braintree).  Next year Paul Carey 88’ (Scituate-Colorado) and Jimmy Hayes 89’ (Dorchester) will be at the Heights.  Steven Smolinsky 86’ (Plymouth) has been a constant over at BU.

At Providence College Greg Collins 86’ (Hingham) has had a tremendous sophomore year.  Pierce Norton 85’ (South Boston – Toronto) is leading the Friars in scoring and next year they will be joined by Justin Gates 88’ (Warwick).  Across town Chris Poli 85’ had a terrific senior season at Brown where he was captain.  Erik Pridhan 85’ had a great senior year at Princeton.  Matt Nelson 86’ (Westwood) had a solid junior year at Yale.  Ryan Ginand 86’ (Milford) and Ryan Maguire 86’ (Arlington) both joined Jimmy Russo 85’ (Norwell) over at Northeastern where they had a terrific season.  Nick Coskren 86’ (Walpole) had a solid junior year at Harvard along with Chris Huxley 87’ (Weymouth).  Billy Ryan 85’ (Milton-Rangers) captained Maine his senior year for the Black Bears.  Corey Griffin 86’ (Hingham) cracked the lineup over at Babson while Greg McCarthy 86’ (Walpole) and Phil Clark 86’ (Walpole) both played important roles over at Tufts.  Junior, Brendan Powers 86’ (Walpole) led Amherst in scoring this year.  Adam Marino 85’ (Concord) had a great senior year at Colby along with Arthur Fritch 84’ who is a Division III All American candidate for the Mules.