March 27, 1984 INDIANS TRIM BONNER IN FLYERS CUPJohn Rankel is trying his best to dispel the notion that he’s just another one of those dime-a-dozen scoring machines who seem to dominate hockey at the scholastic level. Most good teams possess one. You know the type a Marcel Dionne clone, somebody who can turn on the red light with one flick of his wrists. Trouble is, that same guy usually winds up impersonating a matador at the other end of the ice – on those rare occasions when he bothers to show up at all. He giveth and taketh away. But Rankel, who at first glance appears to fit that mold, insists that he’s only a victim of circumstances. If Council Rock coach Doug Melvin told his top gun to sacrifice firepower for defense, it would be like Paul Owens asking Mike Schmidt to lay down a few more bunts […]

April 1, 1984 The coach is a city police officer who has been patrolling the streets for 18 years. The team’s vice president has been a mummer for 27 years, so if you need directions along Broad Street, Joe Quattrone is a good person to ask. There is a club made up largely of players’ parents that helps finance the team with socials called “ethnic nights.” The players help de- fray the costs by standing on street corners and holding out their skates to motorists passing by. Many of those players hold part-time jobs to help pay for new equipment.Scholastic ice hockey in this area had been controlled by the so-called “blue-blood” schools because of the cost of equipment, ice time and off- season clinics runs in the neighborhood of $1,000 a year for each player. Archbishop Carroll of Radnor on the Main Line won the first two Flyers Cup […]

March 28, 1984 It was a matchup between a team. that hinges its success on the lunch- pail work ethic and one that kills softly with speed and finesse. Chalk one up for the lunch-pail kids. Archbishop Ryan last night became the first school within the city limits to bring home the Flyers Cup with an exciting 54 victory over Council Rock before about 1,000 spectators at the Havertown Skatium. Ryan became the first team from the Lower Bucks County Scholastic League to win the cup in the tourney’s five-year existence. The Raiders went 3-0 in the tourney. But the emotional victory did not come easily. Ryan needed a power- play goal by Craig Campagnolio with 1:35 remaining to punctuate a come- back and spark a frenzied celebration that spilled into the locker room. Campagnolio’s goal, his second of the game, came from just outside the crease after he took […]

March 20, 1984 Ray Matz scored two goals and sparked Archbishop Ryan High’s comeback from a two-goal deficit to a 5-3 victory over Council Rock in the opening round of the fifth annual Flyers Cup hockey tournament last night at the Havertown Skatium. Council Rock, the champion of the Suburban League, grabbed a 2-0 lead on goals by Mike Cardonick and John Rankel in the first 4 minutes of the game. Lower Bucks County League champion Ryan closed the gap to 2-1 before the end of the peri- od and added unanswered second- period goals by Craig Campagnolio, Jim Rohan and Matz. Matz, a junior winger, added an insurance goal early in the final period, giving the Raiders a berth in tomorrow night’s (7:30) second- round game against Monsignor Bonner, which edged Conestoga, 2-1, in the second game of the doubleheader. Center Ray Palmer chalked up four assists for Ryan, […]

  March 19, 1984 The participants use the term “Super Bowl” to describe the Flyers Cup. That’s no exaggeration of the effect the Flyers Cup has had on the area’s scholastic hockey players, even if the terminology comes from another sport. “It’s the ultimate experience in high school hockey,” said Malvern Prep coach Bill Galli. “We sure never had anything like this when I was playing in high school.” The Flyers Cup playoffs now five years old will open tonight in the Havertown Skatium. Said Bruce Craig, former coach of two-time defending champion Germantown Academy, “We always set the Flyers Cup as our goal. The kids key on it and that’s where you aim. It’s such a first-class experience. It’s great for the kids. In the Suburban League, we usually didn’t see any fans, even in the playoffs. But in the Flyers Cup, they came out. “It’s good for the […]

  March 18, 1984 Mike Cardonick scored two goals as Council Rock High jolted Cherry Hill East last week, 3-1, and won the Suburban Ice Hockey League championship series at the Face-Off Circle in Warminster, two games to one. Council Rock (18-7-1), which finished third in the Liberty Division during the regular season – East finished first – took the lead for good when junior center John Rankel scored with 41 seconds remaining in the first period. Cardonick then scored goals in the second and third periods. East (22-5-1), which outshot the winners by a 36-24 margin, averted a shutout when Mike Black netted a goal with, I minute, 46 seconds left. Springfield 4, Haverford High 3 – Springfield will be a surprise entry in the Eastern League’s finals after eliminating Haverford, two games to one, in the semifinal round. at the Havertown Skatium. Chris Medwid scored three goals, including […]

March 8, 1984 Flyer’s president Jay Snider made no bones about his goal for the Flyers Cup “That’s here to stay,” Snider said of the cup, which brings together the winners of the four area scholastic leagues, in what amounts to a regional playoff. “We’d like to see the Flyers Cup be 50 years old.” Snider made his remarks after a Flyers Cup kickoff luncheon at Stouffers Valley Forge Inn on Monday afternoon. During the luncheon, Snider pledged that the Flyers would embark on a fund-raising campaign next year to help support Southeastern Pennsylvania’s youth hockey programs. “We’re going to make 1984-85 a banner year,” he said. “We’re going to go on a major fundraising effort. Our number one priority is youth hockey. “I can’t really divulge details,” he said, “because the details haven’t been worked out. But we’re making a longstanding commitment to Hockey Central,” the Flyers youth hockey […]