"No," Jimmy replied. 69 posts. Brenda St. Clair can serve as an inspiration to goaltenders and all hockey fans throughout the world. The UHL had a salary cap that limited teams to a total of approximately $275,000 for the whole roster. The Trashers were even able to land a few genuine NHL players, one of whom was Mike Rupp. At home they took to the ice to Welcome to the Jungle, by Guns N Roses. Says Andy Paproski, a lifelong resident of Danbury (pop. 2023 ABG-SI LLC. That spring, when A.J. The Trashers had the Adirondack Frostbite. The most famous tough-guy team ever was whothe Broad Street Bullies, 7475 Flyers? We would yell down during warm-ups, Come on, youre going to be skating for us next year! And theyd look at me and rub their fingers, and Id reach in my pocket and pull out my wallet, and theyd start laughing., Beauregard was one of my favorites, AJ said. AJ called it a coincidence: Changes in the league made continued play impossible, he said, not the legal problem. Of course, his dads arrest played a role. You'll be the president. began moonlighting as a boxing manager. Word of the incident quickly spread through the blue-collar Connecticut city, which soon embraced the fighting mentality of the Trashers. He wore a full face mask. Soon, a 3-on-3 scrimmage was underway with Brenda, for the first time in her life, facing shots in a real game. Get access to our unique free agency lists and many more premium features, Drafted 2001, 4 #48 overall by Cedar Rapids Roughriders in the USHL Entry Draft, Drafted 2000, 8 #157 overall by Windsor Spitfires in the OHL Priority Selection. All told, he played just five games for them. Submit changes (incorrect DOB, missing stats, incorrect stats, social media links etc) using a web form and we will review your update request within 24 hours and update accordingly. They called back, and I said, Do you want to trade that one-eyed guy? His first game with us, he had [a goal and an assist]. The 2004 05 NHL lockout was a labor lockout that resulted in the cancellation of the National Hockey League (NHL) season, which would . After hearing ESPN hockey commentator Barry Melrose, a co-owner of the Frostbite, trash the Trashers on the radio, an enraged A.J. Frank The Animal Bialowas, a legend in hockey circles, had played three games in the NHL, then spent the rest of his career in the minors, rambling from rink to rink, like a bad man in a Western. One night, he got into a shouting match with a stranger who turned out to be the visiting teams general managerthe result being a call to AJ from Richard Brosal, the UHL commissioner, followed by a short suspension. At A.J. Adam Elzinga. Sep 30, 1984 Position D Age 38 Height 5'11" / 180 cm Place of Birth Burbank, IL, USA Weight 183 lbs / 83 kg Nation USA Shoots L Youth Team - Status Retired Brother: Adam Elzinga Team Staff profile of Joshua Elzinga also available Use/Embed statistics Default Per Game Average Coaches Played For Player Statistics Regular Season + Postseason "It was definitely a unique group of individualsas well as management!" called his middleman in Quebec and essentially rented Wagner for a game against Adirondack. ", Roseanne Galante, reasonably, asked her husband and son if they had any idea what they were doing. Wingfield challenged a Kalamazoo player, Josh Elzinga, to a fight. It was four years to the day from the Trashers' first game. I was on the bench, Doug Christiansen told me. SON CONNOR IS NOW PLAYING IN THE USHL (WATERLOO BLACKHAWKS), Played in over 1,000 games in the NHL, AHL, Swedish Elite League, Finnish National League and more, Private hockey instructor with Saveology.com Iceplex team, Former Assistant Coach for the Florida Everblades (ECHL) during the 09-10 season, Currently the Director of Hockey Operations at TPH Ft. Lauderdale, National Hockey League (NHL) Alumni for the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings, 2013-current -Coach with the Florida Alliance/Southeast Elite Program, 2012-current -Coach with the Florida Jr. Everblades, Player for the United States men's ice hockey team in three Olympic's (2002, 2006, and 2010), Playedfour years at the University of WisconsinMadison, This website is powered by SportsEngine's. The government seized most of his assets, including 25 trash companies and a string of race cars. But as Wingfield skated away , Elzinga stuck his leg out and pulled back on the left wing's jersey. I wound up having words with the referee, and unbeknownst to me, he was a full-time police officer in upstate New York, Galante told me. My father said, out of nowhere, If I ever buy a hockey team, youre going to run it. I was like, Yeah, sure. Then, two days later, he said, Okay, I bought the team. True to his word, Galante made his son the teams general manager. When linesman James Harper approached him, they engaged in a shouting match, and Jimmy reportedly gave Harper a fat lip. Though the camp was postponed until September, the St. Clairs decided to head south, meeting Vogel at Ice Line in West Chester, where he learned to skate as a kid. AJ did one of his first press calls on a cellphone in a New Fairfield High School hallway, the interview ending abruptly when a teacher walked by. As he explained, No matter what type of day you had when you go out on the ice for an hour, hour and a half or two hours you forget everything that happened that day and you focus on that black little puck. - Ability to add additional data to your career profile: Videos, Images, Social Media, Referrals, Fitness Testing Results and much more! The gangster shrugged: What can I say, right? He had skipped an afternoon class to pick up Rupp. In 2003, from their desks above what was once center ice, agents began investigating Jimmy Galante. sensed a fight coming, he headed down near the ice to capture it on his camcorder. SON NATE WAS DRAFTED BY MISSISSAUGA IN THE 2021 OHL DRAFT. Kalamazoo Wings (Kalamazoo,MI) United Hockey League [Minor Professional] 2000-2007 [click to view all-time roster] I will. What followed was a process of trial and error, with the couple purchasing equipment and constantly refining it to fit Brendas needs. A violent, brutal melee from start to finish. In professional sports, there are usually two games taking place. Additionally, Charlie is the Head of Academics for TPH, Estero. Catalyzed by their new scorer, the Trashers cruised through the regular season, finishing 48--17. Before a big game a team employee might check into the visitors' hotel and pull the fire alarm. Still, as one might expect from a teenage GM, the roster was dense with goons. In a 2004 altercation with Josh Elzinga of the Kalamazoo Wings, Wingfield's season was cut short when he gruesomely broke his leg from a Elzinga slew-foot (the act of sweeping out someone's leg.) And that wasn't all. 2002-03 Chicago Steel #6 Josh Elzinga: 2004-05 Kalamazoo Wings #3 Josh Elzinga: 2005-06 Kalamazoo Wings #3 Josh Elzinga Facebook gives people the power to. Josh Elzinga vs. Brad Wingfield, December 03, 2005 - Kalamazoo Wings vs. Danbury Trashers. "He made fans feel like they were an integral part of the team. . Investigators alleged that by paying a quarterly $30,000 "mob tax" to Matthew (Matty the Horse) Ianniellothen the highest-ranking member of New York City's Genovese crime familyGalante's companies had muscled out potential competitors and charged counties and businesses inflated carting rates. ", The Galantes put the rowdiest boosters behind the opposing bench. Section 102 became a subtribe whose members had nicknames like Capone and Jackass. Featured in the NETFLIX documentary Untold: Crime & Penalties, the story of the Danbury Trashers relives the short and tumultuous history of an old United Ho. It turned into a brawl. Josh Elzinga, Danville -- 5'11" late '84 is the younger brother of Adam Elzinga, an '82 who played for Danville last year (and recently made the OHL's Peterborough Petes). "My dad always put me in sink-or-swim-type situations," he says. A small town has its lawns and picket fences and wholesome values, a big town its go-getters and civic fathers. First year, he was playing for the Port Huron Beacons, killing us. Could there be a better symbol of the link between fans and team? Gilles was the Lead Hockey Instructor for National Hockey Development for 4 years. In a nod to waste management he named his team the Trashers; the logo was a garbage can armed with a hockey stick, the Zamboni resembled a trash truck and the mascot was called Scrappy. He got suspended., As James Harper, a veteran minor-league linesman, was talking with the scorekeeper, he got into it with Jimmy Galante, whod come down from the owners box. But Galante got around it in classic mob fashion: no-show jobs. But it wasn't just the players who were punished. He paid the funeral costs of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq and donated $200,000 to a nonprofit that provided financial assistance to soldiers serving overseas. They weren't just happy to go to games. Little separated the team from its fans, physically or culturally: They mostly made nothing, were going nowhere, and knew unfairness. He was one of those players who had everything except whatever mysterious quality it is that separates Wayne from Brent, the Yes from the Not Quite. In the summer of 2005, federal agents raided Galantes offices, coming away with more than $500,000 in cash and more than 5,000 boxes of documentsreceipts, account books, you name it. AJ and I would stand up there and look at the teams that were coming to play us, Galante told me. For instance, Galante and a few trusted associates burned a competitors truck in 1992after first binding the driverto send a message to stay out of the Connecticut market, and in 2006, damaged the tires of a competitors truck after that carter refused to back down on a $50/month account. Soon Jimmy was renting buses to take fans to big road games. They happily agreed. And the noisemy God, the noise! I'll own it. ", Three years ago A.J. AJ filled out the roster with a mix of has-beens and might-bes. You'd look across the ice, and they had eight to 10 heavyweights looking for a fight. An email sent to the team asking Rupp to share his recollections of the Trashers elicited this curt response: "Mike is not available for your story." Because adult-sized chest protectors were too big for her, she initially wore one meant for children. Marc also specializes in Power Skating and using the techniques of dynamic edgework and plyometricwhile on the ice. said. She was loving it, said Vogel. Jon (Nasty) Mirasty averaged more than eight minutes of penalties over 25 games. Steve Lynch has been coaching ice hockey for over 20 years. They were the cream of the UHL, one of its best teams and a pet project of hockey celebrities: The franchise was owned in part by the former NHL coach Barry Melrose and the ESPN broadcaster Steve Levy. (The video was inconclusive.) Wingfield's skate caught on the ice, and as he fell back his left tibia, fibula and ankle broke with such force that the crack could be heard in the stands. On June 8, 2006, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office announced that Galante was the subject of an indictment that included charges of fraud, extortion, racketeering, tax fraud and conspiracy. Born Jul 23 1982 -- Burbank, IL. But even Wingnut had nothing on Chad Wagner. The result was a kind of frontier justice. Jimmy Galante tried to get onto the ice through the penalty box. Residents greeted the new hockey team with considerable excitement. Fifteen years have passed since the Danbury Trashers disbanded in 2006 as a result of the federal investigation that landed Jimmy Galante in prison after he pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, tax fraud and wire fraud. The intimidation factor was unreal. Rumun Ndur was the only Nigerian-born player ever to make it to the NHL. November 24, 2006. Initially, just as a spectator. After a few minutes of glaring at them in lacerating silence, Galante dumped the contents of the basket. Danburys equipment manager would soak the Trashers jerseys in Crisco before they played the Frostbite so the opposing goons couldnt get a firm grip. A legion of small business owners still talk about how, on Trashers game nights, downtown blazed to life. Listen to the trailer for, the interview ending abruptly when a teacher walked by. At 4 a.m. the players would be out in the parking lot, huddled in their underwear. Most of these guys, if theyd been drafted into the NHL, had gone late, in the triple digits. Something was off-brand, faded; he was like a dollar bill thatd been through the wash. Hed already played 12 seasons of pro hockey: a total of 13 games in the NHL, followed by years of wandering the minors. That matchup was marred by a brawl that kicked off when Trashers left winger Brad Wingfield attempted to fight Kalamazoos Josh Elzinga, who declined the invitation. Josh Elzinga Position: D Birthday: Sep 30, 1984 From: Burbank, IL United States Height: 5'11" Weight: 190 lbs. Originally from Montreal,Charlieplayed over 900 games professionally around the globe over his 17-year career, including the NHL with the Edmonton Oilers. 2005-2006 UHL Fight - Danbury Trashers Brad Wingfield Takes Revenge On Josh Elzinga Who Ended His 2004-2005 Season On A Slew Footing Incident The Broke Winge. Through hockey, Brenda has served as an inspiration for others, from children learning the sport to those like 25-year-old Eric Vogel, a fellow goalie drafted by the expansion Southwestern Pennsylvania Magic of the Federal League in June. "Lemme get this straight," he said. We knew the reality: It was hockey, but it was also entertainment. The one thing that has given her joy in recent years is hockey. By game's end they were hooked. North American Hockey League United States Hockey League Josh Elzinga, a blueliner for the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Wings, did that for him. Before and after games downtown Danbury was hopping. The league set an annual salary cap of $275,000, with a $2 luxury tax for every dollar spent above the threshold. Gilles is a Level 4 Hockey Coach with USA Hockey. But he would become something of a hockey Crash Davis: He would play through 2013, retiring at 37. Adam has over 25 years of hockey experience as a player and coach. Some say he did it for the same reason he owned a race-car squad: He loved to compete. Matty the Horse spent 18 months in the big house, but he survived it, dying a free man in August 2012. The Trashers' most notorious festival of violence had taken place on Dec. 1, 2004, when they hosted the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Wings. This summer, she took multiple trips to the ER for what she believes is a pinched nerve in her neck. about getting back into sports. ", THE RAIDERS' AL DAVIS WAS "A WILD MAN WITH A TEAM FULL OF OUTLAWS," SAYS A.J., "AND THAT'S HOW I WANTED TO BE. After taking swipes at various players, he grabbed Potvin, the Adirondack coach, and knocked him down. AJ was more freewheeling when shopping for muscle. "YOU'D HAVE BLUE-COLLAR GUYS NEXT TO WEALTHY REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS. The second place AJ looked was where any other fan might have: hockeyfights.com, a website that aggregates footage of brawls on the ice. Tampa Bay fans still include him among their grievances: a wasted pick. Established 1996 -- Celebrating Our 25th Year . Hed been named with several others, including Trashers Coach J. Todd Stirling, who pleaded guilty to taking part in the salary-cap fraud. 2013-current Head Coach of the 2005 AAA Florida Alliance/Southeast Elite Program, 11 years in professional hockey in the AHL, ECHL, and Europe, More information about Marc can be found at, Over 13 years as a Professional Triathlete with 35 overall victories, Oldest Pro to ever compete in Pro World Championship 2006, Junior Hockey- Ohio Juniors Collegiate Hockey Ohio University, Private lessons and Camps Specializing in European Power skating. See latest post and follow all instructions. Stirling, the Trashers' first coach, was also indicted, for abetting Galante by using the Trashers' fax machine to submit bogus salary reports to the UHL offices. - Verification Badge on your profile, Post a scouting report/trivia/player comment in English (visible here), 2001, 4 #48 overall by Cedar Rapids Roughriders, 2000, 8 #157 overall by Windsor Spitfires. None of this fazes the 47-year-old Brenda. It was a different day of hockey., Life for the Trashers was life on the road, going from small city to small city. I never had one bad thing happen in my dealings with Jimmy Galante.". In 2015, AJ opened a boxing club across from the Danbury arena. Mid-season, thats when we really caught fire, AJ told me. pursues his new sports passion, boxing management. Maybe thats why I became obsessed with this story: It connects our little home rink with an epic of the human hockey condition. During the 201011 season, the Quebec League averaged 3.2 fights a game. "He must've thought he was on Punk'd or something. Launching an expansion hockey team in Danbury seemed less like a vanity play than a natural progression. Although Jimmy and A.J., with their contempt for other franchises, took pride in letting proxies handle league board meetings and conference calls, Brosal says they were fine corporate citizens of the UHL: "Jimmy would get fined, and he would argueWho do you think you are?and five hours later the money was wired into the account. The doors to the visiting team's penalty box were also welded together, so opponents had to fling themselves over the boards to enter the box. Galante, then a freshman at Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., introduced himself as team president. Every great team needs a great rival. Maybe it was better that way. Wiretaps of thousands of phone calls between Automated Waste Disposal employees and representatives of other trash companies in 2004 and '05 revealed a variety of criminal activities. Sign up for EP Premium and verify your profile to access these benefits. The trade rumors negatively impacted Torres on the field. Born 1984-09-30 in Burbank, Illinois. The rivalry between the teams developed fast. says, shifting uneasily in his seat. also hired Tommy (T-Bone) Pomposello, a former minor leaguer, who would do everything from managing the equipment to scouting talent to helping run practice. The game turned into a riot, everyone taking a run at everyone else. Defense. Marc's experience as a professional Triathlete and coach with Team USA brings an understanding of the whole body and the athlete to the Ice. Al grew up and was raised in small-town Manitoba and played all levels of minor and senior hockey. Galante, at 17, come to run a minor league hockey team with NHL talentand, in turn, take a leading role in Slap Shot meets GoodFellas meets Hoosiers? I remember asking, Why does he have the full mask? Someone told me, Hes only got one eye. Hed lost vision in the othera stick through the visor. A.J. Two months into the season, the games turned nasty. We had one [enforcer], and the poor guy got challenged every shift. "Before games we'd be mobbed," says Tom Devine, owner of the Two Steps Downtown Grille. The state senator had also told an undercover agent that he would use his influence to discover anything that could hurt Galante and "blunt it as best I can." The Washington Capitals have signed defenseman Nick Jensen to a three-year contract extension worth an average annual value of $4.05 million. They had, what, three goons? "The camaraderie with the Galante familythe laughs, the dinnersit's sad," Pomposello says, his voice catching. Toward the trade deadline, we were going through a slump. But now, in the fall of '04, with his league in the throes of a lockout, Rupp had agreed to play for a minor league club in Danbury, Conn. His agent had said a team honcho would meet him at the Westchester County (N.Y.) Airport. As evidence that Galante was prone to violence, the prosecution played footage of him purportedly striking the official during the infamous Kalamazoo game. (VOY: "Shattered") Following the loss of the USS Voyager, Johnson was devastated, but he held out hope that Janeway and the rest of the crew were alive longer than most people did. Gretzky reportedly earned $100,000, which would have left little for the rest of the team. DeLuca pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of threatening. He would also wash the Trashers' jerseys in Crisco and slather Vaseline on their helmets so opponents couldn't grab hold in a fight. When the signal comes, they pull on a fresh shirt, put on the gear, head out. The injury barred him from the NHL, so he was down among the minor-league rabble. DeLuca ended up resigning from office because of the scandal. "People love to watch him perform. A.J. Marc also has over 20 years in Nutritional Counseling as Clinical Nutritionist. That May they played their hated rival, Kalamazoo, in the Colonial Cup finals. The New York Yankees have the Boston Red Sox; the Chicago Bears, the Green Bay Packers. Seven players were sent to the penalty box. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? ), The Trashers finished the 200405 season with a 44297 record, which put them in the playoffs. had been a serviceable defenseman in high school and had followed the Devils, so he reckoned he knew the sport well enough. The United States government came in and seized my assets, and one of the assets was the team, Galante told me. "I was a big Oakland Raiders fan," says A.J. Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Adam Elzinga, 1982-07-23 Burbank, IL, USA USA. Galante passed him a note that asked, Do you want me to have someone pay him a visit? "You shoulda seen Rupp," Galante recalls, laughing. Josh Elzinga player profile, stats and championships. Needless to say it was gobbled right up.The documentary has taken the hockey and sports worlds by storm. drives his white Mercedes more than three hours to White Deer, Pa., where Jimmy is serving his sentence at the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex. So I reached out to a guy I knew in the Quebec League and said, Get me Chad Wagner., Chad Wagner was one of the most feared hockey fighters of the era. Not that they just rubber-stamped Galante's application. "I'm one of those guys who lives for competition," he says. He offered Roanoke not just a pair of current Trashers but also other players in the UHL supplemental draft that summer. They loved playing for Jimmy, because he took care of them. All get tossed. He's crazy.' Following a successful junior hockey career, he played four (4) years of college hockey at Eastern Michigan University, where he was a CSCHL All-Star in 2001. The teenage sports exec became an irresistible media story. During a 1994 junior hockey game he was on a breakaway when he caught a high stick under his visor. To circumvent the cap, Galante regularly doled out cash bonuses, gave some players exorbitant living allowances and gave others checks for housing after their allowances had already been paid. Marc uses a basis of skating and skills rather than hockey concepts oversystems through proper small area games. We only use official stats. It went like this: Elzinga clipped Wingfield in the face, Wingfield asked for a fight, Elzinga declined. Galante, his hair buzzed to the scalp, a neatly trimmed goatee rimming his mouth, stands off to the side, his iPhone pressed to his ear. "I said, 'Sure,' which, to my dad, was like signing a contract. So we knew Jimmy had resources.. Marc believes in helping each athlete to decipher through the plethora of good and misinformation to achieve optimal performance. Featured in the NETFLIX documentary Untold: Crime \u0026 Penalties, the story of the Danbury Trashers relives the short and tumultuous history of an old United Hockey League team that married WWE Wrestling with the innocence of The Mighty Ducks to offer a brand of hockey never before seen. On such nights, I suppose Im just like Galante was, rooting for my son in the crazed way understood by all hockey parents. F--- you. GET THE PICTURE? "I cut a foot off the visitors' bench," says Pomposello, "so they'd be all squished together." Though he scored on the play, he lost sight in his left eye. And hed still kill us, AJ went on. The team slogan was Bad Boys Talkin' Trash. Within weeks, the agent was seated beside the boss himself in the owners box at the Danbury Ice Arena, cheering as the Trashers skated out. Yet the father delegated personnel moves to the son. The second goes on in the front office: signing players, making trades. Says Pomposello, "Jimmy's old school. U.S. Hockey Report provides exclusive amateur hockey news reporting and scouting services in the United States and Canada. The Trashers' marquee player was Brent Gretzky, Wayne's kid brother. Hes working to turn Danbury into a boxing meccaup there with Oxnard, California., Galante got out of prison in 2014. He fights with heart. It will have mobsters. "We're probably not going to want to participate," he said haltingly. The Galantes hired J. Todd Stirling, a son of former Islanders coach Steve Stirling, as the inaugural coach. Team Information. He had once set a record in the West Coast Hockey League with 503 penalty minutes in a single season. Join Facebook to connect with Josh Elzinga and others you may know. Home; Fights. Playing against the Trashers was "a s--- show," said Chris Chaput, who was a center for the Elmira Jackals in 2005--06. There was no other number. Then Jimmy went about being the Jerry Jones of the UHL. - EP Contact Book listing of your profile (optional) did his homework," says former Trashers center Drew Omicioli, "putting in research and hard work to build the team.". Parents were warned to keep children away. After he was drafted, Vogel invited the couple to Pennsylvania for training camp in August. Brian was born and raised in Detroit Michigan. He searched two places, one actual, one virtual. Follow. We just figured, Were going to make a team everyone loves to hate, AJ said. Having been a professional player, coach, and instructor for over 15 years, Gilles has been able to help continue to grow youth hockey programs across the state of Florida. One was Rumun Ndur, a Nigeria-born Canadian who was known for his aggression. Severely injured by a terrible cheap shot from an opponent, Winger is able to rehab his broken leg and get his revenge exactly 367 days later.The film footage is sort of grainy (unless you watch the documentary for some unique angles), but until this film, the audio from the home broadcast of the Danbury Trashers has never been available. Gustafson would later describe Galante as a manipulating, controlling, hands-on bully., When I asked Galante why hed become a fixation for prosecutors, he said, I have no idea. Timo Meier's fantasy hockey value trends up after the New Jersey Devils acquired him. It was populated by the die-hard, the angry, and the drunk. And, according to court papers filed by the U.S. Attorneys office, his business disputes occasionally ended in violence: For nearly two decades, Galantes enterprise promoted a climate of fear through violence, threats of violence, economic sanctions and threats of economic sanctions. Asked by email whether there could be a sequel, a Danbury Trashers II, Galante responds, "Anything is possible! Also, its funny as hellThe Sopranos meets Slap Shot. Paul,originallyfrom Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with teams such as Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and the Colorado Avalanche. What happened today in history (27 February): Sandeep Singh and Constantine I were born, Leonard Nimoy and Chandra Shekhar Azad died, World NGO Day, Bayern Munich was founded, Pakistan retaliated . Recalls Galante, "It was obvious he was thinking, What did I get myself into? "He can score unbelievable," A.J. But his fights are what people remember. It was all new to him, but he was sure of the player he wanted most: Brent Gretzky, the brother of the NHL legend Wayne. Player after player came by the house to show support. Josh Elzinga Defense Born Sep 3 1984 -- Burbank, IL [38 yrs. No one likes to put on wet clothes. He has ties,' " says Brosal. (The indictment alleged that the Trashers' player payroll was in excess of $750,000, but the team reported that it hadn't gone over the UHL salary cap of $275,000.) But a small city, full of drifters and vacant lots, faded Victorian houses lining its weed-buckled streets, is ruinously sad. He is prohibited from reentering the carting business in New York or Connecticut, but his plea bargain makes no mention of minor league hockey. He scores like it's drinking water. I suspended him. Guess what? Josh Elzinga NOT the Josh who broke Brad Wingfield's leg . If you search Jim Duhart, those are what you find: Jim Duhart versus Tom Clayton, Jim Duhart versus Jason Taylor. "Honestly, a lot of it was getting so close to a championship with the Trashers but not winning. In the summer of '06, the Trashers sent 105 season-ticket holders refund checks, totaling $31,177. 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