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Chargers regrouping after rough start

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To say it’s been a rough start for the UAH club hockey team would be an understatement. The 0-4 Chargers have been beset with shorthandedness — not by penalties, but bodies.

The Chargers are 0-4 with series sweeps by Alabama (AAU D1) and Alabama (AAU D3). They have scored only four goals and allowed 26. But what personnel the Chargers did have fought hard as long as they could.

“We were a little more shorthanded than expected that played a big part,” UAH head coach Tim Flynn said regarding the season opening series against Alabama D1 on Sept. 6-7, which the Chargers lost 7-1 and 7-0. “If you look at the first period of each game, we’re right there on Friday, down 2-1 and 0-0 on Saturday. I liked the way we played for the most part out of the gate both nights, we just ran out of gas way to soon and that’s something we will work at and improve on throughout the season.

“We certainly weren’t happy with the result of the weekend, but our young guys got some good experience playing a team like that can be like drinking from a firehose for your first game and I think overall they did a good job navigating that.”

UAH’s biggest losses are its main offensive weapons from last season. Kolton and Keaton Watts, who combined for 47 goals and 96 points, are not on the team for personal reasons. The Chargers also lost Josh Corrow, who was tied on the club with 16 goals.

Henry Hoff, Tyler Trombly, and Bradly McDonald are back as UAH’s top returning offensive threats, but Hoff and McDonald missed last Saturday’s game after being injured the night before.

“We also a couple others were unable to go on in the second game and we had a very limited line up,” Flynn said of UAH’s 2-1 loss to Alabama D3 on Saturday, the Chargers’ most competitive game so far despite only having 12 skaters. “I was very pleased with how the guys took a new concept and executed it, again we knew as a byproduct of this they were going to get a lot of shots, and we were going to have to capitalize when we had our chances. That’s not a recipe for a successful season, but in a unique circumstance like this, they did a great job.”

UAH did see a lot of shots — 71 to be precise. Ayden Trombly was crazy in his first start between the pipes, making 69 saves, the most in the current club hockey era.

“Obviously, Ayden played great,” Flynn said. “I can’t speak high enough about how impressed I’ve been with his work ethic and compete level since day one.”

Thankfully, the Chargers have a month off before their next series. And that series is at home against Vanderbilt (Oct. 18-19) in a crucial start to College Hockey South play.

“We have a a good break here,” Flynn said. “Hopefully we can start to get healthy again and we’ll look at some video and clean up the problem areas. Looking forward to taking advantage of the time without games to keep getting better. Now we start a stretch of divisional games, and this next stretch is going to very important in where we end up in the race for playoffs.”

Trombly stops 69 but UAH falls twice to D3 Tide

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A depleted UAH club hockey team lost two games to Alabama’s AAU Division 3 team over the weekend, falling 10-2 on Friday and 2-1 on Saturday.

In the first game, Alabama scored four goals in the first period and four in the second. UAH got goals from Henry Hoff and Elijah Howard in the third period after the Tide led 9-0.

BOX SCORES: Friday | Saturday

Saturday’s game was more competitive, at least on the scoreboard, despite UAH only having 12 skaters. The Tide scored single goals in each of the first two periods, and Tyler Trombly scored halfway through the third period for UAH’s lone goal.

Ayden Trombly played all of Saturday’s game in goal, stopping 69 of 71 Alabama shots. The 69 saves set a record for most saves in a game since at least 2018, when the UAH club team was re-established.

The Chargers (0-4) gets a month to regroup before their first home series, Oct. 17-18 against Vanderbilt at the Huntsville Ice Sports Center to start College Hockey South play.

Chargers swept by Tide to open season

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The UAH club hockey team lost a pair of games at the Pelham Civic Center to Alabama’s AAU Division 1 team, losing 7-1 on Friday and 7-0 on Saturday.

Matthew Davis scored the lone goal for the Chargers on Friday, which tied the game at 1-1 with 7:46 remaining in the first period. But the Tide scored six unanswered goals for the win.

BOX SCORES: Friday | Saturday

Saturday’s game was scoreless after one period before Alabama scored four goals in the second period and three in the third.

Goaltender Andrew Sledge made 60 saves on Friday were the second most made in a game since the UAH club team was reinstated in 2018. On Saturday, Sledge made 50 more saves.

The Chargers return to Pelham again next weekend to play Alabama’s AAU Division 3 squad.

Hoof Beats: Talbot to Detroit as ex-Chargers on the move

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Cam Talbot has signed a two-year contract with the Detroit Red Wings.

The former UAH goaltender, 36, spent last season with the Los Angeles Kings, where he went 27-20-6 record with a 2.50 goals-against average, a 0.913 save percentage and three shutouts in 54 games. He made the NHL All-Star Game for the second time in three seasons. The Kings lost in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The Red Wings will be Talbot’s eighth NHL team. He has a 245-176-42 record with a 2.63 goals-against average, a 0.914 save percentage and 31 shutouts in 486 games since joining the New York Rangers in 2010. Talbot has played for the Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Calgary Flames, Minnesota Wild, and Ottawa Senators.

The contract has an average annual value of $2.5 million.

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Ayodele Adeniye vs. Michigan Tech, Feb. 5, 2021 (Photo by Todd Thompson/RiverCat Photography)

Adeniye invited to Capitals camp: Former Charger Ayo Adeniye has been invited to the Washington Capitals development camp.

The defenseman from Columbus, Ohio played 21 games as a freshman at UAH in 2020-21, the final varsity season before the program was shuttered.

Adeniye transferred to Adrian, where he helped the Bulldogs win the NCAA Division III national championship in 2022. He scored four goals with 19 assists for 23 points.

Corbett joins staff at ASU: Mike Corbett, who was head coach of the Chargers for sevens seasons, has joined the staff at Arizona State as an assistant coach.

Corbett spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach at Quinnipiac, helping the Bobcats win the 2023 national championship and compile a 93-21-8 record.

As head coach at UAH from 2013-20, the Chargers went 48-181-24.

The Sun Devils are entering their first season as members of the NCHC.

Saulnier signs AHL deal with Hershey: UAH alum Brennan Saulnier has signed a one-year American Hockey League contract with the Hershey Bears.

A forward from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Saulnier, 30, spent last season in the AHL with the Belleville Senators. He had three goals and four assists with the Sens, along with 94 penalty minutes. He spent time with Belleville and Lehigh Valley over 2020-22.

Saulnier had 56 points on 21 goals and 35 assists in 119 games with the Chargers from 2014-18. He was fifth in the UAH varsity record book in career penalty minutes with 351.

Finstrom signs with Havoc: Noah Finstrom, another member of the final UAH varsity team, has signed with the Huntsville Havoc for the upcoming season.

After scoring a goal in the 2020-21 season at UAH, Finstrom transferred to Division III Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he scored 25 goals in 69 games over three seasons.