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Saturday, November 14, 2020 | 11:01 AM
Vinnie Scalamogna has been teaching hockey at varied ranges in Western Pennsylvania since 1980, most just lately serving as the top coach at Greensburg Central Catholic.
However he’ll embark on a brand new problem this season as he takes over the varsity program at Norwin.
His longterm perception may go a great distance for a program that’s trying to stay a playoff contender within the PIHL.
Search for protection to be the automobile that will get the Knights there.
“I convey over 50 years of hockey expertise as a participant, coach, on-ice official and administrator,” he mentioned. “My type of play is finest characterised by the outdated adage, ‘Offense wins video games; protection wins championships.’”
Scalamogna replaces longtime coach Dennis Tokarski, who retired after two stints with this system.
Norwin went 15-5 final season and completed fourth in Class A.
Scalamogna, 56, who helps look after fellow veterans at Pittsburgh VA hospitals, additionally coached males’s and ladies’s ACHA groups at Penn State.
He performed hockey at Penn Hills and for the Pittsburgh Junior Penguins.
So far as what he has coming again, Norwin returns quite a lot of starters.
“We’ve got a robust core of returning gamers, supplemented by an equally robust group of recent and upcoming gamers,” Scalamogna mentioned.
Returnees embrace senior defensemen Jake Giatroudakis and Cadin Anlauf, senior goaltenders Sam Coll and Alex Csukas, senior ahead Dylan Altfather, junior forwards Logan Worry, Dom Barca, Anthony Cavallaro, Hunter Hardy, and Ty Shigo, junior defenders William Dillner, Ashton Yemc and Jacob Meier and sophomore ahead Sean Hanley.
Scalamogna mentioned he by no means doubted there can be a season due to the still-lingering results of covid-19.
“We’ve got nice leaders within the Norwin College District, Norwin Hockey Membership, PIHL and USA Hockey,” he mentioned. “These of us all labored extremely laborious to determine how we may return to play in a secure method. The truth that we’re hitting the ice is actually a testomony to the laborious work and dedication of those many individuals.”
Invoice Beckner Jr. is a Tribune-Overview Employees Author. You may contact Invoice by e-mail at bbeckner@triblive.com or through Twitter .
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