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Thousand Islands Privateers 2012-2013 Season
October 26, 2012
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city, it’s been “full speed ahead” for the
Privateers franchise, particularly in its
marketing approach.
“It’s really the grass roots kind of
marketing that we focus on,” she said.
“We do the usual promotions on TV and
radio, we really feel that by building the
personal relationships between the fans
and the players, that’s what is going to
guide us to long-term success.”
With the move, the Privateers will
have more population to draw from in
city, which has a variety of restaurants
and pubs.
“In a way our marketing efort has
become more focused,” Kirnan said.
“Before we were more of a destination,
we had to try and atract people from
Watertown to come 30 miles to a game
or get people from Fort Drum to come
18 miles to a game. Now we’re right on
a busy street, we hope that just more the
convenience factor makes our product
more easily accessible. People can go to
dinner and then the game’s right there.”
The Privateers went 32-17 last season,
inishing in second place, advancing
to the semiinals against the Danbury
Whalers. Yet part of the campaign was
marred by several on-ice incidents with
their rivals, the Akwesasne Warriors, including a bench-clearing brawl, in Game
3 of a irst-round playof series. State
troopers needed to be called in to break
up the melee, with 6 minutes, 5 seconds
remaining in the inal game, won 6-2 by
AMANDA MORRISON | WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES
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Municipal Arena earlier this month. The Privateers begin play at the arena today.
the Privateers.
Earlier in the season, 14 Thousand
Islands players boycoted their game on
Feb. 10 in protest that the league had not
disciplined the Akwesasne team enough
following a spearing incident against a
Cape Cod Fins player on Jan. 14. Those
Privateers and coach Marc LeFebvre quit
or were ired and the league still took no
action, forcing Kirnan to sign new players to complement the ive remaining on
the roster.
While the Akwesasne team wasn’t
voted out of the league, it chose not to
return to the FHL because of inancial issues, according to league commissioner
Don Kirnan.
The Privateers also faced challenges
of the ice last season, as Nicole Kirnan
had to lease and then run the Bonnie
Castle Arena and restaurant just so her
team could stay aloat and play out the
season.
“That was sure some season, but we
survived it,” she said.
Two of the issues on the table before
Thousand Islands’ contract agreement
with the city was inalized was ice time
and locker room availability at the
arena. With the deal, team will have the
use of a locker room, but players must
remove their equipment to let high
school teams use the facilities; and additional locker rooms will be provided
to opposing teams and oicials.
“We understand that the irst year is
not going to be ideal for everybody,” she
said. “We’re just very happy that we’ve
goten to a place where it will work well
enough for everybody. Hopefully we all
have a great year together in this facility
and the community really supports the
team and we’re able to give back to the
community.”
The Privateers will release their schedule in the coming weeks and begin its
“international” search for a head coach
and players to complement their 2012-13
roster, which may include returning
players who re-sign with the club.
“We will have a lot of exciting announcements over the next week or
two,” said Kirnan, who expects ticket
prices at the Fairgrounds arena to be
“comparable” to those in Alexandria
Bay. “Now we’re now moving full speed
ahead toward the season with marketing
and selling corporate partnerships and
season tickets and all the things we need
to do. It is exciting and we’re very happy
to be here.”
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Jay Meloff
POSITION: Defense
NUMBER: 2 SHOOTS: R
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HEIGHT: 5’10 WEIGHT: 170
HOMETOWN: Markham, Ont.
DATE OF BIRTH: April 30, 1990
ATTRIBUTES: Federal Hockey
League — Danbury Whalers,
2011-12; Ontario Junior Hockey
League — Pickering Panthers,
Peterborough Stars, 2010-11
Jay Morriron
POSITION: Defense
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
NUMBER: 18 SHOOTS: R
HOMETOWN: Nesconset, N.Y.
DATE OF BIRTH: Oct. 13, 1989
ATTRIBUTES: Niagra University,
Best Defenseman Award, 2008-09;
U.S. Select Team, 2011.
al Hockey League — Fayetteville
Fire Ants, Nipiawan Hawks; Federal Hockey League — Brooklyn Aviators, Vermont Wild; All American
Hockey League — Lapeer Loggers;
Canadian Junior Hockey League,
Carleton Place Canadians.
Derek Osborne
POSITION: Left Wing
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
NUMBER: 16 SHOOTS: L
HOMETOWN: Oakville, Ont.
DATE OF BIRTH: Dec. 14, 1989
ATTRIBUTES: Wilfrid Laurier
University
POSITION: Defense
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
DATE OF BIRTH: Jan. 1, 1989
ATTRIBUTES: Southern Profession-
Zackory Ray
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NUMBER: 6 SHOOTS: R
HOMETOWN: Cobourg, Ont.
DATE OF BIRTH: Nov. 26, 1988
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Terry Watt
POSITION: Defense
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Ajax, Ont.
DATE OF BIRTH: March 17, 1986
ATTRIBUTES: Buffalo State College. Federal Hockey League — Akwesasne Warriors, Brooklyn Aviators, 2010-11
Nick Williams
POSITION: Defense
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NUMBER: 7 SHOOTS: R
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New home: FHL team sees stability following tumultuous 2011-12 season
By CHRIS FITZ GERALD
Times Sportswriter
N
icole Kirnan knows the
drawing power of hockey in
the north country.
Ater all, the former St.
Lawrence University hockey standout has been involved in the
game for most of her life.Kirnan, who
competed on the U.S. Junior National
team in 1996, served as an assistant captain with the Saints in her senior season
(2000-01) as she helped lead the team
to the irst women’s NCAA Championship game in the sport. She went on to
become head coach at Manhatanville
College for ive seasons, developing the
program as a national power and later
represented the ECAC on the NCAA
Championships commitee.
“I’ve been in hockey all my life and
my family is in the hockey business,”
said Kirnan said, who also owns a
hockey camp, clinic and private skating business. “So its only natural that
I’m in the business as well, it means a
lot to me.”
Now as owner of the Thousand
Islands Privateers of the Federal Hockey
League, Kirnan is looking forward to
the franchise’s move to Watertown from
Alexandria Bay as her irst priority was
to keep the team in the region.
Coming of both a challenging and
somewhat controversial season in the
Federal Hockey League, the Privateers
hope to sail into calmer waters as they
will call the municipal arena at the Alex
T. Dufy Fairgrounds home beginning
this upcoming season.
A charter league member, the Thousand Island Privateers played the past
two seasons at the Bonnie Castle Recreation Center in Alexandria Bay.
“We knew we had to move, it was
just a mater of where,” Kirnan said.
“So that led us to a search of the
whole Northeast, with obviously our
preference being to stay in the north
country where our fans are, because it
takes a lot of time and a lot of resources
to build a fan base and a following and
to create a niche in the community.”
But now with the franchise, which
will retain its team name with its redand black-color scheme, making the
move 30 miles south to Watertown,
Kirnan hopes this will lead to a growing fan base — while still drawing its
followers from the Alexandria Bay and
its surrounding communities.
“Before people from Watertown had
to drive up there to see us play and it
was a litle (farther) for people from
Fort Drum as well,” she said. “So we’re
hoping that our loyal fans from the
river communities on both the Canadian side and the American side will
continue to watch us, but also we’ll be
able to build more of a fan base since
it will be more convenient for people
from the city of Watertown and Fort
Drum to atend or games.”
With a change in the schedule the Privateers will play 60 games, eight more
than last season, including four more
home games (30).
Kirnan received oicial approval from
the Watertown City Council on June 11
for a six-month franchise agreement,
allowing the Privateers to move to the
Fairgrounds’ arena.
The facility’s seating capacity is far
less than the arena in Alexandria Bay,
“around 1,400 compared to 2,500 to
3,000” but should provide a more “intimate” seting to watch a hockey game.
“I think it’s a great arena, a totally
diferent feel from the Bonnie Castle,”
she said. “It’s got strong roots in the
community has far as history with a lot
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Privateers owner Nicole Kirnan’s team will play its home games this season at the Watertown Municipal
Arena. The team played its first two seasons at home in Alexandria Bay.
of events there and because the fans are
so close to the action, it’s going to create
an exciting atmosphere and the fact that
there’s not a bad seat in the house is a
real positive thing.”
Ater receiving the go-ahead from the
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EXPERIENCE: Rookie
HOMETOWN: Pickering, Ont.
DATE OF BIRTH: Feb. 23, 1988
ATTRIBUTES: Junior College —
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Familiar face takes reins on ice
Paul Kelly to lead Privateers as 2012-13 head coach
Times Sportswriter
W
ith the Thousand Islands
Privateers hoping for a
fresh start in the city of
Watertown, team owner
Nicole Kirnan didn’t
have to look far to ind a new coach.
Paul Kelly, who concluded his playing career as a player-coach with the
Privateers last season, is now the club’s
new head coach, the team announced in
July during a press conference that Watertown Mayor Jefrey Graham and FHL
commissioner Don Kirnan also atended.
”I’m really truly honored to embark
on this new journey,” Kelly said. “Obviously it’s my irst jump into the coaching
world. I’ve been around, I’ve played
for seven years and I know the strain
that coaches take on — I’ve seen some
go gray prety quick — but I’m really
excited about it.”
Kelly, who also served as team captain last season, led Thousand Islands
through a trying season and to the
second round of the Federal Hockey
League playofs.
“I’ve always wanted to be a coach and
stay in hockey,” said Kelly, a 31-year-old
native of West Peabody, Mass. “Once
this opportunity was presented to me, I
couldn’t turn it down.”
Kirnan said there was “a ton of interest
in the job from around the world.”
“But it’s important to get the right person who knows this team and is familiar
with the community. I think it’s a natural
step because he did so well last year in
a coaching and playing role, which is
tough to do.”
Kelly’s promotion is at the heart of
the franchise’s strategy for this season’s
campaign as the team also announced
the re-signing of four Privateers, including forward Adam McAllister and goalie
Mat Anthony as well as forward Chase
Tippin and defenseman Nick Williams.
For Kelly, the choice to join the pro
coaching ranks was a simple one, since
he wanted to remain in the game of
hockey at some level.
“It was intriguing,” Kelly said of the
job opening. “It’s tough for a guy to
hang up his skates, I know when we get
to the irst game, I’m going to want to be
out there. I just felt this was a good time
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New Watertown Privateers coach Paul Kelly speaks
at a press conference last summer at Savory
Downtown. He is a former player.
to take the next step in the game, because I always wanted to be around this
game for the rest of my life and coaching
is how I’m going to stay in it.”
The Privateers, a charter member of the
‘A’ level FHL, will enter its third season,
which is now under way.
“I got to know Paul prety well last
year,” Anthony said. “I know what
he wants and expects from guys — he
demands the best — so we should be a
well-disciplined team in the execution
of our systems and in people doing their
jobs because he demands it.”
Kelly was elevated to player-coach
status ater last season’s coach, Marc
LeFebvre, along with 14 players, for-
feited their jobs when they refused to
play a game in early February in protest
of the league’s handling of a incident
involving the team’s then chief rival, the
Akwesasne Warriors.
Kelly was one of only ive players —
including McAllister, Anthony, Tippen
and Brad Smulders — who didn’t join the
boycot and remained with the Privateers,
leading the team to a second-place inish
and to the second round of the playofs.
“It was way too stressful,” Kelly said
of his time as a player-coach. “You’re in
the locker room as a player and then you
have to be a coach of the players you’re
playing with. It’s good if you’re a player
and an assistant coach, because you just
have to talk to guys, but to set the rules
and be a player as well is tough. Last year
was a good experience and now I’m going to take that next step.”
Now as head coach, Kelly believes this
experience created a bond between those
remaining Privateers players, in which he
hopes will carry over into next season.
“Obviously last year didn’t work out
as well as we wanted it to,” Kelly said.
“We didn’t make the inals, but we had
a good regular season. We still have a
lot of uninished business from last year.
This year we want to bring not just one
or two tough guys — we want team
toughness all over the ice.”
The team announced that season
tickets are still on sale at $299 each
(with a special discount voucher
on team apparel) and can be purchased by calling 382-5656 or visiting
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“We have a really close-knit group
of players coming back,” Kirnan said.
“And that’s key because we’re going to
ask a lot of them besides playing hockey,
they’re going to be out there in the community helping out at various events.”
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2012-13 Privateers player proiles
Chris Greene
POSITION: Center,
assistant coach
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HEIGHT: 6 ‘2 WEIGHT: 191
HOMETOWN: Massena, N.Y.
DATE OF BIRTH: Sept. 24, 1985
ATTRIBUTES: 2006-2012
CHL Player
Peter Campbell
Adam McAllister
POSITION: Left wing,
assistant captain
Matt Anthony
POSITION: Guard
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Wheatly, Ontario
ATTRIBUTES: 2011-2012 1000
Island Privateers
Jordan Bernier
POSITION: Left wing
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: St. Hyacinthe,
Quebec
ATTRIBUTES: Bbrooklyn Aviators,
Gatineau Olympiques, Baie
Comeau Drakkar
Peter Dundovich
POSITION: Guard
NUMBER: 1 SHOOTS: R
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Philadelphia, Pa.
ATTRIBUTES: Played 1 year in
Europe and 2 in FHL
Chase Tippin
POSITION: Right Wing
NUMBER: 8 SHOOTS: R
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Collingwood,
Ontario
ATTRIBUTES: 2011-2012 1000
Island Privateers
Carter Trevisani
POSITION: Defense
NUMBER: 3 SHOOTS: R
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HEIGHT: 6”1 WEIGHT: 198
HOMETOWN: Carlisle, Ontario
DATE OF BIRTH: June 15, 1982
ATTRIBUTES: 2006 Team Italy
Olympics; 2001 NHL Draft Pick
Robert Blanchette
POSITION: Defense
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
NUMBER: 4 SHOOTS: R
HOMETOWN: Newburyport, Ma.
James Durham
POSITION: Right wing
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
HOMETOWN: Marilla, N.Y.
ATTRIBUTES: Buffalo State 200812; Columbus Cottonmouths
2011-12
Shane Ferguson
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Belleville, Ontario
ATTRIBUTES: Most assists, Ontario
Junior Hockey League, 2008-09; Captain, Dixie, 2007-08; Assistant captain, Markham, 2008-09; Assistant
captain, Chi-Town Shooters 2010-11
Michael Fransen
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
HOMETOWN: Burtonsville, Md.
ATTRIBUTES: New England College, LeBanon Valley College, Valley Junior Wires
Justin Krue
POSITION: Center
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
HOMETOWN: Centralia, Ont.
DATE OF BIRTH: Aug. 15, 1988
ATTRIBUTES: Buffalo State
College, Junior B Waterloo Siskins
Justin McDonald
POSITION: Center
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Newmarket, Ont.
ATTRIBUTES: Southern Professional Hockey League, Fayetteville,
Augusta, Mississippi 2011-12
Kris McCarthy
POSITION: Defense
NUMBER: 5 SHOOTS: L
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Ottawa, Ont.
DATE OF BIRTH: feb. 10, 1989
ATTRIBUTES: Akwesasne
Warriors, 2010-12
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Puck drops on lively season tonight
New rivalry with Williamsport Outlaws likely to take shape
Times Sportswriter
The Privateers’ Shawn
Fensel,
center, and
former Akwesasne Warrior Patrick
Deraspe, left,
and Sylvain
Deschatelets,
right, collide
during regular season
play last year.
T
he Thousand Islands Privateers 2012-13 Federal Hockey
League schedule includes 30
home dates at the Watertown
Municipal Arena at the Alex
T. Dufy Fairgrounds.
The Privateers, which relocated to
the city in June ater playing its irst
two seasons in Alexandria Bay, opens
its campaign by hosting the Cape Cod
Blueins at 7:35 p.m. tonight.
“I’m very happy with the schedule,”
Privateers owner Nicole Kirnan said.
“I’m excited for opening weekend
and bringing our brand of hockey to
Watertown and the surrounding communities.”
Thousand Islands will play host to
another team that relocated during the
ofseason — the Williamsport Outlaws
— the most during the upcoming season
at 20 times — including the Privateers’
second game of the season on Saturday,
Oct. 27 in Watertown at 7:35 p.m.
Williamsport, which was one of the
cities the Privateers considered relocating to, is hoped to be Thousand Island’s
new rival ater the controversial Akwesasne Warriors of Ontario didn’t return
to the league, according to Kirnan.
“We obviously play Williamsport
quite a bit, which actually twice as
much, and we’re looking forward to
that,” Kirnan said. “They’re now our
natural rival and they’re the defending
league champion. They moved from
New Jersey to Williamsport, which
is probably a litle bit closer in travel
distance. They were very talented last
season, so we anticipate they’ll have a
strong team again this year.”
The Privateers will play Cape Cod,
the Danbury Whalers, the Danville
Dashers and the Dayton Devils each 10
times during the regular season, with
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ive home games and ive road games
against each team.
Some 19 games of the Privateers’
home slate will be played on Friday
and Saturday nights, with 12 home
games on Fridays; along with eight
Thursday games, two Wednesday dates
and one Monday game completing the
balance of their league schedule. All but
one of the home dates include 7:35 p.m.
faceof times.
Thousand Islands will host one
four-game homestand — including
three consecutive games against Williamsport Friday, Feb. 1, Saturday, Feb.
2 and Thursday, Feb. 7 — and a trio of
three-game homestands, including a
holiday week set against Danville on
Thursday, Dec. 27 and Friday, Dec. 28
and a game against Williamsport on
Saturday, Dec. 29.
“We’re home a couple times during
the Christmas break so parents and their
kids can check out our games,” Kirnan
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The Privateers will also host the Outlaws on the night before Thanksgiving
and in a Presidents’ Day game on Monday, Feb. 18 in a 6:05 p.m. start. It also
will entertain Danbury on Valentine’s
Day on Thursday, Feb. 14.
The regular season winds down in
March as the Privateers play three of its
inal four games on home ice, including
two against Williamsport; with the inale
at Cape Cod on Saturday, March 9.
The Outlaws — which won the league
title as New Jersey and have since
moved from Wayne, N.J. — will play all
of its 30 home games outside at Bowman
Stadium, home of baseball’s Williamsport Crosscuters of the Class A New
York-Penn League.
“It’s one of the oldest stadiums in the
country,” Kirnan said. “They anticipate
a good turnout there, they can seat more
than 3,000 there — and some people will
venture out to their games just for the
experience of outdoor hockey.”
The Privateers’ irst road trip consisting of ive games will be the season’s
longest, which opens Thursday, Nov.
1 at Williamsport, includes two games
against the Outlaws and a pair at the
Danville Dashers in eastern Illinois.
Its irst journey to play at Dayton, the
league’s newest franchise, will be on
Friday, Dec. 21 and Saturday Dec. 22 in
southwestern Ohio.
Thousand Islands also plays six of
seven games on the road Dec. 8-Dec. 22
and a stretch of seven of eight games
away from home Dec. 31-Jan. 11.
POSITION: Center,
assistant captain
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Ottawa, Ontario
ATTRIBUTES: 2002 -2009 British National League; 2000-2001
CHL’s Tulsa Oilers
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
DATE OF BIRTH: May 1, 1988
ATTRIBUTES: 1000 Island
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as Privateers’ Ryan Pearson moves
in during a Nov. 10, 2012, game. Privateers Justin Levac keeps the puck
away from Dashers’ defender Justin
Barr during a Jan. 12, 2012, game.
Privateers’ Levac skates with the
puck against the former Akwesasne
Warriors at Bonnie Castle Arena in a
Dec. 1, 2011, game. Privateers Levac
stumbles toward Dasher goalie Breton
Lindoff while attempting a shot on
goal during a Jan. 12, 2012, game.
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October 26, 2012
2012-13 Privateers player proiles
Chris Greene
POSITION: Center,
assistant coach
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HEIGHT: 6 ‘2 WEIGHT: 191
HOMETOWN: Massena, N.Y.
ATTRIBUTES: 2006-2012
CHL Player
Peter Campbell
Adam McAllister
POSITION: Left wing,
assistant captain
Matt Anthony
POSITION: Guard
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Wheatly, Ontario
ATTRIBUTES: 2011-2012 1000
Island Privateers
Jordan Bernier
POSITION: Left wing
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: St. Hyacinthe,
Quebec
ATTRIBUTES: Bbrooklyn Aviators,
Gatineau Olympiques, Baie
Comeau Drakkar
Peter Dundovich
POSITION: Guard
NUMBER: 1 SHOOTS: R
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Philadelphia, Pa.
ATTRIBUTES: Played 1 year in
Europe and 2 in FHL
Chase Tippin
NUMBER: 8 SHOOTS: R
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Collingwood,
Ontario
ATTRIBUTES: 2011-2012 1000
Island Privateers
Carter Trevisani
POSITION: Defense
NUMBER: 3 SHOOTS: R
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HEIGHT: 6”1 WEIGHT: 198
HOMETOWN: Carlisle, Ontario
DATE OF BIRTH: June 15, 1982
ATTRIBUTES: 2006 Team Italy
Olympics; 2001 NHL Draft Pick
Robert Blanchette
POSITION: Defense
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
NUMBER: 4 SHOOTS: R
HOMETOWN: Newburyport, Ma.
James Durham
POSITION: Right wing
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
HOMETOWN: Marilla, N.Y.
ATTRIBUTES: Buffalo State 200812; Columbus Cottonmouths
2011-12
Shane Ferguson
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
ATTRIBUTES: Most assists, Ontario
Junior Hockey League, 2008-09; Captain, Dixie, 2007-08; Assistant captain, Markham, 2008-09; Assistant
captain, Chi-Town Shooters 2010-11
Michael Fransen
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
HOMETOWN: Burtonsville, Md.
ATTRIBUTES: New England College, LeBanon Valley College, Valley Junior Wires
Justin Krue
POSITION: Center
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
HOMETOWN: Centralia, Ont.
DATE OF BIRTH: Aug. 15, 1988
ATTRIBUTES: Buffalo State
College, Junior B Waterloo Siskins
Justin McDonald
POSITION: Center
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Newmarket, Ont.
ATTRIBUTES: Southern Professional Hockey League, Fayetteville,
Augusta, Mississippi 2011-12
Kris McCarthy
POSITION: Defense
NUMBER: 5 SHOOTS: L
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Ottawa, Ont.
DATE OF BIRTH: feb. 10, 1989
ATTRIBUTES: Akwesasne
Warriors, 2010-12
Please see Players, page 10
5
Puck drops on lively season tonight
New rivalry with Williamsport Outlaws likely to take shape
Times Sportswriter
The Privateers’ Shawn
Fensel,
center, and
former Akwesasne Warrior Patrick
Deraspe, left,
and Sylvain
Deschatelets,
right, collide
during regular season
play last year.
T
he Thousand Islands Privateers 2012-13 Federal Hockey
League schedule includes 30
home dates at the Watertown
Municipal Arena at the Alex
T. Dufy Fairgrounds.
The Privateers, which relocated to
the city in June ater playing its irst
two seasons in Alexandria Bay, opens
its campaign by hosting the Cape Cod
Blueins at 7:35 p.m. tonight.
“I’m very happy with the schedule,”
Privateers owner Nicole Kirnan said.
“I’m excited for opening weekend
and bringing our brand of hockey to
Watertown and the surrounding communities.”
Thousand Islands will play host to
another team that relocated during the
ofseason — the Williamsport Outlaws
— the most during the upcoming season
at 20 times — including the Privateers’
second game of the season on Saturday,
Oct. 27 in Watertown at 7:35 p.m.
Williamsport, which was one of the
cities the Privateers considered relocating to, is hoped to be Thousand Island’s
new rival ater the controversial Akwesasne Warriors of Ontario didn’t return
to the league, according to Kirnan.
“We obviously play Williamsport
quite a bit, which actually twice as
much, and we’re looking forward to
that,” Kirnan said. “They’re now our
natural rival and they’re the defending
league champion. They moved from
New Jersey to Williamsport, which
is probably a litle bit closer in travel
distance. They were very talented last
season, so we anticipate they’ll have a
strong team again this year.”
The Privateers will play Cape Cod,
the Danbury Whalers, the Danville
Dashers and the Dayton Devils each 10
times during the regular season, with
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ive home games and ive road games
against each team.
Some 19 games of the Privateers’
home slate will be played on Friday
and Saturday nights, with 12 home
games on Fridays; along with eight
Thursday games, two Wednesday dates
and one Monday game completing the
balance of their league schedule. All but
one of the home dates include 7:35 p.m.
faceof times.
Thousand Islands will host one
four-game homestand — including
three consecutive games against Williamsport Friday, Feb. 1, Saturday, Feb.
2 and Thursday, Feb. 7 — and a trio of
three-game homestands, including a
holiday week set against Danville on
Thursday, Dec. 27 and Friday, Dec. 28
and a game against Williamsport on
Saturday, Dec. 29.
“We’re home a couple times during
the Christmas break so parents and their
kids can check out our games,” Kirnan
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The Privateers will also host the Outlaws on the night before Thanksgiving
and in a Presidents’ Day game on Monday, Feb. 18 in a 6:05 p.m. start. It also
will entertain Danbury on Valentine’s
Day on Thursday, Feb. 14.
The regular season winds down in
March as the Privateers play three of its
inal four games on home ice, including
two against Williamsport; with the inale
at Cape Cod on Saturday, March 9.
The Outlaws — which won the league
title as New Jersey and have since
moved from Wayne, N.J. — will play all
of its 30 home games outside at Bowman
Stadium, home of baseball’s Williamsport Crosscuters of the Class A New
York-Penn League.
“It’s one of the oldest stadiums in the
country,” Kirnan said. “They anticipate
a good turnout there, they can seat more
than 3,000 there — and some people will
venture out to their games just for the
experience of outdoor hockey.”
The Privateers’ irst road trip consisting of ive games will be the season’s
longest, which opens Thursday, Nov.
1 at Williamsport, includes two games
against the Outlaws and a pair at the
Danville Dashers in eastern Illinois.
Its irst journey to play at Dayton, the
league’s newest franchise, will be on
Friday, Dec. 21 and Saturday Dec. 22 in
southwestern Ohio.
Thousand Islands also plays six of
seven games on the road Dec. 8-Dec. 22
and a stretch of seven of eight games
away from home Dec. 31-Jan. 11.
POSITION: Center,
assistant captain
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Ottawa, Ontario
ATTRIBUTES: 2002 -2009 British National League; 2000-2001
CHL’s Tulsa Oilers
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
DATE OF BIRTH: May 1, 1988
ATTRIBUTES: 1000 Island
Privateers
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9
Familiar face takes reins on ice
Paul Kelly to lead Privateers as 2012-13 head coach
Times Sportswriter
W
ith the Thousand Islands
Privateers hoping for a
fresh start in the city of
Watertown, team owner
Nicole Kirnan didn’t
have to look far to ind a new coach.
Paul Kelly, who concluded his playing career as a player-coach with the
Privateers last season, is now the club’s
new head coach, the team announced in
July during a press conference that Watertown Mayor Jefrey Graham and FHL
commissioner Don Kirnan also atended.
”I’m really truly honored to embark
on this new journey,” Kelly said. “Obviously it’s my irst jump into the coaching
world. I’ve been around, I’ve played
for seven years and I know the strain
that coaches take on — I’ve seen some
go gray prety quick — but I’m really
excited about it.”
Kelly, who also served as team captain last season, led Thousand Islands
through a trying season and to the
second round of the Federal Hockey
League playofs.
“I’ve always wanted to be a coach and
stay in hockey,” said Kelly, a 31-year-old
native of West Peabody, Mass. “Once
this opportunity was presented to me, I
couldn’t turn it down.”
Kirnan said there was “a ton of interest
in the job from around the world.”
“But it’s important to get the right person who knows this team and is familiar
with the community. I think it’s a natural
step because he did so well last year in
a coaching and playing role, which is
tough to do.”
Kelly’s promotion is at the heart of
the franchise’s strategy for this season’s
campaign as the team also announced
the re-signing of four Privateers, including forward Adam McAllister and goalie
Mat Anthony as well as forward Chase
Tippin and defenseman Nick Williams.
For Kelly, the choice to join the pro
coaching ranks was a simple one, since
he wanted to remain in the game of
hockey at some level.
“It was intriguing,” Kelly said of the
job opening. “It’s tough for a guy to
hang up his skates, I know when we get
to the irst game, I’m going to want to be
out there. I just felt this was a good time
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New Watertown Privateers coach Paul Kelly speaks
at a press conference last summer at Savory
Downtown. He is a former player.
to take the next step in the game, because I always wanted to be around this
game for the rest of my life and coaching
is how I’m going to stay in it.”
The Privateers, a charter member of the
‘A’ level FHL, will enter its third season,
which is now under way.
“I got to know Paul prety well last
year,” Anthony said. “I know what
he wants and expects from guys — he
demands the best — so we should be a
well-disciplined team in the execution
of our systems and in people doing their
jobs because he demands it.”
Kelly was elevated to player-coach
status ater last season’s coach, Marc
LeFebvre, along with 14 players, for-
feited their jobs when they refused to
play a game in early February in protest
of the league’s handling of a incident
involving the team’s then chief rival, the
Akwesasne Warriors.
Kelly was one of only ive players —
including McAllister, Anthony, Tippen
and Brad Smulders — who didn’t join the
boycot and remained with the Privateers,
leading the team to a second-place inish
and to the second round of the playofs.
“It was way too stressful,” Kelly said
of his time as a player-coach. “You’re in
the locker room as a player and then you
have to be a coach of the players you’re
playing with. It’s good if you’re a player
and an assistant coach, because you just
have to talk to guys, but to set the rules
and be a player as well is tough. Last year
was a good experience and now I’m going to take that next step.”
Now as head coach, Kelly believes this
experience created a bond between those
remaining Privateers players, in which he
hopes will carry over into next season.
“Obviously last year didn’t work out
as well as we wanted it to,” Kelly said.
“We didn’t make the inals, but we had
a good regular season. We still have a
lot of uninished business from last year.
This year we want to bring not just one
or two tough guys — we want team
toughness all over the ice.”
The team announced that season
tickets are still on sale at $299 each
(with a special discount voucher
on team apparel) and can be purchased by calling 382-5656 or visiting
www.1000islandsprivateers.net.
“We have a really close-knit group
of players coming back,” Kirnan said.
“And that’s key because we’re going to
ask a lot of them besides playing hockey,
they’re going to be out there in the community helping out at various events.”
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PLAYERS, from page 8
Jay Meloff
POSITION: Defense
NUMBER: 2 SHOOTS: R
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Markham, Ont.
League — Danbury Whalers,
2011-12; Ontario Junior Hockey
League — Pickering Panthers,
Peterborough Stars, 2010-11
Jay Morriron
POSITION: Defense
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
HOMETOWN: Nesconset, N.Y.
DATE OF BIRTH: Oct. 13, 1989
ATTRIBUTES: Niagra University,
Best Defenseman Award, 2008-09;
U.S. Select Team, 2011.
al Hockey League — Fayetteville
Fire Ants, Nipiawan Hawks; Federal Hockey League — Brooklyn Aviators, Vermont Wild; All American
Hockey League — Lapeer Loggers;
Canadian Junior Hockey League,
Carleton Place Canadians.
Derek Osborne
POSITION: Left Wing
EXPERIENCE: Rookie
DATE OF BIRTH: Dec. 14, 1989
ATTRIBUTES: Wilfrid Laurier
University
POSITION: Defense
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
ATTRIBUTES: Southern Profession-
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POSITION: Defense
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
HOMETOWN: Ajax, Ont.
ATTRIBUTES: Buffalo State College. Federal Hockey League — Akwesasne Warriors, Brooklyn Aviators, 2010-11
Nick Williams
POSITION: Defense
EXPERIENCE: Veteran
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Times Sportswriter
N
icole Kirnan knows the
drawing power of hockey in
the north country.
Ater all, the former St.
Lawrence University hockey standout has been involved in the
game for most of her life.Kirnan, who
competed on the U.S. Junior National
team in 1996, served as an assistant captain with the Saints in her senior season
(2000-01) as she helped lead the team
to the irst women’s NCAA Championship game in the sport. She went on to
become head coach at Manhatanville
College for ive seasons, developing the
program as a national power and later
represented the ECAC on the NCAA
Championships commitee.
“I’ve been in hockey all my life and
my family is in the hockey business,”
said Kirnan said, who also owns a
hockey camp, clinic and private skating business. “So its only natural that
I’m in the business as well, it means a
lot to me.”
Now as owner of the Thousand
Islands Privateers of the Federal Hockey
League, Kirnan is looking forward to
the franchise’s move to Watertown from
Alexandria Bay as her irst priority was
to keep the team in the region.
Coming of both a challenging and
somewhat controversial season in the
Federal Hockey League, the Privateers
hope to sail into calmer waters as they
will call the municipal arena at the Alex
T. Dufy Fairgrounds home beginning
this upcoming season.
A charter league member, the Thousand Island Privateers played the past
two seasons at the Bonnie Castle Recreation Center in Alexandria Bay.
“We knew we had to move, it was
just a mater of where,” Kirnan said.
“So that led us to a search of the
whole Northeast, with obviously our
preference being to stay in the north
country where our fans are, because it
takes a lot of time and a lot of resources
to build a fan base and a following and
to create a niche in the community.”
But now with the franchise, which
will retain its team name with its redand black-color scheme, making the
move 30 miles south to Watertown,
Kirnan hopes this will lead to a growing fan base — while still drawing its
followers from the Alexandria Bay and
its surrounding communities.
“Before people from Watertown had
to drive up there to see us play and it
was a litle (farther) for people from
Fort Drum as well,” she said. “So we’re
hoping that our loyal fans from the
river communities on both the Canadian side and the American side will
continue to watch us, but also we’ll be
able to build more of a fan base since
it will be more convenient for people
from the city of Watertown and Fort
Drum to atend or games.”
With a change in the schedule the Privateers will play 60 games, eight more
than last season, including four more
home games (30).
Kirnan received oicial approval from
the Watertown City Council on June 11
for a six-month franchise agreement,
allowing the Privateers to move to the
Fairgrounds’ arena.
The facility’s seating capacity is far
less than the arena in Alexandria Bay,
“around 1,400 compared to 2,500 to
3,000” but should provide a more “intimate” seting to watch a hockey game.
“I think it’s a great arena, a totally
diferent feel from the Bonnie Castle,”
she said. “It’s got strong roots in the
community has far as history with a lot
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city, it’s been “full speed ahead” for the
Privateers franchise, particularly in its
marketing approach.
“It’s really the grass roots kind of
marketing that we focus on,” she said.
“We do the usual promotions on TV and
radio, we really feel that by building the
personal relationships between the fans
and the players, that’s what is going to
guide us to long-term success.”
With the move, the Privateers will
have more population to draw from in
city, which has a variety of restaurants
and pubs.
“In a way our marketing efort has
become more focused,” Kirnan said.
“Before we were more of a destination,
we had to try and atract people from
Watertown to come 30 miles to a game
or get people from Fort Drum to come
18 miles to a game. Now we’re right on
a busy street, we hope that just more the
convenience factor makes our product
more easily accessible. People can go to
dinner and then the game’s right there.”
The Privateers went 32-17 last season,
inishing in second place, advancing
to the semiinals against the Danbury
Whalers. Yet part of the campaign was
marred by several on-ice incidents with
their rivals, the Akwesasne Warriors, including a bench-clearing brawl, in Game
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the Privateers.
Earlier in the season, 14 Thousand
Islands players boycoted their game on
Feb. 10 in protest that the league had not
disciplined the Akwesasne team enough
following a spearing incident against a
Cape Cod Fins player on Jan. 14. Those
Privateers and coach Marc LeFebvre quit
or were ired and the league still took no
action, forcing Kirnan to sign new players to complement the ive remaining on
the roster.
While the Akwesasne team wasn’t
voted out of the league, it chose not to
return to the FHL because of inancial issues, according to league commissioner
Don Kirnan.
The Privateers also faced challenges
of the ice last season, as Nicole Kirnan
had to lease and then run the Bonnie
Castle Arena and restaurant just so her
team could stay aloat and play out the
season.
“That was sure some season, but we
survived it,” she said.
Two of the issues on the table before
Thousand Islands’ contract agreement
with the city was inalized was ice time
and locker room availability at the
arena. With the deal, team will have the
use of a locker room, but players must
remove their equipment to let high
school teams use the facilities; and additional locker rooms will be provided
to opposing teams and oicials.
“We understand that the irst year is
not going to be ideal for everybody,” she
said. “We’re just very happy that we’ve
goten to a place where it will work well
enough for everybody. Hopefully we all
have a great year together in this facility
and the community really supports the
team and we’re able to give back to the
community.”
The Privateers will release their schedule in the coming weeks and begin its
“international” search for a head coach
and players to complement their 2012-13
roster, which may include returning
players who re-sign with the club.
“We will have a lot of exciting announcements over the next week or
two,” said Kirnan, who expects ticket
prices at the Fairgrounds arena to be
“comparable” to those in Alexandria
Bay. “Now we’re now moving full speed
ahead toward the season with marketing
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