NOVEMBER 2023
RUBBER HOCKEY
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Arizona, California, Colorado products chosen for monthly USPHL honors with a five-game scoring streak and The USPHL has announced its also enters November on a four-game monthly player awards for the comrun of points. bined months of September and OcHe has been a big contributor to tober, and several Arizona, California the expansion Battalion standing at and Colorado players were recogsecond in the division nized. off the bat. He has Ogden Mustangs posted six goals and 11 forward Dimitri assists for 17 points in Voyatzis is the 12 games. NCDC Mountain Bradshaw is just one Division Forward point from equaling his of the Month for 30-game output from September-October, last year with the forBold City Battalion mer Northern Colorado forward Kelton Eagles. Bradshaw is the Back home, BradFlorida Premier shaw played for the Division Forward Colorado Thunderbirds of the Month, while and Rocky Mountain the Tampa Bay JuRoughRiders. niors’ Lucas GonA second-year USzalez is the Florida PHL veteran, Gonzalez, Elite Division Dimitri Voyatzis a 2004-born Superior Defenseman of the native, has certainly Month, and the Las found the perfect home in Wesley Vegas Thunderbirds’ Nick Bonaldi is Chapel, Fla. the Pacific Premier Division DefenHe is the ice time leader for Tampa seman of the Month, while BakersBay, averaging 22:48 per game, and field Roughnecks netminder Connor he is second in plus-minus at plus-15. Dumesnil is the Pacific Goaltender of Gonzalez has helped himself out in the Month. that respect by posting four goals and Voyatzis, a 2003-born Fountain seven assists for 11 points in his 13 Valley native, became one of the first games so far. two players in the new NCDC MounDuring his youth hockey days, tain Division and NCDC overall this Gonzalez played for the Hyland Hills year to have played in the USPHL Jaguars. Premier last year and become an A returning All-Star blueliner, BonNCDC Player Of The Month this aldi, an ‘03 out of Las Vegas, is doing year. his thing again and it’s working yet He has the longest current scoring again. streak, registering points in all but Over 111 games, he has posted 109 the first game of the season, giving points from the blue line. Bonaldi has him 11 straight games in which he’s posted two goals and added 11 assists posted a 4-12-16 line, good for a 1.33 for 13 points in nine games this year, points per game average. an average of 1.44 points per game. Voyatzis joined the NCDC MusHe is also leading the T-Birds in tangs after finishing their Premier ice time with 24:50 per contest. existence as the team’s third-leading During his youth hockey days, scorer all-time with 125 points scored Bonaldi played for the Arizona Bobbetween 2021 and 2023. cats and Las Vegas Storm. During his youth hockey career, Dumesnil, a second-year RoughVoyatzis skated for the Anaheim Jr. necks goalie from Phoenix, has a Ducks. spotless record thus far, standing at Bradshaw, an ‘05 out of Fort Col6-0 with a goals-against average of lins, started on fire out of the gate
Nick Bonaldi
Connor Dumesnil
Kelton Bradshaw
Lucas Gonzalez
1.17 (second in the league) and a .967 save percentage (also second in the league). The 2004 birth year has not given up any more than two goals in any one game, and he had a 34-save shut-
out against Rogue Valley in his second game of the year on Oct. 1. In Arizona, Dumesnil played for the Bobcats, Jr. Coyotes, and for Pinnacle High School. -- Compiled by Matt Mackinder
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