The New York Apple Core are a Tier III Junior A ice hockey team from Brewster, New York , playing in the Eastern Hockey League . The team plays home games at the Brewster Ice Arena. The Apple Core organization is based out of Long Beach, New York , on Long Island , however, their top level junior team has played in Brewster since the start of the 2011–12 season.
17-681: The Apple Core organization also fields a Tier III team in the Eastern Hockey League-Premier Division , as well as youth hockey select teams at the Bantam, Peewee, and Squirt and other various levels. The franchise was a full-time member of the Eastern Junior Hockey League (EJHL) from 1998 to 2013. The team was originally formed in 1993 in the Junior B Metro League. In 1997–98, they played
34-714: A handful of games against the EJHL, and became a full-time member a year later. In 2003, the Apple Core won the Triple Crown EJHL Championship, finishing as regular season and post-season champions. In 2013, the various Tier III junior hockey leagues in the north east went through a re-organization, which included the Apple Core joining the Atlantic Junior Hockey League . The Atlantic Junior Hockey League then re-branded itself as
51-548: A part of the Atlantic Metropolitan Hockey League, the 12 AtJHL ownership groups successfully became a stand-alone entity. After the split, the AtJHL was managed and governed solely by the league owners. In 2013, Tier III junior hockey leagues underwent a large reorganization that led to the dissolution of the Eastern Junior Hockey League and six of their former members joining the AtJHL. Prior to
68-609: Is an American Tier III junior ice hockey league with teams in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States . The EHL was officially announced on June 6, 2013, after the Atlantic Junior Hockey League (AtJHL) welcomed six new members from the old Eastern Junior Hockey League and the AtJHL re-branded itself under the EHL banner The league prepares high school and college aged players for possible advancement to college and professional hockey. The Atlantic Junior Hockey League
85-856: The North American 3 Atlantic Hockey League (the former Metropolitan Junior Hockey League). The six teams from the NA3AHL were the Central Penn Panthers, Jersey Wildcats, Long Island Royals, Metro Fighting Moose (who left for the USHPL after the announcement), New Jersey Renegades, and the return of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Knights . The league also listed the New Jersey 87's and Cape Cod-based Total Athletics. The one-year dormant New York Bobcats also returned as
102-686: The 2013–14 season, the AtJHL re-branded to become the Eastern Hockey League (EHL). The six members who came from the EJHL were the Boston Bandits , Connecticut Oilers , New Hampshire Jr. Monarchs , New York Apple Core , Philadelphia Revolution , and the Valley Jr. Warriors . In December 2014, the EHL announced the Connecticut Nighthawks as an expansion franchise to start in the 2015–16. They also announced
119-720: The 2017–18 season with 16 teams in the Premier and 17 in the Elite, although the Elite would decrease to 13 after the departures of the Connecticut Oilers Elite team, the Lehigh Valley Jr. Rebels, Long Island Royals, and Metro Moose. In May 2017, the league announced that they would reorganize their two-tier league with the top tier (formerly called the Premier) being only called the Eastern Hockey League and
136-506: The 2017–18 season. All six organizations will add their Premier and Elite teams to the USPHL's Premier and Elite Divisions. In February 2017, the EHL announced that they would expand to make up for the teams lost to the NCDC. The first team announced was New Hampshire Avalanche, an organization that previously only had youth teams. Next, it was announced the league would be adding the teams from
153-785: The Bobcats Royals as part of an organizational merger with the Long Island Jr. Royals of the NA3AHL. The Connecticut Oilers relocated from Norwalk to Hamden following the announcement that the ownership of the USHL's Cedar Rapids RoughRiders added a team called the Connecticut RoughRiders that will play out of the Oilers' former arena in Norwalk. In March 2017, the EHL announced their new divisional structure for
170-608: The Eastern Hockey League (EHL) after the dissolution of the former EJHL. Since joining the EJHL in 1998, the organization has also fielded multiple Tier III Junior B/C teams in the Empire Junior Hockey League , Eastern States Hockey League , and Metropolitan Junior Hockey League , and the United States Premier Hockey League - Empire Division . In 2016, their developmental team (formerly known as Tier III Junior B/C) moved from
187-548: The Metropolitan Junior Hockey League to the EHL's Elite Division (and then called Premier Division since 2017) and continues to play home games in Long Beach, New York . Apple Core has produced a number of alumni playing in higher levels of junior hockey, NCAA Division I and Division III , and ACHA college programs, and professional hockey, including: In 2005, the Apple Core became
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#1732783502467204-545: The first junior team to be represented by all four competing schools in the Beanpot hockey tournament. Representing the Apple Core were Kevin Schaeffer and Jekabs Redlihs of Boston University , Mike Brennan of Boston College , Jon Pelle and Bill Keenan of Harvard University , and Louie Liotti and Steve Birnstill of Northeastern University . Eastern Hockey League (2013%E2%80%93) The Eastern Hockey League (EHL)
221-867: The formation of the EHL-Elite Division and that eight teams would participate in the first season composed of the former Junior B teams for EHL organizations. The formation of the Elite Division led to the previous Junior A members to be placed in the EHL-Premier Division . In May 2015, the North American Hockey League , a Tier II league , announced that the New Jersey Junior Titans and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Knights had been approved to elevate their organizations. After their promotion,
238-589: The lower tier being called the Eastern Hockey League Premier Division. The naming conventions were changed to put the emphasis on the top-level league for college development. In 2022, the EHL announced it would be self-governed and withdrew from USA Hockey sanctioning. Connecticut Oilers Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
255-500: The two EHL franchises went dormant. In March 2016, the EHL announced that it was changing the name of the Elite Division to 19U Elite Division for the 2016–17 season and doubling in size by adding eight more teams, mostly the prospect teams from the Premier Division's South Conference teams. However, the 19U Elite Connecticut Nighthawks team were dropped from the schedule prior to their first season. In December 2016, it
272-520: Was announced that six organizations (the Boston Bandits , Connecticut Nighthawks, Hartford Jr. Wolfpack , New Hampshire Jr. Monarchs , New Jersey Rockets , and the Northern Cyclones ) would be leaving the EHL for the 2017–18 season for the United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL). The Bandits, Rockets, and Cyclones had already been announced as adding free-to-play teams in the USPHL's National Collegiate Development Conference (NCDC) for
289-547: Was part of the Atlantic Metropolitan Hockey League organization and was formed in 2003 with a stated goal to "meet the needs of the junior hockey community and the players it serves in the Eastern United States". The AtJHL played its first season in 2003–04 with six teams that had previously played in the Junior B Metropolitan Junior Hockey League . On May 30, 2012 the AtJHL announced that after nine years of being
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