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The Show: Meet Team Southeast

By Tony Scott, 05/14/15, 11:15AM CDT

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Hockey and sunshine are two words seldom spoken in the same sentence.  In North American youth hockey, however, these historically contradictory terms are becoming synonymous. The Number One rated 2004 youth hockey team in North America, according to the MYHockey Rankings, is from sunny Florida, and they have taken the hockey world by storm. The team is ranked first for the second year in a row, having won five consecutive AAA Elite tournaments. The boys from the Sunshine State consistently beat the best teams from Canada and the USA, boasting a 13-0-0 record this season, and a 16-0-2 record from last year’s tournament season.

The team, which currently plays as the Florida Alliance, are the Bauer World Hockey Invite (Chicago) 2013  and 2014  Elite Division Champions, the Warrior AAA Invitational (Detroit) 2013 and 2014 AAA Elite Division Champions, and the 2014 Michigan Super Series Border Battle AAA Elite Champions. Their roster includes Florida’s best 2004 birth-year hockey players.  The core of the team has been playing together on all-star hockey teams since they were seven-years old. In the spring of 2013, the boys played under the sponsorship of Zoom Tan Hockey, and reached the finals in all three AAA tournaments they attended. The boys earned the crown of AAA Division Champions in the North American Prospects Showcase in May 2013 in Buffalo, New York. They were the runners-up in Chi-Town Shuffle (April 2013, Chicago) and Top Tier Tournament (May 2013, Toronto).

Team Southeast is coached by NHL legend Brian Rafalski, a 3-time Stanley Cup Champion and 3-time Olympian, and hockey guru Ryan Brindley, whose impressive resume includes 9-years of professional hockey experience, during which he earned the honors of Captain and All Star of ECHL teams.

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