Spiders get ready for the 2015–16 season

Oct. 29, 2015

The AHA 2015–16 winter season gets underway today, with a lone C2 game (Fighting Piranhas vs. Lakers) at Breck. The Spiders will wait until Sunday when most of the rest of the league drops the puck. But the Spiders’ 2015–16 season roster is now set, with a few changes since last season.

After both joining the team last year, the Spiders now say farewell to:

• Jason Mehling – Jason returned to the AHA after a long hiatus for grad school, and now resumes his hockey hiatus by taking a job in Colorado.
• Sean Murphy – Sean joined the Spiders winter team for a season, after playing two consecutive seasons on the Spiders/Wingmen summer teams. And now he too has taken a job out of state, retiring from the AHA.

So the Spiders now welcome:

• Kevin Noreen – Kevin joins the team as a sub from the D1 Ice Sages (where else), the Spiders’ usual farm team, for the usual draft picks and future considerations.
• ... And welcome back, Jon Pappone, who sat out last season on IR. Jon is now fully recovered, and back for his fourth year of Spider hockey.

Despite leading the team to its first losing season in eight years, the team captaincy remains unchanged following the usual unanimous vote: Jeremy Litton as captain, and Eric Grotbeck and Michael Schroeder as alternates.

The rest of the Spiders’ roster remains the same (albeit another year older) and is ready to hit the ice this weekend to kick off the Spiders’ 12th season in the AHA (11th winter season; 12th including Beginner School), and will look to get back to the AHA post-season after missing out for the first time in seven seasons.

Check out the full 2015–16 C3 Spiders roster.