The AHA has just announced the 2012 Summer Teams and Rosters.  Chaos will field one 2012 Summer Team named the Roadrunners.  Apparently, the theme is Looney Toons.  The Roster is composed of mainly Chaos C2 Gold and Black along with a couple Chaos D1, one Wingman C3 and one skater from last Summer.  The RoadRunners will be playing in Summer Level 3, which is the equivalent of the AHA Winter C2 level.  Good Luck little RoadRunners!

No Chaos Team made the 2011-2012 Playoffs for the first time in the history of the Chaos Organization.  Due to this year's 0-3 in the D1 and both C2 Tiers, Chaos teams have now qualified for the playoffs in 6 out of 10 attempts.  That doesn't mean we won't have Playoff Central up and running and give our predictions from the one and only Chaos psychic here at Chaos HQ!

C1 Tier - We won't predict the C1 Tier too much due to this tier being a little outside of the psychic realm of sensing, but we wish the C2 M's much luck in their attempt to qualify for the C1 tournament as they play pigtails to get into the tournament against the #6 Seeds from both C1 East and C1 West.  We do like the eventual champ from the C1 West Division eventually and like the Venom and Leftovers to make a push for the hardware.

Analysis: We like the teams from the North and West as those divisions were very competitive this year.  We like the Admirals as the underdog and the Sled Dogs, Spiders and Blizzard to all advance to at least the Semis despite quality #1 seeded teams such as the Rack Attack and Zephyrs.  The Sled Dogs will get great net play from their leader and former Chaos goalie Charlie Beattie.  The Blizzard, who made a deep playoff push last year, will again find themselves in the mix for the hardware.  The Admirals squeaked into the playoffs as the #4 seed, but are playing their best hockey of the year and many teams were privately hoping this surging team would be left out of the show. To their disappointment, they are there and get our nod to make the finals.  The Spiders come from the disputed most difficult West Division (which includes the ousted M's) and play too well of team hockey with their crisp pass first mentality to not take home the title hardware.  After a loss in the title game to the Royals in 2010, they should capture their first C2 title in 2012.

Analysis: The C3 and D1 tiers send 6 teams to the playoff show, which throws a wrench into the traditional 3 team round robin format the AHA used for years in which each team plays each other 1 time.  With the six team format, seeding heavily impacts who makes the title game as the top seeds tend to play all the bottom seeds and tend to have a much higher probability of qualifying for the title game.  Despite this heavily favored schedule towards the top seeds, we still like the #5 Seeded Fighting Piranhas to upset all three higher seeds to qualify for the title game and wear the white jerseys as the #1 seed in the hardware game.  The Fighting Piranhas are the only team to beat all top three seeds in their last games played against them. That cannot be ignored and convinces me that this team can upset the balance of the heavily favored top seeded teams and their easier tournament schedules.  The #1 Puckhounds and the #2 Wingmen are left to battle it out for the other title spot and will both be 2-1 after each lose to the Fighting Piranhas in pool play, but since the Puckhounds/Wingmen don't play each other (a game that I think the Wingmen would win), I think the goals against difference will heavily favor the high scoring Puckhounds, who will get the nod via tiebreaker rules to the final game. The tenacious Fighting Piranhas will once again upset the Hounds and claim their first AHA hardware.

Analysis: The Fan and Chaos Favorite Loons lost to the Silverbacks both times this season and the Darn Apes seem to have the birds number, otherwise we would love the Loons in this one. Icedogs have a lot of firepower and the Tier's best goalie in Jason DeFlorin. Look out for the underdog Gold Rush, who had a signature win against the IceDogs recently, but the Blade Runners just have too much balanced Firepower to contend with. Their Shots for is almost 100 more than the second best team and their shots against is almost 100 fewer than the second best team, quite a lethal combination.  Look for the Blade Runners to walk away offensively with this one to allow them to claim their first AHA title and give goalie Krystal Carlson her first title in two attempts (2009 title game with the Knights, loss to Chaos)

Analysis: The Marauders are the clear favorite and with AHA's best record at 19-1, they come in on a 12 game winning streak, including three wins over the other three teams in their playoff pool. They won those three games with a +7 Goal differentail while only giving up one goal.The Wailers should provide some competition to them in the Final  and held both of their losses to the Marauders to only one goal defeats. The Fan Favorite Wildcats are the only team to beat the Marauders this season, but have been somewhat inconsistent as of late, but could be a nice little suprise in the playoffs if they make a solid push. Their goalie posts one of the best Save percentage in all of AHA. However, this is the Marauders one to lose as they lead the league in goals for and goals against while sporting the goalie with the top save percentage and GAA.
 

Keep tuned to Chaos Playoff Central to see how the psychics did over the 2012 AHA Winter Playoff Tournament and may good luck and safe play be with all the talented teams that qualified this year.

Chaos C2 Gold 4, Thunder Chix 0 Chaos gold rolled into their 7th game looking for their first win and got it in big fashion with a 4-0 shutout victory over the 5th place ThunderChickens. #93 Michael Amberson continued his strong play with 2 goals and 1 assist while #88 Matt Webb and #13 Connie Webb had a combined 5 assists in the game.  #35 Chad Rognlie saved all 26 Shots against him to record his first Chaos Shutout of his career.  NHL Network was contacted for a possible submission for plays of the week on the 3rd Chaos goal, which was perhaps the prettiest example of hockey the Gold team has demonstrated this year when M Webb passed up the boards to Amberson, who in turn drove to the net and found a charging defenseman #55 Brandon Packard for a one time top shelf tap in on the back post.  NHL Network has not confirmed, but also has not denied whether they are considering the submitted video for their primetime show.

Chaos C2 Gold 3, Sting 1 Chaos Gold, coming off their first win ever at the C2 Level, used that momentum to post a huge upset victory over the 6-1-2 2nd Place Sting on Saturday night at St Louis Park East Arena.  Chaos and Sting arrived to a packed SLP parking lot and fans filled the Arena in droves to watch some great Chaos AHA hockey.  Some even came to watch the Benilde-St Margaret/St Louis Park High School game that was simultaneously playing on the adjacent West rink. The Sting scored early in the first, but that would prove to be their only score due to solid Chaos defensive play and spectacular keeping.  #14 Dusty Corder and #24 Derrik Sutton both scored their first goals at the C2 level while #35 Goalie Chad Rognlie continued his fantastic season with 24 saves in 25 shots despite suffering from an undisclosed lower body ailment.  Chad has posted a .980 save pct over the last two games and has now raised his season save pct to .911%  The upset win over the #2 Sting now places Chaos in a tie with their rival Lumberjacks, who Chaos has marked on their calendars for a Jan 31st match-up.  Until then, Chaos will have to settle for the 3rd place Royals team on Sun, Jan 15th at New Hope North at 9:45PM where Chaos will try to stretch their recent solid play and convert it into another upset victory!

#26 Jay Westerlund, full time center for the Chaos C2 Black team and sub skater for the Chaos C2 Gold Team, was recently advised by Orthopedics at Tria that his season is over due to a clean lower fibular break. Doctors agreed that is was best that Jay have some screws and plates inserted for the long term heath of his ankle joint, thus ending his 2011-2012 campaign.  Jay was injured in an inauspicious play against the Aces on Sat, Nov 19th where he awkwardly landed on his ankle after poorly navigating a deep rut in the ice.  Recent reports that he just can't skate were not confirmed.  Losing Jay is a huge loss for the Chaos Black and Gold teams.  We wish him a speedy recovery from his unfortunate bad break.  As always in Chaos fashion when someone breaks a bone, the attached X-Rays are posted here. Click on image for the full size views for the strong hearted.

Chaos C2 Black 3, Warriors 3 #83 Jason Benson scored his second goal of the night with .01 second left in the game to extend the game against the Warriors into OT last Sunday night. Despite outshooting the Warriors 35-18, The Chaos C2 Black found themselves in a 3-2 loosing position until #9 Jason Benson and #62 Justin Revenaugh setup the Brother #83 Jason Benson for a score that found the back of the net with only :01 second remaining in regulation.  The other goal saw D-Man #3 Justin Pantoja get his first Career Chaos Goal with assists from #83 Jason Benson, #9 Andrew Benson(2), #62 Justin Revenaugh (2).  The Two Benson brothers went large on the night gathering 5 points total and were directly involved in each goal.  The Black team (1-2-2) next faces the Roadrunners on Sun, Dec 4th located on the Olympic Ice at Bloomington Ice Gardens in a late start at 10:30PM.

Chaos D1 3-2 over Buccaneers The D1 Team got their much anticipated first win of the season in their 4th week of play with a 3-2 win over the Buccaneers, who we think is some type of Pirate.  Many of the Chaos C2 Gold team, who played just before the D1 team on the same sheet of ice, stuck around and harassed the other team as well as the officials in what we think was positive obnoxious Chaos Nation support. Chaos was peppered with shots getting outshot 35-18, but sub Goalie Ryan Corder (who also skates out on the Gold Team) posted a 94.29% save pct for the game to assist in getting the Win.  Chaos Goals came from #9 Tom Sholl, #11 Jason Przybilla and the game winner from #22 Eric Mechels.  Assists from #3 Andrew Mushett (2), #21 Travis Beckerle and #5 Don Donaldson. Regular Goalie Meryl McGaurvan continues to sit on the IR from a MCL Stretch in her first game, but is anticipated back in the next couple weeks.  Next Game on Sat, Dec 3rd against the 1-0-2 Arctic Wolves will be played at Aldrich Arena at 4:40PM in an afternoon game.

Chaos C2 Gold - The Chaos C2 Gold team played the talented Beavers in a rematch of the Championship Hockey for the Heart Title game that was played back on Oct 16 in preseason play.  The result would be the same, a Tie, this time to the tune of 3-3.  Goals came from Michael Amberson, Skipper Longen and Andrew Benson with Assists from Matt Webb and Connie Webb.  #35 Chad Rognlie continues his solid play saving 29 of 32 shots for a 90.8% save pct. for the game.  Three of their first four games at the higher level for the Gold team have been decided by 1 goal or less.  Next Game sees Chaos Gold up against ShameOnIce on Wednesday, Nov 30th at Highland North.

Chaos C2 Black - The Chaos C2 Black team went up 3-1 in the third against a good Aces team, but lost the lead and settled for the tie 3-3 in overtime.  The Tie was overshadowed by the loss of their Star Centerman Jason Westerlund, who appeared to suffer a lower body injury early in the third.  Twitter reports confirm a broken ankle, which will leave the Black team sifting through their subs and minor team affiliates for a replacement skater for the next 4-6 weeks. The Black team next plays on Sun, Nov 27th against the Warriors at Breck with a 6:00PM start time.

Chaos, now at three teams at C2, C2 and D1 put their first games in the books over the last week.  Despite the three opportunities, Chaos still looks towards Week #2 in the Young Season to book their first W.

Chaos C2 Black 1, Spiders C2 4 (Saturday, Oct 29th Highland Arena) - Despite out shooting the Spiders 33-28 in the game, the Chaos Black squad came up short against the Spiders C2 team that executed well and was able to play a team style game complete with crisp passing and great positioning.  #16 Rob Whiteford connected on the long Chaos goal from #5 Mike StClair and #12 Steve Sattler.  #42 Dale Melbie had 21 saves on 25 shots.  The Spiders C2 squad is expected to do well this year along with the talented M's in the C2 North Division.  The talented Black squad will get their revenge on the Northern Horde this Saturday Night at 8:00PM at Richfield Arena.  Chaos was able to nudge the Northern Horde in a Pre-Season scrimmage 4-3.

Chaos C2 Gold - 1, Royals C2-4 (Sunday, Oct 30th Wakota) - The Chaos Gold, composed of a team who does not have a Single Skater who has been a full time skater on any team at the C2 Level, skated for the first time at the C2 Level and not only competed with the highly skilled Royals, but put a scare into them late into the game.  Chaos would score first in the first period when newly acquired #93 Michael Amberson would receive a breakaway pass from newly acquired #28 Skipper Longen and bury a deike past the Royal netminder.  That score would remain the same on Great play from newly acquired netminder #35 Chad Rognlie until late in the 2nd when the Royals caught the Chaos defense in a bad line change when #11 Gorder would top shelf his first goal of the season.  The third saw the Royals come a bit more alive and sneak three more goals to make a final score of 4-1.  Chad Rognlie had a great game in his first game as the Chaos Goal Goalie saving 33 in 37 shots for an .892 save %.  The Royals are considered one of the top teams in the C2 East Division along with other favorites in the Rack Attack, ShameOnIce, ThurnderChickens and Sting.

Chaos D1 The Chaos D1 Team experiences the most amount of change with 8 New Faces and several skaters moving up from last year's D2 team.  Captained by last year's D1 Alternate Captain and 2009 D2 Captain, Aaron Swann has assembled a strong D1 team for the 2011-2012 Winter campaign.  Returning D1 Skaters include Travis Beckerle, Andrew Mushett, Bobby Chilson and George Farner.  Former Chaos D2 Skaters jumping to the Gold and Yellow Colors of the D1 team include Donny Donaldson, Tom Sholl and Jason Przybilla. Chaos would like to welcome 7 new skaters and a new Goalie to the Chaos Nation!  Patrick Lane, a solid D-Man, joins Chaos from the Gold Rush.  Patrick is also one of only a couple skaters in the AHA who also plays C2 as a Sub on the Chaos C2 Gold team thus gapping the entire new C3 tier.  Brent Kraus from the D1 IceDogs is also leapfrogging C3 and playing as a sub on the Champion M's squad.  Eric Mechels comes to Chaos from the 2010 Yellow Jackets squad. Dee Sibbon and Goalie Meryl McGauvran bring the Chaos Lady Count to 3 to accompany Chaos C2 Connie Webb.  Meryl comes to us from the Summer Sages of Mt Vernon team while Dee was selected at the AHA Draft. Greg Sarno, Matt Wiley and J Katzmarek were also high round selections from the 2011 AHA Draft.  #13 Josh Lucas was a late addition to Chaos and just signed his contract with Chaos last week.  We are anticipating great things from Josh, who has many years under his belt while playing Roller Hockey. Technically, there remains one open spot on the Chaos D1 squad that may or may not get filled as the season progresses.  Welcome back all the familiar faces and welcome to Chaos to all the new faces.  We bid a heartfelt farewell to several skaters from last years D1 Team including #7 Wes Colborn (Move), #18 Shawn Neugebaeur (No Longer in AHA), #10 Ben Skjold (Work) and #33 Casey Johnson (Injury).

Chaos C2 Gold - The Chaos C2 Gold team, originally destined for the new AHA C3 tier as Chaos C3, was bounced last minute to the upper C2 Tier to join the same level as last year's Chaos C2 team.  Thus, the new name of Chaos C2 Gold was applied to this team.  Skaters moving up from D1 Team include Captain Matt Webb, Connie Webb, Jeff Schultz, Ryan Corder, Mike Olson, Dave Sommerness, Derek Sutton and Justin Revenaugh. The Gold team also welcomes 7 new Skaters and 1 new goalie to the Chaos Nation.  4 D1 Muskies make the jump to C2 in Skipper Longen, Eric Lorenz, Mick Schultz and Brandon Packard.  Dusty Corer II (Ryan's Brother) joins us from the L4 Long Toms.  Michael Amberson makes the jump from the D2 Fighting Loons last year to the C2 level this year thus skipping two entire tiers (D1, C3). Patrick Lane joins the C2 Squad as a sub (also on the D1 Squad) along with Chaos C2 Black Subs Justin Revenaugh, the two Benson Brothers (Jay and Andrew) and Jay Westerlund to complete the skaters.  Long sought after Goalie #35 Chad Rognlie finally gets on a Chaos Roster making him the 6th Chaos goalie to tend the pipes (Sarah Thuriot, Charlie Beattie, Dale Melbie, Mike Palmer, Casey Johnson, Meryl McGaurvan).

Chaos C2 Black - The Chaos C2 team from last year gains the new color name due to Chaos having multiple teams in the C2 Tier.  The squad, now captained by #9 Andrew Benson, returns all skaters from last year minus a couple key losses. #14 Jamie Nord defects to his former Lumberjacks team, now in C2 after their move up this year.  #11 Cory Buschmann keeps his jersey and should return to the team after completing his last couple of years in Med School.  Replacing those players, Chaos adds Jason Benson (Andrew's Brother), Adam Misson from the L3 Old Hickories and Thomas Schultz from AHA C2 Evals.  #3 Justin Pantoja has finally accepted our Chaos invite after 52 years of pursuance and will skate on the Chaos C2 Black team as a sub this year.  Other subs on the Black Team come from the Gold Team in Matt Webb, Dale Marks and Connie Webb.

Chaos, now at three teams at C2, C2 and D1 put their first games in the books over the last week.  Despite the three opportunities, Chaos still looks towards Week #2 in the Young Season to book their first W.

Chaos C2 Black 1, Spiders C2 4 (Saturday, Oct 29th Highland Arena) - Despite out shooting the Spiders 33-28 in the game, the Chaos Black squad came up short against the Spiders C2 team that executed well and was able to play a team style game complete with crisp passing and great positioning.  #16 Rob Whiteford connected on the long Chaos goal from #5 Mike StClair and #12 Steve Sattler.  #42 Dale Melbie had 21 saves on 25 shots.  The Spiders C2 squad is expected to do well this year along with the talented M's in the C2 North Division.  The talented Black squad will get their revenge on the Northern Horde this Saturday Night at 8:00PM at Richfield Arena.  Chaos was able to nudge the Northern Horde in a Pre-Season scrimmage 4-3.

Chaos C2 Gold - 1, Royals C2-4 (Sunday, Oct 30th Wakota) - The Chaos Gold, composed of a team who does not have a Single Skater who has been a full time skater on any team at the C2 Level, skated for the first time at the C2 Level and not only competed with the highly skilled Royals, but put a scare into them late into the game.  Chaos would score first in the first period when newly acquired #93 Michael Amberson would receive a breakaway pass from newly acquired #28 Skipper Longen and bury a deike past the Royal netminder.  That score would remain the same on Great play from newly acquired netminder #35 Chad Rognlie until late in the 2nd when the Royals caught the Chaos defense in a bad line change when #11 Gorder would top shelf his first goal of the season.  The third saw the Royals come a bit more alive and sneak three more goals to make a final score of 4-1.  Chad Rognlie had a great game in his first game as the Chaos Goal Goalie saving 33 in 37 shots for an .892 save %.  The Royals are considered one of the top teams in the C2 East Division along with other favorites in the Rack Attack, ShameOnIce, ThurnderChickens and Sting.

Chaos D1 3, Mastodons 6 (Wed, Nov 2nd, Highland) - The Chaos D1 took the ice for the first time was many new faces and skated very well against a Mastodons team that is fully expected to compete for the D1 Title this year.  New faces to the Chaos D1 team include #5 Don Donaldson (From the D2 Team), #18 Greg Sarno, #9 Tom Sholl (From the D2 Team), #7 Dee Sibben, #10 Matt Wiley, #22 Eric Mechels, #19 Jim Katzmarek, #34 Pat Lane and #28 Meryl McGaurvan(Goalie).  Chaos would jump on top of the talented Mastodons early in the first when #3 Andrew Mushett would score one of his two goals on the night with a backhander on a breakaway.  The Mastodons would answer with 3 goals of there own until Chaos answered to make it 4-2.  Details of the third period are still coming in, but the final score would end 6-3 Mastodons. Totals observers in stands equaled 6 and were treated to a well played game between both teams.  Mushett was credited with the first two goals of the game.  The D1 team will skate for it's first victory next on Tuesday, Nov 8th at Wakota against the 1-0 Ice Sages.

Chaos has decided to enter the Annual Hockey for the Heart Tournament to be held Friday October 14th-Sunday October 16th.  The C2 Level Tournament contributes all proceeds to the Rasmussen Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. 

Tournament details and information on the cause can be found at Hockey for the Heart - www.hockeyfortheheart.org

Skaters include mostly members from the Chaos C2 Gold and Chaos C2 Black squads and a few guests.  Shawn Neugebauer, who played Chaos D1 last year, joins the tournament team as does his fiancé Lauren McCormick.  Congrats to the newly engaged couple!  Marie Omann, co-worker of Connie Webb at Braun Intertec, joins the team as well.  It was learned by coincidence that both Lauren McCormick and Marie Omann both played D3 College together at Univ of St Thomas from 2006-2007!  What a small world!  The schedule has been released, so come out to support Chaos and the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention!  You can help support the cause by donating to the Charity on behalf of the Chaos Team Here! http://www.hockeyfortheheart.org/Donate_Now.html

The AHA Fall Tournament was held over the last weekend where several teams were crowned AHA Fall Champions.  The AHA also held it's annual Division Lottery using some kind of late 80's toy game relic converted into the AHA Random Generator 2000. The C2 Divisions were drawn first and the Black 6 ball came up 2nd, meaning the Chaos C2

 Black squad will be in the C2 North Division.  Joining Chaos C2 Black will be last year's Defending Champs in the M's along with the Northern Horde, Norsemen, Aces, Roadrunners, Warriors, Zephyrs, Spiders C2 and Yellow Jackets.  The Northern Horde are new to C2 this year and the Norsemen are moving down from C1.  The C2 North Division is automatically pegged as the most difficult division this year by the Chaos  Psychics as the M's are only losing a couple players while the Norsemen are the only C1 team moving down to C2 and the Spiders are always a deep playoff threat.  The C2 East Division was up next where the Chaos C2 Gold Division was placed along with the ShameOnIce, ThunderChickens, Lumberjacks, Royals C2, Muskies, Beavers, Rack Attack, Sting and Nemesis.  The Lumberjacks are new to C2 as is Chaos Gold while the Royals and Rack Attack will be fighting for the East Divisional Crown.  The West Completes the 30 Team C2 Tier with the Renegades, Saints, Sharks, Jets, Blizzard, Admirals, Sled Dogs, Bulls, Dragons and Fighting Piranhas.  This difficult divisions may see the Jets, Blizzard, Sled Dogs and Fighting Piranhas fighting for a divisional title.  The Diablos were intially scheduled to have a C2 team, but have restructured and are staying in the new C3 tier.

The D1 Tier will see only 1 Division with Chaos D1, Fighting Loons, IceDogs, Mastodons, Arctic Wolves, Gold Rush, BladeRunners, Silverbacks, Stars, Wolf Pack, Buccaneers/Ice Gators, Ice Sages and Yetis.  The Buccaneers and Ice Gators are combining to form a single team this year.

Captains of the two Chaos C2 squads have tentatively agreed to and approved a Trade that will send up and comer D-Man #62 Justin Revenaugh to the Chaos C2 Black Team in exchange for Superstar D-Man #21 Dale Marks, who will join the Chaos C2 Gold Team.  Justin played last season with the Chaos D1 Squad and played Level 3 and 4 over the Summer.  Dale played with the Chaos C2 squad last year.  Chaos C2 Black Captain Andrew Benson was quoted as saying "Justin is such a good hockey player and has improved so rapidly over the last two years. His athleticism, strong effort, willingness and ability to learn and improve is what made this trade easy for our Black Team". Chaos C2 Captain Matt Webb was unavailable for comment, but was first seen crying like a baby in the corner over the loss of one of his best skaters and on ice leaders in Justin Revenaugh only to later be seen celebrating like he won the lottery when it was announced that the talented Dale Marks would be filling the huge void left by the Revenaugh departure.  It was later rumored through sources at ESPN that both captains were seen arguing that their respective squad got the best of the deal. Dale Marks comes to play with the Gold Team and one of his best friends in the Gold Team's Goalie, rumored to be Chad Rognlie.  Chad has been trying to connect with Chaos for years and this year seems to be the year the highly skilled netminder has finally been approved by the AHA.  Justin played with many of the Chaos C2 Black skaters over the summer with the Level 3 Old Hickories.  Full Chaos rosters are to be released shortly.

The Chaos Organization will officially field three Chaos teams in the AHA for the 2011-2012 Winter Season.  There will be Chaos D1 and then TWO Chaos C2 Teams.  In a first in the history of the AHA, a Multi Team Organization will field two teams in the same Tier.  Following the naming conventions of youth Hockey, the team Captained by Andrew Benson, Mike StClair and Mike Korstad will officially be named Chaos C2 Black while the team captained by Matt Webb, Connie Webb and Jeff Schultz will be named Chaos C2 Gold.  The Gold team initially had it's sights set at the new AHA C3 tier, however, intense negotiations between the League and Chaos finally resulted in the Gold team accepting the challenge the AHA set forth in front of them thus bringing the count of Chaos teams in the C2 Tier to 2. A couple of conditions were imposed upon the AHA in order for the move to occur.  First, the Gold team required AHA approval of their goalie (yet to be publicly released) and second, that the Gold and Black teams would be "placed" into separate divisions.  In a quick move, the AHA approved the Gold Goalie and had to consider the second condition.  Faced with the first time the AHA has had two of the same teams from an organization in the same tier, they required a Board of Directors approval to manipulate the C2 Divisions for ONLY the two Chaos teams ensuring the two teams would be placed in separate divisions.  It is AHA policy that all teams are always randomized into their respective divisions, however, Chaos has been the first exception to that rule.  The rosters are soon to be announced, but the D1 Chaos Team consists of several members from the 2011 D2 Team alongside a few members from the 2011 D1 Team with a couple recruits.  The Chaos C2 Gold team is mostly the 2011 D1 Team with around 6 new recruits and a new goalie.  The Chaos C2 Black team is entirely the 2011 Chaos C2 team from last year with the addition of two players.

In other news, the AHA will release the setup of all Tiers and Divisions during the AHA Fall Tournament, so know earlier this year of the division makeup.  The D1 Tier is pretty much already set and listed on this site already.  Get ready for the some more Winter Hockey and a 3 punch combination of Chaos Hockey!

Summer is rolling along and Summer playoffs are upon us! Here are a couple updates. The Level 4 Sages of Mount Vernon (Swann, Sommerness, Sutton, Molson, Farner, Donaldson and Butwinick) won their quarterfinal in an upset 3-2 win over the Gippers, but fell to #2 Seed Tennesee Tailors on Monday night in the Semi-Finals.  The Level 4 Long Toms (Corder Brothers Ryan and Dusty) won their quaterfinals game 3-2 over a physical Fainting Generals team and then advanced to the Championship game with a convincing 3-0 win over the Young Hickories (Justin Revenaugh) in the Semi Finals game.  Ryan and Dusty along with the rest of the #1 seeded Long Toms will skate for a title Wednesday night at 7:15PM at Richfield Ice Arena against the #2 Seeded Tennessee Tailors.  Good luck boys.

Rob Little, one of the premier Adult Hockey Instructors in the Twin Cities area, announced his schedule and pricing for his infamous Summer Hockey Camps.  Many Chaos skaters have participated in his wide variety set of camps designed to improve players in focused areas.  You can find below a breakdown of his camps, including dates and prices:

The AHA announced on Friday to team Captains that the Tier Structure for the upcoming Winter 2011-2012 season will change.  The four D and C Levels of Play (D2, D1, C2, C1) will be expanded to 5 Levels of Play.  While the new tier has not been yet been officially named, we are expecting the new tier to be named C3 making 5 Levels of play (D2, D1, C3, C2, C1), thus basically adding a level of play between D1 and C2.  View the official email from the AHA HERE!

Details and definitions of the new tier are still to be worked out as the AHA figures out what teams/players this tier will be comprise of.  The AHA continues to grow as D2 had 12 teams (1 Division), D1 had 25 teams (3 Divisions), C2 had 25 teams (3 Divisions) and C1 had 25 teams (3 Divisions) this last year.  We believe that the change will see D2 with 1 Division, D1 with 2 Divisions, C3 with 1 or 2 Divisions while C2 and C1 staying at 3 Divisions.  What does this mean for Chaos?  We think the C2 team will remain at C2 while the current D1 team will either stay at D1 or be moved to the new C3 Tier.  The D2 Chaos team is still evaluating their plans for the upcoming season.

We think that Summer Team names were derived from nicknames of dead people, specifically many of them being dead presidents of the United States.  Somehow the Chaos Level 3 Team comprised of Chaos Skaters Andrew Benson, Rob Whiteford and Justin Revenaugh and friends Justin Pantoja, Jon Fischer, J Benson and others have been dubbed the "Old Hickories".  The Late President Andrew Jackson, born March 15, 1845 was the seventh president of the United States.  Common nicknames included "Hero of New Orleans", "King Andrew", "Sharp Knife" and "Old Hickory".  Old Hickory, given to him by his soldiers, represents the hardness and toughness of old hickory after Jackson was deservedly given the reputation of a man who who often produced numerous duels with others, often ending in a fatal result for the other.  The Old Hickories, in a way, then might just represent this group of Level 3 skaters as they begin Summer League play on Sunday, June 5th at SLP against the Little Magicians.

Good old George Washington was born Feb 22, 1732 was the unanimous choice to serve as the 1st President of the Unitedd States of America in 1789.  Washington married Martha Custis and moved to a Plantation in Mount Vernon, Virginia. Washington's plantation grew to 6500 acres and housed over 100 slaves. He regularly held cockfights on his property. As such, Geo has been dubbed the Sage of Mount Vernon among others such as "Father of His Country".  Apparently, the Chaos driven Level 4 team has been dubbed the Sages of Mount Venon and current Chaos skater George Farner has taken up an official AHA name change to George "Jr" Farner in recognition of the Sage of Mount Vernon, George Washington.  Other Chaos skaters include Aaron Swann, Dave Sommerness, Mike Olson, Derek Sutton, Don Donaldson and Bobby Butwinick teamed up with skaters from last summer in John McKay and many other D1 Wingmen skaters.  The Sages skate in their inaugural first game on Monday, June 6th at 9:30PM at Richfield #2.  Good luck to all the summer teams and Chaos skaters!

The 2011 Winter Season has come to an end.  Chaos advanced their D2 and D1 teams to the playoffs.  The D2 team finished 3rd out of 6 and the D1 team finished 11th out of 12.  The C2 team just missed the playoffs in the difficult C2 East Division that saw the C2 Champions (M's), Runner Ups (Blizzard) and third Place team (Rack Attack) all coming from the C2 East Division. So....With no Hardware to Speak of over the 2010-2011 Winter Season, Chaos finally hoisted their Championship Banner from the  2009-2010 Season.  With a final record of 22-2-1, the Chaos D1 team went undefeated in the playoff stretch with a 4-0-1 record to capture their 3rd AHA Winter Tier title. AHA Winter Tier titles include the 07-08 Beginner School Title, 08-09 D2 Tier Title and the the 09-10 D1 Tier Title.  Other titles involving Chaos teams include the 2010 AHA Fall Tournament Title (Chaos), 2010 Hockey for the Heart Tournament (Yellow Jackets/Chaos) Title and the AHA 2009 Summer Level 5 title (Walking Sticks - Wildcats/Chaos).  Chaos now looks forward to possibly adding to the collection when 2011 Summer League play begins as Chaos has members on Summer Teams from Level 3 to Level 5.  Summer League begins play the first week of June.  Also, check out the History pages where the games and stats of the 2010-2011 season have been archived in the Chaos Record books.

The Chaos Organization has just been informed that the Former Great Chaos Alumni #58 Goalie Charlie Beattie, whose number #58 was permanently retired by the Chaos Organization after the Championship D2 season in 2008-2009, is actually still playing in the AHA League!  Chaos scouts spotted Charlie Beattie, now sporting #29 tending nets for the Sled Dogs out of the C2 West Division.  As such, Chaos has officially Un-Retired #58 and has issued a Statement of Retraction revoking his Retirement Status to Beattie and the Sled Dogs.  The number was officially offered to current C2 Goalie #42 Dale Melbie, who immediately took offense to the offer stating that number will forever more be tainted with treachery and treason.  Apparently, Beattie has led the C2 Sled Dogs to the playoffs over the last two years posting combined numbers of 2.42GAA and a .916 Save% en route to a 28-11-6 record for the C2 Dogs.  Beattie will forever be known for his incredible Chaos season in 2008-2009 where he posted an incredible 1.40GAA, .938% during the regular season an an even more incredible playoff numbers of 1.25GAA and .951% for a combined record of 19-3-2 while also collecting the 2009 D2 Tier Championship Hardware.  Beattie was not immediately available for comment, however, the sentiment on the Chaos C2 squad was embarrassment and a resounding hope that the Chaos C2 squad is placed in the same division as the C2 Sled Dogs next year in an attempt to remove the egg off their faces.

Chaos C2 Falls to Royals 3-0 and misses playoffs by 2 Points

Chaos D1 Qualifies for Playoffs!  D2 Secures #2 Seed. C2 Fighting for last Spot!

PLAYOFF RACES!  C2/D1 Fighting, D2 Clinches

PLAYOFF RACES!  C2/D1 Fighting, D2 Clinches

Chaos C2
Chaos C2 is fighting for a playoff spot as well, but the division is still too close to call.  Chaos is in 4th place right now with 17 points followed by #5 Rack Attack with 17 points and the #6 Nemesis with 15 points.  Chaos still has difficult games against the Nemesis (a must win game) and the Royals. The Red Hot Rack Attack face the #1 M's, the #8 Sharks and the #6 Nemesis in their last 3 games. The Nemesis face #4 Chaos, #7 Renegades and the #5 Rack Attack.  Critical games to watch are Chaos vs Nemesis and the Rack Attack vs Nemesis to determine that last playoff spot.  Congrats go to the M's, who as expected, for their C2 East Division title.  The M's are the Vegas odds on favorite to come home with some AHA hardware.

Chaos D1 gets Big Win over 3rd Place Maroons, Corder nets a Trick!

Playoff Push for All Three Levels

Week 7- Everything Back on Track with Three Big Wins at Each Level

Week 5, Chaos D2/D1 Get Wins despite things getting physical. Chaos D2 still unbeaten at 5-0!

Week 4, Chaos goes 1-1-1.  Chaos D2 Remains unbeaten and goes to 4-0.

Week 3, Chaos goes 2-1-0.  Chaos D2 Remains unbeaten, Chaos D1 gets 1st Win.

Puck Hounds and Chaos D1 Tie
Chaos D1 faced up against the Puck Hounds on Saturday night only to come away with 1 point again for the second straight week.  Chaos scored first when #88 Matt Webb scored in the high slot assisted by #13 Connie Webb.  The Puck Hounds would get the next two goals before #23 George Farner would get his first of the season on a put back assisted by #13 Webb and #26 Bob Chilson. Chaos Goalie #33 Casey Johnson welcomed Amy Louise Johnson, 6lbs 1oz at 3:45AM on Friday morning (pictures to follow), so he had the night off and Chaos brought in their Mystery Goalie.  The mysterious Goalie Paul Fee, who goaltends with the D1 Lumberjacks in the D1 North Division and is listed on the Approved AHA D1 Sub Goalie List, was placed on the Chaos Roster for the night and tended nets for Chaos.  Paul played well saving 39 of 41 to help secure the tie for Chaos.  Regulation ended a little Chippy between both teams when Puck Hounds Danielson collided with Paul Fee.  Paul collided back drawing a roughing call.  Danielson then had some choice words with the ref, which promptly drew a game ejection.  The OT period saw zero scoring ending in a 2-2 tie.  Chaos is looking forward to their next meeting with the Puck Hound rivals when they will have their regular rostered goalie.  The Maroons (1-1-0) await Chaos this weekend.

Chaos D2 goes to 2-0 with win over Northern Horde
Chaos D2 won for the 2nd time in as many weeks with a 4-1 win over Pete Morrow and the Northern Horde.  Goals came from Jason Przybilla(2), Josh Popp and Grant Wold with assists from Mushett(2), Cords(2) and Huffman. Mike Palmer saved 13 of 14 for his second win.  Chaos next faces the Polar Bears(0-2-0).

Full AHA Schedule Released

First Edition of Hockey Knowledge and Strange Obscure Hockey Rules - Week 11

New to the Chaos Site this year coming straight from some of our great AHA Refs (yeah, right) will be the Hockey Knowledge and Strange Obscure Hockey Rules that you never see called.  Each week, we will be receiving some strange tidbits of Hockey Knowledge from some of the Refs that work the AHA!  If you want to stump the Ref, Contact the Admin Here and send in a question and it will be listed in the next weeks release.  For now, here is the first week's edition of Hockey Knowledge and Strange Obscure Hockey Rules: Week #1

Divisions Set!  First Week of Play Scheduled! Time for Some Hockey!

Rosters Nearing Completion.  Chaos Welcomes new faces as Three Teams hit the Icee

With just over three weeks to go until the season starts, the Chaos Organization is busy planning their rosters, strategies and final preparations in order to be as successful as possible for the upcoming 2010-2011 AHA Winter Season.  Chaos was founded in Winter 2008 and won the 2008 AHA Beginner Title.  The team graduated to D2 in 2009 and captured the 2009 AHA D2 Tier Title.  In 2010, the team expanded to D2 and D1 teams where the D1 team captured the 2010 D1 Tier Title while the D2 team finished 3rd.  Now, in the 2011 Winter season, Chaos is expanding to field D2, D1 and C2 squads with hopes of keeping their success rolling.

The Chaos D2 squad is experiencing the least amount of change as many of the core team returns.  Key losses to higher levels include #81 Adam Coolong to the D1 Muskies, #19 Rich Benson to the D1 Gold Rush and Goalie Chris Guarneri to the D1 Puck Hounds.  We wish them the best in every game at D1, including potential ones against Chaos D1.  A replacement goalie is in the works as are some last minute sub spot roster additions. Word has it that the goalie spot is now down between a current Chaos Skater looking to convert and a former Chaos Goalie once on the team in years past.  The D2 team is poised to have a great season led by their new Captain Travis Beckerle and many of the returning core.

After going 21-2-2 last year and winning the D1 Tier title, the Chaos D1 team has moved 9 skaters and their Goalie to the C2 squad.  To fill the graduates, Chaos would like to extend a warm welcome a host of new faces to the assembled D1 squad. Four D1 Knights in Wes Colborn, Steven Parry, Bob Chilson and Dave Sommerness join the Chaos D1 ranks.  Ryan Tucan Corder and Goalie Casey Johnson come to us from the D2 Wildcats while smooth skating Defenseman Justin Revanaugh graduates to D1 from the Beginner Yetis.  Patrick Bibro joins us from the Fighting Loons as he plans on skating with both the Loons and Chaos this year. Chaos also welcomes two brand new players to AHA Winter play in George Farner and Shawn Neugebauer, whom skated with many Chaos team mates over the summer in Level 4 play. Led by Captain Matt Webb and Alternates Aaron Swann and Connie Webb, this team has assembled the right attitudes, talent and team oriented players to repeat.

The Chaos C2 squad, led by newly appointed Captain Mike StClair and Alternates Mike Korstad and Cory Buschmann, hits C2 Winter Ice for the first time ever.  To prepare for the quick C2 play, 9 graduating D1 Players played over the summer in the very fast Level 3 (C2/C1 Combined) division with the Eurythmics. The C2 squad also welcomes a host of new faces to wear the Yellow and Black.  Mr James Nord has graduated up from the D1 Wingmen as has Mr Shawn Fricke, who graduates up from the D1 Diablos. Hero Dale Marks comes to us from JMS and HockeyFinder and Mr Andrew Benson shared ice with Chaos team mates over the Summer in Level 3.  Several players playing Chaos D1 and C2 round out the roster.  Playing at a faster new level, the Chaos C2 squad looks to answer the question as to whether they can compete at the higher level very quickly come their first games.  Almost all players on the squad have graduated to the next level each year.  Thoughts of C1 next year?