Jr. Royals Captain Michael Cartwright  has been named defensive player of the week by the Metropolitan Junior Hockey League.

Michael is a second year Jr. Royals player who continues the Cartwright's wearing the "C" from his brother Greg who was the Royals Captain last year.  
In 12 games this year Michael has scored 6 goals and has 7 assists including and overtime goal vs the Metro Moose in the Ronald McDonald House Cup semi-final.

The first round of the Ronald McDonald House Cup was played last night at Aviator Ice Rink when the Metro Moose hosted the Long Island Jr Royals. 
Ronald (who was present at the game) was treated to a great game with both teams exchanging scoring opportunities and regulation time ending in a 4-4 tie. A tense five minute sudden death overtime was played with the  puck going from end to end.   With 2.5 seconds left in overtime Royals captain Michael Cartwright  picked a top corner ending the game in the Royals favor.
In post game awards Michael was awarded “Player of the Game” for the Royals and Andrew Veglucci was awarded for being the Royals highest fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House.
On January 10th at the Nassau Coliseum the Junior Royals will play the winner of the Suffolk/Applecore game  being played on November 15th. 

The Long Island Jr. Royals will be hosting the 2011 Youth Hockey Night at Dix Hills Ice Rink on  Friday Nov. 4th.
All youth hockey players wearing a team jersey will be admitted for free.  Admission is $5 with all proceeds being donated to the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island.

The Jr Royals will be hosting the Suffolk Jr team in a Junior Hockey MET League game.   Warmups begin at 7:30pm with game start ay 8:00pm.

This years Jr Royals team has 9 players from the Long Island Rebels organization including team captain Michael Cartwright and assistant captain JT Hall. Come down and cheer on the Jr Royals and help out a great cause, The Ronald McDonald House of Long Island.

Long Island Jr Royals 2010-11 Asst Captain Frank DiChiara has had a great start with the St Louis Bandits in the North American Hockey League.  The Bandits who play in the Mid West Division of the NAHL are off to a 8-1-1 start leading their division and league in wins.

In the first 10 games of the season Frank has an impressive 6 goals and 4 assists with an overall +9 rating and is tied for the most goals scored on his team.