Phantoms’ Cangelosi honored by USHL

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The most-decorated player in Youngstown Phantoms history has another honor.

Center Austin Cangelosi has been voted to the 2012-13 All-USHL Second Team.

Cangelosi is the first Phantom to be voted All-USHL after leading the team in scoring with 21 goals, 43 assists and 64 points in 56 games this season.

“I couldn’t be happier or more proud of Austin,” Phantoms head coach Anthony Noreen said. “He’s one of those guys who could go the entire season without scoring for us and still be our MVP based on the little things he does, the way he competes every shift and his leadership.:

This fall, Cangelosi will play for Boston College.

“He embodies everything we want our guys and our program to be about and he’s got long, bright future ahead of him.”

An Estero, Fla., native, Cangelosi was voted co-captain by his teammates prior to the start of the 2012-13 and opened the campaign with 5-4-9 over the first three games.

The second-year forward, who missed four games while leading Team USA to gold in the World Junior A Challenge, recorded a pair of hat tricks throughout the season and racked up 4-11-15 over a nine-game point streak from March 3-24.

The Phantoms were at their best going 14-3-0 when he scored a goal and 16-1-0 when he notched more than one point.

He recorded his 94th career point to surpass Mike Ambrosia as the franchise’s all-time leading scorer in a 5-1 win over the Indiana Ice on Jan. 25 and became the USHL’s Tier 1 era short-handed goals leader with his 11th career tally on March 22 in Indiana.

“He’s the best penalty killer I’ve ever seen,” Noreen said. “He’s great in his own end and the best draw guy I’ve ever seen.”

In two seasons with Youngstown, Cangelosi recorded 50-73-123 and a plus-34 rating in 109 games and added 5-7-12 in 15 postseason games.