Coaching Staff

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Mike Porcello

HEAD COACH
Mike has been with the Rebels Organization for several years and is excellent with teaching skills to younger players.   Mike's son played in the Rebels Organization and is currently a player on the Long Island Junior Royals team in the Metrolpolitan Junior Hockey League.

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Dennis McGovern

HEAD COACH
Dennis McGovern has had two successful seasons running the Rebel Mites program as well as being the organizations USA Hockey ACE coordinator.  Prior to coaching the Rebels Dennis spent three years coaching Mites within the Rebels affiliate organization, the LI Royals.

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Dan Talia

HEAD COACH
DIRECTOR OF COACHES

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Rich McGuigan

HEAD COACH
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Vincent Mannetta

HEAD COACH

Vinnie has an extensive coaching past including both domestic and international experience. He comes to the Rebels from Long Beach Apple Core where he spent one year as coach of their squirt team and three years as head coach of the Bantam squad, Vinnie also coached with the Long Island Royals for five seasons as a member of their Pee-Wee, Bantam and Midget coaching staff. In addition to coaching, Vinnie Mannetta serves as an evaluator on Long Island for USA Hockey’s Player Development Camps, the first step toward the USA National teams.
 
Vinnie is not only an accomplished coach, but his playing credentials are equally impressive. A product of Long Island hockey, Vinnie played in the LIAHL during his youth career and finished off at the Junior B level with the Long Island Jr Royals. Vinnie went on to play hockey at the college level. He attended Iona College and played for the Gaels from 1992-1996, captaining the team his final two seasons. He was an ECAC Conference All-Star selection during his senior season and also received College Athlete of the Month honors that year.
There is only a select few who can say they played hockey at the professional level, and Vinnie is one of them. He was a member of Nashville Nighthawks of the Central Hockey League during the ’96-’97 season and suited up as a power forward for the Idaho Steelhounds of the WCHL in ’97-’98. Following his years in the US, Vinnie skated professionally in Milano, Italy during the ’98-‘99 season. He describes his time in Italy as “an experience of a lifetime.”
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Kevin Young

HEAD COACH

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Kevin Corey

HEAD COACH
This is Coach Corey's third year coaching in the Rebels Organization.  Kevin played his youth hockey on Long island and then in college lead the Suffolk Stars in scoring making the MCHC/ACHA All Star Team.   He participated in the 2001 AAU Junior Olympics in Virginia Beach and was the Fran Riggio Memorial Scholarship Winner 2002.

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Ken Hoey

SKILL DEVELOPMENT CLINIC DIRECTOR 
HEAD COACH LONG ISLAND JUNIOR ROYALS 
Ken has been a coach in the Long Island Royals Youth Hockey system for the past nine years.   Ken coached professional hockey in Italy with the Val Rendena Wolves and coached two years at the Junior A level in Bismarck North Dakota with the Bismarck Bullets.    Ken played Division I  hockey at Kent State University and then two years of professional hockey in the East Coast Hockey League and the All American Hockey League. 

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Kenny Uher

HEAD COACH - 

The Rebels are proud to announce the addition of Ken Uher to our staff.  Ken Started out his coaching career with the Long Island Rebels as an assistant coach to the Squirt team in 2003.  
He went on to join the Ice Cats where he spent seven years as head coach of several age groups.  In his final two years with the Ice Cats, Ken lead the Midget 16U squad to the first ever LIAHL playoff appearance finishing in the 
Runner up spot.  

From the Ice Cats, Ken left coaching youth hockey and was the founder and Head coach of the Long Island Wolfpack Juniors.  He had the helm of the Jr. squad for three years.

The Rebels are proud to have Kennny join our 2013-2014 staff as head coach of the Bantam Minor team 

Chris Caroppoli

The Rebels organization is proud to announce the addition of Chris Caroppoli to the 2013-2014 coaching staff.  Chris has been coaching all levels of hockey on Long Island for over twenty years.  Starting his career with Suffolk County High School in 1992, Caroppoli was quickly able to develop the Comsewouge/Port Jefferson squad into Freshman Champions.   Shortly thereafter, he took the varsity squad to the small school states and repeated the Championship title.  In 2008 Chris was named head coach of the Stony Brook University D-1 Hockey Club and in the 2009-2010 season was named ECHA Coach of the year.  Returning to youth hockey in 2010, Caroppoli led the PAL Bantam TII team to an impressive 27-12 overall record and in 2012 took over the helm of the PAL Midget 16U TI team.   Chris continues his work with Suffolk County High School Hockey where he is currently the Vice President and Coaching Director.  - See more at: http://www.lirebels.com/#sthash.S9phWRdq.dpuf

Adam Ross

The Rebels are pleased to announce the addition of Adam Ross to the coaching staff.   
Adam played defense during his junior, college,  and professional hockey career and brings his knowledge of the position to our  organization.

Adam played three years in the Alberta Jr. Hockey League and then four years at Merrimack College (D-1).    After college he played professional hockey in the ECHL the AHL and in Europe.

Adam will be working with the Rebel teams as a defensive skills coach.