About The Program
Pittsburgh Warriors
A hockey program for disabled veterans, built to restore community, confidence and purpose through competition, camaraderie and service.
Pittsburgh Warriors internal league
Disabled Veterans Hockey League
Healing Through Hockey
The DVHL is where disabled veterans play hockey, on teams, on a schedule, against each other. It is a league, and it is a lot more than a league.
Commissioner · Samuel Johnson
Right now
This season: Season 11
The schedule and the teams for the season in progress. Standings, scoring leaders and goalies use the same numbers as the public stats page. See the full season
Standings
| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | DIFF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 C-Rats | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 2 |
 Meal Team Six | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 2 |
 Powdered Eggs | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 0 |
 Four Fingers of Death | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 0 |
Win = 2 points, tie = 1, loss = 0 (same rule as the player standings). Overtime losses are not tracked separately yet; they count as losses.
Scoring leaders
| # | Player | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | PIM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Medich | C-Rats | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2 | Nathan Anderson | C-Rats | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | Jeremy Laux | Four Fingers of Death | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | Jesse Robson | C-Rats | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | Chris Dottle | Meal Team Six | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | Gary Punzak | C-Rats | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | Zayne Harshbarger | Powdered Eggs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | Evan Wawrykow | Powdered Eggs | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 9 | Clifford White | C-Rats | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | Jason Minerich | C-Rats | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | Roy Fincham | Powdered Eggs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | Tim McNichol | Four Fingers of Death | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | Walter Riggs | C-Rats | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | Zachary OShell | Four Fingers of Death | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | Nick Boyko | Sub | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | Blake Greil | Four Fingers of Death | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | Chad Fenner | Four Fingers of Death | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | Gil Taylor | C-Rats | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | JJ Priano | Four Fingers of Death | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | Will Bardenwerper | C-Rats | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | Zachary-Tyler Raymond | Meal Team Six | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Players with at least one point, top 30 shown. Games played counts games a player dressed for or appeared in.
Goalies
| Goalie | Team | GP | W | L | T | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua Howe | C-Rats | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Alex Wallace | Four Fingers of Death | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
Saves and save percentage are not shown yet: shot counts are not recorded for every game.
Schedule
- Sat, Oct 24, 7:30 PMC-Rats vs Meal Team SixDetails
- Sat, Oct 24, 9:00 PMPowdered Eggs vs Four Fingers of DeathDetails
- Sat, Oct 31, 7:30 PMFour Fingers of Death vs C-RatsDetails
- Sat, Oct 31, 9:00 PMPowdered Eggs vs Meal Team SixDetails
- Sat, Nov 14, 7:30 PMC-Rats vs Powdered EggsDetails
- Sat, Nov 14, 9:00 PMFour Fingers of Death vs Meal Team SixDetails
- Sat, Nov 21, 7:30 PMMeal Team Six vs Powdered EggsDetails
- Sat, Nov 21, 9:00 PMC-Rats vs Four Fingers of DeathDetails
Recent results
- Oct 17Meal Team Six 4, Powdered Eggs 2Details
- Oct 17C-Rats 9, Four Fingers of Death 4Details
Teams
C-Rats
Captain: Jeremy Huey
Gary Punzak, Walter Riggs, Nathan Anderson, Sean McCarthy, Adam Rosenwald, Jesse Robson, and 9 more
Four Fingers of Death
Captain: Travis Miller
Zachary OShell, Tim McNichol, Henry Gilbertson, Alex Wallace, Danny Howe, Jeremy Laux, and 10 more
Meal Team Six
Captain: Joshua Schreckengost
Zachary-Tyler Raymond, Michael Martin, Josh Costello, Brian Shumaker, Jeremy Almazan, Christopher Palo, and 9 more
Powdered Eggs
Captain: Roy Fincham
Zayne Harshbarger, Evan Wawrykow, Keith Costantino, Christopher Metzinger, JP Kelly, Dave Jackel, and 9 more
DVHL Highlight
The DVHL in Motion
DVHL highlight reel — featuring Randon and the league at its best.
Pittsburgh Warriors Hockey
What the DVHL is about
More than a hockey league
The Pittsburgh Warriors Disabled Veterans Hockey League (DVHL) is an internal recreational league designed for honorably discharged veterans with service-connected disabilities under the motto "Healing Through Hockey."
Veterans without a VA disability rating are welcome to play in our club games, including Guard and Reserve. The USA Hockey Classic, Championship and Hendy tournaments require a VA disability rating of 10% or higher, so please tell us your rating status when you apply.
A team to belong to
Every player is drafted onto a team with a captain, a name and a bench full of people who get it. For a lot of us it is the first team we have been on since service.
Healing over outcomes
The motto is Healing Through Hockey. We keep score, and nobody wants to lose, but the league exists for the veteran who shows up, not for the standings.
Everyone plays
Teams are balanced by self-rating, draft and salary cap. Every player gets equal ice time, and a veteran who has never played gets equipment and training from the program.
Part of the Warriors
The DVHL runs inside the Pittsburgh Warriors. Players are members, the same rink-mates who go to tournaments together, and the same people who show up for each other off the ice.
The trophy
The Defenders Cup
Every DVHL season ends with one team lifting the Defenders Cup. The trophy is a gold cylinder carrying the Warriors logo, standing on two columns of military branch seals: Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Air Force. The shield patch follows the real trophy, with original branch pictograms on its curved plaques. Read the story of the Cup.
The new look
Where the new DVHL logo came from
The logo is not clip art. It is built from one of our own players, a frame from our own game photos, traced, lifted off the ice and flattened to team gold. Here is how it happened, in six steps.
Every version, with one-color files for patches and embroidery, is on the brand sheet.
- Start with a game photoOne frame out of 4,045 in the club's game-photo library: #73 mid-stride, stick and skates all in frame.
- Trace the playerAn outline follows only the player: helmet, shoulders, stick, skates. That outline is the one piece of the photo the logo keeps.
- Lift him outThe rink is gone. The player sits on the team colors, grey on his left and black behind him.
- Flatten him to goldPhoto detail comes out and one solid team-gold silhouette is left, a shape that still reads as a skater at any size.
- Add the nameDVHL in gold, PITTSBURGH WARRIORS in white, set to the right of him on the black field.
- Strip it to one colorWhite on black, no grey: the version that survives a single-color print, an embroidered patch or a tiny icon.
How it works
Our mission and how we play
To provide an organized venue for disabled veterans by establishing a competitive, fun, safe, and sportsmanlike hockey league where balanced competition and healing matter more than outcomes.
- Attitude first: no checking and no disruptive play.
- All skill levels are welcome, from beginners to experienced players.
- Skill self-evaluations are used to build balanced teams through draft and cap logic.
- Attendance and team reliability are program expectations.
- All participants must be Pittsburgh Warriors members.
- Current USA Hockey number is required for official qualification windows.
- If a veteran needs equipment and has never played, the program provides equipment and training.
- Every player gets equal ice time regardless of ability.
Defenders Cup champions, Seasons 1 through 10
Wall of ChampionsOne team is crowned each session. The roster, championship photo and captain are linked from each card.
DVHL Season 7
Defenders Cup Champion
Record pending
The Pittsburgh Warriors are a 501(c)(3) organization supporting disabled U.S. military veterans.