![]() ![]() For all intents and purposes, he used the experience of creating characters on-screen, and the team-building strategy of playing the NHL hockey video game series to what he did in the Danbury Arena. What he did have were his passions: playing video games, watching professional wrestling, and, of course, hockey. He was a high school kid who had absolutely no idea what he was doing. It's a notion he humbly accepts but still isn't sure he deserves. Personalities like Tommy "T-Bone" Pomposello, AJ's cigar-smoking middle school coach-turned equipment manager-who once soaked the team's jerseys in Crisco oil so the opposing team couldn't get a firm grip on any player-and notorious brute Brad "Wingnut" Wingfield, who could hit the puck as effectively as he punched faces, cemented their place as the bad boys of hockey.ĪJ's viewed as a local hero by the citizens of Danbury, Connecticut. The Danbury Trashers' reign was short-lived, but their larger-than-life reputation lives on. He ended up serving an eight-year sentence. James Galante, who had direct ties to the Genovese crime family, who have been cited as part of the inspiration for The Sopranos, was arrested under a massive FBI indictment and was charged with 72 counts of racketeering, extortion, and witness tampering, among other crimes. Upon completing their second season as a full-fledged hockey crew, it all abruptly ended. In just two years, their rowdy rep led the group to earn the most penalty minutes of any team in the history of the United Hockey League, leading to a tumultuous love-hate relationship with the league. And with no experience managing a professional sports team, AJ cobbled together a formidable hockey team-even tapping Brent Gretzky, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky's lesser-known brother, to lead the roster. After all, he gave his dad his word that he would. Galante pushed his high school wants aside to lead this crew, anyway. And second of all, I'm not going to be able to spend time with friends." I don't know what I'm doing, first of all. "Honestly, for a good day or two, I was scared. "I was just as shocked as other people," AJ revealed during a Zoom chat with Thrillist about his initial reaction to his father's larger-than-life gift. Untold: Crime and Penalties, the fourth and perhaps wildest installment of the brothers Maclain and Chapman Way's new series of Netflix documentary films, tells the bonkers blue-collar story of the Connecticut minor league hockey team, the Danbury Trashers, James Galante, the mafia-connected trash kingpin who purchased the team, and AJ, his 17-year-old son who stepped into the role of general manager. ![]()
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