# John Oliver vs Danbury, CT **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, hbomax-wb-dc\ **Created:** [October 10, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-oliver-vs-danbury-ct/922638 "2020-10-10T15:17:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bmoak1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@bmoak1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak1)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-oliver-vs-danbury-ct/922638/21 "2020-10-22T00:52:03Z")
Danbury was known for its short-lived, but wild-and-woolly, rough-and-tumble minor league hockey team: The Danbury Trashers. An expansion team owned by Jimmy Galante, who made his fortune by building up a waste-removal empire, the Trashers proved to be surprisingly competitive for an expansion team, especially when you consider that Galante installed his 17 year-old son AJ as general manager. It turned out that too-good-to-true roster had been assembled by going triple over the league salary cap because Galante hired players and wives to no-show jobs at the waste removal company. This all came out when the feds raided the office and seized Galante’s assets prior to putting him away for a long spell. Link has the story of the Goodfellas-meets-Slapshot hockey team. [Jimmy Galante: The Mobster Who Bought His Son a Team - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/the-mobster-who-bought-his-teenage-son-a-hockey-team/556853/) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-oliver-vs-danbury-ct/922638/22 "2020-10-22T03:58:57Z")
> [@bmoak1](#): > > . Link has the story of the Goodfellas-meets-Slapshot hockey team. [Jimmy Galante: The Mobster Who Bought His Son a Team - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/the-mobster-who-bought-his-teenage-son-a-hockey-team/556853/) Thanks, that was an entertaining tale. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-oliver-vs-danbury-ct/922638.md?page=1)