The Aberdeen Wings and Janesville Jets enjoyed the best North American Hockey League playoff run among the Midwest-based teams this past season, both finishing as Division champions and reaching the Robertson Cup semi-finals. The Midwest is well-represented in the four-division league with 11 of the league’s 24 teams setting up shop in the American Midwest.
Waterloo, Iowa (Courtesy Waterloo Black Hawks) –Waterloo Black Hawks assistant coach Steve Howard has been hired as the head coach and general manager of the North American Hockey League’s Austin Bruins ahead of the 2017/18 hockey season. The Michigan native joined the Black Hawks’ staff on a fulltime basis in 2014 and has worked primarily
Alex Peck, 20, couldn’t have picked a better time to fire his first of the season as his goal scored just past the halfway mark of the final period snapped a 4-4 deadlock and lifted the Springfield Jr. Blues to a 5-4 win against Midwest Division rival Janesville Jets in North American Hockey League play
Its very early in the season, but the Minot Minotauros are already looking like a team that could distance itself from the North American Hockey League Central Division field. Now, that statement would clearly be more powerful if the Minotauros hadn’t come up short in two of its past three, but in a division sees
The final eight teams began play in four North American Hockey League (NAHL) Division Championship series this past weekend — four of them from the American Midwest. That number was reduced to three on Monday night as the Topeka Roadrunners fell 2-1 in double overtime to the Wichita Falls Wildcats on home ice and succumbing in three straight in
Eight teams remain in the North American Hockey League post season heading into four Division Championship playoff rounds. Half of those teams, playing in three of the four divisions, come out of the American Midwest Central Division Bismarck Bobcats (37-19-4) vs. Austin Bruins (29-27-4) At least one Midwest-based team will advance to the Robertson Cup Championship tournament
