The first midweek tussle of the season in United States Premier Hockey League-Midwest play saw the Detroit Fighting Irish winning an all-Motown battle 6-5 in shootout against the Motor City Hawks. Hawks trailed most of the way as the Irish carried a 2-1 lead out of the first and doubled the margin to 4-2 with
The Illiana Blackbirds evened its season record at 2-2 and collected a weekend sweep of the host Detroit Fighting Irish as Joe Timmerman, 18, from St. John, IN turned aside all 20 of the Fighting Irish shots on his way to a 2-0 shutout win at the Brownstone Sports Center Sunday (Sept. 20). The only
The Forest Lake Lakers got a three-goal effort from Caleb Santa Maria, 19, from Georgia on its way to another lopsided win Saturday (Sept. 19). This time, the Lakers rolled past the host St. Croix Valley Magicians at the Hudson Civic Center Ice Arena in Wisconsin. In other USPHL action on the same night, the
The USPHL-Midwest gets underway Friday night with 14 of the league’s 18 teams opening their 2015-16 campaigns. The league recently went through bit of a facelift as four different teams found themselves unable to line up at the starting gate. As a result, the team has transformed from a two-conference — four division type of
As usual, the junior hockey scene is much quieter on weeknights, but two of the five NA3HL Divisions got a jump on their respective Best-of-Three Championship series this week. NA3HL Metro Jets 6 Pittsburgh Vengeance 5 (ot) Matt Dempsey’s wrister 8:38 into overtime gave the host Jets the upper hand in its series with the
