A 40-save shutout effort from goaltender Ales Stezka helped the Chicago Steel to a 2-0 United States Hockey League East Conference Semi Final series clinching win against the Youngstown Phantoms on home ice at the Fox Valley Ice Arena on Tuesday (April 25). After capturing wins in the opening two games, the Steel were forced
Eeli Tolvanen‘s second of the night, scored with 68 seconds to play snapped a 3-3 deadlock and lifted the host Sioux City Musketeers to a 4-3 United States Hockey League win against the Des Moines Buccaneers at the Tyson Events Center on Friday (Oct. 28). Tolvanen, 17, from Finland will likely be a top 10
The Muskegon Lumberjacks saw a four-game winning streak snapped the previous weekend but started a new one this past weekend (Oct. 21-22) with a 5-0 shutout win at Bloomington Friday against the Thunder and a 4-3 overtime edge at Waterloo the following night against the Blackhawks. The impressive weekend pushed the Lumberjacks to a 6-3-0-0 record, good enough for a second-place tie in the
The Fargo Force dropped a pair of games last weekend and will be looking to snap out of that brief skid when it hits the road Thursday (Oct. 20) at Sioux City. While the Force fell under the .500 plateau at 3-4-0-0 last weekend, the Sioux City Musketeers split a weekend pair and sit at
The Chicago Steel have not been a team with a lot of playoff experiences in the United States Hockey League — at least not in recent seasons. There are still miles to go, but the Steel team looks solid out of the gate as a pair of wins this past weekend (Oct 14-15) boosted the
The United States Hockey League opened the 2016-17 regular season this past weekend with a number of highlights. All teams played at least once this past Friday and Saturday (Sept. 23-24) and five teams opened with a pair of contests. Among the most impressive starts was Team USA who got wins from both its U-18
