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
If you are like this writer, the relief of finally reaching the end of a hockey season, sometime in mid to late June turns to sadness and desperation to get on with it again soon after. Of course for junior and college teams the season is a somewhat distant memory by the time pro teams
With teams either just into the second half or just wrapping up the first half of their 60-game schedules, the pecking order has been set, but far from finalized in America’s top junior hockey league. In the early days of 2016, the Dubuque Fighting Saints have set themselves up as the team to beat with
Jake Kielly, 19, from Eden Prairie, MN stopped all 31 of the shots he faced to help lead the United States Hockey League’s Tri-City Storm to a 2-0 win at Fox Valley Ice Arena in Chicago Saturday (Oct. 3). In other league action on the same day: Youngstown Phantoms doubled the Bloomington Thunder 4-2 on
Closest game of the night in United States Hockey League play Friday (Oct. 2) was settled by Michael O’Leary, 17, from Nova Scotia who sank his shot in the fifth round of the shootout to lift the host Dubuque Fighting Saints past the Green Bay Gamblers 4-3. Dubuque’s shootout win helped the home teams capture
Opening night doesn’t get much more exciting than this one. Connor Valesano, 20, from Duluth, MN fired the game winner on a penalty shot, lifting the Sioux City Musketeers to a 4-3 overtime edge against the host Fargo Force at Scheels Arena Friday (Sept. 25) night. Other opening night action saw Waterloo Blackhawks picking up a
