By Jim den Hollander Editor/Publisher Midwesthockey.info The Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) is a third tier (Behind the AHL and ECHL) professional hockey league that includes three entries from the American Midwest. The league has been in operation since 2004, rising from the ashes of a pair of other pro leagues that folded. The Peoria
Peoria Rivermen Head Coach Jean-Guy Trudel has pretty much seen everything in the past six months in the Southern Professional Hockey League , including after Saturday, an overtime game winner that actually never happened. The same team that saw the Commissioner’s Cup escape its grasp this past spring on a controversial goal had a wacky
Cody Dion‘s first goal of the Southern Professional Hockey League season came at a good time, the lone tally of the third period lifting the defending regular season champion Peoria Rivermen to a 4-3 win against the Macon Mayhem at Macon Centreplex on Friday (Oct. 28). Meanwhile, the other Midwest based team, the Evansville Thunderbolts
The two Midwest based teams in the now 10-team Southern Professional Hockey League both opened the regular season with a couple of defeats on home ice. While the defending regular season champion Peoria Rivermen were thrashed by the Huntsville Havoc, 6-1 and 5-1 at the Peoria Civic Center Oct. 21-22, the expansion Evansville Thunderbolts fell
