After a successful first season, eight teams from the United States Premier League Midwest Division graduated to the Elite level in 2016-17 season – a season dominated by the Wisconsin Rapids Riverkings in nearly every way. The Riverkings posted a record of 37-4-3, including wins in its first 17 regular season contests to wrap up
Matiss Kivlenieks may be from Latvia, but he has been on a whirlwind tour of American junior teams are all three levels for the past four seasons, culminating this past week when he was signed to an entry level contract by the Columbus Blue Jackets. Kivlenieks, a native of Riga, Latvia first came across the
After a season-long audition, the United States Premier Hockey league Midwest teams are officially entering USPHL Divisions for the 2016-17 season. A group of 17 teams from the former Minnesota Junior Hockey League and Midwest Junior Hockey League merged over the summer of 2015 to form the USPHL Midwest which played its own season with
A four-goal and one assist effort for Chase Lewis, 19, from North Carolina went a long way to leading the Steele County Blades to a 7-4 at Blaine against the host Energy in United States Premier Hockey League-Midwest action on Saturday (Oct. 3). In other USPHL-Midwest action league frontrunners kept their fast pace as the
The Tri City Icehawks extended its winning streak to four games with a 7-1 United States Premier Hockey League-Midwest road win against the Motor City Hawks Friday (Oct. 2). In other league play on the same night, the Kalkaska Rhinos scored last and held off the Michigan Wild 7-6 on home ice; the St. Croix Valley
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
