The longest regular season ever finally ended and 16 North American Hockey League teams, including a half-zone Midwest-based teams kicked off the playoffs with mixed results. Midwest Division Home teams struggled out of the gate in the opening weekend here and that paid off for the Minnesota Magicians who make the long trek to Alaska
Robert Christy, a 16-year-old forward from Minneapolis, MN (St. Thomas Academy) powered the Team USA U-17 Select offense with two goals helping the team move itself to within a win of a third straight Five Nations Tournament Championship on Saturday (August 26, 2017). While Christy was leading the charge on offense, Kyle Chauvette, a 15-year-old
Team USA U-17 Selects got the Five Nations Cup tournament off to an awesome start on Thursday (August 24, 2017) at Ostrava, Czech Republic with an 8-1 whipping of the Swiss squad. It was the Swiss side on the board first 8:42 into the contest but that was the only shot of 16 to elude