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
On the eve of the USHL season, a collection of 42 American players who will be among the cream of the crop at the 2016 NHL Entry Draft were coached by a pair of guys who have been there and done that at Buffalo’s First Niagara Center on Thursday (Sept. 24) night. Jeremy Roenick, a
There was no championship games scheduled or anything, but the Cedar Rapids Roughriders and US National Development Program U-18’s both finished with two wins at the seven-team United States Hockey League Subway Shootout held in Green Bay last weeked (Sept. 11-13). Wrapping up the event on Sunday, the U-18 squad wrapped up a perfect weekend
As a hockey fan in the Midwest, you have to envy the folks in Buffalo, who will get a look at many of the top prospects to be selected in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft on the same ice on Sept. 24. The fourth annual edition of the All-American Prospects Game will take place at the
