When the Columbus Blue Jackets Prospect team takes the ice at the annual Traverse City Prospects Tournament on Friday, it will have a pair of USHL graduates guarding the crease. Since the end of the 2016-17 NHL season, the Blue Jackets have signed both Matiss Kivlenieks, the 2016-17 USHL Goaltender of the Year from the
Kearney, Neb (Courtesy Tri-City Storm). – The Tri-City Storm announced Friday (July 28, 2017) that Ethan Goldberg has been named Storm assistant coach. Goldberg was a four-year assistant with the Sioux City Musketeers (2014-17) and won the 2017 Anderson Cup. The Storm’s coaching staff is comprised of Head Coach/General Manager Anthony Noreen, goaltending coach Matt
GENEVA, ILLINOIS (Courtesy Chicago Steel) — Chicago Steel Head Coach Dan Muse has been hired by the National Hockey League’s Nashville Predators as an Assistant Coach, the Predators announced Friday. The Steel simultaneously announced the promotion of Associate Head Coach Mark Abalan to the position of Head Coach. Muse, who turned 35 today (July 21,
Ryder Donovan lifted a shot from the left side of the crease over the shoulder of Finnish goaltender Kalle Nurmi lifting Team USA to a 4-3 overtime edge against Finland in the battle for fifth place at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament at Breclav, Czech Republic on Friday (August 11, 2017). Donovan, a 16-year-old forward
GENEVA, ILLINOIS (Courtesy Chicago Steel) — The Chicago Steel announced recently the hiring of Mark Abalan as Associate Head Coach, joining Head Coach Dan Muse and Assistant Coach Mike Garman behind the bench. Abalan joins the Steel from the prestigious Shattuck-St. Mary’s prep school in Faribault, Minn., where he served as head coach of the
On one hand, parity is at a premium in the United States Hockey League to the extent that it was not unusual to see teams rise or fall two positions or more in a weekend through the second half of the 2016-17 season. But, on the other hand there was the Chicago Steel and Sioux
