The Quad City Mallards, ECHL affiliate of the American Hockey League’s Chicago Wolves as well as NHL’s Las Vegas Golden Knights added another forward to its roster, adding 25-year-old winger Justin Kovacs from Grosse Pointe Woods, MI on Thursday (Sept. 7. 2017) Kovacs also played last season with the Mallards, collecting 60 points (20g, 40)
It’s difficult to predict what will happen in the North American Hockey League, so this ‘preview’ is based mainly on how things wrapped up last season. There have been no off-season changes that affect the 11 Midwest teams technically. For a minute, it appeared the Midwest Division would go through some changes as Kenai River
The Aberdeen Wings and Janesville Jets enjoyed the best North American Hockey League playoff run among the Midwest-based teams this past season, both finishing as Division champions and reaching the Robertson Cup semi-finals. The Midwest is well-represented in the four-division league with 11 of the league’s 24 teams setting up shop in the American Midwest.
Its very early in the season, but the Minot Minotauros are already looking like a team that could distance itself from the North American Hockey League Central Division field. Now, that statement would clearly be more powerful if the Minotauros hadn’t come up short in two of its past three, but in a division sees
Among the three Tier II junior leagues that include Midwest based teams, two begin regular season play this weekend (Sept. 9-11) with the other beginning pre-season play. Following is a quick rundown on how things are going heading into the 2016-17 regular season. NAHL The lone all-American Tier II League, the North American Hockey League
The final eight teams began play in four North American Hockey League (NAHL) Division Championship series this past weekend — four of them from the American Midwest. That number was reduced to three on Monday night as the Topeka Roadrunners fell 2-1 in double overtime to the Wichita Falls Wildcats on home ice and succumbing in three straight in
