Three Regional Showcase events wrapped up and another faced off on Saturday (Sept. 19) at four different United States Hockey League locations. Iowa Classic Fighting Saints 5 Musketeers 4 Judging the performance of the Musketeers at the Iowa Classic may depend on whether you are a glass half-full or half-empty type of person. On one
It was a showcase frenzy for the United States Hockey League Friday (Sept. 18) with 13 of the league’s teams and another from overseas all heading into action under the banner of three different Regional Showcase events. Iowa Classic – Game 2 Roughriders 3 Musketeers 2 (so) The second day of play in the all-Iowa tournament kicked
Bo Hanson, a 17-year-old defenseman from Idaho notched his second of the game 4:22 into overtime to lift the Muskegon Lumberjacks to a 5-4 win over the US National Development Team U-17 squad Saturday at the Subway Shootout, a seven-team USHL tournament played in Green Bay. In other second-day games, the USNDTP U-18’s downed Bloomington
The host Green Bay Gamblers opened play in the Subway Shootout with a 4-1 over Wisconsin rival Madison Capitols. The win came in the lone game scheduled for the first day of the seven-team event. Both teams scored one in the opening period, in fact the Capitols opened the scoring as Alexandre Payusov, an 18-year-old
The USHL is the highest ranked junior outfit in this country and it also enjoys the longest season thanks to an elongated pre-season. The teams may have started pre-season encounters a few days later than other junior squads, but the Chicago Steel was already underway in August, playing at the Club World Cup in Russia.
As usual, the junior hockey scene is much quieter on weeknights, but two of the five NA3HL Divisions got a jump on their respective Best-of-Three Championship series this week. NA3HL Metro Jets 6 Pittsburgh Vengeance 5 (ot) Matt Dempsey’s wrister 8:38 into overtime gave the host Jets the upper hand in its series with the
