While the Wooster Oilers and Cincinnati Thunder made their respective debuts to NA3HL league play in an all-East Division opening weekend, several other teams and divisions will get their respective seasons underway starting Friday night. West Michigan Wolves will kick off its season with a Friday/Saturday pair at Jamestown, NY against the Southern Tier Express
The first Midwesthockey.info season is underway! We’re easing into the regular season with a Labor Day Weekend start that includes just a trio of games from the NA3HL. Wooster Oilers 4 Southern Tier Express 3 (ot) Two of the games took place on Saturday, including a successful NA3HL debut by former Minnesota Junior Hockey League
Through the 42 game regular season there was virtually no separation between the Dells Ducks and Rochester Ice Hawks of the Minnesota Junior Hockey League. Six playoff games later nothing has changed. The Ducks and Ice Hawks sat in a virtual deadlock atop the Minnesota Division standings even in points, wins, losses, even overtime losses.
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
A trio of Road Warriors turned weekend getaways into six points as the Wisconsin Rapids River Kings, Dells Ducks and Illiana Blackbirds all swept three game sets on the road. Sept. 26 Wisconsin Rapids 3 Marquette 0 The Riverkings, formerly known as the Central Wisconsin Saints, made a fine debut earning wins in its first
The former 16-team Minnesota junior Hockey League briefly ballooned to 17 teams in the off season with the addition of the Ironwood Fighting Yoopers to the Minnesota Division, but that was balanced by three teams — the Twin Cities Northern Lights of the Minnesota Division along with both the Fort Wayne Federals and Crystal Lake
