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
Closest game of the night in United States Hockey League play Friday (Oct. 2) was settled by Michael O’Leary, 17, from Nova Scotia who sank his shot in the fifth round of the shootout to lift the host Dubuque Fighting Saints past the Green Bay Gamblers 4-3. Dubuque’s shootout win helped the home teams capture
How high are expectations in the guy who took top Rookie honors and set a record for goals by a 16-year-old last season? Maybe not high enough as Kieffer Bellows, 17, from Edina, MN fired three goals and added an assist on the game clinching empty netter to lift the US National Development Team Program U-18
Opening night doesn’t get much more exciting than this one. Connor Valesano, 20, from Duluth, MN fired the game winner on a penalty shot, lifting the Sioux City Musketeers to a 4-3 overtime edge against the host Fargo Force at Scheels Arena Friday (Sept. 25) night. Other opening night action saw Waterloo Blackhawks picking up a
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
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
