By Jim den Hollander Editor Midwesthockey.info And just like that, the 2017-18 NHL season is underway. Well, technically, the regular season is still about a month away. But when the Matthew Wuest Memorial Cup Tournament faces off today (Sept. 8, 2017) in Traverse City, the green light is on for all five of the Midwest-based
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
Matiss Kivlenieks may be from Latvia, but he has been on a whirlwind tour of American junior teams are all three levels for the past four seasons, culminating this past week when he was signed to an entry level contract by the Columbus Blue Jackets. Kivlenieks, a native of Riga, Latvia first came across the
Paul Stastny had the St. Louis Blues up early, but it was the only goal the team would muster, bowing out of the 2017 National Hockey League post season with a 3-1 loss on at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis against the Nashville Predators. For the Predators, the Central Division championship is its first
Jaden Schwartz sank the game winner 25 seconds into the third period as the Blues snapped a 1-1 draw and kept itself alive in its Best of Seven National Hockey League Central Division final series at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis Friday (May 5, 2017). The Blues needed the win against Nashville, staving off
The Midwest contingent in the NHL playoffs was cut in half on Thursday (April 20) as both the Columbus Blue Jackets and Chicago Blackhawks were punted in their respective Division Semi-Final series. After staving off the Penguins in game four of the series a couple of nights earlier, Jackets dropped a 5-2 decision at Pittsburgh’s
