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
If you are like this writer, the relief of finally reaching the end of a hockey season, sometime in mid to late June turns to sadness and desperation to get on with it again soon after. Of course for junior and college teams the season is a somewhat distant memory by the time pro teams
After a season-long audition, the United States Premier Hockey league Midwest teams are officially entering USPHL Divisions for the 2016-17 season. A group of 17 teams from the former Minnesota Junior Hockey League and Midwest Junior Hockey League merged over the summer of 2015 to form the USPHL Midwest which played its own season with
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
One game in, it appeared the upper seeds had full control of their respective United States Hockey League Conference Championship series. But the road warriors pulled even and now have some control heading home for the key middle games. While the top seeded Tri-City Storm opened with an impressive 4-0 shutout against the Waterloo Blackhawks at Viaero Center in
Eight teams remain in the North American Hockey League post season heading into four Division Championship playoff rounds. Half of those teams, playing in three of the four divisions, come out of the American Midwest Central Division Bismarck Bobcats (37-19-4) vs. Austin Bruins (29-27-4) At least one Midwest-based team will advance to the Robertson Cup Championship tournament
