By Jim den Hollander Midwest Hockey Editor Technically, it’s over the border from our official Midwest boundaries, but we have to make an exception for this announcement on the Ontario Hockey League website that Sault Ste. Marie, ON will host the 2016 edition of the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge. The announcement came in the
The strong get stronger. The NA3HL website announced today Todd Sanden, Head Coach has added Casey Kirley to his staff as an assistant coach. Formerly an assistant coach and director of player personnel at Great Falls of the Frontier Division, Kirley also drafted as a player by the Kenai River Brown Bears in 2009. A native of
The United States Hockey League announced through its website on Tuesday it will introduce a new 3-3 version of regular season overtime for the upcoming season. The overtime will be extended to seven minutes in length and teams will start out playing 4-on-4. With 4:00 or less remaining the game will convert to 3-on-3 at
The NA3HL number was reduced from 10 to six this past weekend as each division held its own championship series. The Central and East Divisions got a bit of a jump beginning their Best-of-Three Series midweek and the rest of the pack jumped into the fray on the weekend (March 13-15, 2015). Here’s a quick
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
