Anyone who knows me, knows my cheering allegiance in the NHLs lies with a team that does not call the American Midwest home. But I have been excited about the future for the Columbus Blue Jackets since the season ended for them in Pittsburgh a year ago. The team made just the second playoff appearance

As usual, real life crept in and kept me away from this blog site for a while. I am back though and hoping to get back on track with my posts. In fact, I may do more than one right now as I have several things I want to update. I am starting once again

In an earlier blog, I wrote about how I wanted this site to become the place to get all of the Midwest hockey information for every level. So, I need to admit here that if I have a weak link it would be the various College levels.  Now, that is not saying I don’t know

In the previous two posts, I wrote about the North American professional hockey leagues that include teams based in the American Midwest. For this one, I want to outline the different junior leagues that include teams in the Midwest. This is probably the most fun subject for me as for the most part, junior hockey

While the off season excitement in the NHL is centered around the draft, free agents and trades, for the lower pro levels, there is sometimes some major makeovers from one season to the next. For example, in the American Hockey League, ever summer, sees parent teams deciding to move from one city to another for

  Well, the reason I started this blog thing in the first place was to talk about my favorite sport, specifically in the American Midwest — so enough with the intros, lets get down to it. The top level of interest of course is the professionals and out of that the primary level of course