The two Midwest based teams in the now 10-team Southern Professional Hockey League both opened the regular season with a couple of defeats on home ice. While the defending regular season champion Peoria Rivermen were thrashed by the Huntsville Havoc, 6-1 and 5-1 at the Peoria Civic Center Oct. 21-22, the expansion Evansville Thunderbolts fell

When the Fort Wayne Komets cruised into Kalamazoo and captured a 2-1 edge on Friday (Oct. 21) night at the Wings Events Center, it seemed it had the upper hand in a home and home weekend set with the Kalamazoo Wings. But the Wings took a turn as road warriors the following evening capturing a

The opening weekend of the American Hockey League was not friendly to the Chicago Wolves or Rockford Ice Hogs. But both teams turned things around this past weekend. The 0-2 Ice Hogs started a three-game weekend Friday (Oct. 21) at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, breaking into the win column and also handing the

Both the Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets started the regular season with losses in their first two games. For both, that seems like a long time ago now. While the offense is starting to come around, stellar goaltending has helped in a huge way for both clubs. The Blue Jackets entered the weekend

Its very early in the season, but the Minot Minotauros are already looking like a team that could distance itself from the North American Hockey League Central Division field. Now, that statement would clearly be more powerful if the Minotauros hadn’t come up short in two of its past three, but in a division sees

There are several veteran players who appear to have been given a new lease on a new National Hockey League club this fall. Add Eric Staal to the list as the NHL veteran who had his struggles in Carolina and New York seems to to off to a good start in the Twin Cities with