Six Midwest-based teams started the East Coast Hockey League post season but one round in only two remain. The Missouri Mavericks and Fort Wayne Komets are the top two seeds heading into the Western Conference semi-finals meaning both have home ice advantage against the Allen Americans and Utah Grizzlies respectively. But they definitely took different paths through the first round. The Mavs have

Jamie Schaafsma, a veteran center from Ontario stepped up as the series hero, scoring a pair of first period tallies which was all the Fort Wayne Komets to finally dispatch the Cincinnati Cyclones in the seventh and final game of a thrilling East Coast Hockey League Western Conference Quarter-Final series. When the final buzzer sounded,

Four of the five Midwest (USA) based teams qualified for the NHL post season, but one round in only the St. Louis Blues remain. The Blues finally scratched ‘Beat the #$@&^ Chicago BlackHawks‘ off of its bucket list in the opening round and it is hoped the team is not satisfied as it has a legitimate shot at

The United States Hockey League ‘Final Four’ will battle it out for East and West Conference titles beginning this weekend. The top two seeds have been vanquished in east as the Bloomington Thunder completed a five-game upset of the Anderson Cup Champion Cedar Rapids RoughRiders while the Dubuque Fighting Saints got by the Green Bay Gamblers in four games. In the Western Conference,

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

This story is to celebrate a championship and also to admit and apologize for falling asleep at the switch in regards to a professional hockey league that has a big Midwest presence. In the recent past, the Federal League has been mostly made up of teams from the eastern USA, but this past season, half