By Matt Mackinder / Metro Jets Staff Josh German came to the Metro Jets ahead of the 2019-20 season as a raw, talented defenseman oozing potential as a 17-year-old prospect. Now, four seasons later, German has graduated from the program after serving as team captain in 2022-23 and is off to play NCAA Division III […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Call him Mr. Undefeated. Nicholas Pineo came out of the 2022-23 USPHL Premier season as the goaltender with the most wins without losing a single game during the regular season.  Pineo put up a 12-0-0-0 record for the Hudson Havoc. The New York Aviators’ Blake Hazelton was the only […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Nicholas Becker won’t have to go too far from his Portland, Maine, home to kick off his NCAA hockey career, as he just recently committed to New England College in Henniker, N.H. The two-year junior veteran forward couldn’t be more excited to get started later this summer.  “I started […]

Longtime NCAA Referee Will Begin New Atlantic Hockey Position July 1 Below is the Atlantic Hockey Association’s press release about Eugene Binda Jr. being hired by AHA as their Supervisor of Officiating. Binda was most recently the USPHL’s Director of Officiating Development.   The United States Premier Hockey League is proud to be a launching pad […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com  Making the jump to a relatively new team in your final season of junior hockey carries with it a share of challenges and new territory to conquer. Vernal Oilers goaltender Antonio Tarantino, a second-year USPHL Premier goaltender, certainly conquered a whole lot. First of all, he was the only Northwest […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLNCDC.com Former Boston Junior Bruins player Jack Eichel has won the Stanley Cup for the first time in his eight-year career. The Golden Knights defeated the Florida Panthers 4-1 in the series and 9-3 in Game 5 to win the Stanley Cup at home on June 13. In his second season […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Filip Tjarnhell became a big fan of the North American style of hockey these past two seasons, so much so that he’s coming back this side of the Atlantic Ocean to start up his NCAA hockey career.  Tjarnhell, an ‘02 from Sweden, will be joining the NCAA team of […]

The Bakersfield Roughnecks’ 2007-born forward Robin Benoit, born in St-Felicien, Que., was selected this past weekend in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) Draft. Benoit was selected 56th overall, in the third round, by the Sherbrooke Phoenix. Benoit, a USPHL Premier Pacific Division All-Star after scoring 52 points in 43 games this past season, […]

Two years with the Tampa Bay Juniors certainly delivered the dividends for Champlin, Minn.’s own Jonah Mortenson.  Mortenson closed a second season with the Juniors by reaching the USPHL National Championships and, not long thereafter, committing to NCAA Division III Hamline University.  “I started talking to Hamline about a week or two after being home […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Welcome to June 12, 2023. It’s an exciting time for hockey in Las Vegas.  The hometown Vegas Golden Knights hold a 3-1 lead in their second Stanley Cup Final in their sixth year of existence, and right in their home practice rink, the local USPHL Premier team – the […]