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By Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com Boston Jr. Rangers goaltender Beckham Dempsey is truly excited to be able to show the different ways he can help the NCAA Division I Colorado College team. The Tigers see in Dempsey a never-give-up attitude that they hope will be infectious around the locker room. “I began talking with Colorado…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com The people have spoken and they’re excited about the future of 2008-born Johnny Iwankiw, of the Rockets Hockey Club. Iwankiw received more votes than all players in the 2025 USPHL Elite Fans Choice voting, and earned the Fans Choice MVP and Forward Of The Year titles. “I am truly honored…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com Anthony Trantas led all Carolina Jr. Hurricanes USPHL Elite goaltenders in games played (39) and in wins (29) – and went on to win his final game, which allowed him and his Jr. Canes teammates to lift the USPHL Elite National Championship trophy. Trantas is excited to be able to…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com Anthony De Simone is proud to have been a member of the Rockets Hockey Club for every year of this decade, originally joining the Bridgewater, N.J.-based organization as a 14U player. Great friendships, memories and great games abound for the 2004-born native of Staten Island, N.Y. Now, he moves on…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com The Connecticut Jr. Rangers are certainly thrilled that they’ll have one of their top blueliners back for the 2025-26. Rangers fans certainly are, as they helped push CJR defenseman Hubert Szarzynski to the top of the vote count in the recent USPHL Premier Fans Choice Awards voting. “I am happy…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com The people have spoken, and the 2024-25 NCDC Fans Choice MVP and Goaltender Of The Year is the Idaho Falls’ Spud Kings’ Charlie Durkin. Durkin was a huge leader in the crease for the 2024-25 Dineen Cup Champion Spud Kings, so it comes as no surprise that both the coaches…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com Rivier University is getting another USPHL Premier All-Star, as the Minnesota Squatch’s Jacob Bodin is one of three players from the Jan. 27-28 All-Star event to have committed to the Nashua, N.H.-based university this year. Bodin, a 2004-born defenseman from Osseo, Minn., is certainly excited to take the next jump…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com D.J. MacLeish is certainly thrilled he came back to the Idaho Falls Spud Kings, where he enjoyed so much success one season earlier. Even that success, however, was dwarfed by being able to lift the Dineen Cup high over his head as the Spud Kings became the first Mountain Division…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com The votes came in and Siamion Marshchanok has won a USPHL Fans Choice award for a second straight year. After being named the USPHL Premier Fans Choice MVP for 2023-24, he is now the NCDC Fans Choice Forward Of The Year. The people have spoken – twice! Marshchanok was also…
Read MorePhoto Courtesy Hampton Roads Whalers / HomeandAwayPhotos.com By Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com Being named to the USPHL Premier All-Star Event in January was a huge difference-maker for the Hampton Roads Whalers’ Wyatt Teubert. After all, that is where he made his first contact with a coach from his future collegiate home, Nichols College in Dudley,…
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