By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    The Florida Division is one week away from getting back into regular season action, and all six teams are definitely excited for their chances to make some noise in a very competitive division. Among the teams hitting the ice are the Florida Eels, who have qualified for every single […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com   On August 21, Gage Dill was in a car out of Fort Myers, Fla., and bound for Milton, Massachusetts, which will be his home for most of the next nine months.  “We’re on our way up. We check in Thursday and classes start on Monday [Aug. 28],” said Dill. […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Former Tampa Bay Juniors USPHL Premier All-Star Defenseman Jack Anderson, who also played in the NCDC with the Twin City Thunder, has committed to the NCAA’s Gustavus Adolphus College for 2023-24.  Anderson skated for the Juniors in 2020-21, and posted a line of 8-18-26 in 44 games. During that […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    After an entire hockey career up to 2022 spent in his native Canada, 2002-born Prevost, Que., native Johnny Ramoundos made the decision to move south of the border to keep his hockey dream going – way south of the border. All the way to Estero, Florida.  “I had originally […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Ryan Walsh may not have had to move on to college hockey right away, but when the opportunity presented itself, he did not look a gift horse in the mouth.  The 2003-born native of Parkland, Fla., heard from Johnson and Wales University who saw enough at the USPHL National […]

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 […]

The United States Premier Hockey League is saddened to hear of the death today of Tom Staniec, a longtime assistant coach with the Florida Eels at the USPHL Premier and USPHL Elite levels. Staniec was always a friendly presence at league events and extremely loyal to the Eels players. Our condolences go to the Staniec […]

By Oliver Francies / SeamoreSports.com If you want to know how an expansion team does in the USPHL, look at where its players go. For the USPHL Premier’s Columbia Infantry, this means seeing where their players are going for their next season of Junior Hockey. This team played fast all year and started to develop […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com  The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth is getting a clear-cut, dyed-in-the-wool goal-scorer in Collin Patterson.  The three-year Florida Eels veteran committed this month to the southeastern Massachusetts state university branch after posting back-to-back USPHL Premier seasons of 32 and 33 goals, the fourth-and second-best single season performances in the Eels’ […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Wilkes University is getting a great one, as the Florida Eels’ two-year goaltender Duncan Rolleman is headed to the Pennsylvania NCAA Division III institution after a two-year career that included an All-Star nod this past 2022-23 season.  Rolleman leaves with the Eels’ all-time best career save percentage for a […]