By Elmira Impact Staff Congratulations to 2002 forward, Jack Rogers, on being invited to and taking part in the NHL’s Washington Capitals Development Camp, held between July 1-5.   Rogers spent the 2020-21 as an assistant captain with Elmira, posting 18 goals and 29 assists for 47 points across 39 regular season games, before leading […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Michael Marino is getting ready for some culture shock. He’s going from one of the five boroughs of New York City – Staten Island, to be precise, to the small town of Paxton, Mass., with a year-round population of 5,000.  He’ll be one of the roughly 1,400 undergraduate and […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    The Salem State University Vikings are about to get a real Rocket boost to their defensive corps. The Vikings will welcome in two-year USPHL Premier veteran defenseman Josef Slepica, who closed his time in the league with the Rockets Hockey Club.  Slepica, an ‘02 born in Crosby, Minn., said […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Four years was just right for J.D. Speer to develop from a New York high school hockey player to an NCAA-ready prospect, and all thanks to the Utica Jr. Comets program. For the next stop on his hockey journey, he’ll take his game to Aston, Pennsylvania’s Neumann University.  Speer, […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Jake Stapert has been with the USPHL through many stops along his career, including at the 16U, 18U, Premier and NCDC levels. Most recently closing his time in the league after a season with the Rockets Hockey Club, the ‘02 forward from Flemington, N.J., he is most excited about […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    It won’t be easy for the Utica Jr. Comets to send their Captain onward, but they couldn’t be happier to see two-year Jr. Comet and three-year USPHL Premier veteran Jude Cole moving on to Arcadia University.  Cole began talking to Arcadia about his college hockey future in the winter, […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    The Great Lakes Division, which competed as a four-team division for 2022-23, will welcome two new members as the Buffalo Stampede and Nashville Spartans are joining the Great Lakes for the 2023-24 season.  The Buffalo Stampede, who have regularly played Great Lakes Division members as part of their non-division […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Daniel Hodowanec is ready to bring his game, that of a hard-nosed, rugged veteran defenseman to the NCAA game. And the beneficiaries of this drive to succeed will be Arcadia University!  Hodowanec brings to Arcadia four junior seasons worth of experience, including being a former lettered captain, an assistant […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    A National Championship, good times with good friends, and plenty of goals and assists marked Jack Quigley’s time with the Rockets Hockey Club. A Captain with the Rockets, Quigley was with the organization for three of the last four seasons, including a USPHL 18U season, he certainly loved his […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    A.J. Mule will have to get used to small town living pretty soon. The town in Massachusetts he’s moving to – Paxton, home to NCAA’s Anna Maria College – has five thousandths of a percent of the population of his own home city, the Big Apple, New York City […]