Courtesy of www.icehockeyuk.co.uk/ Great Britain have named their final team for the men’s IIHF Under-20 World Championship Division II Group A taking place on home ice in Scotland. The six-team tournament is being held at Dumfries Ice Bowl from Dec. 11-17, where Team GB will joined by Lithuania, Netherlands and Spain, along with promoted China […]

Week of Oct. 12, 2023   Games of Oct. 4-9   Pacific Division  Forward: Noak Persson, Fresno Monsters The only thing that kept Persson (‘03/Skelleftea, Sweden) from hitting the 100-point mark last year was the fact he only played just more than half the season. Out of the gate this year, he’s right back to […]

Week of Sept. 26-Oct. 3, 2023   Pacific Division  Forward: Francois-Xavier Marois, Bakersfield Roughnecks In a three-game sweep for the Roughnecks, Marois (‘03/St-Lin, Que.) had a huge weekend in a sweep against the Rogue Valley Royals. He registered three points in each of the three wins, with an 0-3-3 line the first night and 1-2-3 […]

Week of Sept. 28, 2023 (Games of Sept. 20-26)   Northwest Division Forward: Tyler Hanson, Rogue Valley Royals The Royals’ All-Star local product Hanson (‘03/Medford, Ore.), a fourth-year junior player and second-year Royal, made his name known yet again right off the bat. He put up two goals and added seven assists for nine points […]

The Northwest Division was brand new to the USPHL Premier last year and the division definitely caught folks’ attention, especially as they finished with the league’s leading scorer in Vernal’s Alex Rene Bartakovics (121 points in 40 games). In Seattle, Raine Hodge’s 40 goals in 24 games gave him the best goals per game average […]

By Vernal Oilers Staff  The Vernal Oilers are thrilled to announce that USPHL record-setting forward Alex Rene Bartakovics has signed a professional contract with HK Nitra in the Slovakian Extraliga for the 2023-24 season! The 2004-born forward recorded a jaw-dropping 121 points in 40 games played during the 2022-23 season, setting the single season point […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com The Casper Roughnecks, a new franchise for the USPHL Premier Conference, will open play in the 2023-24 season, competing in the Northwest Division. The addition of the Roughnecks brings the Northwest Division back to five teams, after the former Rock Springs Prospectors franchise was sold to the NCDC group that […]

By Seattle Totems Staff Seattle Totems Owner and General Manager, Michael Murphy, announced today Mike Butters has been hired as Head Coach. Butters joins the organization with over 27 years of post-playing coaching and management experience including years at the National Hockey League Level. “We are extremely excited having a career hockey man like Mike […]

Congratulations to our Northwest Division All-Stars, who were selected from votes made by the coaches with support from the League Media Director. Forwards Alex Rene Bartakovics, Vernal Oilers How is this guy an All-Star? Well, let’s perhaps start with the best regular season points total in USPHL Premier history, with 121. Is that all? Oh, […]

By Jonathan West / USPHLPremier.com   Vernal Oilers Seed: Northwest #1 Seeding Round Schedule All games at Utica University Nexus Center, Utica, N.Y. Game 1: Thursday, March 23, vs. New York Aviators, 5:30 p.m. EST Game 2: Friday, March 24, vs. Toledo Cherokee, 12:30 p.m. EST Remainder of schedule to be determined by seeding round […]