By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Two years into their existence, and they’re into Nationals. The Minnesota Squatch are excited to make their debut after two very strong seasons since joining the league in 2022.  At .736 over two seasons, the Squatch are seventh among non-original 2017-18 teams in winning percentage. “We are very excited […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    The Florida Eels are in the “Seven-Timer Club” with the Charlotte Rush, as both teams have made the USPHL Premier National Championships every year since the Premier’s inaugural 2017-18 season. They always find their way to put together fantastic regular seasons and are able to cash in on those […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    The Potomac Patriots get their chance to show they are part of the Nationals crowd now. Two years into a major rebuilding phase and they’re already part of the top 16 teams playing for the championship trophy.  While the pre-Premier Patriots made playoffs a few times in the former […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    The Nationals are quite a bit different than when the Riverkings last made the trip in the inaugural USPHL Premier season of 2017-18. Yes, it’s true that some things haven’t changed – the Florida Eels and Charlotte Rush have been there all along – but the league has expanded […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    They’re batting a thousand! Since the 2021 inception of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Knights USPHL junior organization, both their USPHL Premier and USPHL Elite teams have been able to qualify for the National Championships at each level.  “It’s a great feeling, and we hope that it keeps going for many more […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Six years as a member of the USPHL Premier Conference have yielded USPHL Nationals trips, but they are still looking for the highest glory. They’ve made the National Championship game twice, but have fallen just short in each of 2019 and 2023.  The Jets, within the time they’ve been […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Year 1 at the Nationals was a good start for the Fort Wayne Spacemen. Head Coach Lincoln Kaleigh Schrock hopes that last year’s success – in reaching the quarterfinals in their first Nationals run – is only the hint of better things to come here in 2024.  They certainly […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    The Islanders Hockey Club have become a Nationals regular, qualifying for their fifth year in a row after playing all or parts of 15 periods of hockey to get there.  They played in just four games, but their series victory against the South Shore Kings came after a double-overtime […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    The Metro Jets Development Program saw just how much fun their organizational brethren the Metro Jets had in making the Nationals and the National Championship Game in 2019, they just had to join them.  Since 2021, a year after the Jets also qualified for the eventually canceled 2020 Nationals, […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com   The Ontario Jr. Reign became the third Pacific Division team to qualify for Nationals after the division and its teams made their USPHL debut in 2020-21.  After the Fresno Monsters took the first two division titles and the attached Nationals berths, the Las Vegas Thunderbirds broke that monopoly and […]