By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Fresno Monsters (1) vs. Bakersfield Roughnecks (4)  All Games At Gateway Ice Center, Fresno, CA  Thursday, Feb. 29, 7:45 p.m. PST  Friday, March 1, 6 p.m. PST Saturday, March 2, 5 p.m. PST (If Necessary)    The Fresno Monsters were the Pacific Division’s first (and second) representatives at the […]

Selection Process: The league media office sends top statistical candidates to divisional coaches for review and coaches either approve or challenge the nominations.    Summaries by Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Forward: Yegor Kabataev, Fresno Monsters Kabataev (‘03/Karaganda, Kazakhstan) has been a huge offensive contributor all season to the already offensively gifted Monsters. But January […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com All it took was one year of junior hockey for 2007-born Robin Benoit to prove he could play with anyone, at any age. That one year of junior hockey took place in Bakersfield, Calif., as Benoit signed on with the 2022-23 USPHL Premier expansion team the Bakersfield Roughnecks. The youngest […]

The Bakersfield Roughnecks’ 2007-born forward Robin Benoit, born in St-Felicien, Que., was selected this past weekend in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) Draft. Benoit was selected 56th overall, in the third round, by the Sherbrooke Phoenix. Benoit, a USPHL Premier Pacific Division All-Star after scoring 52 points in 43 games this past season, […]