By Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com    Patience is a virtue – and so is hard work and determination to make it to the next level. Seth Orozco has all of these, and they all go hand-in-hand with plenty of on ice hockey skills, all adding up to what Lake Forest College was looking for as […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com    Evan Izenstark put down a life savings of hockey experience to buy into Coach Brett Wall’s vision three years ago when he first signed with the Hudson Havoc. Wall helped develop him into an NCAA hockey-ready player over two of his three years, before former NHL player Dean Talafous […]

By Jim Den Hollander / USPHL.com The Hudson Havoc has in recent seasons put itself consistently among the frontrunners in the Premier Midwest West Division. Some great players have worn the jersey but Harvey Dove sticks out as a home-grown talent. Dove joined the team in 2020-21, one season after wrapping up a successful high […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com    Luc Fricchione will be just under an hour from his hometown and hockey stomping grounds when he moves on to his NCAA future next year. The ‘02 out of West Springfield has been a lifelong Springfield Pic and veteran of four different USPHL levels going back to 2016 with […]

By Patrick Ramsdale / USPHL.com The Utica Jr. Comets have had a lot to celebrate this season, having recently clinched home ice advantage in for the Mid-Atlantic Playoffs. The team has now added another reason to celebrate, with defenseman Jeremy McDonald (‘03/Lockport, N.Y.) announcing that he will continue his academic and athletic career at Framingham […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com Garret Jackson was there in Palm Beach from Day 1. One of the original players on the 2021-22 Typhoon USPHL Elite team, he bought in right away to the development model presented by the father-and-daughter coaching duo of Joe and Baye Flanagan.  It struck a chord and the defenseman remained […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com  The South Shore Kings will be heading into the USPHL Premier’s New England playoffs as underdogs, currently holding the eighth seed. That certainly won’t keep the Kings from playing to win one of the two coveted spots to the USPHL National Championships in Utica.  For a player like Ryan Meagher, […]

After a four-season stay within the USPHL, Adam Brzezicki (‘02/Gurnee, Ill.) will begin the next chapter of his hockey career this fall at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. When he traveled from Illinois to New York to join the Utica Jr. Comets NCDC squad in 2019, Brzezicki was already familiar with taking his act on […]

By Brendan Price and Joshua Boyd The Utah Outliers’ Matthew Koepke, a third-year Outlier with 74 points in his USPHL Premier career, is bound for NCAA hockey with Concordia University (of Wisconsin) next season. He caught up with USPHL Premier Mountain Correspondent Brendan Price on a recent road trip to Northern Colorado to face the […]

By Marlee Bulman / USPHLPremier.com  The end of an era is coming, as Scott Bugarin is ready to lead the Bulls to the end of their season – hopefully for them at Nationals – before becoming a Framingham Ram next fall. It’s the end of a Premier career forged in 2019-20. It’s also the end […]