By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Max Kontir is in his second season of USPHL Premier hockey and truly loving it, especially knowing that he is already NCAA hockey-bound after the 2023-24 campaign.  Not long before New Year’s Day 2024, Kontir committed to Lebanon Valley College of Annville, Pa. The Charlotte Rush forward is certainly […]

S.J. LeComte, of the Wisconsin Rapids Riverkings, has no problem heading east. He’s done it a few times this season, including a Dec. 3 call-up with the NCDC’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Knights. That was his second call-up to the NCDC, where he also played for the Rock Springs Grizzlies, decidedly not east.  His next trip east, however, […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    Scotty Swain has achieved two achievements that every USPHL Premier player would love to copy – a college commitment in hand and a National Championship title. What else is left to achieve? Uh, hello, another title maybe?  Swain and the Cyclones are gunning this year to be the first […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com   The USPHL and the Idaho Falls Spud Kings (currently of the National Collegiate Development Conference) congratulate former Spud Kings forward Landon Wright for recently making his NCAA Division I commitment to the University of Maine, which competes in the Hockey East. His commitment marks the first for a current […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    When Shane Buckley took the head coaching job with the NCAA’s Northland College this summer, John Leppert was more than happy to follow one of his favorite coaches. The two had many conversations and connected to the point where Leppert was previously heading to a different school to there […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com Three years saw former Islanders Hockey Club forward Jason Seefeldt experience lots of success by his IHC teams, including his three years on the USPHL Premier squad. All three seasons saw the IHC make trips to the USPHL National Championships, and his 2019-20 16U Islanders team competed hard in the […]

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 […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com It’s never too early to start into your college hockey dreams. The Boston Junior Bruins’ two-year USPHL Premier goaltender Dominik Bovan had the opportunity to go one more year, but a whole different and new opportunity pulled in front to reroute him to Plattsburgh, N.Y. “I first reached out to […]

By Matt Mackinder / Metro Jets Staff MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. – Over Andreas Fleutot’s two seasons skating for the Metro Jets, his game showed marked improvement on a constant basis, leading to numerous NCAA college hockey offers. Earlier this month, the Megeve, France native decided on Westfield State University, a Division III school located in […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com    It’s a bit more than a Hopp skip and jump between Edmonton, Alberta, and Salem, Massachusetts for forward Ethyn Hopp. It’s still, however, shorter than the “commute” he’s been making the past few seasons between Edmonton and the Research Triangle area of North Carolina.  Travel certainly doesn’t bother him, […]