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Read About How The United States Premier Hockey League Utilizes Ken’s Ratings For American College Hockey (“KRACH”) to determine its Power Rankings. These rankings are used only to determine Divisional seeding for Premier Nationals; and for selecting the Elite wild card team to fill out the 6-team Elite Nationals field. Power Move: The Fresno Monsters…
Note: September statistics are also included in October Players Of The Month Forwards Caden Cavalieri, Columbus Mavericks Cavalieri (‘04/Amherst, N.Y.) was hot out of the gate with a three-assist game in his first match, then a four-goal game – along with another three assists – in Game 2. All told, he crossed the finish…
Note: October Players Of The Month Includes September statistics. Forwards Wyatt Teubert, Hampton Roads Whalers Teubert (‘04/White Rock, B.C.) will step into his next game just one point off the career century mark in points, standing at 99. That is good enough for fourth all-time on the Whalers’ USPHL Premier points leaderboard. Teubert has…
Note: September statistics are also included in October Players Of The Month Forwards Roman Wolynec, Seattle Totems The third-year Premier standout Wolynec (‘05/Langley, B.C.) absolutely blasted out to the scoring lead for the league, putting up 13 goals and 36 assists for 49 points in 13 games. He is averaging 3.77 points per game…
Note: September statistics are also included in October Players Of The Month Forwards Liam Krupcyznski, San Diego Sabers A third-year junior veteran with two prior years of Tier II experience, Krupcyznski (‘04/San Marcos, Calif.) has been a massive offensive force for the Sabers, adding nine goals and 23 assists for 32 points in 15…
By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com One week after we last checked in with teams, two things remain very familiar – the Metro Jets and Vernal Oilers entered November completely undefeated, still the last two teams with that honor. Elsewhere from the Great Lakes on west, some teams have been growing their winning streaks, including…
Week of Oct. 31, 2024 Games of Oct. 22-28, 2024 Florida Division Forward: Joseph Walter, Atlanta Mad Hatters Walter (‘05/Crawford, Pa.) registered a 3-2-5 line as the MadHatters split with the Palm Beach Typhoon, and he now has a 4-5-9 line in 11 games. Defense: Zachary Smith, Palm Beach Typhoon Smith (‘05/Charlotte, N.C.)…
Week of Oct. 31, 2024 Games of Oct. 22-28, 2024 Midwest Division Forward: Dylan Davis, Fort Wayne Spacemen Davis (‘06/Fort Wayne, Ind.) scored four goals and added one assist for five points, including scoring the GWG against the Decatur Blaze on Oct. 26. The next day, he added a shorthanded goal and two assists…
KRACH Explained What is it? – KRACH is “Ken’s Rating for American College Hockey.” Ken is statistician Ken Butler and the mathematical model he used is known as the Bradley-Terry Rating System. KRACH combines the performance of each team with the strength of the opposition against which that performance was achieved and produces a value (“rating”)…
Week of Oct. 30, 2024 Games of Oct. 22-28, 2024 Northwest Division Forward: Kasper Pohjala, Vernal Oilers Pohjala (‘05/Helsinki, Finland) has been a huge reason for the Oilers’ 11-game undefeated streak out of the gate. He put up a 3-2-5 line in the Oilers’ only game last week against their new Utah division-mates the…