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The United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL) and National Collegiate Development Conference (NCDC) are proud to recognize four alumni competing in the 2026 East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) Kelly Cup Finals between the Kansas City Mavericks and the Florida Everblades. The championship series features former USPHL and NCDC players who have advanced through the junior…
The United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL) and National Collegiate Development Conference (NCDC) are proud to recognize several alumni who represented their countries at the 2026 IIHF Men’s World Championship, held from May 15-31 in Switzerland. The annual tournament, hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), features many of the top professional and international…
The United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL) and the National Collegiate Development Conference (NCDC) are proud to recognize several alumni and former coaches who were part of the 2026 United States Hockey League (USHL) Clark Cup Championship-winning Sioux Falls Stampede organization. The Stampede captured the Clark Cup championship on Saturday night, defeating the Muskegon Lumberjacks…
Former P.A.L. Jr. Islanders netminder Brandon Bussi made a memorable first impression in his NHL debut, earning his first career NHL win with the Carolina Hurricanes. Bussi turned aside 16 shots to help the Hurricanes secure a 5-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks. Bussi, a Sound Beach, N.Y., native, developed in the USPHL’s National Collegiate…
Former P.A.L. Jr. Islanders NCDC goaltender Brandon Bussi has been named to the Carolina Hurricanes’ Opening Night roster for the 2025-26 NHL season. Bussi was claimed off waivers by Carolina on October 5 after being released by the Florida Panthers, who had signed him to a one-year contract in July 2025. The Sound Beach, N.Y.,…
The National Collegiate Development Conference congratulates former Rockets Hockey Club defenseman Anthony Allain-Samake, who has been selected in the sixth round, 168th overall, by the Anaheim Ducks in the 2025 NHL Entry Draft in Los Angeles, on Saturday, June 28. Allain-Samake played with the Rockets in the 2023-24 NCDC season, registering seven assists in 47…
By Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com Colin Bailey certainly feels he is right where he belongs, doing what he was born to do and loving every minute of it. The Wausau, Wis., native who just turned 29 is entering his fourth season as Assistant Coach with the NCAA Division III College of St. Scholastica in Duluth,…
Ryan Donato joined the South Shore Kings in the USPHL Premier Conference in 2014-15, playing between the Kings and the Dexter Southfield School that season. He scored 10 points in 13 games with the Kings when the USPHL Premier was the league’s top-tier conference, prior to the creation of the NCDC in 2017. Donato moved…
John Marino hit the ice with the South Shore Kings in the early USPHL Premier (the equivalent to today’s NCDC), playing in the league’s inaugural 2013-14 season. He had previously played with the Kings’ pre-USPHL teams in the Eastern Junior Hockey League and Empire Junior Hockey League. With 45 points in his two USPHL seasons,…
Tage Thompson first joined the USPHL in 2013-14, playing for the P.A.L. Jr. Islanders in the USPHL 16U Division (now the Tier 1 Hockey Federation 16U Division). In 16 games that year, he scored 17 goals and added 31 assists. The next year found him in the USHL playing for the U.S. National Team Development…