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By Joshua Boyd / USPHLElite.com The USPHL Elite National Championships are just about to start on Thursday, and you have to include the Carolina Jr. Hurricanes in the conversation to win it all – again. “I feel that Potomac, the Northern Cyclones and Atlanta are teams you need to keep an eye on,” said…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com The Potomac Patriots get their chance to show they are part of the Nationals crowd now. Two years into a major rebuilding phase and they’re already part of the top 16 teams playing for the championship trophy. While the pre-Premier Patriots made playoffs a few times in the former…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com Two years into their existence, and they’re into Nationals. The Minnesota Squatch are excited to make their debut after two very strong seasons since joining the league in 2022. At .736 over two seasons, the Squatch are seventh among non-original 2017-18 teams in winning percentage. “We are very excited…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHLElite.com The Metro Jets’ first-year USPHL Elite program had quite the blueprint to work off of. They were borne of an organization that has been one of the most successful in the USPHL Premier. In fact, the Jets’ Premier team has the all-time best winning percentage in regular season play…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHLElite.com Welcome to the Nationals, Potomac Patriots. A legacy member of the USPHL Elite (and USPHL Premier) in 2017-18, the Patriots have had a long and winding road to get to Utica not just this year, but over their seven years in the league. For the first five years in…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com Year 1 at the Nationals was a good start for the Fort Wayne Spacemen. Head Coach Lincoln Kaleigh Schrock hopes that last year’s success – in reaching the quarterfinals in their first Nationals run – is only the hint of better things to come here in 2024. They certainly…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com The Islanders Hockey Club have become a Nationals regular, qualifying for their fifth year in a row after playing all or parts of 15 periods of hockey to get there. They played in just four games, but their series victory against the South Shore Kings came after a double-overtime…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com The Ontario Jr. Reign became the third Pacific Division team to qualify for Nationals after the division and its teams made their USPHL debut in 2020-21. After the Fresno Monsters took the first two division titles and the attached Nationals berths, the Las Vegas Thunderbirds broke that monopoly and…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHLElite.com The Tampa Bay Juniors are geared up and excited to fly north to Utica, N.Y., where they’ll be part of a very tough field of 10 teams. The Juniors, however, have a lot of experience with Nationals. This is the Elite program’s fourth straight trip and sixth overall. The…
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