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The 2025-26 National Collegiate Development Conference (NCDC) season previews will provide an in-depth look at every team as they gear up for the year ahead. Leading up to opening night, a different team will be spotlighted each day. Each preview will include insights from the head coach, sharing expectations and outlooks for the upcoming season.…
Read MoreThe Atlantic Division of the USPHL Premier has long been one of the league’s most competitive and talent-rich groupings. From perennial contenders to rising programs eager to make their mark, the 2025-26 season promises plenty of intrigue as all 11 squads gear up for another grind. Here’s a look at the teams set to battle…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com The USPHL’s unparalleled three-tier development model serves the purpose of bringing in players who have the raw skills and toolset to become college hockey players, but may need seasoning in the USPHL Premier or USPHL Elite before they advance to the top-tier National Collegiate Development Conference. Every year, hundreds of…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com Red Bank Generals goaltender Braxton Singleton is extremely excited that he has made his commitment this summer to the NCAA’s New England College. “I started speaking with NEC over the summer. They told me they really like my compete level and game sense, which I take a lot of pride…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com Cole Ranta, a two-year USPHL Premier veteran, is working towards what has all the makings of a fantastic college hockey career. Ranta, a 2004-born native of Marquette, Mich., committed just after the conclusion of the 2024-25 season to Post University. Post plays in the only NCAA Division II hockey conference,…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com The people have spoken and they’re excited about the future of 2008-born Johnny Iwankiw, of the Rockets Hockey Club. Iwankiw received more votes than all players in the 2025 USPHL Elite Fans Choice voting, and earned the Fans Choice MVP and Forward Of The Year titles. “I am truly honored…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com Anthony De Simone is proud to have been a member of the Rockets Hockey Club for every year of this decade, originally joining the Bridgewater, N.J.-based organization as a 14U player. Great friendships, memories and great games abound for the 2004-born native of Staten Island, N.Y. Now, he moves on…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com In just one year of North American hockey, Connecticut Jr. Rangers’ Ludvik Lysonek certainly endeared himself to the Jr. Rangers’ fans and others. After all, he had the most combined votes for MVP and his position to claim the title of USPHL Premier Fans Choice MVP and Forward Of The…
Read MoreBy Joshua Boyd / USPHL.com The Connecticut Jr. Rangers are certainly thrilled that they’ll have one of their top blueliners back for the 2025-26. Rangers fans certainly are, as they helped push CJR defenseman Hubert Szarzynski to the top of the vote count in the recent USPHL Premier Fans Choice Awards voting. “I am happy…
Read MoreThe 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…
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