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By 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…
By 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…
By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com They’re batting a thousand! Since the 2021 inception of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Knights USPHL junior organization, both their USPHL Premier and USPHL Elite teams have been able to qualify for the National Championships at each level. “It’s a great feeling, and we hope that it keeps going for many more…
By 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…
By 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…
By 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…