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Sharks’ Tennyson is 12th RoughRider to play in NHL

Former Cedar Rapids USHL player expected to make pro debut Monday

It’s an even dozen. The San Jose Sharks recalled defenseman Matt Tennyson from the Worcester Sharks of the minor-league AHL on Sunday. He is expected to play in the team’s game Monday night, becoming the 12th former member of the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders to play in the NHL. Tennyson had five goals and 22 assists in [...]

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Cianfrone’s winner caps wild win for RoughRiders

Second goal of the game caps

CEDAR RAPIDS – There have been nights this frustrating United States Hockey League season when they may not have gotten the result they deserved. But they did Saturday night. Three goals in less than four minutes of the third period rallied the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders past Green Bay, 6-5, in what very well may have [...]

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Cedar Rapids' Justin Wade (18) knocks Dubuque's Dylan Gambrell (27) off his skates as the Dubuque Fighting Saints played the Cedar Rapids Roughriders, at the Mystique Community Ice Center in Dubuque, Iowa, on Saturday, March 16, 2013.

‘Riders lose again, eliminated from playoff race

Cedar Rapids scores first two, gives up final four in 4-2 loss

CEDAR RAPIDS – They finally scored a goal Friday night. Beating Dubuque, however, remains highly problematic. Impossible, actually, at the moment for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders, who gave up three third-period goals in a 4-2 loss to the Fighting Saints before 2,965 fans at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena. That makes it 0-8 this season [...]

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Special weekend for RoughRiders’ Carlson

In honor of coach's father, team will wear jerseys to be auctioned as ALS fundraiser

CEDAR RAPIDS – He embraces the day-at-a-time grind. Never look ahead, never look behind. His coaching philosophy always has been about staying on an even keel. But there’s no question this weekend will be a little more emotional for Cedar Rapids RoughRiders head coach Mark Carlson, and it has nothing to do with the hockey [...]

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‘Rider Flanagan signs with Adirondack Flyers

CEDAR RAPIDS – Call them the Adirondack RoughRiders. The NHL‘s Philadelphia Flyers signed former Cedar Rapids RoughRiders forward Kyle Flanagan to an ATO (Amateur Tryout Contract) Wednesday and assigned him to their top farm club — the Adirondack Phantoms of the American Hockey League. Flanagan also has signed a 2014 one-way NHL contract with the [...]

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Dubuque goalie Christian Frey watches as Davey Middleton of the RoughRiders comes around from behind the goal during the first period at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, February 23, 2013. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette-KCRG TV9)

Who has the hardest shot on I-380?

It's Waterloo's Stenglein. Middleton and a surprising O'Connor represent Cedar Rapids well.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Corey Petrash was probably the favorite on paper. On glass, actually. A week earlier, the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders forward broke a pane of plexiglass behind one of the nets with a shot. The maintenance crew at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena was muttering his name while cleaning up the mess. “It really [...]

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, FEB. 16-17 - FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2012, file photo, Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin (12) celebrates after making a touchdown in the first half of an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals in Minneapolis. The Vikings have a quandary with Harvin: try to sign the talented but sometimes moody wide receiver to a long-term contract extension, let the last year of his current deal play out and brace for the potential distraction, or trade him.  (AP Photo/Andy King, File)

AP: Vikings trade WR Harvin to Seahawks

Dynamic wide receiver goes West for first-round draft pick, more

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Percy Harvin is on his way to Seattle to join the Seahawks. A person with knowledge of the deal tells The Associated Press that the Minnesota Vikings have agreed to trade the unhappy receiver to Seattle for a package that includes the Seahawks’ first-round draft pick in April. The person requested anonymity [...]

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Dubuque players Byson Cianfrone and Clay Anderson attempt to get the puck from Roughriders players Mike Szmatula and Brandon Carlson at the Dubuque vs Roughriders game at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena on January 8, 2013.  (Kaitlyn Bernauer/The Gazette-KCRG9)

Video: RoughRiders fall to Sioux Falls 6-4

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – The RoughRiders gave up the first three goals of the night and trailed Sioux Falls 3-0 on the way to a 6-4 loss at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena Saturday night. The loss snapped a two-game win streak for the ‘Riders, which are 20-25-7 on the season. Sioux Falls has the [...]

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Gerry Mayhew's first-period shot beats sprawling Waterloo goalie Eamon McAdam last night. (Gazette/KCRG photo by Justin Torner)

RoughRiders blast Waterloo, 6-2

3-goal 1st period keys Cedar Rapids in dominating performance

CEDAR RAPIDS – They may not make the United States Hockey League playoffs. Honestly, it’d be a minor miracle if they do at this point. But the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders will always have Saturday night. The night they, quite frankly, kicked the crap out of their biggest rival. Dylan Gareau had two first-period goals, the [...]

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Doug Leaverton (left) scraps with a Green Bay Gamblers opponent in this 2009 RoughRiders game. (Gazette/KCRG photo by Jim Slosiarek)

Leaverton returns to the RoughRiders…as a coach

Former player now a volunteer assistant with the team

CEDAR RAPIDS – Doug Leaverton was working as a server in a restaurant back home in suburban Cleveland when he read on the Internet that the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders had run out of assistant coaches. Travis Winter left the club to take a head coaching position in the NAHL. Phil Tetzlaff was relieved of his [...]

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