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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Give them a little something for the effort. Maybe half a standings point? That’s not allowable, of course, but the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders deserve something after a tough 4-2 loss to Dubuque on Saturday night before 3,367 fans at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena. Massively short-handed up front because of injury and illness, the [...]