RoughRiders

  CEDAR RAPIDS - There are two things you really notice by watching a hockey game up close and personal from the penalty box. The first is the speed. Holy cow, these kids get up and down the ice. Then there’s how much they stink. No offense, boys, but there is no more “distinct” odor in athletics than in [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — You keep waiting for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders to take off, just like they always seem to do. But we’re heading toward the home stretch of the United States Hockey League season, and it hasn’t happened, yet.   At this point, you’ve got to wonder if it will.   “There are no [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – It took three years, but Stu Wilson has become a fan favorite at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena. Whenever the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders center has the puck, the chant of “Stuuuuu” goes up. Sometimes when he doesn’t have the puck, too. “It’s unbelievable,” Wilson said. “I don’t really notice it as much during the [...]

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By Al Gruwell, Correspondent CEDAR RAPIDS — Impressive debut; more impressive, a total team effort. Cedar Rapids RoughRider newcomer Andrew Poturalski, called up from the Buffalo Jr. Sabres, scored two goals and added an assist, as the RoughRiders defeated Dubuque, 6-3, before 2,764 fans at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena Friday night. The team effort [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — In the grand scheme of things, Nick Saracino is alive. He’s not playing hockey in that big rink in the sky. That’s not meant to make light of the automobile accident the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders’ center was involved in two weeks ago. It was a bad one that could have been worse. [...]

MEDIA ADVISORY USHL teams to have 64-game regular season schedule in 2012-13 Chicago, IL – The United States Hockey League today announced that the USHL Board of Directors has approved an increase in the League’s regular season schedule from 60 to 64 games beginning with the 2012-13 season. Each USHL Member Club will play 32 [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — The readings on the radar gun seemed a little low at first, so it was decided the guy holding it would move closer than his normal perch behind the glass next to the goal judge’s booth. It’s a tad unnerving, to say the least, to sit on the ice directly behind the net [...]

By Al Gruwell, Correspondent CEDAR RAPIDS — The tipping point in hockey is usually how well a team performs with or without a man advantage. The Youngstown Phantoms scored three even-strength goals in a furious five minutes to down the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders, 4-3, Saturday night at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena. Cedar Rapids (16-14-8) [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — The matter is closed, done, over, kaput. At least that’s what Cedar Rapids RoughRiders CEO Jeff Jauch hopes after speaking Thursday with United States Hockey League Director of Game Operations/Referee In Chief Scott Brand regarding derogatory comments Brand made on Facebook about the RoughRiders. “Here’s the story,” Jauch said. “Those were his words, [...]