That’s after the second phase of the United States Hockey League draft Tuesday. The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders took 27 players in an elongated, seven-hour draft that didn’t conclude until after 11 p.m. The club selected seven other guys with 1997 birthdates in the first phase of the draft Monday. Possible returning players from this season whose [...]

(Reuters) – The Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings will face off against the Anaheim Ducks at Dodger Stadium next January, theNational Hockey League announced on Monday. The game is the latest addition to the NHL’s Stadium Series, which will kick off on New Year’s Day with the Winter Classic between the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs at Michigan Stadium. The series will also [...]

The winning goal in Game 1 of the Blackhawks’ first-round series against the Wild was a thing of hockey beauty. It started with a puck-separating hit behind the Hawks goal by Andrew Shaw, continued with an otherworldly pass from Johnny Oduya to a streaking Viktor Stalberg in open ice and finished with Bryan Bickell taking [...]

TORONTO (Reuters) – The playoffs for a National Hockey League (NHL) season that nearly never was open on Tuesday with memories of a bitter labor dispute all but forgotten in favor of an intriguing race for the Stanley Cup. A compacted 48-game schedule that began in January with NHL players and owners apologizing to disgruntled fans and promising [...]

Former Cedar Rapids RoughRiders players Stu Wilson and Tommy Fallen were important members for a Yale men’s hockey club that won the NCAA Division I national championship Saturday night over Quinnipiac, 4-1. Quinnipiac won the three previous games this season, but Yale got the most important one, winning its first ever school championship in men’s [...]

I love hockey, as you haven’t probably guessed by now. I love collecting autographed hockey cards, too, which is what this column is about. This is all about enforcers, or “cement-heads,” as my wife likes to call them. They are protectors for their other teammates and eager brawlers on the ice. Some of the better [...]

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 — 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 [...]