CEDAR RAPIDS – The boys of winter are headed home. A lot earlier than they have in years. It’s been since the inaugural 1999-2000 season that the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders haven’t played a United States Hockey League postseason game. This [...]

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 – 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 [...]

If you have experience coaching hockey and are looking for a good opportunity, contact Mark Carlson and the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders. The Riders are down to zero official full-time assistant coaches after Phil Tetzlaff was dismissed from the staff this week. Lead assistant Travis Winter left the club recently to take a head coaching job [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – If the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders fail to make the United States Hockey League playoffs for the first time since their inaugural 1999-2000 season, they might look back at this stretch as the reason why. A gigantic seven-game homestand has been a gigantic disappointment thus far, including a 3-0 loss Saturday night to Green [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – No shenanigans Friday night at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena. Sorry if that’s what you were looking for. Just a huge third period that gave Waterloo a 7-3 win over the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders before 3,001 fans at the Ice Arena. You wondered how much of the physical stuff would go on between [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – You break a mirror, you’re supposed to be due seven years of bad luck. You break a glass partition in your own penalty box, it’s apparently seven minutes. And it wasn’t really bad luck that accounted for three second-period goals in that span that led to a 4-1 Cedar Rapids RoughRiders’ loss Saturday [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – You’d figure most guys wouldn’t be able to sleep because of apprehension and excitement. Not Judd Peterson. The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders forward ZZZZed his way right through the biggest moment of his hockey life thus far: getting taken in last June’s NHL Draft by the Buffalo Sabres. “I didn’t want to put much hype [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – It seemed an incredibly innocous act, but it made a huge impression on his coach. Clark Kuster took the time recently to move a heavy table in the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders locker room that had a full cooler of Gatorade on top of it. That was all in order to pick up and throw away [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — The nickname “Suitcase” fits David Goodwin really well. That’s what his previous teammates have been calling him, and the dude has a lot of previous teammates considering this is his third season in the United States Hockey League and now his third team. The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders picked him up in a [...]