The National Collegiate Development Conference, the Tier II conference of the United States Premier Hockey League, is proud to announce its 2024 All-Star Game Event, which will be played January 15, 2024, at Agganis Arena on the campus of Boston University in Boston, Mass.  The NCDC All-Star Game, featuring the top players from the NCDC’s […]

Reposted with permission of the College Of The Holy Cross Holy Cross Men’s Hockey junior Thomas Gale was named Atlantic Hockey Goaltender of the Week, as announced by the league on Monday. Gale backstopped the Crusaders to their back-to-back shutouts of Bentley University this weekend, tallying his second and third collegiate shutouts. Gale recorded 23 […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    From first look, it appeared that Anthony Allain-Samake might follow the typical hockey track of so many in his home province of Quebec. As a second-round QMJHL major junior draft pick, he was high on the radar of teams at that level.  However, Allain-Samake wants to give himself more […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLPremier.com   The USPHL and the Idaho Falls Spud Kings (currently of the National Collegiate Development Conference) congratulate former Spud Kings forward Landon Wright for recently making his NCAA Division I commitment to the University of Maine, which competes in the Hockey East. His commitment marks the first for a current […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    You certainly won’t hear Cameron Lund complaining about anything hockey-wise. It’s been going really well for the ‘04 out of Bridgewater, Mass., for many years now.  He is coming off a fantastic freshman year for Northeastern University, with whom he was named to the Hockey East Association All-Rookie Team. […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com  Wayne, New Jersey’s own Mickey Burns loves the home he has made in Erie, Pa., as a student and hockey player for Mercyhurst University, where he has resided since 2021. Of course, two years might not seem like a long time when you think of the first 20 years of […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    The first year of NCAA hockey for Rockets Hockey Club alum Sam Lipkin could not have gone any better. He was named the ECAC Rookie Of The Year and to the All-Rookie Team, and he helped Quinnipiac first win the ECAC Hockey Championship and then later, the ultimate prize, […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    It’s never a bad idea to up the level of your goals once initial goals have been attained. That is certainly an approach that has paid dividends for former Boston Junior Bruin and current College of the Holy Cross Crusader Mack Oliphant.  “Coming into the season last year, I […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Mo., may be a long and convoluted trip from Bedford, N.H., but for Cade DeStefani, it is the path that paid great dividends in his hockey career thus far.  Growing up in New Hampshire, it’s no surprise that he and his family were attracted […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    College hockey players all over the United States are deeply indebted to a former Yale tennis player, and probably 99 percent of them don’t even know it. It was Malcolm Greene Chace who was introduced to hockey on a tennis trip to the border city of Niagara Falls, N.Y. […]