Games of Dec. 1-5, 2023   Week of Dec. 7, 2023   Summaries by Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    Forward: Mason Moore, Connecticut Jr. Rangers  Moore (‘04/Lititz, Pa.) continues to show his growth within the Rangers’ NCDC program, with whom he is skating for a third year. Moore registered two goals over their weekend series […]

Week of Nov. 22   Games of Nov. 14-20, 2023   Summaries by Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    Forward: Henri Spoof, Mercer Chiefs Spoof (‘03/Jyvaskala, Finland) was all over the scoresheet on both games, as Mercer and the Jersey Hitmen split a pair of 5-2 games. In the Chiefs’ win, Spoof posted two goals and […]

All games of September and October taken into statistical account.    Summaries By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com   Forward: Tyler Broad, P.A.L. Jr. Islanders  Broad (‘03/West Seneca, N.Y.) continues to make history for P.A.L., but anything individual has only come on the heels of making history by helping the team win their first Dineen Cup […]

Week of Oct. 25, 2023   Games of Oct. 17-23, 2023   Forward: Ty Broad, P.A.L. Jr. Islanders  Broad (‘03/West Seneca, N.Y.) tied for the league lead in points this past week, registering six points in two games as the Jr. Isles swept the Mercer Chiefs. He posted a goal and two assists for three […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    The Connecticut Jr. Rangers were back on the construction site right after the end of their 2022-23 season. But you wouldn’t find wood and drywall here – it was all about culture. The Jr. Rangers are looking at building a program that players see as the obvious step for […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    Another year at Chelsea Piers Connecticut in Stamford? Sign him up, said Jextinian Sheffield, who will play in his third straight NCDC season with the Connecticut Jr. Rangers here in 2023-24.  “Chelsea Piers Connecticut is one of the nicest, cleanest, and most well-taken-care of rinks in the country,” Sheffield […]

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. […]

By Joshua Boyd / USPHLNCDC.com    We’ll be taking time over the month of June to look at how some NCDC teams are working on building their 2023-24 squads through the acquisition of tenders, commitments from returning players and past draft selections they continue to evaluate.  The Connecticut Jr. Rangers are looking to break through […]

The Connecticut Jr. Rangers are back to the ice, but you won’t see much else in common with the 2021-22 team. Head Coach Jim Henkel has gone in and flipped the house to get a mostly new crew – except for a few key veterans on defense – to better meet his on-ice and overall […]

Over five years, the USPHL’s National Collegiate Development Conference has proven itself as a strong feeder to the NCAA Division I ranks and also to NHL franchises. Nearly 200 NCDC players have committed to Division I institutions, and the league has also seen seven NHL Draft picks of current or former players in the last […]