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 […]