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Grizzlies coach-GM Branham leaves post with ECHL club for assistant coach position with AHL’s Eagles
September 14th, 2021Utah Grizzlies head coach and general manager Tim Branham is leaving the team to become an assistant coach with the AHL’s Colorado Eagles. Branham is the winningest and longest tenured head coach in Grizzlies history, compiling 284 victories over eight seasons in Utah. The Grizzlies reached the playoffs in six of the seven seasons where…
Fort Collins high school coach Strom takes position at NCAA D-I Michigan State
September 13th, 2021Michigan State University has announced that Dylan Strom has joined the NCAA Division I program as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2021-22 season. Strom is an active duty member of the Untied States Air Force and comes to MSU from Colorado, where he has served as a high school head coach. Strom was the…
Salt Lake City native Metcalf re-signs with ECHL’s Grizzlies for 2021-22 season
September 9th, 2021The ECHL’s Utah Grizzlies have signed goaltender Garrett Metcalf for the 2021-22 season, his second season as a professional. Last season with the Grizzlies, the Salt Lake City native went 4-4-0 with a 2.33 goals-against average and a .915 save percentage in nine games. Metcalf was named the ECHL Goaltender of the Week on April…
Boulder native, Monarch alum Richards excited to get ’21-22 rolling with NA3HL’s Quake
September 9th, 2021After graduating from Boulder High School and playing high school hockey for Monarch, Evan Richards hoped an opportunity would arise for him to play junior hockey starting with the 2021-22 season. That’s when the NA3HL’s Yellowstone Quake entered the picture. “(Yellowstone coach-GM) CJ Sweigart reached out to me after the CCM Showcase and I liked…
Colorado youngster Grasso bringing right skill set, attitude to USPHL’s Jets for ’21-22 season
September 8th, 2021Robert Grasso will be one of the youngest players with the USPHL’s Metro Jets next season, but that doesn’t mean he won’t make an impact. A native of Broomfield, Grasso is a 2004 birth year who spent the 2020-21 season playing 16U AAA for the USPHL’s Northern Cyclones organization. He came to the USPHL Detroit…
Colorado Springs Amateur Hockey Association welcomes Dessart as new executive director
September 8th, 2021Kevin Dessart has been named the new executive director for the Colorado Springs Amateur Hockey Association. As a former coach for the Colorado Springs Lady Tigers, Dessart has come home to lead CSAHA in its mission to provide outstanding youth hockey programs. Dessart has been playing, coaching, and working in hockey for over 35 years….
Mead native, Colorado high school hockey alum Brooker re-ups with USPHL’s Mullets for 2021-22 season
September 2nd, 2021This time last year, Matthew Brooker ventured away from his Mead home to play his rookie season of junior hockey for the USPHL’s Minnesota Mullets. Brooker was one of the younger players with the Mullets, but still developed his game in leaps and bounds over the course of 2020-21. “After the growth I made last…
Colorado youth hockey success story Conn advances to play with NAHL’s Wilderness in ’21-22
September 2nd, 2021After skating the 2020-21 season for the Colorado Thunderbirds’ 16U AAA team, Reid Conn entered the offseason with no concrete plans for the 2021-22 season. That’s when a Colorado connection from Minnesota stepped up to the plate. “(Minnesota Wilderness assistant coach) Brendan Phelps reached out to me in the summer asking what my plans were,”…
Vail couple makes donation to USA Hockey to support 2022 Olympic, Paralympic Winter Games
September 1st, 2021Vail residents Merv and Laine Lapin, longtime donors and friends of USA Hockey, have made a lead, gold-level gift to the USA Hockey Foundation’s Raise The Flag campaign in support of USA Hockey’s efforts in preparing teams for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. “We’re really proud to continue supporting USA Hockey,” said Merv…
Rampage alum Jacobs uses NAHL as springboard to NCAA hockey, commits to Wisconsin-Eau Claire
August 27th, 2021Peter Jacobs was born in Michigan, moved to the San Diego area and then billeted in Colorado during the last few years of his youth hockey career. The past two seasons, Jacobs has skated for the NAHL’s Austin (Minn.) Bruins and will head off again this fall after recently committing to NCAA Division III University…