If you know anything about Mark Carlson and his approach to the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders junior hockey program he has built over 23 seasons here, you know there wasn’t much of a celebration of his 750th career coaching victory this past Saturday night.
Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids RoughRiders
Minor League Sports Feb. 2, 2023 2:13 pm2d ago
Mark Carlson has been the only coach the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders have had since their inception into the United States Hockey League in the 1999-2000 season. Carlson won his 750th career game Saturday night as his Riders beat Muskegon .
Minor League Sports Jan. 24, 2023 11:44 am11d ago
Iowa Heartlanders defenseman Bo Hanson set a franchise record for games played when he spent three seasons of junior hockey with Muskegon of the USHL. Then it was five seasons of college hockey at three different schools. As a pro, he’s been property of three ECHL franchises already.
Minor League Sports Jan. 23, 2023 10:50 am12d ago
Cliff Broxey of Cedar Rapids is a season-ticket holder for Cedar Rapids RoughRiders home hockey games and attends practice multiple times a week at ImOn Ice. The 73-year-old man loves the RoughRiders, and they love him right back.
Minor League Sports Jan. 16, 2023 2:01 pm19d ago
Defenseman Eric Pohlkamp of the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders has had one heck of a month on the ice. He was part of a United States national team that won a gold medal at the World Junior ‘A’ Challenge, was to take part in Monday night’s BioSteel All-American Game in Michigan, was included on NHL Central Scouting’s Mid-Term Rankings of potential NHL draft pick. He’s also had two hat tricks and leads the USHL in scoring by defensemen.
Minor League Sports Jan. 9, 2023 3:06 pm26d ago
The Iowa Heartlanders are last in the ECHL’s Central Division in large part due to lack of success in close games. Meanwhile, the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders are on a heater, winning their last five games and going 7-2-0-1 in their last 10.
Minor League Sports Jan. 5, 2023 9:43 pm30d ago
Brendan and Riley Fitzgerald are part of a true hockey family, their fathers front-office guys for their respective National Hockey League clubs. The first cousins grew up playing together and have been reunited this season as members of the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders.
Minor League Sports Jan. 3, 2023 1:15 pm32d ago
Anthony DeAngelo played for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders as a 14 and 15-year-old in 2010-11. The Philadelphia Flyers defenseman is giving back to the community where his career really began as part of a “Tony D Saves For The Children” promotion.
Dec. 30, 2022 3:37 pm36d ago
The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders stampeded past the Chicago Steel in a United States Hockey League game, 7-2.
Minor League Sports Dec. 28, 2022 10:28 am38d ago
The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders resume the United States Hockey League season Wednesday night at home against the Chicago Steel. The club has been holding its own despite not having its intended lineup available for any games so far this season.
Minor League Sports Dec. 23, 2022 8:39 am43d ago
Riders and Youngstown Phantoms meet Feb. 23 at Cleveland’s First Energy Stadium
Minor League Sports Dec. 19, 2022 5:08 pm47d ago
The Iowa Heartlanders have played an ECHL-high 10 games that have gone beyond regulation this season. They’ve only one three, though that third one came in their last game, a Saturday night thriller over Kalamazoo.
Minor League Sports Dec. 28, 2022 2:39 pm38d ago
Jacob Kraft drove with his mother from their home in Rochester, N.Y., to Cedar Rapids to fully move in with his local billet family in preparation for the 2022-23 Cedar Rapids RoughRiders season. Mom made him get checked out medically after he complained of a sore throat, with the diagnosis being mononucleosis, which kept him out the first month of the USHL season.
Minor League Sports Dec. 12, 2022 6:57 pm54d ago
Cal Burke made his National Hockey League debut last week with the Colorado Avalanche. As a member of the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders in the 2014-15 season, he played on a forward line with Ross Colton and Adam Gaudette. All three can say they made it to The Show.
Minor League Sports Dec. 5, 2022 4:22 pm61d ago
The Iowa Heartlanders are in the midst of a five-game road trip to Canada in which they play at Quebec and Newfoundland. It’s not the worst roady head coach Derek Damon has been part of.