Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids RoughRiders

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.

The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders stampeded past the Chicago Steel in a United States Hockey League game, 7-2.

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.

Riders and Youngstown Phantoms meet Feb. 23 at Cleveland’s First Energy Stadium

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alex Pirus played in the National Hockey League for the Minnesota North Stars and Detroit Red Wings in the 1970s. After his playing career, he found his calling as a chaplain for Hockey Ministries International. He conducts bi-weekly services for those interested Cedar Rapids RoughRiders players and personnel.

Dylan Hryckowian has six goals and eight assists in 14 games this season for the Cedar Rapids RoughRIders. His older brother, Justin, played for the club in 2019-20 and is having a great sophomore season for Northeastern University.

With their regular play-by-play broadcaster out sick, the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders turned to Josh Karnish and Andy Moore to call the club’s game this past Saturday night against Chicago. They’re players on the team.

Tyler Busch was acquired by the Iowa Heartlanders in an ECHL trade last week from the Fort Wayne Komets. He had three assists Sunday in Iowa’s first win of the season ... over Fort Wayne.

Defenseman Bryce Montgomery is a sixth-round 2021 draft pick of the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes. He played two-plus seasons of major junior hockey in Canada, but decided his best bet this season was to leave and come to the United States Hockey League and play, specifically the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders.

The regular seasons for both the Iowa Heartlanders and Cedar Rapids RoughRiders have begun. Here is a look at how things are going for the two hockey clubs that represent the Corridor.

Forward Zaccharya Wisdom had four goals and eight points in his first seven games of this United States Hockey League season. His second season with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders is off to a flying start.