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.
The Iowa Heartlanders won a pair of overtime games over the weekend over the Cincinnati Cyclones, the top team record wise in the ECHL. Both wins were 4-3, including Sunday afternoon when defenseman Matt Murphy scored in OT on a breakaway.
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.
The Iowa Heartlanders have dug themselves an early season hole. Which made a tough 4-3 shootout loss Sunday afternoon to Kalamazoo at Xtream Arena even tougher.
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.
Third baseman Christian Encarnacion-Strand, who played 74 games for the Cedar Rapids Kernels before getting promoted and eventually traded, is the 2022 Midwest League Most Valuable Player.
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.
Cole Stallard had a hat trick, as the Iowa Heartlanders won for the first time this ECHL season, 7-2, Sunday afternoon over the Fort Wayne Komets. The Heartlanders went into Sunday with an 0-6 record.
The Iowa Heartlanders blitzed the Fort Wayne Komets in an ECHL game, 7-2.
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.
Former Cedar Rapids RoughRiders defenseman Riese Zmolek made his professional hockey debut last season, spending the majority of his time in the ECHL with the Iowa Heartlanders. He hopes that experience helps he and his team in year two.
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