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.
It was Field Trip Day at Xtream Arena on Wednesday, with the Iowa Heartlanders and Kalamazoo Wings partaking in an ECHL game that began at 10:35 a.m. Around 1,500 local elementary school kids attended the game, providing a unique atmosphere.
Ogden column: The ABA has awarded the Cedar Rapids Roadrunners a spot in the 2023 season, but history shows it may not - or may - land in downtown.
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.
Almost five years after the Cedar Rapids Rampage folded, indoor soccer is back in Cedar Rapids with a pair of home teams. The Iowa Demon Hawks and Iowa Raptors are competing in Major Arena Soccer League 2.
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.
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.
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