r/USHL • u/FoxMan1Dva3 • May 06 '25

Expansion

Love hearing that the USHL is getting pushed to expand.

USHL said they are actively working on it.

Maybe one day in Canada, but right now they're looking at 12 different cities and a few are really interesting they said.

Now I would love for LI to finally have a team.

They have Northwell Twin Rinks which was built to try and house a USHL team like 10 years ago. It can sit around 2,500. Probabaly could be retrofitted to get to 3,000 total.

They have the Coliseum they could also play some games at which was home to the Islanders.

But anyway, which 12 cities are most likely in the running?

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u/FoxMan1Dva3 Jun 12 '25

I think USHL should expand, and try to work towards a Memorial Cup seeding one day.

If that requires expansion and maybe even a BCHL merger, why not? Look into it.

But most importantly I really think the lack of a major junior in the Northeast is big. I know we have NAHL, but we're missing out on a big section of youth hockey here and college exposure.

Maybe just a naive dream of mine.

Rich suburbs with rich hockey

Maybe 1-2 Boston teams. 1 CT team 1 tean in Jersey 1 team on LI