The Upper Midwest High School Elite League start play at NAHL Showcase on Friday. The league will play their third weekend of games at the showcase held at the Super Rink in Blaine, MN. Team Northeast plays Team Northwest at 5:45 and at 8:15, the Shattuck-St. Mary’s prep team will debut their season playing their first UMHSEL game against Team Southwest at 8:15.
Thursday night, the High Performance Hockey League U16’s took the ice to open a tourney that most Minnesota fans should want to see. The 10 team U16 tourney matches top ranked High Performance League teams against all-star teams from Wisconsin and Illinois; a Minnesota Elite D all-star team, and two wild card teams, the Artic Lions from Fairbanks, AK and the summer team from the Twin Cities area, the Minnesota Blades.