NA3HL Weekend Preview

November 12, 2021

The NA3HL continues regular season play with 31 games on the schedule from Friday through Sunday this weekend.

With the season over a third of the way over, teams are jockeying for position in the standings in preparation for the NA3HL Showcase next month.

The top teams have separated themselves from the pack at the top of the division as clinching a playoff spot becomes the next task at hand.

Just over a month remains until the 2021 NA3HL Showcase, which will take place at the Super Rink in Blaine, MN, from December 20-22.

All NA3HL teams will play three regular-season games at the Showcase, which is annually one of the most well-attended and scouted events of the entire season for the league, attracting college and junior scouts alike.

The 2021 NA3HL Showcase schedule will be released on Wednesday, December 1st and will pair up evenly matched teams against one another based on the current standings and is also designed to have cross-divisional games with balanced competition.

Three of the four remaining undefeated teams are in action this weekend, which includes a big series in the East as the undefeated and 1^st place Northeast Generals host the 2^nd place Long Beach Sharks. The undefeated and 1^st place Texas Brahmas are in action three times this weekend as they are in Austin to face the Ice Bats. The Helena Bighorns look to keep their perfect record alive with two road games in Butte and Great Falls this weekend. There is a full slate in the Central this weekend as all six teams are in divisional action, which began on Thursday with Oregon beating Milwaukee. In the West, division-leading Granite City as a home-and-home series with Willmar, while Alexandria puts their winning streak on the line this weekend in Mason City.

The NA3HL is in its 12th season in 2021-22 and serves as one of the top training grounds in the country by providing the best coaching, exposure and developmental vehicles available for student-athletes in Tier III junior hockey. It is one of only two USA Hockey-sanctioned Tier III junior leagues.

No other league of its kind has had more movement and advanced more players onto play in the North American Hockey League (NAHL) than the NA3HL. Thanks to additional and enhanced initiatives in cooperation with the NAHL put in place several years ago, more players from the NA3HL play, practice, and earn NCAA Division I scholarships with the NAHL than any other league.

This past season not only did 35 NA3HL players sign tenders to play in the NAHL for the 2021-22 season, but 21 more players were selected in the 2021 NAHL Draft. The NA3HL also continues to make its mark and is one of the leaders in junior hockey with the advancement of players onto the NCAA. So far in 2021, the NA3HL has over 100+ college commitments, with almost 70% of those being NCAA commitments. In addition, over 300 former NA3HL players are currently playing in the NCAA, and 13% of NCAA Division III freshmen this season previously played in the NA3HL.

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FRI, NOVEMBER 12

Texas RoadRunners at Mid Cities - 7:00 PM CST

St. Louis at Rochester - 7:05 PM CST

Peoria at Wausau - 7:10 PM CST

Granite City at Willmar - 7:10 PM CST

Texas Brahmas at Austin - 7:30 PM CST

Norwich at Bay State - 8:30 PM EST

New Ulm at Minnesota - 7:30 PM CST

Milwaukee at Oregon - 7:30 PM CST

Louisiana at El Paso - 7:00 PM MST