YEAR 14! Toby O’Brien - Director, Trent Whitfield - Coach Providence Bruins, Matt Plante - Coach Brown, Janine Weber - Coach Holy Cross, Matt Creamer - Coach Stonehill, Tommy Cross - Dev. Coach Columbus Blue Jackets, Graham Johnson NCAA Coach…3 Groups Ages 12-14, HS, Jr / NCAA

It's that time of year to announce one of New Englands best and most traditional Tier I events - The 6th Annual Paul D. Merritt Holiday Classic in Providence (RI) - Paul was one of the best! Lifelong Buffalo Sabres scout and friend to all! overspeedhockey.com/holiday-classic

What's really cool is two organizations - Express Hockey Club & us working together - we helped him go there as we don't have an EHL Premier club and they they returned him to us for his Eastern Hockey League season! Doing the best for the individual player #WherePlayersComeFirst

The "Comeback Player-of-the-Year" & 2nd leading scorer (missed 1/2 the season!)...looking to be the the Eastern Hockey League 's best! 2025-26 HCRI #ThePlaceToBe

Catch Head Coach James Mello of HCRI and the RI Hockey Academy with the one and only Jake Basile

All-State Defenseman and Captain of Barrington (RI) High School, Cody Wood joins us for the 25-26 season! #OceanStateOriginal Eastern Hockey League

It will ALWAYS be a PLAYERS 1ST GAME HERE at HCRI!! If that is of interest to you...do your own homework...don't listen to the noise - INVEST IN YOURSELF! 25 Players - No trades - No adds and drops - No up and downs - Bus travel - No lies...just #PlayersComeFirst

Wishing everyone a happy and safe Memorial Day! May we remember those who paid the ultimate price for the freedoms and privileges we have today. #WherePlayersComeFirst

#WelcomeAboard Trey Knott of the Washington Little Caps - looking forward to having you join the HCRI Family! Eastern Hockey League

🏒 taps and goodluck to Cayden Primeau, the 2015-16 EHL Goalie of the Year and Rookie of the Year, as he leads Laval Rocket into the AHL’s Eastern Conference Finals. The ‘99 netminder has won 3 of his 4 postseason starts in the playoffs, and owns a .924 save percentage to his

Welcome back Ru! A key member of the blue line and an “all situations” defenseman looks to make big contributions all around in his sophomore season! Eastern Hockey League

Always happy! Congrats Evan!!

For today’s Ladder of Development, we feature Andrew Blanchard, EHLP All Star turned SUNY Potsdam commit in a matter of a year. We recapped his juniors journey and his first year at the NCAA level, so take a look at the full story! Link in bio #WherePlayersComeFirst |

Congrats to our sister organization OverSpeed Hockey continuing to grow the game and lead in hockey development, worldwide! Pretty cool stuff!

Welcome back Colin!! What a great person and family, hurt in game 2 of season, out for year with surgery, kept in touch regularly…came out to our 1st round of playoffs with his Dad, just to be part of the team! The way it should be - old fashioned commitment! Eastern Hockey League

#OceanStateOriginal - Welcome aboard to a 1st Team RI High School All-State Goaltender from Prout Hockey - This is the 2nd RI High School 1st team all-state player we have signed this year, joining Barrington’s Cody Wood! #whosnext Eastern Hockey League

2000!!! That is PRETTY AWESOME!! #chaseyourdream

Wishing all a happy and safe 4th of July! #WherePlayersComeFirst | #DevelopPromoteAdvance

No Dan = no junior hockey & SO MUCH MORE…one of the truly good guys, who just kept plugging along to do good things for the game & many who played…not for the reasons people do it in 2025…let’s try & get back to doing it the right way…privileged to call him a friend! #RIPDan