MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — The last week of the 2024-25 USPHL regular season saw all three Jets teams in action over the course of four days and seven games.
With two wins, the Jets Premier team claimed the Great Lakes Division regular-season title.
The MJDP team finished 0-1-1 and the Jets Elite team wrapped with a 1-2-0 mark.
Starting out Tuesday afternoon, the Jets Elite team fell 3-0 to the Motor City Gamblers at Big Boy Arena.
Goaltender Cam Cyrus finished with 17 saves in defeat.
For Motor City, Carl Mujagic, Billy Hamilton and Brandon Thomas scored and Phillip Tate turned aside all 25 shots fired his way.
Thursday at the Edge Ice Arena in Bensenville, Ill., the Jets Elite team lost 5-4 to the Chicago Crush on a late goal by John Martino.
Johnny Tackett had a goal and an assist for the Jets, while Justin Ward, Jarrett LaGrow and Tyler Dix scored to go along with 28 saves in goal from Brendan Dreisbach.
Vincent Cerrentano scored twice for the Crush, while Martino, Niko Dougan and Grant Paullo each had a goal and an assist.
Crush goalies Daniel Gurtner and Joseph Marturano combined to make 28 saves.
Also Thursday at the Edge Ice Arena, the MJDP team lost 5-4 in overtime to the Crush as Peter White was the OT hero 45 seconds into extra time after tying the game at 15:27 of the third period.
Ludovick Dussault scored twice for the MJDP team, while Chris Kobayashi had a goal and two assists and Ryan Jacobson added a goal. Eliot Duerr finished with 31 saves between the pipes.
Jason Gongol posted a goal and two assists for Chicago, DJ Long a goal and an assist, and Brennan Cazel added two assists as goalie Aidan Wysoglad stopped 26 shots.
Friday at Orbit Ice Arena in Palatine, Ill., Dix scored the game’s lone goal in a 1-0 win for the Jets Elite over the Crush.
Cyrus and Tabor Hatch combined to make 37 saves in goal.
Chicago goaltender Johnny Augusta turned aside 31 shots.
Also Friday at Orbit Ice Arena, the Crush defeated the MJDP team 4-0.
Will Belitski finished with 19 saves in goal.
Patrick Johansen pitched a 27-save shutout for Chicago.
William Kenny had a goal and an assist, while Gongol, Nathaniel Zimmerman and Ryan Brown scored and Jace Levine collected two assists.
Friday night at Mount Clemens Ice Arena, Jack Schnur posted a goal and three assists and AJ Zaccagni scored twice to pace the Jets to an 8-1 win over the Cincinnati Jr. Cyclones.
Sutton Majeske, Jack Noonan and Miran Janezic each went for a goal and an assist, Pierce Ashcroft added three assists, Jake Taylor and Luka Pivec chipped in two assists apiece, and Alek John and Brycen Smith also scored.
Jets goalie Rostislav Efremov made 17 saves, only allowing a Zach Lehman goal at 7:10 of the third period.
Cincinnati goaltenders Carson Balow and Caleb Whitson made 42 saves.
Closing out the regular season Saturday night, the Jets beat the Fresh Coast Freeze 7-1 at Griff’s Ice House West in Holland to secure the Great Lakes Division regular-season championship.
Zaccagni scored twice, Donovan Ascencio scored once with two assists, and Taylor added three assists.
Jack Rivera and John each posted a goal and an assist, while Majeske and Evan Cote scored one each and Ashcroft tacked on two assists.
In goal, Austin Muirhead finished with 26 saves.
Tyler Noblett recorded the lone Freeze goal and goaltender Elijah Smith Verwys made 45 stops.
The USPHL playoffs starts this coming weekend, with just the Jets for sure earning a first-round bye. The schedules for the MJDP and Jets Elite teams are still to be determined.
All USPHL games are available at FloHockey.tv.
