Northern Colorado Eagles

The Northern Colorado Eagles were a junior team in the United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL). They played in Greeley, Colorado at the Greeley Ice Haus. The team was established as an expansion team for the 2013-14 season.
==History==
The Colorado Junior Eagles began play in the 2013-14 WSHL Season. The team has been coached by Steve Haddon since it’s inception. In its first year, the team had played its games in EPIC in Fort Collins, Colorado. However, the team announced that it was moving its home games to the NoCo Ice Center in Windsor, Colorado for the 2014-15 Season after closing out their inaugural year at the NoCo Ice Center. The team also had a game at the Budweiser Events Center against the Cheyenne Stampede in the 2015-16 season as a part of a special double header with the Colorado Eagles.
The team has had relative success since joining the league, making the Mountain Divisin finals every year. In the 2015-16 Season they qualified for their first ever Thorne Cup finals, which they lost to the Idaho Jr. Steelheads 3 games to 0. They returned to the Thorne Cup Finals tournament in 2016-17, where they failed to win a round robin game and were eliminated.
Despite losing the series, John Olver, coach of the now Idaho IceCats, has said that the 2015-16 Jr. Eagles team was the best team he has ever gone up against in his tenure as head coach.
The Junior Eagles are the only organization in the WSHL to have a player sign a professional tryout contract. Levi Weber signed a tryout contract with the Colorado Eagles of the ECHL.
On June 6, 2018 the organization announced they were relocating to the Greeley Ice Haus in Greeley, Colorado and would be renamed the Northern Colorado Eagles.
The team would be announced as joining the United States Premier Hockey League's Premier league for the 2020-21 season.https://www.usphl.com/news_article/show/1101391
The team finished their final season in 2023. Team ownership opted to start a new team, the Colorado Grit, for the 2023-24 season.
==Season-by-Season Records==
===Western States Hockey League===
Season 	GP	W 	L 	T	OL	SL	Pts	GF 	GA 	Standing 	Div. Quarterfinal 	Div. Semifinal 	Div. Final 	Conf. Final 	Final
2013–14	46	27	17	-	2 	0 	56 	195	150	3rd Mountain	n/a 	W (2-0) Cheyenne Stampede 	L (0-2) Phoenix Knights	— 	—
2014–15	46	29	13	-	4 	0 	62 	207	117	3rd Mountain	n/a 	W (2-0) Cheyenne Stampede 	L (0-2) Ogden Mustangs 	— 	—
2015-16	52	43	7 	-	2 	- 	88 	325	126	1st Mountain	bye 	W (2-0) Superior Roughriders 	W (2-1) Ogden Mustangs 	W (2-1) Oklahoma City Blazers	L (0-3) Idaho Jr. Steelheads
2016-17	52	38	11	-	3 	- 	79 	213	120	2nd Mountain	bye 	W (2-0) Utah Outliers 	W (2-1) Ogden Mustangs 	n/a 	Thorne Cup Final Round Robin (0-3)
L (1-3) Valencia Flyers 
L (5-6) Wichita Jr. Thunder 
L (1-3) Ogden Mustangs
2017-18	51	32	12	-	7 	- 	71 	235	124	3rd Mountain	W (2-0) (Cheyenne Stampede)	L, (1-2) (Ogden Mustangs) 	— 	 	
Season 	GP	W 	L 	T	OW	OL	Pts	GF 	GA 	Standing 	Div. Quarterfinal 	Div. Semifinal 	Div. Final 	Conf. Final 	Final
2018-19	50	28	19	-	1 	2 	88 	209	149	3rd Midwest 	— 	L, (0-2) Oklahoma City Blazers	— 	— 	-
2019-20	51	30	13	-	4 	4 	102	201	136	2nd Midwest 	Playoffs Cancelled 	Playoffs Cancelled 	Playoffs Cancelled 	Playoffs Cancelled 	Playoffs Cancelled
===United States Premier Hockey League-Premier===
Season 	GP 	W 	L 	OL 	SL 	GF 	GA 	Pts 	Finish 	Playoffs 	 	
2020-21	49 	28 	19 	2 	- 	173 	153 	58 	2nd Mountain 	Lost Division Semifinal 	 	
2021-22	50 	29 	20 	1 	- 	171 	137 	59 	3rd Mountain 	Lost Division Final 	 	
2022-23	52 	23 	25 	4 	0 	183 	162 	50 	4th Mountain 	Lost Division Quarterfinals 	 	
2023-24	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team	Unable to play due to arena being taken by another team
==Refernces==
Category:Established in 2013
Category:Western States Hockey League team
Category:USPHL teams