Rockets Hockey Club


The Rockets Hockey Club, are a Tier II junior ice hockey team from Bridgewater, New Jersey. The Rockets play their home games at the Bridgewater Sports Arena.

History

The New Jersey Rockets youth hockey organization was formed in 1970 to serve as a local developmental program. The club later reached an arrangement with the New Jersey Devils of the NHL for the use of the Meadowlands Arena and later the Prudential Center. In the early part of the 21st century, the Rockets expanded their footprint with the addition of a junior franchises to both the Metropolitan [Junior Hockey League] and the Atlantic Junior Hockey League. This team was a founding member of the AJHL was it was organized in 2004. When the AJHL merged with the Eastern Junior Hockey League in 2013, the Rockets then became founding members of the successor league, the Eastern Hockey League. In 2016, the MJHL franchise withdrew and joined the EHL's Elite division. One year later, New Jersey left the EHL and joined the rival United States Premier Hockey League with their upper club joining the National Collegiate Development Conference and the lower club becoming members of the Premier Division. That same year, a third franchise was created and joined the USPHL's Elite Division. The entire organization rebranded as the Rockets Hockey Club in 2019.
The organization previously fielded a team at the Tier III former Junior B level in the Metropolitan Junior Hockey League and in the EHL-Elite Division. The organization also fields a women's team in the New England Women's Junior Hockey League, and youth hockey select teams at the Midget U18, Midget 16U, Bantam, Peewee, and Squirt and Mite levels and girls teams at the U14, U16, and U19 levels.

Season-by-season records

SeasonGPWLOTLSOLPtsGFGARegular season finishPlayoffs
2017–18506422—149625311th of 11, NCDCDid not qualify
2018–195019247—451491899th of 12, NCDCDid not qualify
2019–205015287—3716020412th of 13, NCDCDid not qualify
2020–21443554—74176802nd of 6, South
2nd of 13, NCDC		Won Div. Semifinal series, 2–0
Won Semifinal, 10–2
Lost Championship, 2–5
2021–224929146—641851562nd of 6, South
2nd of 13, NCDC		Won Div. Semifinal series, 2–0
Lost Div. Finals series, 1–2
2022–2350261932571961873rd of 7, South
7th of 13, NCDC		Lost Div. Semifinal series, 0–2
2023–2452212362501641943rd of 6, Atlantic
12th of 18, NCDC		Lost Div. Semifinal series, 1–2
2024–2554262341571621614th of 7, Atlantic
12th of 22, NCDC		Won Play in Series, 2–0
Lost Div. Semifinal series, 0–3

Alumni

The Rockets have produced a number of alumni playing in higher levels of junior hockey, NCAA Division I, Division III college and professional programs, including: