2013-14 USHL Season

This is the 2013-14 United States Hockey League season. This is the league's 53th season overall and the league's and the leagues 35th season as strictly a junior league. The league operated with 16 teams in two-eight team conferences. Each team played 60 games. The Waterloo Black Hawks won the Anderson Cup as the team with the best record during the regular season. The Clark Cup playoffs begin on April 10th.

On November 26, 2013 the league had announced the addition of the Madison Capitols for the 2014-15 season and they will play at  Veterans Memorial Coliseum Alliant Energy Center.

On April 9, 2014 the league announced an expansion team to be known as the Bloomington Thunder will be added as an expansion team for the 2014-15 season. The city had a team by the same name playing in the Southern Professional Hockey League for the 2013-14 season. The team will be based out of the U.S. Cellular Coliseum.

On May 4, 2014 the league announced the Indiana Ice received permission of the league to sit out the 2014-15 season due to arrival of the ECHL expansion team, the Indy Fuel.

Standings
Eastern Conference Team                      GP  W  L OTL GF   GA  P  y-Indiana Ice              60  42 11 7  233 141 91 x-Cedar Rapids RoughRiders 60 35 21 4  195 183 74 x-Dubuque Fighting Saints 60  33 23 4  201 186 70 x-Green Bay Gamblers      60  30 24 6  183 176 66 Muskegon Lumberjacks      60  30 25 5  190 212 65 Team USA                  60  30 25 5  246 233 65 Chicago Steel             60  29 27 4  179 195 62 Youngstown Phantoms       60  17 37 6  172 230 40 Western Conference Team                      GP  W  L OTL GF  GA   P  z-Waterloo Black Hawks     60  44 11 5  240 153 93 x-Omaha Lancers           60  39 14 7  213 141 89 x-Sioux City Musketeers   60  38 19 3  202 157 79 x-Sioux Falls Stampede    60  34 19 7  197 175 75 Lincoln Stars             60  24 28 8  175 219 56 Des Moines Buccaneers     60  20 32 8  154 208 48 Tri-City Storm            60  21 35 4  153 217 46 Fargo Force               60  14 39 7  122 229 35 x-clinched playoff birth y-clinched division title z-clinched league title

Format
The top four teams in each conference qualify for the playoffs. The 1st seed plays the 4th seed and the 2nd seed plays the 3rd seed. All playoff series are best-of-five.

Western Conference Semifinals

 * Waterloo defeated Sioux Falls three games to none, 7-4, 6-3, 7-2
 * Sioux City defeated Omaha three games to one, 4-3 (ot), 2-1, 3-4 (ot), 4-2

Eastern Conference Semifinals

 * Indiana defeated Green Bay three games to one, 2-0, 5-6, 1-0, 1-0
 * Dubuque defeated Cedar Rapids three games to one, 2-1, 5-6, 1-0, 7-3

Western Conference Finals

 * Waterloo defeated Sioux City three games to one, 3-2, 3-1, 3-4 (ot), 5-1

Eastern Conference Finals

 * Indiana defeated Cedar Rapids three games to none, 4-1, 3-2, 3-2

Clark Cup Finals
The Inidana Ice wins the Clark Cup.
 * Indiana defeated Waterloo, three games to two, 2-4, 3-2 (2ot), 4-1, 2-7, 3-2)