The LATAM Cup was just part of a whirlwind 2024-25 season. Puerto Rico’s men’s team won the 2025 Development Cup, a six-team tournament sanctioned by the International Ice Hockey Federation for its associate member nations that was held in Canillo, Andorra, in April. Puerto Rico went 5-0-0 and outscored host Andorra, Brazil, Greece, Liechtenstein and Portugal 52-5.
“It was just a huge jump for a lot a lot of guys that had been playing on the team for a while to get that kind of exposure, and it was nice to win the whole thing, too,” said Rick Rodriguez, a defenseman from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, who captained the Development Cup team. “For a lot of the older guys, we know what it means when you put that jersey on, representing your heritage and being able to do it in another country, especially with the fan base they had in Andorra. A lot of them were trying to meet us and learn about Puerto Rico.”
Puerto Rico’s women’s team earned a silver medal in the IIHF’s inaugural Women’s 3×3 Series in Sao Paulo, held November 7-13. Puerto Rico lost 7-3 to Argentina in the championship game in a tournament that also featured host Brazil and Colombia.
“It was definitely a different style because we were playing 3×3, which means there was less rooms for mistakes, and there were different rules,” said Allegra Jenkins, a 16-year-old forward/defenseman from Exeter, New Hampshire. “But it was super fun. We got to represent Puerto Rico in a new way since this was the first 3×3 event, and it was a great honor.”
The Puerto Rican men won gold and the women took silver at the 2025 Amerigol LATAM Cup Spring Classic, hosted by the Vegas Golden Knights at America First Center in Henderson, Nevada, the practice facility of Vegas’ American Hockey League affiliate, March 19-22.
Puerto Rico men’s and women’s squads were among 16 teams representing 12 countries at the Dream Nations Cup at the Rink at American Dream in East Rutherford, New Jersey, held May 27-June 1. PRHIA teams also participated in the Challenger Series in Chicago and Montreal May 8-July 13. The men faced Greece, Jamaica and Lebanon. The women’s bracket included Greece and a team comprised of players from across North America.