Jack Bostedt Named Goaltender of the Year
April 22, 2026 - 03:55 pm
PEORIA, IL – The Peoria Rivermen, in conjunction with the SPHL, have announced that goaltender Jack Bostedt has been named the league’s goaltender of the year for the 2025-26 season.
Jack Bostedt, a native of Janesville, Wisconsin, led all SPHL goaltenders in goals-against-average (1.58), save-percentage (.946), and shutouts (5) during the 28 games of action he saw in the 2025-26 regular season. Bostedt finished the year with a 17-7-2 record and allowed the least amount of goals of any qualified goaltender in the SPHL this year. Bostedt also allowed the fewest goals by a qualified goaltender in the SPHL this season.
A former standout at the College of St. Scholastica, Bostedt is in his second full season (third overall) of professional hockey, having played with the Rivermen last season after being called up from the Athens Rock Lobsters of the FPHL. This is Bostedt’s first-ever Goaltender of the Year selection, and it marks the second year in a row that a Rivermen netminder has been named Goaltender of the Year. Bostedt joins Colby Muise, Eric Levine, and Kyle Rank as goaltenders for the Rivermen who have been named Goaltender of the Year in the SPHL.
The Rivermen are on the road this weekend as their semifinal series shifts to Knoxville, Tennessee, for Games Three and Four on April 23 and 24. Thursday’s game will take place at 7:30 pm ET at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum, while Friday will see the Rivermen take on the Ice Bears for the fourth game of the best-of-five series at 7:30 pm ET. If necessary, Game Five will be back at Carver Arena in Peoria on Sunday, April 26, at 3:15 pm. The series is currently tied 1-1.
