Two
current Terriers and a pair of incoming freshman are among the 120
draft-eligible players who will attend the NHL Combine in Buffalo beginning
tomorrow. Freshmen Jack Eichel and AJ Greer (photo) were ranked #2 and #69 respectively
in the final NHL Central Scouting draft rankings, while 2015 recruits Jakob
Forsbacka-Karlsson and Jordan Greenway were ranked #31 and #47 respectively.
●
NHL.com report and invitee list
College
Hockey Inc. reports
that 25 of the combine invitees are current or future college players.
On
Thursday night, Eichel officially received the 2015 Hobey
Baker Memorial Award at the Baker Foundation’s annual awards dinner in St.
Paul. Eichel is the 34th recipient of the award given to the top NCAA hockey playing and the third Terrier to be honored with it. Chris
Drury won the award in 1998 after having been a finalist the previous year.
Matt
Gilroy won the award in 2009, culminating a season in which he led BU to
the national championship. Gilroy was among a group of past winners who
attended the banquet.
From
left: former BU captain Chris Connolly, former BU goalie Peter Fish, Coach Jack
Parker, Jack Eichel, Coach David Quinn, and former BU forward Peter Donatelli,
and former BU captain and Hobey Baker Award winner Matt Gilroy.
During
the banquet, former Coach Jack Parker delivered a tribute to the late Yale
coach Tim Taylor, who was named a Hobey Legend of
Hockey, the honor bestowed upon Parker a year ago.
● GoTerriers.com report and photo gallery
● GoTerriers.com report and photo gallery
● Hobey
Baker bio
● Year-by-year Hobey Baker Award winners and finalists
►NHL.com’s
Mike Morreale offered up a comparison
of Eichel and former Maine star Paul Kariya, the only other freshman to win the
Hobey Baker Award.
►Recently
hired Sabres coach Dan Bylsma talked
with WGR Radio about Eichel whom he’d recently coached during the IIHF
World Championships in which Team USA took home a bronze medal and Eichel was
the team’s third leading scorer.
Meanwhile, Terrier Associate Head Coach Steve Greeley told WGRZ-TV
in Buffalo that the freshman forward who led Division 1 in scoring with 71
points, is ready to make the jump to the NHL.
►
Greenway was a recent guest on The Pipeline Show’s “Draft Spotlight” segment. (Audio)
Looking ahead
Three
future Terriers were named to All-USHL
teams. 2015 recruit Maxim Letunov (photo), who scored 64 points (25G, 39A) for
Youngstown, was named to the second team. Drafted in the second round of the
2014 NHL draft by St. Louis, the Moscow native’s rights were traded to Arizona
this season. 2015 recruit Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson and 2016 recruit Kieffer Bellows
were named to the third team. Forsbacka-Karlsson, a playmaking center from
Sweden, tallied 53 points (15G, 38A) in 50 games for Omaha. Bellows, who had
previously been named the USHL’s Rookie of the Year, set a USHL Tier 1 era
record for goals by a 16-year-old with 33. That production helped Sioux Falls capture the league’s
Clark Cup championship.
2015 recruit Max Prawdzik, the Brooks School goalie who led his team to the New England Prep Large School Championship, spoke with the Eagle Tribune about his decision to play his collegiate hockey at BU
● THFB report on Prawdzik commitment
Looking back
The Toronto Sun noted that former Terrier wing John Hynes is a candidate for the vacant New Jersey Devil head coaching job. A member of BU's 1995 national championship team, Hynes has been head coach of the Penguins' AHL club in Wilkes Barre/Scranton for the past five seasons.
● Hynes profile
UPDATE: TSN's Bob McKenzie reporting that Hynes appears to be the front-runner. New Devils GM Ray Shero knows Hynes well from his days running the Penguins' organization.
● THFB report on Prawdzik commitment
Looking back
● Hynes profile
UPDATE: TSN's Bob McKenzie reporting that Hynes appears to be the front-runner. New Devils GM Ray Shero knows Hynes well from his days running the Penguins' organization.
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