Thursday, August 01, 2024

2nd UPDATE: Commitment period for 2008s begins; High-end NTDP RD Luke Schairer commits and is joined by 5-star center Tynan Lawrence

The Terriers second 2008 commitment is Tynan Lawrence from Fredricton, New Brunswick. The 6’0”, 168 lb., left-shot center was tendered byUSHL Muskegon, where he’ll play this season. Last month, it was reported that he had made visits to BU, BC and North Dakota.

Rated at 5-stars by Puck Preps and 4.5 stars by NeutralZone, Lawrence spent the previous two seasons at Shattuck St. Mary’s. Last season with the 16U AAA squad he rang up a 22-27-49 scoring line in 50 games; the previous year with the 14Us, he produced 93 points (37G,56A) in 56 games. In each of the seasons he had just four penalty minutes.

Like future teammate Luke Schaier, he participated in the Youth Olympic Games with a 2-2-4 line in four games.

If the name and home town sound familiar, it’s because his older brother, Josh, was briefly a Terrier commit in 2018 before opting to play for St. John’s in the QMJHL. He now plays in Switzerland.

The Grand Forks Herald had Tynan as its #6 prospect among 2008s.

Tynan Lawrence, F, Fredericton, N.B.: Lawrence is another top-end Canadian player who is keeping the NCAA option open. He signed a tender with Muskegon in the USHL, just like fellow Eastern Canadian forward Sacha Boisvert, a first-round draft pick headed to UND. Lawrence has a lot of tools — speed, skill and strength. He’s already a physically mature player. Some scouts wonder if he could play in the NCAA a year early.

NeutralZone profile

Tynan Lawrence, F, Shattuck St. Mary’s, 4.5 Star Prospect, Tendered with Muskegon Lumberjacks (USHL), Quartexx

Lawrence was one of the most sought after prospects this fall by USHL teams and ultimately signed a tender with Muskegon in the USHL. After a strong season at Shattuck St. Mary’s where he played up a year at the 16s level and averaged nearly a point per game has a skillset that translates at higher levels; he’s smart, he’s balanced, he’s mature in his puck decisions and play away from the puck, he’s skilled with possession and a dual threat as a finisher or distributor. He was a man against boys as a bantam at Shattuck and when he played up this season he proved he can handle higher pace and bigger prospects but wasn’t as dominate and junior hockey will be an even bigger transition for him so ideally schools would want to see him a bit more but teams can’t afford to wait around if they want a chance at this 4.5 star centerman out of New Brunswick who went 10th overall in the QMJHL Draft to Chicoutimi. Keep in mind that while all signs point to NCAA his brother Josh also flirted with NCAA coming out of South Kent where he committed to Boston University only to ultimately return home and sign with St. John (QMJHL) and compiled over 300 points in his QMJHL career.

PuckPreps scout Austin Robson describes Lawrence as “a very skilled and refined player who I had ranked #1 for the 2024 QMJHL Draft.” LINK

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●  Elite Prospects Page

● Instagram Announcement

 

 

Terriers’ first commitment is from Luke Schairer, one of the top defensemen in the 2008 birthdate class. A 6’3” 174 lb., right shot defenseman from Charlotte, N.C., he was named to the 2024-25 NTDP U17 roster after a standout season with the Mount Saint Charles 15-0 squad, putting up 41 points (5G,36A) in 52 games.

Schairer also played for the gold-medal US squad in the 2024 Youth Olympic Games (1-2-3 in 4 games) and earned praise as the tournament’s top blueliner. He was coached at the YOG by Terrier All-American Matt Gilroy.

Neutral Zone profile:

Schairer continues to develop and expand his skill set and over the course of the season went from a bubble NTDP prospect to arguably the best defensive prospect in the United States. He’s got the size, mobility, strength and stout defensive instincts. He makes high percentage plays with the puck – rarely turns it over and doesn’t panic under forecheck pressure. He’s calm, calculated and makes the right play. Defensively he’s detailed, positional and strong on his edges and on his stick to ride opponents off pucks, box out in front of the net and take away second chance opportunities. A future pro who plays a game that will translate at higher levels and will have his pick on August 1st of where he wants to go.

Grand Forks Herald’s Brad Schlossman posted: The player in this class with the top NHL potential could be Schairer, a 6-foot-3 defenseman who can skate and defend.

His MSC coach, Scott Gainey says: “I’ve coached a lot of really, really good defensemen. He’s up at the top of them,” adding that he projected Schairer to someday be a first- or second-round pick in the NHL Draft.

NEHJ: “He’s a high-end, two-way defenseman who got rave reviews at the NTDP Evaluation Camp. So it was no surprise he made the team. He does everything really well.”


Puck Preps observation at USA Hockey National 15-O championships:

What makes Schairer so impressive is his ability to move around the ice as efficiently as he does for such a big and young player. He was pretty active in transition right from the opening draw, carrying the puck up ice with immense confidence and activating whenever he could. His impressive skating stride allowed him to gain separation from opposing defenders in the neutral zone and gain the blue line. He showed good offensive instincts off the rush as well, driving the middle of the ice so that the two defenders would converge on him before dropping a pass to a teammate who had plenty of space to operate in. He was quite aggressive at the offensive blueline as well, of gluing himself to the boards to thwart off the glass dump outs or pinching down low to neutralize any opposing breakout attempts along the half wall.

● Elite Prospects Page

● Instagram announcement


►►2008 birthdate skaters and goalies can make their commitments beginning today. Check back for reports of commitments to @TerrierHockey.

The Terrier coaching staff will look to deliver another strong recruit class.  A year ago, BU scored multiple high-end commits early on and then continued to build the class  into a special one.

Charlie Trethewey- USANTDP by Just Say Guay
Five 2007-birthdate recruits are among The Athletic's Scott Wheeler's early top 28 for the 2025 NHL Entry Draft: #8 defenseman Charlie Trethewey (photo); #10 defenseman Sascha Boumedienne, who will join the Terriers this season; #17 forward Conrad Fondrk; #20 forward Jack Murtagh; and #27 defenseman Carter Amico. A sixth 2007 commit is highly regarded Canadian forward Zach Morin.

That group will come to Comm Ave in September 2025, along with four 2006 recruits: forwards Jack Pridham, Callum Hughes and John McNelis and goalie Mikhail Yegorov,  a second-round pick by New Jersey in last month's entry draft.

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