Terriers hit the ice on Thursday in their first practice
for the 2019-20 season, which opens on October 5 at Union College. 15 holdovers
join 13 newcomers (11 freshmen and two graduate transfers) on the BU roster.
— Paul Pearl (@bupearl1) September 5, 2019
Looking
ahead
2020 recruit Jay O’Brien's second consecutive three-assist
game in BCHL Penticton’s 5-2
exhibition win over Brooks. Cade Webber got on the score sheet with an
end-to-end rush to set up a goal by Tristan Amone, Ty Amonte’s younger brother.
O’Brien scored his third pre-season goal in Saturday’s 6-3 defeat of Brooks and
leads the Vees with nine points in four pre-season games. The BCHL regular season begins
on Friday, Sept. 6.
►2021 recruits Tyler Boucher, Jeremy Wilmer and Roman Schmidt (photo) begin their NTDP careers on Saturday and Sunday as the U17s take on the NAHL Johnstown Tomahawks.
►Several
Terriers prospects made strong impressions at the recent River Rats Jamboree in
Canton, Mass. New
England Hockey Journal offered assessments:
U-18
Division:
Quinn Hutson (#2 among forwards)
No. 27 North Jersey Avalanche, 1/1/02,
RW/LW, right shot, 5-10/180
NCAA commit: Boston University
Hutson
scored and made plays for his linemates here. He has a good stick and hunts
pucks. He also showed the ability to play his off wing at times. No one in the
entire jamboree outside of Jefferies made more plays, despite his team losing
all three games.
U-16
Division
Devin Kaplan
No. 21 North Jersey Avalanche, 1/10/04, C/RW, right shot,
6-2/189
NCAA commit: Boston University
Kaplan, who played up
with this team last year, is physically mature and able to use his size and
brute strength to his advantage. He has a hard shot and is heavy on pucks. He’s
a NTDP 40-man camp invite for sure, but if his skating and hockey sense can
improve a little, he’ll be even more highly regarded.
Lane Hutson
No. 23 North Jersey Avalanche, 2/14/04, D, left shot,
5-7/120
Hutson is on the smaller side, but his ability to
retrieve pucks and transition from defense to offense are elite skills. He’s
smooth and can escape trouble. He has offensive instincts and should make the
NTDP Evaluation Camp.
►Last season, Quinn Hutson (2021), Kaplan (2022) and Wilmer formed the top-scoring line for the nationally-ranked North Jersey Avalanche
16Us . Lane Hutson, Quinn’s younger brother, is a 2022 recruit who
played for HoneyBaked Bantams last year, who will join Kaplan on this season's 16U Avs’ squad.
►TPE Hockey has ranked Kaplan #10 on its Top 20 under 17 ranking
(Instagram
video, #21).
►At the ECC Labor Day Cup, Quinn Hutson's strong performance led the Avs' U18s to a 4-1 win in the final, with Hutson scoring
a goal. NEHJ:
Hutson is the offensive catalyst for North Jersey. He has good speed which he uses to recover pucks, drive the net, and draw penalties. He’s able to find seams in opposing defenses and exploit them. He scores and he also makes really good passes from down low after hunting pucks.
►NEHJ also interviewed
2020 recruit Braden Doyle who will play at USHL Dubuque this season following three
seasons at Lawrence Academy. The left-shot defenseman, selected by Los Angeles
in the sixth round of the 2019 NHL entry draft, pointed out that “BU was always
my dream school growing up. Growing up in Lynnfield, 15 miles north of Boston,
I went to games and watched players like Jack Eichel (North Chelmsford, Mass.).
Scott Young (Clinton, Mass.), one of the coaches on my Minuteman Flames team
and the father of Tyler Young, whom I played with at Lawrence and on the
Flames, brought us to some BU games. It was an unreal experience to go there
and see the campus. Plus, I like the city. And BU – you couldn’t ask for a
better hockey school. I know the coaches pretty well, and I know it will be a
good spot for me.”
Doyle was the Spartan’s top-scoring defenseman last year
with 29 points (5G, 24A) in 28 games. He is joined on the Fighting Saints
roster by Mark Cheremeta, who skated for BU last season, and has expressed
interest in returning to Comm. Ave in 2020.
The blueliner was named recipient
of the John Carlton Memorial Trophy in 2018-19, given annually by the Boston
Bruins to outstanding student athletes in Eastern Massachusetts junior hockey –
past winners include Bruins forward Charlie Coyle in 2010. During the 2015-16
season, Doyle was a teammate of current freshman Robert Mastrosimone on the
Shattuck St. Mary’s bantams.
●
LAKings.com profile
Looking
back
SIGNING ALERT: The #Coyotes
have signed F Clayton Keller to an eight-year contract extension. As per @craigsmorgan,
it carries a $7.15 million AAV...
Follow all the deals on
our FA Tracker: https://t.co/JGzYiodt23
#TSNHockey
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—
TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) September
4, 2019
Five
former Terriers are in Hockey East’s Four Seasons Club: four seasons in Hockey
East AND four seasons (>60 games) in the NHL. Can you name them? All 35 in
conference history are here.
Max
Willman, a grad transfer on last season’s Terriers has signed on with ECHL
Reading, joining the previous season’s grad transfer, Drew Melanson, on the
Royals’ training camp roster.
● Royalshockey.com
report
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