Historical index of Neutral Zone scouting reports will now live on player profile pages on Elite Prospects
Rutland, VT and Stockholm, Sweden – Neutral Zone, LLC and Elite Prospects today announced a web integration partnership that will unite two of the most popular hockey websites in the amateur scouting community.
Elite Prospects will now host links to the full database of Neutral Zone reports as far back as 2016 on the site’s player profiles. These new links can be found in the player’s Elite Prospects profile under the Media and Articles section. Players will now be able to confirm when and where they were evaluated by Neutral Zone with links to their reports now added to their profiles. Concurrently, Elite Prospects player data – including draft status, transfer records, awards and season-by-season stats – will also live on Neutral Zone player profiles.
“This is a partnership we are excited about,” said Neutral Zone’s director of scouting, Brendan Collins. “Elite Prospects has been the hockey statistics industry leader for many years and the millions of hockey fans and professionals who visit the site is a natural audience for Neutral Zone’s scouting reports. We have a wealth of historical scouting reports as far back as 2016 that we felt would be of great interest to both a professional and amateur hockey audience. We hope this exchange of data is just the beginning, as we continue to make the experience more streamlined for all hockey fans.”
“Elite Prospects and Neutral Zone share a vision,” said Peter Sibner, president of Elite Prospects and ESMG North America, Inc. “We are both committed to aggregating timely, accurate statistics of hockey players. Adding Neutral Zone’s inventory of scouting reports was an easy decision. We recognize that this partnership will deliver a positive impact for both professional and amateur hockey fans worldwide with unparalleled access to insights about past and present amateur hockey players indexed on Elite Prospects.”
Launched in 2016 by Steve Wilk and Brendan Collins, Neutral Zone is a first-of-its-kind hockey scouting and news site that identifies ranks, and profiles NHL, CHL, NCAA (Div. 1 & Div. 3), Canadian Interuniversity Sport (USports), junior, midget, high school, prep and bantam hockey prospects from across North America. The innovative site leverages top-quality, unbiased scouts to profile players and track their progress throughout their amateur careers. The company has grown to over 80 scouts, located in every major hockey market in North America covering both men’s and women’s hockey.
Elite Prospects is one of the world’s largest hockey sites and offers an international database of hockey players, teams, leagues and statistics. Since Elite Prospects was founded in Sweden in 1999, the site has grown to become an encyclopedia for hockey fans, active practitioners and professionals in the hockey industry from around the world. The site has an average of 1.4 million unique visitors per week and surpassed one million players in the Elite Prospects database this past year.
