Prospects
2020 International Silver Stick: Top 130 from American Teams
Posted on May 24, 2020
2020 International Silver Stick Neutral Zone was in Port Huron, Michigan for the 58th annual Silver Stick Final in January. We posted a report on the top 2005 Ontario prospects we have seen. We used this event to gather a lot of that information. This report identifies the American prospects that stood out here on…
Colby Saganiuk goes the Otter Direction
Posted on May 21, 2020
Brian Murphy; Head of US Scouting’s Take: When Colby Saganiuk was taken at #37 in the 2019 OHL Draft by the Erie Otters, it turned some heads as he was on track to play for the U17 NTDP. Seemed high for a player that seemed to say all the right things as far as his…
Boston Imperials Sign a Pair to 18U Roster
Posted on May 19, 2020
The Boston Imperials Hockey Academy 18U at Matignon High School signed a pair of players on Tuesday. The Imperials signed 2003-born defenseman Andre Ducharme, who spent last season with the Northern Cyclones 16U team. “Ducharme does it all for the Cyclones organization,” said Neutral Zone scouts. “Despite being assigned to play D at the 14U…
USHL Draft Recap
Posted on May 8, 2020
Neutral Zone scouts have put together a USHL Draft recap breaking down a total of 110 picks from each team in both Phase I and Phase II. We provided background and scouting information on each team’s top selection in each draft as well as a good value pick and a sleeper pick. In most cases there were several players to choose from but we tried to spread it out among regions so each territory was represented.
Top 50 MIAA Sophomores We’ve Seen in 2019-20
Posted on May 7, 2020
This is Part 2 of our MIAA series in which we rank each of the classes across all three Divisions of Mass HS this past season. Many of you likely saw Mass HS Report 1 and Mass HS Report 2 – you will know that over the course of the season, we watched 75 MIAA…
Top 30 MIAA Rookies We’ve Seen in 2019-20
Posted on May 1, 2020
For those of you who are familiar with Mass HS Report 1 and Mass HS Report 2 – you will know that over the course of the season, we watched 75 MIAA games in-person and recapped them all for free on our MassNZ site (including EVERY Super 8 game). Both reports were at least 34,000…
Top 50 Uncommitted 1999s Updated
Posted on April 30, 2020
Neutral Zone released its Top 750 1999’s where the first 300 were ranked 1-300 and then the rest were listed in alphabetical order. While only 10 of the top 100 NCAA Eligible prospects were uncommitted we wanted to present the Top 50 NCAA Eligible Uncommitted prospects. We’ll be continuing this when we do the 2000,…
MAHA Bantam Festival 2004
Posted on April 19, 2020
This evaluation was originally written in July of 2017. We came across it doing some “house cleaning” and loved seeing all of the familiar names with their evaluations. We thought it would be interesting to look back at what our scouts said about them as Bantams.
Jake Bongo
Posted on April 17, 2020
Twenty years ago Jake probably would not have gotten a sniff of NHL attention, but that isn’t the case now. He’s got a high hockey IQ, great wheels, fantastic motor, is an absolute dog on a bone for the puck and is one of the most competitive players I saw in New England last year (2019-20). And by competitive I don’t mean he tries hard. I mean that it’s obvious that losing hurts his sole.
Matty Copponi
Posted on April 16, 2020
Matty was selected 8th overall in the American portion of the draft. Familiar names Timmy Delay went 1st overall, Declan Loughnane went 3rd, Jack Hughes went 6th and JP Turner 13th.
