Recruits 2026 and Beyond

[stereax]

NEW COMMIT ALERT

Ryland Randle.

Helluva name.

5'10", 170 lbs. Dman in the USHL, about half a PPG. Sounds like he could come in next year.

How many dmen do we have??

[scoop85]

NEW COMMIT ALERT

Ryland Randle.

Helluva name.

5'10", 170 lbs. Dman in the USHL, about half a PPG. Sounds like he could come in next year.

How many dmen do we have??

Formerly committed to ASU.

Since he'll be 20 in May, I assume he'll be arriving in the fall.

[chimpfood]

Michael Dec and Cal Hughes finish their season with the dreadful Erie Otters. Dec closes at 68 points in 62 games this season behind 3 tonight. Hughes ends with 23 points in 58 games. Both should come in for us next year.

Also coming to a merciful end is Baie Como Drakkar's season. Aiden Kirkwood (just turned 18) posted 10 points in 60 games, and Declan Wotton (still 16) put up 6 points in 28 games.

All are forwards.

Defenseman Sam Peckham finished up his high school career at Edina and is now with Waterloo in the USHL. Three games (as the seventh defenseman) so far no points.

I'll try to post stuff for our other juniors guys when their seasons end, but everyone else in the CHL is on to playoffs, USHL still has a few more regular season games.

[BearLover]

Seems some of us have already started looking ahead to next year 

[ursusminor]

Seems some of us have already started looking ahead to next year 

Am I allowed to?

[stereax]

Seems some of us have already started looking ahead to next year 

Am I allowed to?

you? always.

but it's good to keep an eye on our prospects in any case.

[The Rancor]

Michael Dec and Cal Hughes finish their season with the dreadful Erie Otters. Dec closes at 68 points in 62 games this season behind 3 tonight. Hughes ends with 23 points in 58 games. Both should come in for us next year.

Also coming to a merciful end is Baie Como Drakkar's season. Aiden Kirkwood (just turned 18) posted 10 points in 60 games, and Declan Wotton (still 16) put up 6 points in 28 games.

All are forwards.

Defenseman Sam Peckham finished up his high school career at Edina and is now with Waterloo in the USHL. Three games (as the seventh defenseman) so far no points.

I'll try to post stuff for our other juniors guys when their seasons end, but everyone else in the CHL is on to playoffs, USHL still has a few more regular season games.

Thanks for keeping up with all of this and sharing.

[sah67]

Michael Dec and Cal Hughes finish their season with the dreadful Erie Otters.

I'm just sad we didn't manage to snag their teammate (and Erie PIMs leader), Ritter Coombs, who looks like he came straight from central casting for the role of "goon" in the next reboot of Mighty Ducks:

[Pghas]

everything has changed so much in the last 18 months - since they opened up the Canadian Junior leagues to NCAA, nobody gets committed out of prep school anymore.  Totally makes sense - there have been so many recruits who get to the ju hors level and it just doesn't work out for them.  Since success in juniors seems to correlate much more closely with NCAA success it makes much more sense to just recruit kids - sometimes a bit older kids - from juniors.  Just means that kids will have to decide playing college hockey is the most important thing they want to do in life and go play juniors during or after high school. Smart kids less willing to do that without a commitment.

[BearLover]

everything has changed so much in the last 18 months - since they opened up the Canadian Junior leagues to NCAA, nobody gets committed out of prep school anymore.  Totally makes sense - there have been so many recruits who get to the ju hors level and it just doesn't work out for them.  Since success in juniors seems to correlate much more closely with NCAA success it makes much more sense to just recruit kids - sometimes a bit older kids - from juniors.  Just means that kids will have to decide playing college hockey is the most important thing they want to do in life and go play juniors during or after high school. Smart kids less willing to do that without a commitment.

You're probably closer to this than I am, but I'd be surprised if that's a big factor. If you're good enough to be recruited by an Ivy or any other D1 school, then you're almost certainly thinkings juniors, even before a commitment. Also, schools can and do talk to kids while they're in prep school even if they don't offer commitments.

[stereax]

Michael Dec and Cal Hughes finish their season with the dreadful Erie Otters.

I'm just sad we didn't manage to snag their teammate (and Erie PIMs leader), Ritter Coombs, who looks like he came straight from central casting for the role of "goon" in the next reboot of Mighty Ducks:

hayden stavroff

[BearLover]

Michael Dec and Cal Hughes finish their season with the dreadful Erie Otters. Dec closes at 68 points in 62 games this season behind 3 tonight. Hughes ends with 23 points in 58 games. Both should come in for us next year.

Also coming to a merciful end is Baie Como Drakkar's season. Aiden Kirkwood (just turned 18) posted 10 points in 60 games, and Declan Wotton (still 16) put up 6 points in 28 games.

All are forwards.

Defenseman Sam Peckham finished up his high school career at Edina and is now with Waterloo in the USHL. Three games (as the seventh defenseman) so far no points.

I'll try to post stuff for our other juniors guys when their seasons end, but everyone else in the CHL is on to playoffs, USHL still has a few more regular season games.

Dec appears to be a very good recruit. We have an extremely good hit rate with our St. Andrews pipeline...hopefully Syer at Princeton doesn't eat into it too much.

I think recruiting is a bit lacking otherwise, given that the bar has been raised with the pool of players massively expanding.  We'll see.   

[stereax]

Michael Dec and Cal Hughes finish their season with the dreadful Erie Otters. Dec closes at 68 points in 62 games this season behind 3 tonight. Hughes ends with 23 points in 58 games. Both should come in for us next year.

Also coming to a merciful end is Baie Como Drakkar's season. Aiden Kirkwood (just turned 18) posted 10 points in 60 games, and Declan Wotton (still 16) put up 6 points in 28 games.

All are forwards.

Defenseman Sam Peckham finished up his high school career at Edina and is now with Waterloo in the USHL. Three games (as the seventh defenseman) so far no points.

I'll try to post stuff for our other juniors guys when their seasons end, but everyone else in the CHL is on to playoffs, USHL still has a few more regular season games.

Dec appears to be a very good recruit. We have an extremely good hit rate with our St. Andrews pipeline...hopefully Syer at Princeton doesn't eat into it too much.

I think recruiting is a bit lacking otherwise, given that the bar has been raised with the pool of players massively expanding.  We'll see.   

To be fair, our senior class is tiny and only 2 of them are daily lineup players - DeSantis and O'Brien, both of whom you can replace with, say, Arseneault/Murray (or Dec/Hughes) and Gorski/Wolfenberg/whatever other dmen we have because we have like 5 extra. The more pressing concern from a "next year recruit" standpoint is the center depth if either of Walsh or Casty (or both) go. In either case, I'm sure we'll figure it out.

[chimpfood]

Michael Dec and Cal Hughes finish their season with the dreadful Erie Otters. Dec closes at 68 points in 62 games this season behind 3 tonight. Hughes ends with 23 points in 58 games. Both should come in for us next year.

Also coming to a merciful end is Baie Como Drakkar's season. Aiden Kirkwood (just turned 18) posted 10 points in 60 games, and Declan Wotton (still 16) put up 6 points in 28 games.

All are forwards.

Defenseman Sam Peckham finished up his high school career at Edina and is now with Waterloo in the USHL. Three games (as the seventh defenseman) so far no points.

I'll try to post stuff for our other juniors guys when their seasons end, but everyone else in the CHL is on to playoffs, USHL still has a few more regular season games.

Dec appears to be a very good recruit. We have an extremely good hit rate with our St. Andrews pipeline...hopefully Syer at Princeton doesn't eat into it too much.

I think recruiting is a bit lacking otherwise, given that the bar has been raised with the pool of players massively expanding.  We'll see.   

To be fair, our senior class is tiny and only 2 of them are daily lineup players - DeSantis and O'Brien, both of whom you can replace with, say, Arseneault/Murray (or Dec/Hughes) and Gorski/Wolfenberg/whatever other dmen we have because we have like 5 extra. The more pressing concern from a "next year recruit" standpoint is the center depth if either of Walsh or Casty (or both) go. In either case, I'm sure we'll figure it out.

Our recruiting seems to signal that Castagna and Walsh both might go. We have three senior forwards but at least four forward recruits coming in. And we already have a big roster so unlikely we're adding extra guys just for the hell of it.

I hate to say it, but I also wouldn't be surprised if we lose one or two defensemen that we're expecting to stay too. We lose one to graduation, and look poised bring in two, even though we already have Gorski and Wolfenberg as solid depth. I'm not sure we would add Randle last minute unless there was word of a new departure, but we'll see.

[BearLover]

Michael Dec and Cal Hughes finish their season with the dreadful Erie Otters. Dec closes at 68 points in 62 games this season behind 3 tonight. Hughes ends with 23 points in 58 games. Both should come in for us next year.

Also coming to a merciful end is Baie Como Drakkar's season. Aiden Kirkwood (just turned 18) posted 10 points in 60 games, and Declan Wotton (still 16) put up 6 points in 28 games.

All are forwards.

Defenseman Sam Peckham finished up his high school career at Edina and is now with Waterloo in the USHL. Three games (as the seventh defenseman) so far no points.

I'll try to post stuff for our other juniors guys when their seasons end, but everyone else in the CHL is on to playoffs, USHL still has a few more regular season games.

Dec appears to be a very good recruit. We have an extremely good hit rate with our St. Andrews pipeline...hopefully Syer at Princeton doesn't eat into it too much.

I think recruiting is a bit lacking otherwise, given that the bar has been raised with the pool of players massively expanding.  We'll see.   

To be fair, our senior class is tiny and only 2 of them are daily lineup players - DeSantis and O'Brien, both of whom you can replace with, say, Arseneault/Murray (or Dec/Hughes) and Gorski/Wolfenberg/whatever other dmen we have because we have like 5 extra. The more pressing concern from a "next year recruit" standpoint is the center depth if either of Walsh or Casty (or both) go. In either case, I'm sure we'll figure it out.

Our recruiting seems to signal that Castagna and Walsh both might go. We have three senior forwards but at least four forward recruits coming in. And we already have a big roster so unlikely we're adding extra guys just for the hell of it.

I hate to say it, but I also wouldn't be surprised if we lose one or two defensemen that we're expecting to stay too. We lose one to graduation, and look poised bring in two, even though we already have Gorski and Wolfenberg as solid depth. I'm not sure we would add Randle last minute unless there was word of a new departure, but we'll see.

I've read the same tea leaves as you and had the same interpretation. I'm a bit  confused because neither Fegaras nor Stanley is going to play in the NHL in the near future. I don't think they'll necessarily even get contract offers...? They're very good college players but the NHL doesn't seem to be in the cards. Or does Casey expect some players to transfer out?