Brown University Bears‘ 2022/2023 commit Ryan Bottrill(7) is putting up junior career highs for assists (35) and points (48) with goal scoring off by 3 at the moment for Maryland Black Bears in 41 NAHL games.
He scored 15 tallies last season with South Shore Kings of the USPHL/NCDC.
The 6’1″ 185 lbs., Scottsdale, AZ native exploded the scoresheet in his 2nd year at T1EHL 16U for close by home Colorado Thunderbirds 16U AAA, scoring 33 goals and 56 assists with a +69 rating.
He plays a big, power forward style that should fit in nicely as an ECAC freshman.
2 years in Rhode Island is enough for him, as he enters the transfer portal to next skate at Clarkson University Golden Knights, starting in his junior year.
We look for his style to continue to gain interest.
Maine Nordiques‘ 2nd NAHL year center Ryan Panico(8) commits to Trinity College Bantams for 2024/2025 after recording a junior career best 22 assists and 25 points.
He also has an overall +12 rating in the league.
The 6’1″ 190 lbs. 20-year old forward from Fairfield, CT is likely ready to get started competing NESCAC play.
Undrafted 4th year center Ryan Schmelzer(26) signs a new 1-year AHL deal with Utica Comets for 2021/2022 after spending the last three seasons skating for Binghamton Devils.
In 133 games he wracked up 23 goals and 32 assists.
The former four-year Canisius College Golden Griffiths standout got 40 goals and 66 assists in 143 NCAA Atlantic Hockey games with a quite massive +43.
Almost oddly, the Buffalo, NY native skated all his junior hockey at home for Buffalo Jr. Sabres in the Canadian OJHL and was a point per game player.
The 6’2″ 187 lbs. forward should be right at home playing his style for a new club, seeing as his team from New York went belly up after 2020/2021.
In 2021/2022, he becomes team captain and posts a new career best 18 goals and 32 points with a +6 rating, then comes away with another 2 points in 5 playoff games gets him a new deal to stay and keep grabbing points.
The word determination is definitely in his vocabulary, as he records a career high 29 assists and 35 points in his 2nd frame with the team and then goes on last season to score another 18 goals, adds new best 34 assists and 52 points with a +14 rating to earn himself a 2-year NHL deal with parent club, New Jersey Devils.
Cortland College Red Dragons‘ senior goaltender Jack Riedell(1) signs an amateur tryout offer with Rapid City Rush after posting a 12-3-0 record with 2.20 GAA and .935 SV% in 2023/2024.
The 6’3″ 191 lbs. backstop came from 3 very strong USPHL Premier seasons with the top-rated Charlotte Rush, earning a league best 1.61 GAA and .940 SV% in his final frame on a 25-5-0 record.
We look for him to do really well in the ECHL, if given the chance.
Maine Nordiques‘ 2nd year NAHL right wing Matthew Lewis(17) put up a junior best 11 assists and 14 points in 37 games to a 2024/2025 commit at Connecticut College Camels.
He had 3 goals this season, but 4 when he was with Philadelphia Rebels last season.
From Pembroke, MA, we think the 20-year old finds the net more often for points in NESCAC play.
Rochester Jr. Americans‘ 1st NAHL year right wing Matteo Disipio(11) commits to Mercyhurst University Lakers for 2024/2025 after scoring a fairly phenomenal 30 goals and 51 assists in 60 games with a +27 rating.
The 5’11” 161 lbs. forward played 2 CCHL junior seasons, tallying up more than point-per-game numbers.
From Nepean, ON, the 20-year old will do well in Atlantic Hockey.
6th year left wing Ryan Scarfo(39) gets mid-season ECHL trade to Worcester Railers from Savannah Ghost Pirates as his plus/minus maybe becomes a bit of a problem, but has a team that wants to bring him in.
The 6′ 190 lbs. forward has 4 assists in 11 games with his new team, fighting for a playoff spot.
He was a three-time assistant captain for Union College Dutchmen, scoring 20 goals and 16 assists in 39 games as a senior.
Just one season ago, he put up 12 goals and 22 assists for South Carolina Stingrays.
The 30-year old from North Chelmsford, MA is playing hockey close to home now and likely just needs a good team to continue his game with, but gets waived, only to be picked up quickly by Jacksonville Icemen, where he gets inserted immediately for a goal in his debut and now has 1 tally and 1 assist in 5 playoff games.
Brown University Bears‘ senior, captain Jordan Tonelli(27) has 3 goals and 4 assists in 14 games, which will flirt with his college bests he posted as a junior, 7 goals and 10 assists.
The 6′ 190 lbs. plays power forward style all the way.
He was decently solid through 2 years of USHL with Cedar Rapids RoughRiders.
Undrafted, the son of former New York Islanders, John Tonelli, we think he should transfer to a better school for a year, because that will make him a more desirable unrestricted free agent going forward.
He puts up 7 points in 16 games in his final year in R.I. and heads to RPI Engineers for a year of eligibility, which we definitely still think is a good idea.
Miami University (Ohio) Redhawks‘ senior center Matthew Barbolini(14) gets signed by Toronto Marlies to a 2-year deal, starting next season 2024/2025, but will join them on an ato to start.
In 3 games, the 6’2″ 205 lbs. forward has 1 assist in his last outing.
He left school with a new best 11 goals and tied his 25 points mark he set as a junior.
In 3 years of junior hockey, he twice recorded 15 assists and left his USHL team Lincoln Stars, scoring 16 goals.
Undrafted, the 23-year from Williamsville, NY certainly has a nice contract start for himself.
Goaltender, Aiden Wright(1) transferred a winning record (11-8-2) with 1st year NAHL team, New Hampshire Mountain Kings to a trade maybe facilitated by his new 2024/2025 commit club, University Of Vermont Catamounts to play the rest of his only junior season in the USHL for Youngstown Phantoms, where he ran an 13-5-2 record.
We look for the still young 18-year old 6’1″ 174 lbs. net minder from Wake Forest, NC do well at his new school.
