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Merrimack College Warriors‘ junior left wing Devlin O’Brien(15) chooses to head to Stonehill College Skyhawks for his senior year, 2024/2025 after playing a college best 30 games, scoring 3 goals and 5 assists.

The 5’11” 185 lbs. forward had failed to score through just 13 games in his 1st 2 years.

He barely played 1 session of juniors during the COVID crisis before heading to school, but did come off 2 really good seasons of St. Andrews College.

From Toronto, ON, the 22-year old will continue to work hard to earn points.

Undrafted, left wing Zach Dubinsky(32) takes a fairly solid season for RPI Engineers, scoring 10 goals and 10 assists in 44 NCAA Division 1 games to a new adventure through the transfer portal for his junior year with Michigan State University Spartans.

The 5’8″ 185 lbs. forward agreed to head to his 1st school after a decent USHL campaign with Lincoln Stars was evolving, but decided to head back to juniors despite a decent campaign.

He definitely took scoring to another level, grabbing a point-per-game 14 goals and 20 assists in 32 games.

The 22-year old from Deerfield, IL will likely do very well at his new hockey home.

His dad Steve Dubinsky(18) played NHL hockey for 375 games, 9 years.

He finishes up a senior year at a 3rd school, University Of Vermont Catamounts, where as assistant captain, he has a decent enough frame.

For his rookie year, he signs a 1st pro contract with Iowa Heartanders, not too far from home.

2nd year right wing Matt Barry(26) takes a phenomenal frame at Germany3 for Rostock Piranhas, scoring 23 goals and 48 assists in 42 games to a new deal with Glasgow Clan for 2023/2024.

The 6′ 180 lbs forward twice had 15 assists at Miami University (Ohio) Redhawks.

He also did 1 year at Holy Cross College Crusaders before entering the transfer portal for his sophomore session.

The Naperville, IL native was also a very successful assist guy in 2 years NAHL (36), then USHL (37) junior hockey before college.

We think the 28-year old will also do quite well scoring in the EIHL.

He does ok for himself with 10 goals and 21 assists, but something isn’t right, so he opts out of playing and quickly accepts a job as assistant coach with Tri-City Storm of the USHL.

After a pair of years tending net for University Of Alabama-Huntsville Chargers‘ goaltender David Fessenden(41) has decided to step it up a level on a good opportunity through the transfer portal to join University Of New Hampshire Wildcats for some tough Hockey East action.

He had a tough outing as a freshman in limited use but last season, despite the poor 3-11-1 record basically looked to keep his team in contention most games with a 2.94 GAA and .910 SV%.

The massive 6’6″ 229 lbs. net minder put up his best numbers through 4 years of juniors in his final campaign for two year team, Northeast Generals, where he played a massive 44 NAHL games with a 20-13-8 record and 2.74 GAA and .915 SV%, and then had a decent little playoff run.

He committed to school just before this year started.

We fully expect the goalie, who could possibly just lie in net like the walrus in the Geico commercial to backstop his new club very effectively.

Having completed his senior year, the undrafted net minder is going to UMass Minutemen, where he could play himself onto some NHL radar to become an unrestricted entry level deal signing.

He actually decided to head to Canisius College Golden Griffins for a graduate frame, where he definitely was in net for a team that was sometimes challenged to win games.

Taking maybe a little time to see what sort of offers are out there for him to turn pro, he accepts a 1-year ECHL deal with Adirondack Thunder to play his rookie season, 2024/2025.

We were very fortunate to be able to host a one question interview with David below.