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Great point. Since the 2009s haven't played a full year of junior (many of the US late 2008s have), there's little real track record for NCAA coaches to go off of to be offering big time NIL to 16 year olds.

Malachi MacKinnon and Conrad Fondrk stick out to me as D1 commits from the Metro who've gone out east to play minor hockey

Full link via Schloss's Twitter:

Schloss has dropped his August 1 Top 30 Americans List!!! https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/30-americans-to-watch-when-the-2025-mens-hockey-recruiting-cycle-opens

With McLaughlin, Boisvert, Ritchie, Murtagh, & Fondrk coming in, very possible that Pridham would get buried down the Terriers lineup in a less than ideal development situation for him.

Schloss will be coming out with Part 1 of his August 1 Recruiting Names to Watch List tomorrow, per Schloss via Twitter DM.

Wonder if Kyle Davidson told Pridham "We really don't want you going back to junior for your overage season to dominate kids & we don't have a spot for you in Rockford this season. We'd prefer you in the NCAA somewhere."

Pridham and every other unsigned CHLer remains in play until/unless they sign an ELC

Michigan, Boston University, Boston College, and occasionally Minnesota have owned the "Best Recruiting Class" award over the past 10-15 years lol

MN HS, short sample USHLer, then going to the Dub next year. They still haven't gotten a Canadian CHLer to commit

Carter Casey off the board, he commits to Minnesota like I thought he may

I cannot wait for Friday. Hoping Schloss posts his August 1 List(s) today or tomorrow.

Zellers is going to be so good. Everyone has slept on him to some extent because he was at Shattuck in his DY (Shattuck stats are hard to contextualize & project out), then went to Green Bay for his D+1. He didn't get the DY hype train because he wasn't playing & dominating junior, nor was he in normal MN HS at a place like Maple Grove, where he'd have a big hype machine. Additionally, the USHL (especially for D+1 guys) doesn't get as much attention as it has deserved.

Part of the reason why so many Canadian goalies have sucked is because they’ve gone the major junior route, and most of the CHL (yes even the Dub), lacks solid defensive structure and the goalies get lit up like a shooter tutor. Also, CHLers under the old rules were forced to turn pro at 20/21 years old, and most of em aren’t good enough to breakthrough into the A at that age, forcing them into the Coast or complete bust status. If more of even the decent Canadian goalies went the NCAA route like Devon Levi did, I think they’d have better results in pro. The new rules allowing CHLers to play in the NCAA should really help Canadian goalies. I fully expect Josh Ravensbergen (2007) to go to the NCAA before he turns pro, as Jack Ivankovic (2007) will be doing at Michigan.

Forget if I or someone else posted this, but here's the 2025 US U17 Four Nations Roster, all of them non NTDP 2009s. Some of these mid-later born guys are only going into their sophomore year of HS, thus not eligible to commit until August 1 2026, but a lot of good targets on here. 2025 U.S. Under-17 Select Team

Would be nice if Dayne Beuker (2008) made up his mind about where he'll commit. Was elite in minor hockey in Saskatchewan, had a very good, but not elite u17 year with the NTDP. There's been speculation on if he'd leave the NTDP and go to the Dub (Lethbridge owns his rights), and it's been quiet on the NCAA recruiting front for him.

I would love for Zakreski to be anything close to Caggiula

Bowling Green, Colorado College, Nebraska Omaha (Dub alums in USports) have been recruiting the Dub quite well. Penn State with a few nice additions as well of course.

I think he's probably a 3 year guy unless he generates zero pro interest prior to his senior year, and thus would spend all 4 years. If he pops off and is a beast right away at UND, then he's a 2 year guy, which would be a good problem to have in the short term because high end play from MacKenzie would result in greater success in 2027 and 2028.

LFG!!! Carson Carels is my guess

Would expect many of the top (normal bday) US 2009s will commit pretty quickly. I think all of the late bday US 2008s will commit right away since they've been waiting awhile. Guys like Wyatt Cullen, Tyler Martyniuk, Luca Jarvis, Kade Meyer.

Guessing Colin Grubb won't be committing on or shortly after August 1. But certainly someone we all should have on our checklist

Might have to wait till August 1, but that's only a week away

US 2009s to watch for August 1