Junior Hockey’s Rising Stars - Mar. 9th - Mar. 22nd, 2026
WRITTEN BY JOSHUA BOYD
Each week, check back with The Dan K Show as Joshua Boyd breaks downthe past week's top performances from 2007 and younger U.S. junior players (2008 and younger for USPHL Elite and EHL Premier). All statistics are taken from league sites; if there are any statistical errors, please contact the league in question.We are also now monitoring top performances by 2026 NHL Draft prospects, based on NHL Central Scouting rankings.
USHL Top 3 On NHL Central Scouting Mid-Term Rankings (NA Skater Ranking)
1. Blake Zielinski, Des Moines Buccaneers, 3GP-4G-1A-5PTS (56th)
2. Evan Jardine, Youngstown Phantoms, 2GP-2G-2A-4PTS (155th)
3. A.J. Francisco, U.S. NTDP Under-18, 2GP-0G-3A-3PTS (80th)
USHL On NHL Central Scouting Mid-Term Rankings (NA Goalie Ranking)
1. Tobias Trejbal, Youngstown Phantoms, 2GP-39 saves on 43 shots-.907 save %-2W
USHL
March 16-22
Yegor Kim '08 is definitely showing the Omaha Lancers what they were waiting for when they drafted him fourth overall in the 2025 USHL Phase II Draft. In March, Kim - a native of Kazakhstan - has scored 12 of his 25 points, including a run of 2-4-6 between March 20-21. This included his season-and career-high of 2-2-4 on March 21 to keep alive what is now an active streak of 11 points in five games. Kim joined the Lancers after playing with the Cleveland Jr. Barons AAA program the last two seasons.
Youngstown's Cooper Simpson '07 stands at second in league scoring, crossing the 70-point mark to improve to 72 points in 59 games. That places him eight points from tying the team record for best single-season points total, not out of the question for Simpson in three remaining regular season games. Recently, he's posted a 2-3-5 line over two games March 20-21, including his first career hat trick on March 20. His next game will be his 100th regular season USHL game and he is seven points from 100 for his career. Simpson is a Boston Bruins draft pick and a University of North Dakota recruit.
On defense, Kim's Omaha teammate Reese Lantz '07 put together a great weekend with a 1-4-5 line, including a two-year career-high three points scored on March 21. Lantz was acquired by Omaha from Muskegon in Omaha, and he is the Lancers' leading scorer among defensemen with 25 points through 52 games. For his career, he has 28 points in 71 games and is certainly going to command plenty of NCAA Division I attention. Lantz joined the USHL through being drafted by Muskegon in the 2023 Phase I Draft (fifth round, 63rd overall) from the Milwaukee Jr. Admirals AAA program.
Joseph Skidmore '08 is an up-and-coming star in the league, picking up 10 wins in his first season after joining from the Carolina Jr. Hurricanes 16U AAA team last year. He stopped 19 of 20 shots on March 20 for his fifth straight win going back to Feb. 21, giving him a month's worth of victories without a loss. Skidmore was selected by Cedar Rapids in the USHL Phase I Draft in 2024 (eighth round, 107th overall).
March 9-16
Ryder Betzold '07 kicks off this week's honorees with a run of five points in two games. His 1-3-4 line on March 13 was a three-year career high, and helped lift his season points total to 36 points in 55 games (and 42 points in 89 games). Originally drafted second overall by the Chicago Steel in the 2023 USHL Phase I Draft, he played for both the Steel and the U.S. National Team in 2023-24, before playing 29 games in 2024-25 with the Steel. He was acquired by Sioux Falls in a Summer 2025 trade. Prior to his time in the USHL, Betzold was a key player for Gentry Academy in Minnesota, also playing there in 2023-24. Betzold is committed to Arizona State University.
Also on March 13, Nick Knutson '07 registered a three-point game for a career-high with the Green Bay Gamblers. He added an assist on March 14 for a four-point weekend that is part of an overall three-game, six-point scoring streak. That streak has helped him more than double his 2024-25 points output of 10 points, as he currently stands with 25 points in 51 games (and 35 points in 108 career games). Knutson was selected in the 2023 USHL Futures Draft in the third round (39th overall). Knutson enjoyed a very productive career with the Chicago Mission, making it to the USA Hockey Nationals at the 14U, 15U and 16U levels, winning the 14U title in 2021-22.
A later arrival for the Omaha Lancers, Artyom Prima '08 has quickly acclimated himself to the USHL. He put up a 1-3-4 line between March 13-15, more than doubling his points total from three to seven, which he has posted over the course of 10 games since joining in late February. Prima had played most of the season with the NAHL's Minot Minotauros, who had drafted him in the 2025 NAHL Draft. He had 26 points in 28 games in the NAHL before his permanent call-up.
Goaltender Samuel Hrenak '07 is another more recent addition, joining the Fargo Force with a 4-0-0-1 record since February. He recently won his fourth on March 14, stopping 16 of 17 shots. Hrenak started with HC Dukla Trencin in his native Slovakia, and he is ranked 10th among European goalies for the 2026 NHL Entry Draft.
NAHL
March 16-22
On March 20, Aiden Lawson '07 registered his first two-goal game of his two-year NAHL career. In his first year with Anchorage after previously playing for Maryland, he also scored a goal on March 21, giving himself and his team goals in consecutive games for the first time in the NAHL. The March 21 game was his 100th career NAHL regular season game, as well. On March 15, he registered an assist that gave him a career-best 14 points on the season and he has elevated that to 19 for a career total of 34 points. The longtime Fox Motors AAA standout will stay in his home state of Alaska for college, as Lawson is committed to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
Another hot defenseman is the New Jersey Titans' Eduard Gubeladze '08, who is on a five-game, eight-point streak since March 7. Between March 17-21, he scored five points with a 2-3-5 line. Gubeladze has improved to 13 points in 37 games, in addition to 11 points in seven NA3HL games with the Titans. He also played with the Titans' 18U AAA team, scoring eight points in 17 games at that level.
For our young forward of the week, we turn back to Anchorage, where Austrian import Leon Buzek '07 posted a 2-2-4 line for his games of March 20-21, improving to 16 points in 41 games. Buzek has played the past two seasons with the Sioux Falls Power AAA, reaching the USA Hockey Nationals at both the 16U and 18U levels. He also won a Bronze Medal at the 2024 World Under-18 Championships Division 1 Group A tournament, his first of two tournaments at that level for Austria.
Ethan Phillips '07 was a busy man in net, playing three games between March 16-20, going 2-0-0-1, including a March 16 shutout of 27 saves. The Shreveport Mudbugs goalie and Providence College recruit has only lost once in regulation over the past seven games (6-1-0-1) since Feb. 28. For his aforementioned three-game stretch, he stopped 85 of 88 shots for a .966 save percentage. He has improved to eight wins on the season and 10 for his two-year NAHL career, playing in six games for Rochester last year. He holds a .934 save percentage for the Mudbugs this year. He was a longtime member of the Bishop Kearney Selects before starting his NAHL career.
March 9-16
Red hot on the Oklahoma Warriors blue line is Denny Oh '07, who now has points in all four of his March games. He recently scored a goal and added three assists for four points, and he's accumulated seven points over four March games. A representative of his home country South Korea in the World Under-18 Championship (Division IB) last year, Oh now has 21 points in 34 games since joining from the Yale Hockey Academy in the CSSHL 18U league.
The Anchorage Wolverines' Rylan Bydal '07 is no stranger to this space, and he also has points in his last four games. For the past three games, Bydal has registered a 2-3-5 line and he also had an earlier assist on March 7 for six points in his last four. Bydal also scored the game-winner on March 15, and now has 47 points in 51 games. The Long Island University recruit and former Team North Dakota standout has also played five games for the Green Bay Gamblers in the USHL this year.
We are Much further east (and south) we move over to the New Hampshire Mountain Kings, where their defenseman Mikhail Cherepanov '08 posted his first game-winning goal on March 13, helping them to earn a one-goal victory. He also posted two assists for his second three-point game of the year. He added one more assist on March 15 for a four-point stretch in three games. Cherepanov now has 25 points in 50 games. A former Team Illinois player, Cherepanov is committed to Lake Superior State University.
Jake Shingles '07 stopped all 23 shots he faced on March 14 for his first junior shutout. He joined the Elmira Aviators from the OJHL's Trenton Golden Hawks in December, and he has a .914 save percentage in his seven games with Elmira. Shingles went to juniors from the Northwood School, and prior to that, he was a big part of the Pittsburgh Penguins Elite program, representing the Pens Elite in the 14U, 15U and 16U Nationals.
NCDC
March 16-22
Justin Ouellet '07 ended his season on the right foot. The second-year Mercer Chiefs forward closed the regular season on March 18 with two points, and posted a goal and an assist on March 21 as well. During the regular season, he increased his year-over-year points production better than six-fold, going from six points in 2024-25 to 39 points this season. He is a success story of USPHL Premier to NCDC advancement, as he also played for the San Diego Sabers in 2023-24. He was drafted that year by the Chiefs in the 2024 NCDC Futures Draft with their second round pick (29th overall).
Also taken in that draft, but by a different team (the Jersey Hitmen) was Chiefs defenseman Christopher Sarver '07. After a further season with the Philadelphia Jr. Flyers, Sarver started this year with nine games for the Casper Warbirds before being acquired by Mercer in October. With the Chiefs, he registered 18 points in 36 games. He ended the regular season with a four-assist game on March 18, giving him a career-best.
Boston Jr. Rangers first-year junior forward Adam Bauer '07 finished his season strong, including four points in three games between March 18-21, bridging the regular season and playoffs. He scored a goal in a regulation win over the Utica Jr. Comets, one of only seven regulation losses suffered by that team. He added a goal and an assist on March 21 in their playoff opener against Worcester.
Army recruit Blake McMeniman '07 closed his regular season with a 42-save shutout for the Islanders Hockey Club over the regular season champion South Shore Kings. In the same week, he went on to earn an important win in his second playoff game against the Northern Cyclones on March 22. For the full three-game week, he stopped 98 of 103 shots for a .933 save percentage. Both of his shutouts for this season came in March, also including a 27-save blanking on March 6. For the regular season, he finished with a 16-4-2-1 record, a .925 save percentage and a 2.25 GAA. McMeniman, a former Kimball Union Academy goaltender, was drafted by the Islanders in the 2024 NCDC Futures Draft with a second round pick (35th overall).
March 9-16
Two-year NCDC veteran and Lewiston MAINEiacs forward Vitalii Ulianov '07 scored two goals for the second time this season - and second time this month. This was part of a 2-1-3 performance on March 14, one day after posting two assists, giving him a five-point weekend, the second time in a month he produced five points in a two-game stretch (also doing so Feb. 16 and 18). Ulianov, a Ukraine native, played most of his later youth career with the Esmark/Pittsburgh Stars, from which he was drafted by the Jersey Hitmen in the 2023 NCDC Entry Draft. He split the 2024-25 season between the Hitmen and WBS Knights, before signing with the first-year MAINEiacs. He had 41 points through 43 games this year, and he has 53 points in 78 career regular season games.
Frequent contributor to this column Anthony Roy '07, certainly in terms of his production, is back after his recent stretch of three goals and three assists for six points in three games. He has crossed the 80-point mark with a league-leading 81 points in 53 games, including 54 assists, all for the first-year Universel Academy team. His 81 points are the second most in a single season in NCDC history. On March 15, he put up a 2-2-4 line for his third four-point game in five performances. He extended a scoring streak that now has lasted more than a month (and still counting) to 15 games with 34 points.
Second-year Utica Jr. Comets defenseman Dominique Allard '07 scored his first hat trick on March 13, giving him a career-best eight goals and 26 points in 51 games. Allard is a Jr. Comets in-house promotion success story, playing the bulk of the 2024-25 season with their USPHL Premier team. This year, he helped the Jr. Comets set the record for longest points streak at 29 games on Feb. 4, extending that to three more before taking their first regulation loss since Oct. 19 on Feb. 16. Allard was selected by the Jr. Comets in the 2024 NCDC Futures Draft with the fifth round/82nd overall selection, being drafted out of the CSSHL's CIHA Voyageurs program.
Ulianov's MAINEiacs teammate in net, Ethan Moser '07, earned his fourth shutout of the season on March 13, stopping all 22 shots he faced. That was his second shutout in three games and third of 2026. Moser ranks in the top 10 league-wide for wins (16), save percentage (.939) and goals against average (1.93). Moser played for the past several years with the Colorado Rampage at various Bantam and Midget age levels.
EHL
March 16-22
Sam Steinman '07 has been at it again - he recently picked up four points in his past three games to give him 10 points over his last seven contests (non-consecutively) for the Express Hockey Club. He scored a goal in each of his three games from March 17-20, including the GWG on March 20. He finished with a nearly even 23-24-47 line in 50 games, and Steinman now has 57 points in 78 career EHL regular season games.
With the regular season closed, HC Rhode Island's Aiden Forcier '07 officially finished third in league scoring with 77 points in 47 games, finishing with a 1-3-4 line March 17-18. That was part of a season-closing nine-game scoring streak that saw him post 17 points, and his 77 points puts him at 12th all-time in single season EHL scoring, and he was the only 18-year-old player in the Top 20.
It would definitely appear that defenseman Carter Morrison '07 is ready for big-time junior success. In his first two EHL games, he posted a pair of goals and an assist for the Philadelphia Little Flyers. He has played the bulk of this season with the Little Flyers 18U AAA team, and in November, he made his junior debut with a single game call-up to the NAHL's Johnstown Tomahawks. It'll be interesting to see where he ends up full-time next year.
Staying with the Little Flyers, we revisit regular customer Lewis Brocklehurst '07, who finished his regular season with a 34-save shutout on March 19, giving him four doughnuts for the season to rank second in the EHL. His .938 save percentage ranked fourth. The former Bridgton Academy goalie finished with an 8-5-0-0 record.
March 9-16
Sam Steinman '07 sent home his first junior hat trick on March 11, adding an assist as well for his second four-point game, both this season. Steinman also put up an assist on March 14 for five points in three games last week. A former Middleborough (Mass.) High School player, Steinman is third in Express Hockey Club scoring with 42 points in 47 games, better than four times the points he earned in 2024-25 in 28 games with the Express. Last year, he also made the jump from the Express' EHL Premier team to the EHL squad.
For the New Jersey 87's, Jakub Polcik '07 enjoyed a great run of four assists over four games March 9-15. Playing in his first North American season from Slovakia, Polcik improved to 20 points in 39 games. He cut his teeth with HK Spisska Nova Ves in his home country for several years.
USPHL Premier
March 16-22
The Hawkesbury Knights will represent the St. Lawrence Division in the USPHL Nationals, and they will be the youngest team by average age at the event (averaging 18 years, 175 days). Three of their 2007-born players recently helped push them past the St-Lazare Avalanche in the division final.
Anthony Houle F '07 scored two in Game 1 and a hat trick in Game 2, while also adding two assists on March 21 to clinch the division title and Nationals berth. In seven playoff games, he has 11 points, already a team record for a single postseason. In the regular season, he scored 26 points over 27 games since joining from last year's Andre-Laurendeau Boomerang in the Quebec Collegiate Hockey League.
On defense, Zakary Corriveau '07 also has 11 points in his postseason career, over nine games in two seasons. He racked up five assists in the final series, and he has nine points in seven playoff games this year. Corriveau improved his year-over-year points total from 20 to 27, and his 47 career points place him fourth for the second-year organization. Corriveau joined last year from the 2023-24 Le Sommet Academy Faucons 18U team, which is affiliated with the Hawkesbury Knights.
In net for the Knights for both games was Anthony Gervais '07, another former Le Sommet player now doing full-time duty for the Knights. During the final series, he stopped 64 of 69 shots for the two wins. In the regular season, Gervais went 16-5-0-0 with a 2.24 GAA and a .925 save percentage. His wins are the best both all-time and in a single season for the Knights.
Before we leave the Premier, we have to mention Hanna Havoc players in their stand-alone playoffs. The first-year Alberta Division does not have representation at the Nationals. In a single March 20 game, Demetry Inglis '07 put up a 4-2-6 line; Corwin Brent Simmons '07 had a 2-4-6 performance; Austin Galway '07 finished the same game with six assists.
March 9-16
We've mentioned Teigen Leibelt '07 before and with good reason - he just keeps getting the job done for the Southern Alberta Mustangs. In four games played between March 8-14, he set up 11 goals and scored one for a 12-point stand. This is part of a larger nine-game point streak with a 9-15-24 line as the result. Leibelt has scored 60 points in 35 games.
Leibelt's Mustangs teammate and their leading scorer Austin Stewardson '07 scored four goals and added six assists for 10 points, part of a larger five-game, 13-point scoring streak. Part of his recent output was a hat trick - his fourth of the season - on March 13. This pushed Stewardson to 36 goals and 74 points in 33 games for this, his first junior season.
Diamond Valley Rockies defenseman Easton Popiel '07 racked up three goals and four assists for seven points in a pair of games on March 10 and 14. This big run - part of a longer streak of 5-11-16 in just six games, propelling him to 39 points in 27 games this season. Popiel joined the Rockies from the Foothills Bison 18U program.
Not long after the Hampton Roads Whalers' Felix Tolke '07 tied the Premier record for shutouts in a season (with Cole Fennema of the 2024-25 Seattle Totems), he went out and gave up just one goal in two playoff games to advance to the Southeast Division championship - and then onwards to the Nationals. Over March 13-14, he stopped all 28 shots before turning away 31 of 32 the next day. He moved on to Feb. 16 to win the Southeast title with 22 saves on 24 shots. Tolke registered his 10th shutout of the regular season on March 1, finishing with a 27-1-0-0 record, also tying Levente Hegedus (Vernal Oilers 2024-25) for most wins in a single USPHL Premier season. Tolke, playing in his first North American season out of Sweden's prestigious HV71 program, has signed with the NAHL's Corpus Christi IceRays for the 2026-27 season.
NA3HL
March 16-22
The Long Beach Sharks' leading scorer during the regular season is back in that same place in the playoffs, especially after Sean Bailey '07 posted a 2-2-4 performance in their two-game sweep of the New Hampshire Mountain Kings. That saw him improve to seven points in five postseason contests, following a 53-point regular season in 45 games, putting him into the Sharks' all-time Top 10 for single season points. Bailey traveled a long distance to join the Sharks, as he joined from the Mission Arizona program, as well as Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, Ariz. He helped send the Sharks to the Fraser Cup Championship Series in St. Peters, Mo.
On the blue line for the Sharks, James Steinberg '07 has scored points in three straight games, including a goal and an assist in the decisive Fraser Cup Championship Series-clinching 5-4 OT win on March 20, one day after providing his team with two assists. That gave him five points in five postseason games, after a season that saw him score 41 points in 42 games, including 34 assists that placed him in the Top 10 league-wide among blueliners. He came up through the Long Island Sharks program and has also played for the high school team known as the VSSL Storm, a co-op including players from Valley Stream, Sewanhaka and Lynbrook high schools.
Defenseman Trent LaRoche '08 just recently joined the Louisiana Drillers from Minnetonka, Minn., and made an immediate impact in the playoffs for the Drillers. He sent home two goals on March 21, one day after an assist on March 20 as the Drillers earned their second series sweep (against the Texas Roadrunners) to earn their spot in the Fraser Cup Championship Series as well.
In net, Gavin Erickson '07 completed a huge season for the Texas Jr. Brahmas and - like those above him in this column - helped his team to the Fraser Cup Championship Series. Over the week in question here, he earned two wins (2-1) in an intense three-game series against the Austin Bruins. He stopped 92 of 97 shots, all in his two wins, the third of which was in OT. During the season, he went 22-5-1-1, to rank in a tie for second in wins. His save percentage of .938 and GAA of 1.92 were both third in the league. Erickson joined the Brahmas this year from NorthStar Christian Academy.
March 9-16
Emerson LaRoche '07 continued his torrid pace from the regular season into the playoffs, scoring the game-and series-winning goal on March 14, and adding five assists over two games for six points in two contests. During the regular season, he racked up 127 points in 47 games, the most ever by an NA3HL player starting the season aged 18. He and his Louisiana Drillers teammates are two wins away from the Fraser Cup Championship series.
Fellow Driller Brayden Pelcl '07 has the second-most points by a player starting an NA3HL season at 18, as he was right behind LaRoche's 127 points with 125 points. His 81 assists ranked second in the league for 2025-26, and fifth all-time for a single season (and the most again by an 18-year-old). He scored two goals in the March 13 playoff opener and two assists in the March 14 clincher.
Talon Schackmann '07 enjoyed a huge first junior playoff game, scoring a hat trick in the clinching victory for the New Hampshire Mountain Kings on March 13. Schackmann scored 25 goals during the regular season to lead his team, finishing with a total of 36 points in 47 games. Schackmann signed last year with the Mountain Kings out of the Midwest Blackbirds' 18U program in Dyer, Ind.
In net for the Long Beach Sharks, William Zinnen '07 battled his way to a three-game series victory. Zinnen played every minute of the Sharks' first round series, stopping 107 of 113 shots (.947 save percentage) in going 2-1. In Game 3, he stopped 49 of 51 shots. For the regular season, Zinnen had a .925 save percentage and 16 wins to place in the Top 10 overall in both categories. Zinnen came to Long Beach, N.Y., from the Madison Capitols AAA program.
USPHL Elite
March 16-22
Not much hockey was played in the Elite during the week in the spotlight, as most teams moving forward had already clinched their Nationals berths. The Tampa Bay Juniors saw two single-game three-point performances as they solidified their Florida Division Championship. And those performances came from players familiar to any regular reader of this column - Chandler Moore '09 and Reilly Faucher '09. Moore scored two goals and one assist, and Faucher had a 1-2-3 line, two of three three-point scorers in the 6-1 Florida championship win. We'll close out the USPHL Elite and Premier seasons with highlights of more top young stars at the USPHL Nationals next week.
March 9-16
Chase Shoats '08 finished a fantastic first junior season wujbh;pith 53 points in 41 games for the first-year Coral Springs Jr. Cats, and he was also fantastic with six points in four playoff games. He started the postseason with a 2-2-4 line on March 13-14, part of an overall six-game scoring streak that produced 13 points.
For the Nationals-bound Tampa Bay Juniors, Reilly Faucher '09 also had a 2-2-4 line dcxtrfin his March 13-14 playoff games. He added three points in the Florida Division final win on March 16 for a seven-point run in three postseason contests, which places him in the top 10 overall for postseason scoring. That also places him in a tie for the top five in all-time TBJ postseason single year scoring.
Like Faucher, the Northern Cyclones' Noah Panetta '08 is also heading to the Nationals. Panetta is the league-leading postseason goal-scorer so far, having scored five goals in six games. Three of those five goals and five of his eight points came from their three-game New England final series March 13-15. He currently has 31 points in 42 regular season games. Panetta joined the Cyclones from the CIHA Voyageurs in the CSSHL.
In net for the only Montreal Knights win over the Cyclones in the New England Division Final was Orane Green '08, a goaltender who won 15 games during the season to help the Knights earn a Nationals at-large berth. He stopped 32 of 33 shots for a .969 save percentage and is 2-0 for the team heading to Wayne, N.J. (where they are again scheduled to face the Cyclones). He had played last year for the Knights' 18U team.
EHL Premier
March 16-22
Tomass Vekselis '08 returns right back to this column, picking up where he left off last week for the New Jersey 87's. Vekselis finished the regular season eighth overall in league scoring with 59 points in 42 games, including a run of 3-4-7 between March 20-22. This was part of a larger 12-game, 32-point scoring streak to finish the regular season. After starting the streak with 13 points in three games, he also dashed off four straight three-point performances, including those of March 20-21. The Latvian joined the 87's from Switzerland's EHC Basel.
Dominic Moushon '08 couldn't keep himself off this column for long, so he's back with a league-leading 91 points in 41 games to cap the regular season. Starting this season at age 16 and not turning 17 until this past December, he is the youngest to ever lead the EHLP in scoring, and he is fifth all-time in single season scoring. Additionally, his 131 career points ranks ninth all-time. He closed the regular season with a line of 1-5-6 in three games.
Andrei Radkevich '08 also finished strong with a 1-3-4 mark in his final three games to finish his first season with the Atlantic City Seals with 21 points in just 11 games after joining in December. He also played this year for the Seals 18U team and Egg Harbor Township High School.
Seahawks Hockey goaltender Logan Boyd '08 finished his season with a season-best in saves, stopping 35 of 36 as he closed the season with a 7-2-0-0 record and a .911 save percentage. Boyd finished the season with five wins in his last six games. He joined the Seahawks from the Atlantic Coast Academy AAA squad.
Note: Logan Boyd is no relation to the author.
March 9-16
Tomass Vekselis '08 is on fire here towards the end of the EHLP regular season. He is on an active nine-game, 25-point scoring streak, giving him nearly half of his 52 points over a total of 39 games. During the week of March 9-15, Vekselis played in four games and posted a game-winning goal and added eight assists for nine points. The scoring streak put Vekselis in the Top 10 of league scoring, joining leading scorer Dominic Moushon as the only two 2008-or-younger players in that top group. His 27 goals are ranked in the top five league-wide, as well. This is his first season in North America, with the Latvia native joining from Switzerland's EHC Basel program.
Andrei Radkevich '08 was busy between three teams this season, playing eight games with the Atlantic City Seals amidst a season that also saw him play for the Atlantic City Sharks 18U program and Egg Harbor Township High School. Recently, for the Seals, he scored his first junior hat trick on March 13 and added another goal and four assists up to March 15 for an eight-point stand in three games. Originally from Belarus, he now has nine goals and 17 points in eight games with the Seals, and he has scored over 70 points the past two seasons with the Sharks, being their leading scorer at both the 16U and 18U levels.
Donnie Davidson '08 enjoyed a three-game goal-scoring streak and is currently on a four-game scoring streak with seven points over that stretch. Between March 9-12, he enjoyed a 3-2-5 line in three games to improve to 21 points in 36 games. He joined the Connecticut Nor'Easter from the Connecticut Chiefs 18U AAA program last year.