Neutral Zone has been out all season watching and gathering information on the top 2003 born players in Minnesota. Today we bring you our list of the top 55 performers…
Scouting Reports
Minnesota HS Class AA State Tournament: Top 60
Neutral Zone attended the spectacle that is the Minnesota State Boys’ High School Tournament on March 7-10 at the Xcel Center in St. Paul. We watched every game of both…
Q&A: Ryan Sullivan, UMass Recruit
A native of Gross Pointe, Mich., Ryan Sullivan grew up playing youth hockey in the state. He skated for Honeybaked before heading to Selects Hockey Academy, where he played his…
Q&A: Michael Underwood, Clarkson Recruit
Michael Underwood grew up in Michigan and played his youth hockey in the state. Underwood was drafted by the Fargo Force in the USHL in 2014 but stayed with the…
NTDP & USHL Futures Draft Top 115 American 2002’s
Neutral Zone released its midterm NTDP/USHL Top 100 Prospects in December and since then our scouts have continued to scout and evaluate the top 2002 born prospects born in the…
Q&A: Joey Savel, Utica Recruit
Joey Savel grew up playing hockey in Michigan. After playing for Bell Tire, he went on to the EHL and the Philadelphia Little Flyers. Over two years in the EHL,…
NA3HL Top Prospects: Top 60
This is the second in our three-part series of reports on the NAHL/NAH3L showcase February 27-28, 2018 in Plymouth, MI. Below are the NA3HL players that stood out. Almost all…
Q&A: Jared Lambright, St. Lawrence Recruit
Jared Lambright began playing hockey while in South Carolina. Eventually, his family moved to New York, where he spent a season at Shenendehowa High before joining Northwood. The defenseman recently…
NAHL Top Prospects: Top 40 Uncommitted
Neutral Zone sent two scouts to join the NHL scouts and Division 1 assistants who flocked to Plymouth, MI to attend the 2018 NAHL Top Prospects tournament. The NAHL created…
Q&A: Hunter Wendt, Ferris State Recruit
Michigan Native Hunter Wendt spent two years playing for Bell Tire before heading west for the NAHL and the Fairbanks Ice Dogs. Wendt, a 3.5-star prospect, will return home soon,…
Prep Report Two: Top 250
Neutral Zone spent the last eight weeks of the New England Prep season writing game recaps and also evaluating players. Below is our second scouting report for the 2017-18 prep…
Marlies Holiday Classic: Top 140
In December, Neutral Zone was at the Marlies Holiday Classic, which is the fourth of five major Ontario Minor Midget tournaments during the 2017-18 season. Most of the top-ranked teams…
Q&A: Miroslav Mucha, LSSU Recruit
Miroslav Mucha moved to the United States from Slovakia as a 16-year-old. He joined Shattuck St. Mary’s and spent two years there before joining the Minor Minotaurs of the…
OJHL: Newmarket @ Aurora; Toronto @ Mississauga
Newmarket Hurricanes Vs. Aurora Tigers Game was played on February 16, 2018 in Aurora, Ontario. The final score of the game was 4-1 for the home team, and the win…
Q&A: Brenden MacLaren, Ferris State Recruit
3.5-star prospect Brenden MacLaren recently committed to Ferris State. The ’98 grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., where he played his youth hockey before leaving for the Janesville Jets…
CSSHL Showcase: Top 100
CSSHL Showcase – Bantam Prep + Elite 15’s League: CSSHL Bantam Prep + Elite 15’s (Canadian Sport School Hockey League) Teams: (13) Bantam Prep Rink Hockey Academy (RHA) Okanagan Hockey…
Bantam AAA Winnipeg – B1: Eastman Selects vs Winnipeg Warriors
Eastman Selects vs Winnipeg Warriors (Bantam AAA Winnipeg – B1) League: Bantam AAA Winnipeg (B1) Home Team: Winnipeg Warriors Visiting Team: Eastman Selects Arena: Notre Dame Arena – Winnipeg, MB…
NHL Draft Analytics: A Study of NHL Central Scouting
In the past few years, with the rise in analytics and teams hyper-focus on draft performance, the National Hockey League among others have been studying the draft; the players and…
NH HS: Hanover vs. Manchester Central; Bishop Guertin vs. Malden Catholic
Hanover HS vs. Manchester Central (NH-HS); February 3, 2018 One of the areas that gets most overlooked in the New England hockey community is the output from the states north…
HPHL U16 Plymouth, MI Showcase: Top 50
For the HPHL’s January Showcase they brought in four outside teams to compete at the U16 level. Among those invited were Selects Academy, Omaha, Car Shield and the New Jersey…
Q&A: Tim Gould, Maine Recruit
Tim Gould, a 3.75 star prospect, recently committed to Maine. The defenseman is currently playing for the Notre Dame Hounds of the SMHL, where he has 31 points through 42…