Road to College – June 24, 2017 Every year, local DI and DIII coaches all descend upon Babson Skating Center in June for a three-day series of games that pit…
Scouting Reports
East Coast Classic Futures Showcase U16/U19: 50 Players
The Future is Now: East Coast Futures Showcase – June 17, 2017 We continue to scout spring/summer tournaments to add reports to players we already have in our profiles and add…
Blue Line Elite Prep Cup 2003s: Top 24
A Peek at the Future of Prep Hockey at Blue Line Elite Prep Cup – June 10, 2017 A year or two before local hockey players aspire to play prep…
Blue Line Elite Prep Cup U16: Top 75
Blue Line Elite Prep Cup 2017 U16: Top 75 Neutral Zone headed to New Hampshire for the annual Prep Cup. We focused on the U16 group. The East Coast Canadiens…
HNIB Northern New England Festival: Top 25
HNIB Northern New England Festival – June 9, 2017 Every year one of the first summer hockey events in New England is Hockey Night in Boston’s Northern NE Festival. This…
NCAA Recruiting: Do Stats Matter?
After every college hockey season, our analytics team looks over the freshman class and analyzes their output. There are several reasons as to why but mainly we do it in…
Atlantic District Festival ’00, ’01, ’02: 120 Players
2017 Atlantic District Try Out Festival Selection The final 80 for 02, 01 and 00’s gathered on May 20-21, 2017 in Vorhees, NJ for a run at selection for the…
MA Final 40: ’00, ’01, ’02 Evaluations
Massachusetts High Performance Final 40 With Massachusetts Hockey’s Festival selections narrowed down to the Final 40, we headed to Marlboro May 20-21, 2017. There were two teams in each age…
Pre Draft: 100 Players
Neutral Zone headed to the annual Pre-Draft showcase on May 12-14, 2017 just south of Boston. There were 100 teams in attendance. We primarily focused on finding players that we…
OHL Gold Cup: Top 30
OHL Gold Cup Top Players Top 30 Information is based on the OHL Gold Cup tournament played in Kitchener from May 4-7, 2017. The tournament is an 8 team all-star…
Mass Festival ’00, ’01, ’02 Notables
Charting Progress at MA Festival – May 7, 2017 Every year in May at New England Sports Center, the annual USA Hockey regional progress report that is the Massachusetts Festival…
From Both Sides of the Aisle: CHL vs. NCAA
The CHL vs. NCAA debate has gone on for long before Neutral Zone and will likely continue well into the future. As a staff spread out throughout North America we…
USHL Phase 1 Draft Recap: Sioux Falls Stampede
As a continuation of our USHL Phase 1 Draft Coverage. Neutral Zone scouts give an inside look at each teams selections, where they came from and what their game is….
USHL Phase 1 Draft Recap: Tri City Storm
As a continuation of our USHL Phase 1 Draft Coverage. Neutral Zone scouts give an inside look at each teams selections, where they came from and what their game is…
Minnesota High Performance U14: Top 60
Minnesota High Performance 2002s On April 21st-23rd in Minnesota, the top players in the ’02, ’01, and ’00 age group converge on Plymouth Ice Center, a three sheet facility in…
OJHL Combine Player Evaluations
Neutral Zone evaluated all players who attended the OJHL combine April 6-9, 2017 in Oshawa, ON. Below are our reports. Players are young and reports are for this event only….
USHL Phase 1 Draft Recap: Cedar Rapids
Neutral Zone scouts will be compiling a team by team recap of the USHL Futures Draft free to the public. We cannot show player rankings, scouting reports or other subscriber…
USHL Draft Phase 1 Top 300 Rankings
NZ is proud to release our USHL Draft Top 300 Rankings. We were asked by the NCAA coaches at the AHCA Coaches Convention to keep the NTDP bound players on the…
U16 USA Tier 1 Nationals: Top 160 Rankings
Neutral Zone attended the 2017 USA Hockey U16 Tier 1 Nationals in Pittsburgh, PA. The tournament showcased a lot of talented players including several NTDP selections and USHL tenders. Given…
U15 USA Tier 1 Nationals: Top 100 Rankings
Neutral Zone headed to the desert for the 2017 USA Hockey Tier 1 U15 Nationals April 6-10, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. There were 16 teams in attendance and we saw each…
U14 USA Tier 1 Nationals: Top 100
Neutral Zone headed to the desert for the 2017 USA U14 Nationals April 6-10 in Phoenix, Arizona. There were 16 teams in attendance and we saw each team play. Every…