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Scouting Reports
2018 OHL Draft Rankings: Top 300
The Ontario scouts have put together a list of the top 300 2002 birth year players playing in Ontario. This list consists of 300 players from Major Ontario Minor Midget…
NTDP Evaluation Camp Report
Neutral Zone scouts were in attendance for all five games of the annual NTDP Evaluation Camp featuring many of the top 2002 US citizens in the land. We evaluated each…
Q&A: Keenan Spillum, Colorado College Recruit
Keenan Spillum grew up playing youth hockey in Arizona. He spent his junior hockey career in the NAHL, mostly playing for the Corpus Christi IceRays but was recently traded to…
Q&A: Steven Brown, Connecticut RoughRiders coach
Steven Brown, the associate head coach of the EHL’s Connecticut RoughRiders, grew up playing hockey in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. At the time, there was only one indoor hockey rink….
NAHL: Wilkes-Barre @ NE Generals
Neutral Zone headed down to the New England Sports Village in Attleboro, MA to catch a regular season game between the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Knights and the Northeast Generals. The two teams…
EHL Frozen Finals: Top 30
Neutral Zone headed to the last two days of the EHL Frozen Finals at Providence College on Saturday, March 24th and Sunday, March 25th. The league played three days of…
NTDP Evaluation Camp Day 2 Notes
The second day of NTDP Evaluation Camp featured a lot of goals as Team Blue won 6-5 over Team Red. The pace of play is pretty fast and there is…
Tier 1 Elite League 18U Playoffs: Top 40
Tier 1 Elite League 18U teams made their way to Blaine, Minn., to compete for the league’s championship. The action did not disappoint. Divided into Upper and Lower divisions, both…
Eastman Selects and Winnipeg Warriors Advance to AAA Midget Finals
Eastman Selects vs Winnipeg Hawks (Winnipeg City AAA Midget) League: Winnipeg City AAA Midget Home Team: Winnipeg Hawks Visiting Team: Eastman Selects Arena: Bell MTS Iceplex – Winnipeg MB Date:…
Winnipeg Thrashers vs Eastman Selects Game Two Recap
Winnipeg Thrashers vs Eastman Selects (Manitoba AAA Midget Hockey League) League: Manitoba AAA Midget Hockey League Home Team: Eastman Selects Visiting Team: Winnipeg Thrashers Arena: Sun Gro Centre, Beausejour MB…
Winnipeg Thrashers vs Eastman Selects Round One Recap
Winnipeg Thrashers vs Eastman Selects – Round One Series Recap League: Manitoba AAA Midget Hockey League Teams: Winnipeg Thrashers (4) vs Eastman Selects (5) Arenas: Sun Gro Centre, Beausejour MB…
Winnipeg Sharks vs Winnipeg Hawks Championship Series
Winnipeg Sharks vs Winnipeg Hawks – City Championship Series Recap League: Bantam AAA Winnipeg (B1) Teams: Winnipeg Sharks vs Winnipeg Hawks Arena: Notre Dame Arena – Winnipeg, MB Dates: February…
NTDP Evaluation Camp: Day #1 Notes
Overview Today’s game featured twenty five forwards, sixteen defensemen and six goalies. Each line played equal time and the goalies each played one period. Team Red won the game…
Q&A: Charlie Davis, Southern New Hampshire University Recruit
Charlie Davis grew up in Milton, Mass., where he spent his youth hockey career playing for the South Shore Kings and the Boston Jr. Bruins. The ’97 recently committed to…
MA HS Super Eight: 25 Notables
This year’s Massachusetts high school tournament was a return to the familiar. In recent years the tournament has been a best of three series but this year they have returned…
Minnesota HS Class A 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…
OJHL March Playoff Games
Below is a compilation of games from the OJHL playoffs in March. The reports features players in the 1997-2001 age group. Buffalo Jr. Sabres vs. North York Rangers The…
Q&A: Zack Jones, UNH Recruit
Massachusetts native Zack Jones grew up playing his youth hockey playing for the Boston Jr. Bandits. After spending a few seasons with the 16U team, he speared in 10 games…
Tier 1 Elite Playoffs Top 30 2002s
The intensity was ramped up in Blaine, MN as teams from all levels of the Tier 1 Elite League were competing for a championship. There was a different feel of…
Analyzing the 1998 Rankings
Neutral Zone released its rankings of the top 600 NCAA-Eligible, 1998-born prospects. While the actual rankings are for subscribers only, we compiled basic analytics describing the players’ positions, leagues and…