The NZ Scouting staff has put together a list of upcoming events in preparation for the USHL and OHL Drafts later this month. NZ will host a live OHL Draft…
Scouting Reports
USA U14 Nationals: Top 200
Neutral Zone attended every minute of every day of the U14 National Championship in Chicago Illinois. Games were played two at a time in the same rink so we moved…
USA U16 Nationals: Top 175. 103 Forwards, 61 Defensemen, 11 goalies
Neutral Zone headed out to Rochester, Michigan to watch the U16 USA Hockey Nationals from March 30th-April 4th. The BK Selects were crowned as the National Champions going 6-0, defeating…
One of the Top ’04 Recruits Back on the Market
Cole Spicer is back on the market after he decommitted from North Dakota, according to Brad Elliott Schlossman of The Grand Forks Herald. We had Spicer projected as a 2023…
U18: Chicago Mission vs Calgary Flames Macs Midget Tournament
4/6/22 Chicago Mission vs Calgary Flames Neutral Zone scouted Day 1 of the Macs Midget tournament in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Today’s game featured Chicago Mission, the one US invite to…
MJHL Playoffs Round 1: Dauphin vs Swan Valley and Steinbach vs Selkirk. Six Games
MJHL Playoffs Round 1, March 30th – April 8th, 2022 Neutral Zone scouted the MJHL first-round series matchup between the Dauphin Kings and the Swan Valley Stampeders. Some really good…
NY Tier I State Tournament: U14, U15, U16, U18. Top 125 Evaluated and Graded
NYS State Tier 1 Tournament U18 (‘03s & ‘04s) – Amherst, NY Friday 3/11/2022 – Sunday, 3/13/2022 Six teams competed in the New York State Tier 1 U18 Tournament in…
Neutral Zone Partners with RinkNet
April 8, 2022, Rutland, VT – Neutral Zone, LLC and RinkNet announced a partnership today that will combine two of the biggest brands in the hockey scouting community. RinkNet will provide…
MIAA D1 Mr. Hockey Top 50 Watch List
We saved the best for last. We published our MIAA Top 40 D4, our Top 45 D3 and our Top 45 D2 Watch Lists, and now we are ready to tackle the top…
NZ Sponsors Next Shift WIFFLE Ball Tournament
For the past 20 years, the Travis Roy Foundation has held their annual WIFFLE Ball tournament in Jericho, VT at three scaled down replica fields of Fenway Park, Wrigley Field…
AJHL Playoff Series: Drayton Valley vs Fort McMurray. Three Games. Top 18
AJHL: March 23rd, 26th, 29th Neutral Zone was able to watch the last three games in the AJHL playoff series between the Drayton Valley Thunder and the Fort McMurray Oil…
BCHL Playoff Series. Two Games. Trail vs Penticton. Top 20
BCHL: April 1-2, 2022 NZ attended the BCHL playoff games between the Trail Smoke Eaters and the Penticton Vees. Game 1: A game 1 upset for the Trail Smoke Eaters…
SJHL Playoffs: Notre Dame vs Estevan; Two Games. Flin Flon vs Battlefords; Two Games. Top 30
SJHL: March 18-19, 2022; Multi-Game Report Neutral Zone Scouting watched the SJHL game between the Notre Dame Hounds and the Estevan Bruins, game 1 and 2 of SJHL playoffs. Game…
Stonehill going D-I next season
Stonehill College, a small private Catholic college in Easton, Mass., has become the newest member of Division I men’s hockey. Stonehill is elevating its entire athletic department to Division I…
MIAA D2 Mr. Hockey Top 45 Watch List
Two down, two to go. We already dropped our MIAA Top 40 D4 and our Top 45 D3 Watch Lists, and now we are ready to tackle the next highest…
MIAA D3 Mr. Hockey Top 45 Watch List
We already dropped our MIAA Top 40 D4 Watch List, and now the time has arrived to shift up a level and identify a new set of top players. This…
MIAA D4 Mr. Hockey Top 40 Watch List
Here we are, the MIAA season has drawn to a close and the time has come for some player recognition after the first full campaign in two years as a…
NTDP Evaluation Camp: Top 44
Most of the top talent in the 2006 birth year across the United States came to Plymouth, MI for the US NTDP Evaluation camp where team staff had 5 games,…
NOJHL: Eliot Lake vs Timmins Rock. 8 Evaluations
3/24/22 – NOJHL Elliot Lake Red Wings vs Timmins Rock Neutral Zone watched an NOJHL matchup between the Elliot Lake Red Wings and the Timmins Rock at the McIntyre…
OJHL: Lindsay vs Cobourg
OJHL March 21st, 2022 Neutral Zone scouted the OJHL matchup between the Lindsay Muskies and the Cobourg Cougars. A late game thriller that needed extra time to decide a winner….
NSU18MHL: Playoffs. Weeks Majors vs Steele Subaru. Top 11 Evaluated
Neutral Zone attended the deciding game of the NSU18MHL first-round matchup at the Zatzman Sportsplex in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia between the Weeks U18 Majors, and the Steele Subaru U18s. It…