The following is our scouting report from the U19 Division of the NIT. Players are listed in no particular order beneath their respective letter grades.
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Rosie Klein #9 (Chicago Mission U19, D, 2023, Princeton): Klein is an impressive player with great skills and natural hockey talent and abilities. She is loaded with confidence, and it shows in the way she plays the game. She has an aggressive style and can intimidate the opposition. She is strong and a top player for her team. Klein is defensively sound and fun to watch. She will do whatever she can to keep the puck in the O zone and uses her hand to keep the puck in play. Klein keeps her team in it.
Ava Thomas #11 (Philadelphia Jr. Flyers U19, F, 2025): Thomas is a gifted hockey player with the intelligence to go with it. She can make things happen out of nothing. She is creative and dangerous with or without the puck. She can put pucks in the back of the net and makes it look easy. She does not miss a beat and takes advantage of every opportunity that she gets. Thomas is a great asset and an impressive talent.
Genevieve Klein #1 (Shattuck St. Mary’s Prep, G, 2024, Ohio State): Klein makes some amazing saves. She had a 2 on 0 and made a phenomenal stop. She uses the poke-check brilliantly and keeps it out of the net. Klein is a smart goaltender who knows her angles and knows how to keep pucks out of her goal. She has great reaction time. She is quick up down, side to side and agile as they come.
Kami O’Brien #4 (Unknown, F, 2023): Kami constantly creates chances. She is consistent and plays with a high level of intensity. A competitor, she is committed to her team and committed to the win. Kami is an intelligent player. She has great instincts and a hell of a creative side in the offensive zone. She can make you pay for mistakes and will make the most of her opportunities.
Mikah Keller #28 (Unknown, F, 2025): Keller can bring the puck the length of the ice. She is strong on it and uses her body to protect the puck and defend. She is quick and has speed. She can be hard to read and hard to defend. Keller is great in the offensive zone and aggressive when she sees any opportunity to gain possession. She is a big asset and someone capable of setting it up and producing.
Iris Cheng #55 (Chicago Mission U19, F, 2026): Iris has speed and a great work ethic. She is always getting after it, applying pressure and forcing turnovers. She is a hard-working competitive team player. Iris generates a ton of offensive chances and can put numbers on the scoreboard. She wins the battles and can be a scrappy forward! She can sneak up behind the opposition and she can fly under the radar. A smart and creative player with a winning attitude.
Nela Lopusanova #88 (Rochester Youth Hockey – BK Selects U19, F, 2026): Nela has great speed and can be very crafty. She can control the play and she can take the puck the length of the ice without being stopped. A young and gifted player with great hands and great potential. Nela is a top player who stood out and generated a lot of offense for her team. She brings confidence and energy, and has the ability to make those around her better. Lopusanova showed her creativity with the puck, her ability to create time and space, and her soft hands in tight, under pressure, and in traffic at pace. She has an excellent shot on the forehand and backhand and is comfortable sniping with either side of the stick. She has good size and strength and deceptive speed and agility. Her 7 points in four games, 5 of which came via goals tied her for 3rd in the tournament. She is a dynamic player who typically seems super human in every viewing of her. While her performance was great, she did have some moments where she showed that she is still human and can have a bad shift or two. What was great to see was her ability to keep battling, shake off bad plays, skate hard, backcheck harder, and make up for lack of offense with strong defensive play.
Heather Wolff #1 (Chicago Mission U19, G, 2025): Wolff made incredible saves. She controlled herself and maintained her composure under heavy pressure. She had a beautiful save on a breakaway chance from a top player on BK Selects. She held her own and never lost sight of her role and keeping pucks out of the net. Wolff held onto the puck and did not give out many second chances. Highly skilled in between the pipes, she is proving her position.
Emeline Grennan #32 (Rochester Youth Hockey – BK Selects U19, G, 2025): Grennan made some amazing saves against a strong Mission team. She plays hard and is confident. She can handle the pressure and is agile. Her lateral mobility is above average, and she stood tall all game long. She is dependable and plays a consistent game. Grennan has great reaction time, and her glove hand and instincts are on point.
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Rachel Gorbatenko #73 (Chicago Mission U19, D, 2025): Rachel is a gifted and smart player. She creates some incredible chances and gets pucks in scoring positions. She is strong on the puck and wins battles. She does not back down and puts her body into it. She does not have hesitation and is a difference maker. Rachel is talented, passionate, controlled and confident. An asset by all means of the word. She plays with heart and love of the game.
|Rose^Dwyer^#26| – Dwyer put up 4 points in 4 games from the backend. She makes great outlets, moving her feet to create passing lanes, and snaps all her passes tape to tape. She plays with excellent pace and showed great vision on the breakouts to not only make the simple play but execute the tougher ones with ease too. Some of the tougher ones came when she looked off players up the strong side and snapped passes across ice to open players or found players stretching up and over and caught them in motion. She made a number of high level plays look routine.
|Jillian^McLaughlin^#78| – McLaughlin has some length and strength that she uses to her advantage. She is a powerful skater with deceptive speed. McLaughlin also showed a lot of confidence with the puck on her stick, utilizing her strength to protect in traffic. She put up 2 goals and 2 assists on the weekend. One of those goals was stellar, as she went inside-out on a defender, then forehand to backhand, roofing the netminder at speed.
Finley McCarthy #2 (Rochester Youth Hockey – BK Selects U19, F, 2024, Wisconsin): Finley moves her feet and is highly gifted. A talented player with grit and determination. She has quick hands and wins the one on one battle. Knowing how to move the puck around the perimeter of the ice, she can keep control of it, and is able to create numerous scoring chances. Finley can move around the O zone without being touched. She is smart and speedy.
Addison Spitz #17 (Little Caesars U19, F, 2024, Colgate): Addison is a heads up player who can be a difference maker. She creates chances from the drop of the puck and knows the game upstairs. She takes advantage of any opportunity she gets and does not give up on the play. She is strong on it and plays to the end. Addison is skilled and can be a game changer in the big moment.
Miami Jones #23 (Rochester Youth Hockey – BK Selects U19, D, 2025): Miami is a strong and skilled player. She is highly intelligent with great versatility and vision. She is highly capable and not easy to beat. She knows the game, keeps great gap control and has the quickness to beat you to the puck. Miami plays her position and knows her role. She is strong and she can be a difference maker. A confident and consistent player.
Whitney Horton #19 (Edina High School, F, 2025): Horton is someone who can be an impact player. She has great instincts and anticipates what is unfolding. She is smart and skilled. She is a talented hard-working player who gets things done. She has stepped up and taken more of a leadership role. Horton can produce and is capable of making a difference.
Adreanna Doucette #2 (Unknown, G, 2024): Doucette stays calm and collected in goal. She made some phenomenal saves and held her own under heavy pressure from a talented Northern Elite team. She is agile and keeps her head on a swivel. She knows her angles and is not afraid to come out of the net if she needs to. Doucette knows her surroundings, communicates and is quick to react. A smart goalie with a lot to offer. She did not consistently give up a lot of rebounds, but the big ones that she did were very lively and forced her to make athletic saves. Doucette is an absolute battler and gamer. She fights for every inch of ice and every puck that comes her way. She finished the weekend with 45 shots against and only gave up 2 goals.
|Ellie^Muscedere^#7| – Muscedere has great gap control every shift. And she does a nice job of playing bodies in 1v1 situations without taking a penalty. The very defensive minded defender was also hard on bodies in corners with stick on puck every time. She was tough around the paint and made life hard on any opponent entering the house. She definitely plays a bit on the edge, but knows exactly how to walk the line and not cross while being very tough defensively.
Ireland Fredrickson #42 (NAHA White 19U, F, 2025): Ireland can battle and she can win the race for control of the puck. She is a fighter and she is strong on her skates. Shew plays well with her linemates and is good right off the draw. She has great instincts and does not give up, no matter what the battle. Ireland can produce and if not on the scoresheet, she can make the play that leads up to her team scoring.
Samantha Phelan #31 (Anaheim Lady Ducks U19, G, 2024): Phelan stays in front of it and knows her angles. She has a nice glove hand and quick reactions to stop the puck from going in the net. She plays with confidence. Phelan does a really good job down low and keeping the puck under control. She has great lateral mobility and gets side to side before the opposition has a chance to sneak in behind her and put it in the back door.
Chloe Primerano #72 (Rink Academy – Kelowna, D, 2025): Chloe is smart. She is quick and aggressive. She keeps her head on a swivel and can command the play. Great foot work, she controls the puck or the play from anywhere. Chloe has speed and can create scoring opportunities from the blue line. She keeps great gap control and can take the puck from the opposition in any zone. A strong and dependable defender.
Kylie Amelkovich #6 (Shattuck St. Mary’s U16, F, 2026): Kylie has a great work ethic. She gives everything to her team and plays with a ton of passion. She is so smart and giving. She is strong on her skates and on the puck. Kylie makes the most out of her opportunities. She is a great two-way player and an asset to any team. She is smart, she can produce and transitions to any situation.
Emery Twardochleb #44 (Unknown, D, 2025): Emery hustles and puts herself in the right place at the right time. She has good energy and plays with passion. She generates and creates great opportunities in the O zone. She is quick and enthusiastic. Emery plays to win and is always ready to go.  She makes things happen and can make the most out of any situation.
Olivia Ferebee #29 (CT Polar Bears U16, G, 2025): Olivia is quick. She has great reaction time and plays heads up in net. She has great vision and great anticipation watching the play unfold. She made some incredible stops to keep the puck out of the net and made a phenomenal glove save that looked like a for sure goal. Olivia even received a roar from the crowd. An impressive showing.
Autumn Cooper #21 (Team Wisconsin U16, F, 2024): Cooper is a mover. She makes things happen and generates offensive opportunities. She reads and reacts quickly and can pick off the pass. She does the little things it takes to win games. Cooper is passionate about the game and her ability to contribute to her teams win. She is energetic and positive.
Zoe Puc #37 (Florida Alliance U19, F, 2024, St. Anselm): Zoe has a nice work ethic and she can make smart plays and positive things happen. She finds a way to make the play and to get her stick on it. She can cause havoc and she pressures hard enough to force a turnover. She is a high energy player with drive and heart.
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Gracie Graham #4 (Rink Academy – Kelowna, D, 2024): Gracie is a smart player. She knows the game upstairs and is quick witted. Strong on the puck, she is able to win the battles and the small ice scrums. Gracie has a great release that can take the opposition off guard. She has great vision and can handle the pressure from the other team.
|Mya^Glaister^#51| – Glaister was always on her toes and ready to move in a blink of an eye. She has good length and pairs it nicely with agility and flexibility. She is a very vocal netminder and can be heard all over the rink. She battled hard on any loose pucks around her paint, stays up on long distance shots, and was incredibly strong down low/in tight on jam plays. She sealed the post well, sealed her pads on the ice, and was calm in the chaos. She picked up two wins and allowed only 2 goals against on the weekend.
Quinn Taylor #11 (NAHA Red 16U, F, 2026): Quinn is strong on her skates. A worker, she brings good energy and generates a ton of offense. She has moves and good hands and foot work. Quinn keeps her head up and is always one step ahead. She understands the game and is ready for anything.
Jiahui Zhan #1 (Unknown, G, 2024): Zhan is a very smart and aware goaltender. She is quick to react and does not give out many second chances. She has great mobility and is very agile. Zhan knows her angles and can outwit the opposing forward with her knowledge. She knows when to come out to challenge and when not to. She reads and reacts and stays with it. A top notch goalie.
Alexia Aubin #14 (Stanstead College, F, 2024, Colgate): Alexia has great puck control and does a good job on faceoffs. She does a phenomenal job moving the puck and creating offense. She is in control and can command the play. She is smart and she is a heads-up player. Alexia plays for her team. She is confident. She is an offensive minded player but is great in any situation.
Elle Sproule #11 (Shattuck St. Mary’s U16, F, 2025): Elle is such a talented and skilled player. She is hard to defend and hard to predict. She can come from out of nowhere and sneak in behind the play. She is slick and her speed and hands are top notch. Elle is a team player with a ton to offer. She knows how to handle any situation.
Hannah Graves #19 (Proctor/ Hermantown, F, 2024): Hannah is smart, hard working and driven. She plays with heart and passion. A team player, Hannah makes the most out of her opportunities. She pressures and plays in all situations and areas of the ice. She can show up and come through in the big moments. Hannah makes good decisions. She has good hands, produces and comes through.
Sophia Nesvold #96 (Culver Academy, F, 2025): Sophia does a great job reading and reacting. She has great instincts and anticipation. She can make fabulous tape to tape passes that often times have so much power behind them they can be hard for players to catch. Sophia is strong and she is knowledgeable about the game and what she can do for the win.
Taylor Brueske #62 (Moorhead High School, F, 2024): Brueske is an unselfish player. She plays with and for her team. She can take advantage of her opportunities and makes the most of her chances. Offensively she knows how to produce and can step into any situation. An intelligent player she has great hockey IQ, is hard working and passionate.
Addison Morris #9 (Minnetonka High School, D, 2025): Morris is quick and feisty. She brings energy and she has an aggressive side to her game. She supports the puck and puts herself in a position to receive the puck. Smart, Morris finds her lane to the net and can thread the needle to get by the opposition. She is an offensive threat and a team player.
Reese Strauts #13 (Madison Capitols U16, F, 2025): Reese positions herself well and helps out in every zone. She anticipates the play and reads and reacts, breaking down what may unfold. She does a good job from the drop of the puck and utilizes her linemates.
Olivia Gordon #13 (Westminster School, F, 2024): Gordon has speed and she plays well with her linemates. She keeps her head on a swivel and can break free from traffic with the puck. She can bring her game up to another level when the pressure is on. Gordon plays with heart and passion.
Lincoln Brown #5 (Culver Academy, F, 2025): Lincoln always has the right idea in mind. If she sees her opportunity, she will take it and go with it. She can be aggressive and has good vision. She trusts her instincts and is solid in all situations. She can play multiple positions and handles the puck. Lincoln is a good decision maker.
|Ayla^Puppe^#11| – Puppe has good height and a big reach to that she used to protect pucks. She utilizes her length and strength to get a lot of power behind her shot. Her shot is heavy and accurate and she can release it in motion with little space. She ripped a short side, bard down wrister as one of her two goals on the weekend that came via 4v4 after walking a defender out of the corner. If opponents give her a little too much space, she will take advantage and produce quality scoring opportunities. She showed lots of puck confidence and is strong on her skating when protecting pucks.
|Lauren^Goldsworthy^#6| – Goldsworthy showed she is a player with strength. She has some height and plays a smart defensive game. She used her strength to play through the body, cut off, and angles players to the boards or into turnover situations. She added in a little offense as well with one goal and one assist on the weekend. But her strengths reside in her high quality defensive game.
|Cailin^Mumm^#2| – Mumm picked up only one goal on the weekend. But it was a goal that was created by her from beginning to end. She did a nice job of holding the offensive blueline, like she had all weekend, worked the puck down low, and quickly moved her feet to open ice. From there she received a quick pass back on the backdoor for an easy tap-in from the seam pass. Mumm moves her feet well in all situations and is always finding open ice to make herself an offensive option. However, that did not take away from her defensive responsibilities. She was just solid at both ends of the ice. And when moving the puck, Mumm always rockets passes tape to tape.
|Suvina^Heidt^#77| (The Winchendon School Prep – D) – Heidt demonstrates excellent hockey IQ with a keen understanding of the game, particularly evident in her great reads in the neutral zone. She showcases a strong first step, allowing for quick acceleration on the ice. She has good size and pairs with her strong skating abilities can cover a lot of ice defensively. Heidt however was often seen with two hands on her stick and never truly utilizing her reach to control gaps or take away space and time. Heidt’s skating ability again showed in transition as her footwork stood out as a key asset, to open up and create space to move the puck north. She also showed some offensive prowess from the backend as she picked up 3 goals in 3 games on the weekend.
|Laralee^Rizarri^#19| (The Winchendon School Prep – F) – Rizarri showed a strong competitive nature and intelligent aggressive play. The forward is a really strong skater in all directions with a low center of gravity making it hard to knock off the puck in stride or in battles. Her skating and strength on the puck aided her in creating scoring opportunities for her teammates, as she could hold the puck, wheel, and allow her teammates to find lanes. She picked up 4 assists and added 1 goal in 5 games of the tournament.
|Ginger^Fast^#8| – Fast might be on the smaller side but she plays a heavy game. At 5’3” she never shied away from contact. She ran players off pucks and worked over bodies in the corners. She was absolutely nails in the corner battles and more often than not came out with the puck on her stick. She was always on the move and defensively always had sticks in lanes. She was defensively tough which led to any offensive opportunities she had. Fast added 3 goals on the weekend to lead her team in scoring.
|Catterina^Donna^#31| – Donna is a good netminder. She did a nice job of being compact and collapsing around the puck to smoother shots, rarely giving up a rebound. While she did not have a lot of shots on her in the entire tournament, she was up for the task on every one of them, pitching shutouts in both of her games. The low shot count did not deter her focus, she is an absolute gamer and showed that she was prepared and ready every minute from puck drop to the final buzzer. She tracked pucks very well and was in excellent position even if the shot didn’t come.
Emily Gerdevich #44 (Unknown, F, 2026): Emily is a player who can stir things up. She can create havoc and does not let herself get bored on the ice. She is always ready and finds a purpose or something to be attentive to. She is a bit of a scrapper and fights from within.
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Myah Krueger #17 (Stillwater High School, F, 2024, St. Cloud): Myah is a talented player. She is skilled and can move her feet. She has great instincts and great vision. She is smart and reacts well to any situation. Myah can take over the play and hustles after it until the whistle blows. She does a great job in small areas and often comes out with control of the puck.
|Hayley^Kelleher^#11| – Kelleher showcased some incredible hands in our viewing of her. Her puck confidence was high as she toe dragged players on the move through the middle of the ice. While some of her puck decisions were high risk, she showed that she was confident in her skill to not turn the puck over and execute a play that created space. Kelleher has good height and when she does pull that toe drag and carve through players, she uses her reach to her advantage and really holds the puck out baiting players into the poke check and pulling the puck in very tight to her feet on the move. She added 2 goals on the weekend.
|Julia^Lyrintzis^#22| – Lyrintzis is a player smaller in stature, but she moves very well. She showed a quick first step and the ability to win foot races to pucks, gain small areas of ice quickly, and make herself hard to mark. She easily uses this darting quality when she works give and goes and becomes a part of the offensive attack.
|Hannah^Halverson^#16| – Halverson showcased some quick hands as she carved through a few opponents on the rush and broke defenders’ ankles in 1v1 situations. She created herself a lot of scoring chances in our viewing of her utilizing her stickhandling abilities. She showed a strong curl and drag to snap off a heavy shot. Halverson has an incredible release that is quick and gets all of her strength behind the shot. However, she was showing a lot of accuracy. The number of chances she created was bountiful, but her 2 goals on the weekend did not reflect that. If she can begin to hone in her shot, Halverson can be a very dangerous scoring threat at any level.
|Eve^Omura^#42| – Omura showcased great gap control against the rush. She took smart angles to puck carries and always had a stick on the puck. She was defensively sound each shift in our viewings of her and was at taking away time and space from her opponents.
|Lindzi^Avar^#19| – Avar picked up 4 assists in 4 games on the weekend. One of those came via the powerplay where she showed patience and vision to create a lane from below the goal line. From there she perfectly placed a pass in St. Martin’s wheelhouse for a one-timer goal. Avar continued to show puck patience and strong passing abilities in each viewing of her in the tournament.
Ilsa Lindaman #37 (Duluth Marshall, F, 2024): Ilsa is a confident and skilled player. She is always aware and is a hard worker. She knows how to produce and how to get her team on the scoreboard. She will not stop until she gets control of the puck and plays through the whistle. Ilsa does a great job in the small areas and can win the scrum for control of the puck. A fighter with great vision and energy.
|Marit^Seeger^#19| – Seeger showcased quick escapes out of corners in the defensive zone that led to smart outlets. She knew when to join the rush and when to play it safe and also showed the ability to lead the rush on a number of occasions. Once she gained the offensive zone, she intelligently drove wide using speed to turn corners on the defenders and gains the middle of the ice. From there she unleashed a heavy wrister forcing goalies to make tough saves. Defensively, Seeger showed a strong defensive posture and always forced opponents wide or to break her triangle and go through her to get to the middle.
|Bella^Reinisch^#81| – Reinisch is a tall and strong defender. She defends with power and does not shy away from contact. Her height and strength will easily translate to the next level. She defends hard and does not give up the middle of the ice easily and made many players have a tough outing when they entered the defensive house area. She did take a penalty in our viewing but it was simple for being bigger and stronger than everyone else on the ice.
Ella Lucia #18 (Little Caesars U19, F, 2024, Harvard): Lucia is a very smart player who knows her next move before the puck lands on her stick. She has a great release and creates numerous chances throughout the game. She is strong on her skates and can anticipate the play. Offensive minded, Lucia can produce and plays for the win. Lucia has good size and strength. That size and strength was utilized well as the net front presence on her team’s power play. She boxes out hard at the net and cleverly pushes off players at the final moments to create herself some space on timing plays. She also showcased strong coordination, taking pucks from skate to stick in motion and under pressure. While she did not score on the weekend, Lucia did tally 4 assists in the four games, making her third on her team in scoring.
Emily Hamann #11 (Williston Northampton School, F, 2024, Harvard): Hamann has good effort and speed. She can be crafty and sneaks in behind you. She gives her all when crashing the net and keeps her stick on the ice and ready for anything. She gets her share of chances and supports the play. Hamann is a situational player with great vision and takes advantage of her opportunities. She can really put on the pressure.
Claire Christopherson #12 (Minnetonka High School, F, 2025): Claire has speed and know-how. She can get the puck to the net. She has good hands and nice moves to get around traffic. She has a nice work ethic and is a determined and skilled player. Claire is offensively sound and consistent. She has the ability to produce and add numbers to the score sheet. Christopherson has a big reach that she uses well to protect pucks. She does a nice job of challenging the middle of the ice when attacking in the offensive zone, using her size advantage to pull pucks out wide and dip her shoulder to get to the middle of the ice. She also showed a high level of competitiveness as she was always going hard to the whistle. She was tenacious and attacked pucks hard. While she did not see the scoresheet, her intense play contributed to offensive zone time for her team each time she jumped over the boards.
Laralee Rizarri #19 (Calgary Fire White Bantam Elite, F, 2024): Rizarri is a smart and gritty player. She constantly creates chances and generates energy in the offensive zone. She had a beautiful shot for a goal on her fist shift of the game. She is a worker and is determined. Her work ethic and her drive and passion show in the way that she plays. Her skating and strength on the puck aided her in creating scoring opportunities for her teammates, as she could hold the puck, wheel, and allow her teammates to find lanes. She picked up 4 assists and added 1 goal in 5 games of the tournament.
Avalyn Mikkleson #11 (Unknown, F, 2024): Mikkleson plays well with her linemates and gets her job done. She sets it up and has the vision to put the puck in the right place. She can outplay her opponent for control and wins the small ice battles. Mikkleson pressures the play and finds a way to get control. She is crafty and she can fly under the radar.
Brenna Curl #8 (Lady Patriots, D, 2024): Curl is strong and physical. She will take the body and knock you off the puck. She is solid and reliable on the back end of the game and just as aggressive in the O zone keeping pucks in play and creating opportunities. She does not give up and does not give the forwards much to work with. She is a fighter who plays with confidence and a will to win.
Silje Gundersen #96 (Ironbound u19, F, 2024): Gundersen is a physical player who can hold her own. She positions really well in the offensive zone and puts her body in front of the net. Her ability to read and react to the play allows her to intercept passes and cause turnovers. Gundersen uses her size and her body. She can get open and finds a way to make contact with the puck. The Norwegian native has a big shot and gets all of her size and strength behind it, often generating second-chance opportunities for her teammates. She did add one goal on the weekend. The Lindenwood University commit however lacks speed in her game and will be something that if added could make her very tough to play against.
Gabriella Matson #16 (Culver Academy, F, 2024): Matson can come from out of nowhere and gets things done. She anticipates and picks off the pass to take it in all alone on goal. She creates numerous opportunities and brings a certain energy and work ethic that can make those around her better.
Ava Provenzo #21 (Winchendon School, F, 2023): Provenzo sets up the play beautifully. She uses everything she has to make a play and creates offense. She does her job from the drop of the puck. Provenzo works really well with her linemates, especially Rizarri. Between the two of them the capitalized and took advantage of their opportunities.
Alexis Fields #24 (Florida Alliance U19, D, 2023, Yale): Fields can control the puck and she can command the play. She is great on special teams, and she is a competitor. She can play keep away in a sense that it makes it hard for the other team to get the puck from her. Fields has good vision and good anticipation.
Lilly Place #17 (Culver Academy, F, 2025): Lily is a playmaker. She can be crafty and can fly under the radar. She has vision and instincts to react to what is happening in front of her. She can take advantage of her opportunities and the other teams mistakes or turnovers. Lily is a heads up player who knows her role and gets her job done.
|Zoey^Krock^#18| – Krock finished with 2 goals in 4 games on the weekend. In our viewings, she was making things happen when she jumped over the boards. She showcased her strong puck control, creating space and time to allow her teammates to find open ice. She showed excellent timing routes through the neutral zone and played solid defensive hockey in her own zone. She did have moments where she played a little bit too passive of a game and letting the game dictate her play. But when she turned it on and decided to dictate the play, she showed some dominance and ability to control the play.
|Peyton^Carter^#23| (Northern Alberta Extreme – F) – Carter showcased quick hands when wheeling through the neutral zone on the rush. She had some solid moments where once she was able to gather some speed, utilize those quick hands, and carve through opponents to make clean zone entries. She has quality open-ice speed that only gains momentum with each stride. Carter made many plays to the middle of the ice on the rush, as she drove wide to create open lanes through the middle for her teammates. As an ‘08 Carter already has good size at 5′ 7 ” and shows a lot of potential, standing out as a 15-year-old playing with the U18 squad.
|Maia^Walker^#61| (The Winchendon School Prep – G) – Maia Walker possesses an exceptional ability to read plays effectively, showcasing a high level of hockey intelligence. Her athleticism combined with anticipatory skills allows her to make timely and precise movements in the crease. Walker exhibits a smooth style of goaltending, seamlessly tracking the puck and minimizing any unnecessary motion. Notably, she displays an aggressive approach and is proactive in playing the puck, demonstrating confidence in her skills. One of Walker’s notable strengths is her proficiency in controlling rebounds, as she consistently prevents second-chance opportunities for the opposing team.
Ave Meteyer #11 (Washington Pride U19, D, 2024): Ave is reliable on the back side of the game. She uses her body, keeps great gap control and has a physical side that benefits her defensive skills. She does not hesitate to get to the puck and has no problem stepping up to the play. She has a nice release and gets pucks through traffic and to the net.
|Melisa^Warne^#97| – Warne made numerous good decisions with the puck on her stick. She is a young ‘08 who is playing up with the U19 squad and her Hockey IQ is a good reason why. Her defensive positioning was strong and she did a nice job of controlling her gaps. She has a big reach and uses it well to take away time and space. However, she will need to continue working on gaining speed and strength in her game to become more competitive against tougher competitors.
|Sophia^Pham^#28| – Pham showed that she had some of the best wheels in the tournament. She is an undersized player but doesn’t play like it. She is very engaged and uses her speed to force turnovers, attack pucks, and press opponents back on their heels when she carries. She showcased quick hands in traffic and puck confidence to carve through opponents in the middle of the ice. She put up 3 points in 4 games on the weekend and created a lot more opportunities for herself and her teammates.
Kendall Sundby #26 (St. Croix Valley Fusion, D, 2024): Sundby maintains great gap control and gets her stick in the way of the pass or shot on goal. She can join the rush or start the rush bringing the puck up ice in any attempt to produce. She has speed and she can make good things happen consistently throughout a game. She makes the most out of her opportunities and can be aggressive when she needs to be. Sundby plays with excellent pace to her game. Her passes have good zip on them and are more often than not, tape to tape. There were no fly-bys in Sundby’s game, she stops on pucks and stops at the net. She definitely plays with a lot of jam.
|Mikala^Gould^#15| – Gould might be 5’1” but she played a lot bigger and is surprisingly strong. Offensively, she showed off a hammer of a shot. While she did not tally any goals on the weekend, she showed no problems putting pucks at the net hard and creating second-chance opportunities for her teammates. Defensively, she played the body well, tied up players hard on the rush against, took smart angles to run players down the walls, and utilized her strength in puck battles.
|Grace^Lee^#3| – Lee showed solid gap control versus the rush, forcing players into pinch points. Her skating was strong and fluid which led to excellent lateral movement when opponents challenged her 1v1. Lee showcased nice vision of the ice on her outlets, making quick-up plays to move the puck north in a hurry. Her decision-making with the puck was solid and she played with some pace. She even showed a bit of a scoring touch from the backend with 2 goals on the weekend.
|Catherine^Collins^#9| – Collins is a very fluid skater. She showed very good footwork in all directions, a very smooth stride, and the ability to create space with her skating ability. Once she did create space, she consistently snapped passes tape to tape and showed her Hockey IQ to make quick-up regrouping passes to catch her opponents on a change. While she did not put up any points on the weekend, her consistency in fluid puck movement aided the breakouts, regroups, and transition game of her team every time she was on the ice.
B
Dara Thompson #5 (Yellowhead, F, 2024): Dara can be a team player and unselfish in the way she plays the game. She is not afraid to get in there and fight for control of the puck. She will use whatever she can to her advantage and finds a way to get herself in front of the net and in a scoring position.
|Nikita^Danchak^#14| – Danchak has good length and strength. She has a very heavy shot from point, has her head up when doing so, and makes nice placement of the puck for second chance opportunities for her teammates.
|Lola^Reid^#8| – Reid tallied 2 goals on the weekend. She has some good strength and uses it to protect pucks well. She showed that she really likes the curl and rip shot around the screen and does it with ease. She showed good offensive instincts and did not shy away from shooting any chance she got. Reid puts good heat on her shot and ones that didn’t go in, often were creating second chance opportunities for her teammates.
|Bo^Dean^#22| – Dean showcased her heavy wrister when tallying 3 goals in 4 games on the weekend. Her shot may be heavy, but her load is on the slow side and she needs a little more time than usual to get her shot off. Dean is also not the fastest of foot, but she showed strong positioning and timing to be in the right place at the right time. If she can add some speed and the ability to shoot on the move, she could grow into a dangerous goal scorer.
|Reanna^Loberg^#14| (Northern Alberta Extreme – F) – Loberg is one of many on this Northern Alberta team with good size as she is listed at 5’9” and uses that size to her advantage. She is a little aggressive but is already playing college hockey – a body-contact kind of game. She was consistently hard on the backcheck, cutting the ice in half and skating all the way to the house each time. She did a nice job of attacking pucks with speed to force turnovers and when on the attack finding open space to become a passing option. While consistently finding open ice, when the puck does come to her, she still has work to do on finishing. She created a variety of scoring opportunities for herself but struggled to finish.
|Sophie^Morrow^#22| – Morrow is a defender with good height and good footwork. She showed some strong escapability and the ability to create passing lanes through the neutral zone. She was a little lumbering through when carrying the mail, but still consistently made solid decisions with the puck on her stick under pressure. Morrow only added one assist on the weekend but was a silence force of offensive drive for her team.
|Annabelle^Calvanese^#17| (The Winchendon School Prep – F) – Calvanese is a dynamic forward with notable defensive skills. She exhibits a quick and active stick defensively, disrupting opponents’ plays effectively. Despite her smaller stature, Calvanese compensates with outstanding positioning and utilizes great angles to her advantage. Her agility is evident in a remarkable first step, allowing her to attack the puck swiftly. Calvanese’s ability to combine defensive prowess with quick and decisive offensive movements makes her a valuable asset on both ends of the ice.
|Josie^St. Martin^#17| (Empowers Performance – F) – St. Martin had a semi-strong showing in our viewings of her. While we typically see St. Martin on the stat sheets, often, her 2 goals in 4 games were not the norm. Despite not lighting up the scoresheet, she did create numerous scoring opportunities for herself and her teammates. Unfortunately, some pucks were not bouncing her way. One of those two goals came on the powerplay, where she unloaded a beautiful one-timer from the slot. Her shots are heavy and often accurate.
|Isabella^Naruki-Chew^#9| (Shattuck St. Mary’s – F) – Naruki-Chew showed a quick first step and got to top speed in a hurry. She utilized her wheels in heavy puck pursuit and was often first on the puck. Her speed helped create passing lanes and contributed to her 3 assists in the tournament.
|Cali^Cerruti^#18| (Shattuck St. Mary’s – D) – Cerruti is another Shattuck’s player with nice wheels. She kept her feet turning through all three zones and created several clean zone entries. When she does make a clean zone entry, she often drives wide to create space and then snaps centering passes.
|Ava^Antle^#1| (Northern Alberta Extreme – G) -Antle is a smaller in stature netminder but is quick and athletic in her movements. Her quick reflexes really stood out versus Shattuck’s U19 team as she was taking shots off the rush and quick passing plays. Antle battled to give her team their only non-loss of the tournament which resulted in a tie. Because of her size, she could be aided in getting out on the edge of her crease on certain shots, but right now she seems to stick with the comfortability of keeping her feet in the blue paint at all times.
Hannah Strand #18 (Unknown, F, 2024): Strand is a physical player and uses her body to take the opposition off the puck. She plays hard and can take an opposing player out of the equation. She is strong and does a nice job on the draw. Strand positions well and helps out where and when she can. Creative offensively she generates offense and can add to the scoresheet.
|Bea^Palmer^#4| – Palmer is of small stature, but incredibly quick. When she comes down low to support the breakout, she can use her speed to exit the zone on her own. She showed some high Hockey IQ when she lost control of a puck in a gray area of the ice but instead of trying to do more, she did less and made sure the puck got deep. Once she did, Palmer was hard on the forecheck and forcing turnovers. She is very athletic and moves very well in all directions. She consistently uses her speed to hunt pucks in all zones and get to puck support positions fast. When the puck wasn’t on her stick in the offensive zone, she did not shy away from hard-fought areas and went hard to the paint to cause, catch rebounds, and win net-front battles. Palmer showed that she is an all-around solid player in all three zones. Grade: B
Makenna Schafer #14 (Calgary Fire, F, 2024): Makenna can be a bit of a spit-fire. She is capable of holding onto the puck instead of forcing the play or throwing it away. She can keep the puck in her possession but needs to get it to the net more. She has the potential of being an offensive threat.
Olivia Robbins #15 (Washington Pride U19, F, 2024): Robbins makes things happen for the positive. She is capable of playing in all areas of the ice and creates chances from any situation. She uses her outlets and gets back to help out in the defensive zone. Robbins does a nice job on special teams and can play a consistent and team game.
Gracyn MacKay #4 (Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs Bantam Elite, D, 2024): Gracyn can control the puck and the play. She makes great decisions with or without the puck. She uses her outlets and can hold the offensive zone. She has good vision and can create chances from the blue line. Gracyn does a nice job of not throwing the puck away, but keeping it in her possession and finding the time to execute.
|Lola^Rubenstein^#1| – Rubenstein showed a lot of athleticism and flexibility. She is not the biggest goalie in the tournament but not the smallest either. Whatever she lacked in size, she truly made up for in athleticism. She battled her way through to pick up 3 wins in 3 starts while facing down 88 shots and only allowing 4 against. Both gloves are fast and she tracks pucks fairly well. She has moments where she gets out to challenge shooters and other moments where she looks unsure if she should and gets glued into her crease. But despite her positioning she reads plays well and makes a lot of solid save selections. Her rebound control was decent, most of which are kicked to the corners, but the few that she doesn’t are not giant rebounds to dangerous scoring areas. Rather pucks end up falling at her feet. If Rubenstein and begin to squeeze more pucks and prevent any second chance jam plays at her paint, she will really shine.
Skyler Marshall #15 (Madison Capitols U16, F, 2024): Skylar has speed and makes the most out of her opportunities. She can generate offense and makes scoring chances possible with her vision and creativity. She works well with her linemates and creates positive plays in the O zone. Skylar will pressure the play and make the most out of her opportunities.
Kendall Ketchum #5 (Unknown, F, 2025): Kendall finds a way to get the puck into the offensive zone. She works well with her teammates and uses her body to battle. She could be a little more aggressive at times but when she acts on her instincts and gets after it she can be a force. Kendall can make good things happen when she believes in herself.
|Kali^Remillard^#5| – Remillard made a number of nice offensive blue line holds in our viewing of her. She showed nice vision defensively knowing when to hold the line and when to back off. When she did hold and keep the puck in the offensive zone, she showcased good footwork off the walls to quickly gain the middle of the ice. She showed solid decision-making with the puck and made lots of quick assessments. Remillard showed consistent hard work each shift, as well. She added one goal on the weekend as well.
Bailey Anderson #14 (Central Plains Capitals, F, 2025): Bailey is a go-getter and plays to win. She pressures the play and she can cause turnovers. She has quick reactions and can make things happen offensively. Bailey had her share of chances in their opening game. She keeps her feet moving and goes to the puck. She is a team player.
Averie Martin #8 (Team Wisconsin U19, D, 2024): Martin has a nice release and she gets pucks to the net. She does a good job on the back side of the game and uses her tall frame to her advantage when defending. Martin will take the body and she will tie you up. She has the ability to make things happen offensively proving she can contribute and play in all zones of the ice.
Marina McCann #23 (St. Louis Lady Blues U19, D, 2024): Marina knows her position and does a nice job covering for her defensive partner when she needs to. She has good positioning and is a reliable stay at home defender. She is always aware of what is going on and knows the right time to pinch up. She keeps pucks in the O zone and does a good job keeping the opposing forward to the outside lane and away from the net.
B-
Lauren Hassler #8 (Southern Alberta Hockey Academy, F, 2024): Lauren has some speed and plays with determination. She pressures the play and can make things happen. She gets to the net and keeps her eye on the puck. She can anchor herself in front of the net and she is quick to find a rebound.
|Victoria^Savage^#24| – Savage plays with good pace to her game. She is a good tall forward with strong skating abilities. Her skating ability aids in her puck control. Because of her ability to move with ease, she can hold the puck and move her feet to create space and get out of trouble. Unfortunately, she was often trying to do too much with the puck on her own instead of moving the puck to teammates quicker. She showed excellent skills, but struggled in the decision making part of the game.
|Claudia^Castellanos^#88| – Castellanos hails from the non-traditional hockey market of Spain and has international playing experience with her country’s national team and it shows. In her first season of North American hockey, Castellanos seems to be adapting nicely. She showed nice work along the wall, collecting pucks off the yellow, and gaining the middle of the ice. She is not overly fast, but definitely a smart player and puts herself in strong positions to make plays offensively and defensively. Her strong positioning led to a 3-point weekend and tied for the lead on the team. Currently, she can get away with positioning over speed, that is an area along with shot power that needs some improvement to get to the next level.
|Camille^Dubuc^#5| – Dubuc has good length and big reach that she uses well defensively to take away space. She showed a good jump and a quick first step going north. However, it was noticed that her head was often down when carrying the puck. Once she gains some more confidence with the puck, she will be able to use her body and skating ability even more to generate offense when she is a part of the rush.
|Molly^Cole^#13| – Cole showed a lot of patience with the puck on her stick. She won a lot of board battles and when she came out with the puck did not just throw it into space. Instead, she moved her feet, got her head up, and executed quality plays in high pressure situations. She showcased a wicked backhand sauce on the move to teammate’s tape, as well. And then proved it wasn’t a fluke next shift by doing it again.
|Addison^Finn^#10| – Finn was super confident with the puck in every viewing. She showed no problems challenging defenders 1v1. She showcased absolutely filthy moves that made many opponents look like pylons. Unfortunately, all of her creativity with the puck did not translate to her name on the scoresheet at all on the weekend.
Sophia Whiteaker #23 (Team Illinois U19, F, 2024): Sophia does a decent job on the faceoffs and placing the puck where she wants. She is quick witted and reads the play well. She had a great steal that she turned into a scoring opportunity. Sophia can be a versatile player who finds a way to make things happen.
Jaida Powell #7 (Unknown, F, 2024): Powell finds a way to get things done. She gets her stick on it and finds the open ice. She creates chances offensively and is aware of puck placement. There are times she tries to do too much and could benefit from settling it down and being confident in her skills and her ability to find her outlets.
C+
|Tallulah^Cameron^#22| (Northern Alberta Extreme – D) – Cameron, while not overly speedy, did showcase quick hands in traffic. She wasn’t making anyone miss with her footwork or agility, but Cameron definitely showed strong puck control and the ability to protect pucks under extreme pressure.
|Kirby^Gray^#8| – Gray did a nice job of playing the body well. She took smart angles to the puck carrier and drove her opponents down the boards and riding them off the puck. She is a fairly good skater, not incredibly standing out, and not overly speedy, but efficient and effortless. What she lacks in speed she made up for in positioning, hard work, and Hockey IQ.
|Karington^Mollin^#11| – Mollin is a hard working forward with solid open ice wheels. She is strong on her stick and makes it tough to take pucks from her in battles. She showed solid open ice wheels and absolutely no quit in her game. She plays whistle to whistle and end to end every shift.
|Josephine^Lang^#5| (Empowers Performance – D) – Lang moves the puck with authority. Every pass is heavy and on the tape. She had lots of strong defensive moments. She was excellent at boxing out players at the paint and giving her goalie lanes to see pucks. However, she did have some miscommunication moments with teammates and missed assignments on the rush against. Her footwork is not the quickest, but it was efficient enough to stay with opponents in the defensive zone.
|Mackenzie^Waddell^#12| – Waddell may be light in stature but she showed that she is very agile and shifty on the ice. Despite not playing with a seemingly great pace, she showcased some nice hands and meticulously carved through the neutral zone to make clean zone entries, often. While she did not add any points on the weekend, Waddell did showcase a no-look rocket release of a shot. On the move with little space, she can really bring the heat to the net.