UMaine Black Bears Recruiting

[Bhall44]

Adam Dawe, no surprise, was named SJHL Rookie of the Year. Additionally, he will be coming to UMaine fall of 2018 not next fall as was believed after he signed his national letter of intent.

http://www.sjhl.ca/news_article/show...id=630895-news

[Maine Event]

Interesting article on formerly reported and now ex-UMaine recruit Lucas Michaud on page 30 of the New England Hockey Journal

http://digital.hockeyjournal.com/nxt...tid=Cover1#/66

[Bhall44]

Recruit Playoff Update
For anyone insterested in Listening/Watching, Ben Meyers (Delano HS) will be playing in the Minnesota State Tournament on Wednesday. A fee is required to watch. Additionally, there is archived video available from the Sections Tournament.


Nick Capone and East Haven HS plays Tuesday, March 7. They are the #1 seed in the Connecticut tournament. As outlined previously by LSatch Connecticut playoffs game will be available for the Semifinals and Finals only for a subscription here.

Dallas Farrell/Jack Quinlivan (Jr. Bruins-USPHL) & Jack Moran (Islanders HC-USPHL) - will face off next weekend for the USPHL Premier division championship. Farrell has put together a very good rookie campaign in the USPHL.

Brady Keeper (OCN Blizzard-MJHL)-Regular season just wrapped up and OCN enters the playoffs as the 3rd seed.

Adam Dawe (Notre Dame SJHL) - Finished regular season as the #7 seed and will play either Melfort or Melville in the Wild Card round.

As always Junior Hockey games can be watched for subscription at HockeyTV

[Bhall44]

Emil Westerlund invterview found here in Swedish. Video from back in October. If you go to the 1:00 mark of the video you can see the penalty shot game winner. Quick shot.

[LTsatch]

Capone’s 5 goals lift East Haven into Division II quarterfinals. Some video highlights at this link, Capone is #17. http://www.gametimect.com/hockey-cap...dgrens-career/

[Bhall44]

High School Hockey Tournament Roundup - UMaine Recruit Style

Very good performance by Nick Capone to catapult team into quarterfinals
http://www.gametimect.com/hockey-cap...dgrens-career/

As for Ben Meyers his HS career came to an end with an upset. Will be interesting to see if he joins Fargo for the rest of the season or not.
http://kstp.com/sports/monticello-an...inals/4420008/

[NU_Husky]

New commit

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=462545

[CollegeHockeyRinkReport]

Maine recruiting news:

http://www.sbncollegehockey.com/coll...l-barrett-ford

[Bhall44]

Article from a week ago on most recent Maine recruit Max Sasson
http://mihockeynow.com/2017/03/recru...mits-to-maine/

[Bhall44]

Brady Keeper was named MJHL MVP and defensemen of the year
http://globalnews.ca/news/3271479/oc...amed-mjhl-mvp/

[NorthMike]

Brady Keeper was named MJHL MVP and defensemen of the year
http://globalnews.ca/news/3271479/oc...amed-mjhl-mvp/

Could you post the link to your spreadsheet again?

Who all has signed letters for next year? Or does your spreadsheet show that?

[Bhall44]

Mike,
I moved the spread spreadsheet to my signature so that with every post I make it is available. Just click on the "UMaine Black Bears Recruit Site" below. On the stats page if you see an * next to a player they have signed a NLI. Keep in mind that players who have aged out of juniors do not sign NLI's and that signing an NLI does not mean that a player is coming the following season.

[Bhall44]

Ben Meyers named to Minnesota All-State Team.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...ys-hockey-team

[Bhall44]

After an injury delayed his start to the season, followed by a departure to compete for Team Latvia at the World Juniors, Eduards Tralmaks seems to be settling in nicely and playing some good hockey. Over the past 20 games, dating back to the end of January, Talmaks has posted 5-13-18 or 0.9 pts/gm. In his past 12 games he has put up 3-11-14 or 1.16 pts/gm.

Similarly, after being transferred to Coulee Region (NAHL), Jacob Schmidt-Svejstrup seems to be getting back to playing offensive hockey and leaving the major penalties for the enforcers. In his past 13 games JSS has put up 10-7-17 or 1.3 pts/gm and only 4 minor/0 major penalties. These stats put JSS back in line with his career statistics. I haven't seen him play since the Springfield series, his first after the transfer, but he clearly has gotten back to playing the style of hockey that has brought him the most success on the ice.

[Bhall44]

Jacob Schmidt-Svejstrup
Big weekend with 4 goals and 1 assist in 3 games. Including 3rd star honors Friday night and a hat trick Saturday earning 1st star honors. I watched Friday night game and he is certainly back to skating with the same offensive focus and skill he has displayed during his tenure at Selects Academy,Jr. Bruins, and Team Denmark. His stint in Dubuque, which at this point is clear an outlier, is looking more and more like he was overemphasizing development of other aspects of his game. He is now averaging a point a game since arriving in NAHL. His poor performance in USHL this season likely delayed his arrival in Orono by a year which, in the long run, may end up being a win-win for both player and team.

Eduards Tralmaks
Continued to stay hot this week with 2 goals and an assist. Although he will be eligible for juniors next season his strong end of the regular season has most likely solidified his arrival in Orono this fall.

Ben Meyers
Dressed for Fargo (USHL) this weekend. In two games he posted 1 goal and 0 assists. Glad to see him skating with Fargo again and skating against better talent than found in high school ranks. A full season of USHL play next winter and, barring any surprises, Meyers should ready for his arrival at the Alfond. With continued development, the arrival of Meyers, JSS and Adam Dawe has the potential to be one of the best collections of offensive skill to arrive in Orono in a long time.

[Bhall44]

Didn't see where anyone posted. If I missed it sorry for the duplication. Maine received a commitment for '00 RD Jack York.

http://centraljuniorhockeyleague.ca/...ws/news_484592

[Drew S.]

Didn't see where anyone posted. If I missed it sorry for the duplication. Maine received a commitment for '00 RD Jack York.

http://centraljuniorhockeyleague.ca/...ws/news_484592

Sounds like a decent get. I wonder if he is a replacement for Michel and/or Holway? I don't want either to leave early but at the same time hope they have great seasons next year.

[Bhall44]

Brent Hill scored 5 goals and 5 assists helping Carleton Place win their 4th straight league title.
Brady Keeper captained the OCN Blizzard to league runner-up and earned player of the year honors along the way.
Eduards Tralmaks is tearing it up right now. Tomorrow night is the game 5 rubber match against Youngstown. stream games at hockeytv.com

[CollegeHockeyRinkReport]

Sounds like a decent get. I wonder if he is a replacement for Michel and/or Holway? I don't want either to leave early but at the same time hope they have great seasons next year.

York still 2 years away

[Bhall44]

Half way through USHL Phase I draft and three UMaine commits have been selected.

Rd-3 Pk-38: Nick Capone - Bloomington

Rd-3 Pk-47: Max Bogdanovich - Waterloo

Rd-5 Pk-70: Lynden Breen - Bloomington

Link to Jeff Cox's top prospect list