Four Big Ten recruits make Hlinka-Gretzky Roster
The annual tournament starts off the scouting season in earnest next month
Per usual a number of Big Ten recruits were invited to Buffalo this summer to take part in USA Hockey’s Player Development Camps, where they select the 2019 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup team. It wasn’t the best showing ever for the Big Ten, but there were five recruits that made it to the All-Star game. As far as non-Big Ten schools go: UMD, Harvard, Michigan Tech and Miami were well-represented. Here are the five Big Ten recruits who made the All-Star Game - Notre Dame and Wisconsin were not represented. The first four were named to America’s Hlinka-Gretzky Cup team. They will head to the tournament, in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, next month:
F Mackie Samoskevich - Shattuck Prep - Michigan
F Ryan Kirwan - Little Caesars AAA - Penn State
F Tanner Kelly - Little Caesars AAA - Michigan State
D Jake Ratzlaff - Rosemount HS - Minnesota
D Tim Lovell - Boston Advantage AAA - Ohio State
Listed below are the other players from the All-Star game.
Uncommitted
F Joseph Pierce - Hermantown - Uncommitted
F Patrick Schmiedlin - USHL-Des Moines - Uncommitted
D Victor Mancini - Little Caesars AAA - Uncommitted
D Noah Ellis - Omaha AAA - Uncommitted
D Scott Morrow - Shattuck Prep - Uncommitted
G Colin Purcell - Cleveland Barons AAA - Uncommitted
G Remington Keopple - Hill-Murray - Uncommitted
G Tucker Tynan - NCDC-New Jersey - Uncommitted
G Louden Hogg - Edina - Uncommitted
NCHC
F Blake Biondi - Hermantown - UMD
F Ben Schoen - Youngstown - Miami
F John Waldron - Chicago Fury AAA - Miami
F Mark Estapa - Little Caesars AAA - Western
F Ryan Beck - Belle Tire AAA - Denver
F Cameron Berg - USHL-Omaha - UNO
D Wyatt Kaiser - Andover - UMD
D Evan Bushy - Thief River Falls - SCSU
D Nathan Schweitzer - Benilde-St. Margaret’s - Colorado College
ECAC
F Matt Coronato - Salisbury - Harvard
F Alex Gaffney - USHL-Muskegon - Harvard
D Donald Kempf - Chicago Mission AAA - Cornell
Hockey East
F Matt McDonald - Boston Advantage AAA - Merrimack
F Artem Shlaine - Shattuck Prep - BU
F Michael Cameron - Salisbury Prep - UMass
F Sasha Teleguine - Thayer - Northeastern
D Alex Gagne - Tabor - UNH
F Jack Williams - Selects Academy AAA - Northeastern
WCHA and Independents
F Kyle Kukkonen - Maple Grove - Michigan Tech
F Carson Bantle - USHL-Madison - Michigan Tech
D Max Bronstine - Dallas Stars AAA - Arizona State (no conference)