CHL to NCAA Recruiting Megathread

[cinnamoroll]

Baie-Comeau and Cape Breton had a marathon quintuple-overtime game 5 that saw 3 potential game-winning goals overturned- for BaC in 2OT for goaltender interference, for Cape Breton in 3OT for goaltender interference, for BaC in 4OT for missed stoppage. Eventually 1:42 into 5OT, Angelo Fullerton somehow had the energy for what was actually a beautiful goal. Normally marathon game winners are just exhaustion plays, but this was a sweet move. Cape Breton survives the 2nd longest playoff game in QMJHL history and their goaltender gets the 2nd most saves in QMJHL playoff history at 84. When the game ended, it was nearly 1:30 am. Some of the WHL games had already finished before the game went into 4OT. Plenty of people were tuning in, including crews of the teams that had been eliminated hours earlier. There was one Eagle who got a game misconduct in the 1st and by the end of the game he was sitting in the press box with the announcers. The arena DJ's had to break out the retro playlist because they ran out of songs to play. Just an absolutely wild game.

The gamecenter for the game is also hilarious. The website is not dealing with the 5 extra periods of stats very well.

Via Elliotte Friedman on 32 thoughts: notable TOI from this game

BaC:
D Anthony Lavoie 78:07 (their captain)
D Evan Bellamy 69:20
F Matyas Melovsky 60:31
Cape Breton:
D Tomas Lavoie 69:07 (assisted on the GWG)
D Andrew Brown 65:15 (St Lawrence commit)
D Xavier Daigle 64:52
D Brayden Schmitt 63:09

 

[boblav1]

Defensemen Nate Misskey (Victoria - WHL) and Tnias Mathurin (Windsor - OHL) commit to Umass Lowell.

 

[Sparkee]

Providence picks up a USports top defenseman Kale McCallum that played for University of New Brunswick and 4 years of QMJHL before.

https://x.com/MarkDivver/status/1912271904188084601

 

[cinnamoroll]

Big news for the CHL: all teams will now have 3 import spots instead of 2. General thought is that is a reaction to some of the 19/20 year olds expected to before overage year to NCAA. Import players are more likely to have some pro experience before they turn 18, making their NCAA eligibility complicated (need to sit out some games, less years of eligibility, or straight up ineligible). If they want a chance of going pro in North America, this is a lucrative opportunity. Also, just another avenue of talent.

 

[Sparkee]

Big news for the CHL: all teams will now have 3 import spots instead of 2. General thought is that is a reaction to some of the 19/20 year olds expected to before overage year to NCAA. Import players are more likely to have some pro experience before they turn 18, making their NCAA eligibility complicated (need to sit out some games, less years of eligibility, or straight up ineligible). If they want a chance of going pro in North America, this is a lucrative opportunity. Also, just another avenue of talent.

Are US kids considered imports also?

 

[cinnamoroll]

Are US kids considered imports also?

definitely not. it’s non-north america based players. i think if you’ve lived in north america for a certain amount of time you can be counted as being from there even if you were born outside of NA.

up until last year they had a ban on drafting from russia or belarus, but that has been lifted. players who were already drafted beforehand were fine, but they just didn’t want teams to pick from there for a few years.

not every import draft pick will join and sometimes they get drafted in multiple years by different teams. some european players use coming to north america in the CHL as a sort of bait to get their players their NHL ELCs quicker. Sharks 2nd round picks have exercised that option for the past few years. of course that makes them ineligible for NCAA. CHL teams will know which teams the player would be interested in joining via agents and teams, and teams who aren’t on those lists will avoid taking them since it’s such a small time of having their rights and they could just never come if they don’t like the drafted team

 

[cinnamoroll]

WHL round 2:
deepest apologies for being so late, got busy with work stuff. Only one series has already finished, rest are tied after 4 and the one 2-1 split playing game 4 tonight.

Medicine Hat Tigers vs Prince Albert Raiders
Medicine Hat sweep
Medicine Hat:
F Mathew Ward, Northern Michigan, OA
Prince Albert:
D Justice Christensen, Omaha, 05
RW Braden Dube, BSU, 05
C Aiden Oiring, Omaha, 05
RW Niall Crocker, Ohio State, OA
G Max Hildebrand, BSU, OA

Calgary Hitmen vs Lethbridge Hurricanes
Series tied 2-2. Hauser came back game 1 but is injured again.
Calgary:
G Daniel Hauser (Wisconsin), OA
F Oliver Tulk (Wisconsin), OA
F Carson Birnie (Michigan Tech), 05
F Ethan Merner (Merrimack), 06
Lethbridge:
None

Everett Silvertips vs Portland Winterhawks
Series tied 2-2
Everett:
D Eric Jamieson, DU, 05
F Shea Busch, Penn State, 07
G Raiden LeGall, BSU, 06
Portland:
C Joel Plante, Omaha, 05
RW Ryan Miller, DU, 07
LW Josh Zakreski, UND, 05
C Kyle Chyzowski, DU, OA
D Ryder Thompson, Miami, OA
C Diego Buttazzoni, UML, 06
D Tyson Jugnauth, Michigan State, OA

Spokane Chiefs vs Victoria Royals
Victoria leads 2-1
Spokane:
F Shea Van Olm, Penn State, OA
D Brayden Crampton, BGSU, OA
Victoria:
C Brayden Boehm, Michigan Tech, OA
C Brandon Lisowsky Colorado College, OA
G Johnny Hicks, Tennessee State, 05
D Nate Misskey, UML, 05

Notable stats:
Jugnauth (Michigan State) is 2nd in points at 21 and leads in assists with 18, Chyzowski (DU) is tied 3rd with 20. Chyzowski is also 2nd in goals with 8, Buttazzoni (UML) is tied for 3rd with 7. Hicks (Tennessee State) leads in save percentage and GAA (.949, 1.73), also tied for lead in shutouts with 2. LeGall (BSU) is 5th GAA at 2.48 and 4th in save percentage at .925

 

[cinnamoroll]

QMJHL round 2 had two sweeps already, one series is tied at 2 and the other is at 3-1.

Rouyn-Noranda Huskies vs Halifax Mooseheads
Rouyn Noranda sweeps
Rouyn-Noranda:
D Ty Higgins, BGSU, OA
C Rémi Gélinas, Clarkson, 05
D Alex Carr, UNH, OA
RW Lucas Veilleux, Colgate, 05
Halifax:
D Brady Schultz, Quinnipiac, OA
G Jacob Steinman, BGSU, OA
D Mathieu Taillefer, Penn State, 06
C William Bent, Providence, 08

Shawinigan Cataractes vs Sherbrooke Phoenix
Shawinigan sweeps
Shawinigan:
C Louis-Philippe Fontaine, Lindenwood, OA
Sherbrooke:
G Kyan Labbé, Union, 07
C Robin Benoit, Omaha, 07

Moncton Wildcats vs Baie-Comeau Drakkar
Moncton leads 3-1
Moncton:
C Markus Vidicek, Quinnipiac, OA
C Simon Binkley, Alaska-Fairbanks, 06
G Rudy Guimond, Yale, 05
Baie-Comeau:
C Skogen Schrott, Michigan Tech, 05

Rimouski Océanic vs Chicoutimi Saguenéens
Series tied 2-2
Rimouski:
C Jonathan Fauchon, Providence, OA
C Thomas Belzil, UMass, 06
LW Jacob Mathieu, Northeastern, OA
Chicoutimi:
D Loic Usereau, Maine, OA
RW Christian Maro, Holy Cross, 05
D Julien Wasmer, Maine, 05

Notable stats:
Mathieu (Northeastern) tied for 3rd in points at 13 with Woodworth (Omaha). Woodworth plays for Drummondville, who was eliminated last round. Mathieu also leads in goals with 7. Guimond (Yale) leads in save percentage at .941

 

[Robert Balin]

Hello Cinn. Can you give me some insight on the four CHL players going to UNH next year? Oliver had 50 goals this year, how do you think he'll adjust to the NCAA next year?

 

[cinnamoroll]

Hello Cinn. Can you give me some insight on the four CHL players going to UNH next year? Oliver had 50 goals this year, how do you think he'll adjust to the NCAA next year?

Sure, I'll give it a try.

Sam Oliver:
Big time scorer for Drummondville, wore the A, center 5'11 183. Received the Mario-Lemieux Trophy for the regular season goal scoring leader. Of his 50 goals this year, 18 were ppg and 1 was shorthanded. He had 3 hat tricks and never had a goalless streak longer than 3 games. Faceoffs were at 54.5% full season. In this year's upset round 1 loss, he had 4g2a in 7 games–the big letdown for the Voltigeurs was depth scoring. Drummondville won QMJHL championship in last year's playoffs, he had 9g-8a in 19 games.
Also, UNH hockey blog interviewed him in january if you haven't had a chance to read it. Also includes a scouting report from neutral zone. Interesting part to me is that before going to CHL at 16, he had visited UNH and met the coaching staff. He was already on their radar at a much younger age, so instead of meeting the coaching staff he was catching up with them. That likely helped him make the decision so quickly, he was only the 2nd player in the Q to announce his commitment. UNH coaching staff evidently liked what they saw in his progression as well.
He has an accurate shot and good hockey IQ, but I'm not sure how immediate he'll be on scoring now that he's the younger and smaller player again. While his goal scoring had a dramatic rise from last season, his point production was nearly the same as last year, going from 71 points to 78. He isn't a complete black hole defensively, skates well, doesn't shy away from physicality or getting to the net. He comes off motivated and enthusiastic about going to UNH. Also, he and Jesse Allecia (UNH 06 commit) have been on the same line for part of this year and developed some chemistry.
tl;dr: your coaches liked him before he had the 50 goals. obviously they had the right idea.

Jacob Newcombe:
Overage captain for Cape Breton, had the pleasure of being a part of that insane 5OT game. He was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in July 2023, made his return January 2024, just in time for Cape Breton's Hockey Fights Cancer game against his former team. Only played 26 regular season games, had 24 points, including a 4 goal game in march. In playoffs had 19 points in 14 games. Had 73 points this season in a full year. He's stronger and more physical compared to Oliver, big net-front guy who wins puck battles. Seems like a good fit for the college game

Alex Carr:
Overage captain for Rouyn-Noranda, RHD. 6'0 194. Great skater, has sneaky strength for his size. Last season was a finalist for QMJHL's Best Defensive Defenseman award. Has some offensive upside and makes a decent first pass. 6 goals, 39 assists. So far in the playoffs, he has 2g1a in 9 games. Rouyn-Noranda just finished a sweep in the 2nd round.
Carr also had a UNH Hockey Blog interview. He specifically points to the location- as I expected, Maine, UNH, UVM are attractive to players from the Maritimes.

Worth noting that all of the above players are from Atlantic Canada and likely speak English as their first language, even though Carr and Oliver played in Quebec markets. Newcombe and Carr are from Nova Scotia and Oliver is from New Brunswick (which is largely bilingual, he most likely speaks both).

Nick DeAngelis:
Assistant captain for the Sudbury Wolves. Defenseman, 6'2, 187. Wore an A as an 18 year old with Windsor and his overage year in Sudbury. 6-32-38 this season. Prior year (with a much better team) 3-52-55, ft a 17-game point streak in december. Shouldered a lot of defensive burden with a team that I have many opinions on how things worked out this year...
If you're going to be the most penalized team in the league, at least compensate by either outscoring your problems (Saginaw) or having a really good penalty kill (London)!!!!!
Sudbury was a very vulnerable team this year and a mid-season hot streak tricked themselves into thinking they were contenders. Did not work out for them. DeAngelis did his best with not a lot of defensive help.

Both he and Carr are solid defensive options and are not offensive black holes. All four of these guys might appreciate the extra rest and less strenuous schedule. DeAngelis especially could use to bulk up. I like this crop for UNH. Sam Oliver in particular seems to be a great fit and enthusiastic about this opportunity.

Hope this helps answer your question!

 

[Robert Balin]

Sure, I'll give it a try.

Sam Oliver:
Big time scorer for Drummondville, wore the A, center 5'11 183. Received the Mario-Lemieux Trophy for the regular season goal scoring leader. Of his 50 goals this year, 18 were ppg and 1 was shorthanded. He had 3 hat tricks and never had a goalless streak longer than 3 games. Faceoffs were at 54.5% full season. In this year's upset round 1 loss, he had 4g2a in 7 games–the big letdown for the Voltigeurs was depth scoring. Drummondville won QMJHL championship in last year's playoffs, he had 9g-8a in 19 games.
Also, UNH hockey blog interviewed him in january if you haven't had a chance to read it. Also includes a scouting report from neutral zone. Interesting part to me is that before going to CHL at 16, he had visited UNH and met the coaching staff. He was already on their radar at a much younger age, so instead of meeting the coaching staff he was catching up with them. That likely helped him make the decision so quickly, he was only the 2nd player in the Q to announce his commitment. UNH coaching staff evidently liked what they saw in his progression as well.
He has an accurate shot and good hockey IQ, but I'm not sure how immediate he'll be on scoring now that he's the younger and smaller player again. While his goal scoring had a dramatic rise from last season, his point production was nearly the same as last year, going from 71 points to 78. He isn't a complete black hole defensively, skates well, doesn't shy away from physicality or getting to the net. He comes off motivated and enthusiastic about going to UNH. Also, he and Jesse Allecia (UNH 06 commit) have been on the same line for part of this year and developed some chemistry.
tl;dr: your coaches liked him before he had the 50 goals. obviously they had the right idea.

Jacob Newcombe:
Overage captain for Cape Breton, had the pleasure of being a part of that insane 5OT game. He was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in July 2023, made his return January 2024, just in time for Cape Breton's Hockey Fights Cancer game against his former team. Only played 26 regular season games, had 24 points, including a 4 goal game in march. In playoffs had 19 points in 14 games. Had 73 points this season in a full year. He's stronger and more physical compared to Oliver, big net-front guy who wins puck battles. Seems like a good fit for the college game

Alex Carr:
Overage captain for Rouyn-Noranda, RHD. 6'0 194. Great skater, has sneaky strength for his size. Last season was a finalist for QMJHL's Best Defensive Defenseman award. Has some offensive upside and makes a decent first pass. 6 goals, 39 assists. So far in the playoffs, he has 2g1a in 9 games. Rouyn-Noranda just finished a sweep in the 2nd round.
Carr also had a UNH Hockey Blog interview. He specifically points to the location- as I expected, Maine, UNH, UVM are attractive to players from the Maritimes.

Worth noting that all of the above players are from Atlantic Canada and likely speak English as their first language, even though Carr and Oliver played in Quebec markets. Newcombe and Carr are from Nova Scotia and Oliver is from New Brunswick (which is largely bilingual, he most likely speaks both).

Nick DeAngelis:
Assistant captain for the Sudbury Wolves. Defenseman, 6'2, 187. Wore an A as an 18 year old with Windsor and his overage year in Sudbury. 6-32-38 this season. Prior year (with a much better team) 3-52-55, ft a 17-game point streak in december. Shouldered a lot of defensive burden with a team that I have many opinions on how things worked out this year...
If you're going to be the most penalized team in the league, at least compensate by either outscoring your problems (Saginaw) or having a really good penalty kill (London)!!!!!
Sudbury was a very vulnerable team this year and a mid-season hot streak tricked themselves into thinking they were contenders. Did not work out for them. DeAngelis did his best with not a lot of defensive help.

Both he and Carr are solid defensive options and are not offensive black holes. All four of these guys might appreciate the extra rest and less strenuous schedule. DeAngelis especially could use to bulk up. I like this crop for UNH. Sam Oliver in particular seems to be a great fit and enthusiastic about this opportunity.

Hope this helps answer your question!

Thanks appreciate the info.

 

[cinnamoroll]

Playoff updates:
QMJHL 2nd round is all finished after 2 sweeps, 1 gentleman's sweep, and 1 6 game series. Will end this post with the semi-final matchup preview.

OHL has 2 more games left to complete conference semifinals. London Knights swept Erie Otters, Oshawa Generals eliminate the top seed in the east Brantford Bulldogs after their 70-goal scorer went down. Windsor-Kitchener and Barrie-Kingston will require game 7s.

WHL had only one sweep once again, this time Medicine Hat sweeping Prince Albert. Calgary and Lethbridge require a game 7 on Wednesday. Everett and Portland play game 7 on Tuesday. Spokane and Victoria started a few days later than the rest of the series, so their game 6 is on Tuesday. Spokane win will eliminate Victoria, a Victoria win sets up game 7 wednesday.

QMJHL Round 3:

Moncton Wildcats vs Rouyn-Noranda Huskies
Moncton:
C Markus Vidicek, Quinnipiac, OA
C Simon Binkley, Alaska-Fairbanks, 06
G Rudy Guimond, Yale, 05
Rouyn-Noranda:
D Ty Higgins, BGSU, OA
C Rémi Gélinas, Clarkson, 05
D Alex Carr, UNH, OA
RW Lucas Veilleux, Colgate, 05

Rimouski Océanic vs Shawinigan Cataractes
Rimouski:
C Jonathan Fauchon, Providence, OA
C Thomas Belzil, UMass, 06
LW Jacob Mathieu, Northeastern, OA
Shawinigan:
C Louis-Philippe Fontaine, Lindenwood, OA

Mathieu (Northeastern) leads the playoffs in goals with 8, tied for 2nd in points. Fauchon (Providence) is tied for 3rd with 13. Ty Higgins (BGSU) tied for 5th with 11. Guimond (Yale) is splitting duties with veteran Mathis Rousseau and has been the better of the 2, .922 save %.

 

[Robert Balin]

Hey Cinn question.When a CHL players gets his scholarship money from an NCAA team is any of the money from his MJ team applied?

 

[cinnamoroll]

Hey Cinn question.When a CHL players gets his scholarship money from an NCAA team is any of the money from his MJ team applied?

Short answer is yes, as long as they leave after their 19-year-old season (or are cut as a 20-year-old in case of QMJHL). Right now thats the only real leverage they have for keeping players from jumping, but it won't matter for the really high-end kids. Money can go to tuition, books, living expenses, etc.

Each league has some different wording and numbers for how they calculate it. The OHL has announced changes to their Scholarship and Development Agreement going forward that increases the amount of money they can receive, I don't have all the details on that however. The QMJHL and WHL could be planning similar changes. I believe the WHL and QMJHL also have it by amount of time you play- 3 seasons in the WHL gives 3 years of scholarship money, QMJHL does it by semester so 3 seasons=6 semesters of scholarship money. Q scholarships are also based on how many classes you pass, with a maximum for the year. There is potential the CHL calls for a more unified setup of the scholarship programs with the adjustments, which personally I think would greatly assist in both keeping players longer and getting more players considering NCAA to sign.

 

[cavbim]

Hi acinn. I see an Ohio State got commitment from ‘07 Maddox Labre(qmjhl). Is this the real start of underage CHL players committing for upcoming season now playoffs are narrowing to finalists? Any other names you see coming?

 

[Sparkee]

Short answer is yes, as long as they leave after their 19-year-old season (or are cut as a 20-year-old in case of QMJHL). Right now thats the only real leverage they have for keeping players from jumping, but it won't matter for the really high-end kids. Money can go to tuition, books, living expenses, etc.

Each league has some different wording and numbers for how they calculate it. The OHL has announced changes to their Scholarship and Development Agreement going forward that increases the amount of money they can receive, I don't have all the details on that however. The QMJHL and WHL could be planning similar changes. I believe the WHL and QMJHL also have it by amount of time you play- 3 seasons in the WHL gives 3 years of scholarship money, QMJHL does it by semester so 3 seasons=6 semesters of scholarship money. Q scholarships are also based on how many classes you pass, with a maximum for the year. There is potential the CHL calls for a more unified setup of the scholarship programs with the adjustments, which personally I think would greatly assist in both keeping players longer and getting more players considering NCAA to sign.

Yes, I can see this as being an attractive option for US kids even. They can effectively earn more scholarship money for when they go NCAA. This will make CHL even more powerful because kids that were on the fence before now will see going to CHL a no brainer. I think USHL will have to do something similar otherwise they will lose a lot of their top talent to CHL. In fact, I think USHL would do well to become part of CHL even if the name just changes to Major Junior Hockey League which has 4 leagues(WHL, QMJHL, OHL, and USHL). Not sure if that will all happen, but to me it seems to make sense. Because the problem that can happen is that if there is an influx into CHL from US kids it will displace Canadian kids that might be on the bottom of the rosters. They will likely get pushed back into BCHL. And at the same time USHL would want to replenish talent lost by letting in kids from the other junior A leagues. So CHL would get stronger at the expense of most of the other leagues. BCHL will lose the guys that were there for taking NCAA route, but now don’t need to chose BCHL instead of CHL to go NCAA route. So to minimize a lot of movement and keep leagues less volatile you could see USHL wanting in to CHL.

 

[cinnamoroll]

Hi acinn. I see an Ohio State got commitment from ‘07 Maddox Labre(qmjhl). Is this the real start of underage CHL players committing for upcoming season now playoffs are narrowing to finalists? Any other names you see coming?

On EP Maddox Labre appears to be expected to join in 26-27. We will have to see if he becomes one of the ones to jump ship early but I'm not so sure. Some players it is evident the level they're playing at isn't enough of a challenge and they don't have the room to grow, not sure if he fit that bill. In this article (in french, my rough translation follows), he talks about liking to have the security of where he goes after junior and he hasn't been the type to jump up a level super quickly. Helps that his brother Dawson Labre is also an Ohio State commit, similar to another younger player who committed earlier this year in Diego Buttazzoni (06, joining brother Mirko at UML).

I think I can see more and more trickling out. You could also see a bunch announced in the weeks after the NHL draft, since the team who drafts them will want some input on where they go for development. Labre is projected in mid-rounds and has the sibling connection in place so he probably felt comfortable locking it down right now. The higher-end draft picks might want to wait.

Of players still in the playoffs, the big one rumored (all but confirmed) is Cayden Lindstrom, CBJ's 4th overall pick in 2024 who plays for Medicine Hat, but has been injured all year. Aaron Portzline (well respected CBJ beat writer for The Athletic) reported a month or so ago that the plan is for him to go to Michigan State. Gavin McKenna is the big ticket everyone is salivating over, and he is actively playing for Medicine Hat. I think the wait for that announcement will be a long while. Oshawa is moving on, Noah Powell recently committed to ASU out of the portal, he went to OHL during the season after a tough start at Ohio State. I haven't heard much else, but I'll post if something comes up.

 

[pdt1081]

Noah Powell recently committed to ASU out of the portal, he went to OHL during the season after a tough start at Ohio State. I haven't heard much else, but I'll post if something comes up.

Is he still eligible? Thought the ruling was once an NCAA player went to the CHL, they were no longer eligible to come back? Or does that only apply after August 1st, 2025?

 

[cinnamoroll]

Is he still eligible? Thought the ruling was once an NCAA player went to the CHL, they were no longer eligible to come back? Or does that only apply after August 1st, 2025?

He does. Basically from now playing in the CHL is no longer something that impacts your amateurism status. Tyson Jugnauth, who left Wisconsin the prior season also entered the portal and is going to Michigan State after his overage year. It is essentially equivalent to a player going back to junior for more time.

 

[cinnamoroll]

WHL news dump

WHL announced the expansion draft rules for Penticton. Interesting notes-

• Unsurprisingly they will join the BC Division in the Western Conference
• Date of expansion draft is May 7th, 22 players total
• Seems college committed players are considered to be on a "College List", in reference to "50-player, Injured, Suspended, Graduate, Special Import, and 20-year-old Lists"
• Teams can either choose to protect 16 players ages 17-20 or 14 players ages 17-19 plus 3 overagers, plus 6 players on their "College List"
• 16 year olds are exempt
• Penticton can have 4 20 year old players through the 25-26 regular season and WHL playoffs, will be restricted to 3 if they make the Memorial Cup.
• Trades between clubs featuring players and/or draft picks can replace the expansion pick
• Teams still in the playoffs still will have extensions for submitting their protected list, May 21st for the loser of the finals and June 3rd for the champs

Conference finals series have been set and begin tomorrow night. One matchup has a Lot of college commits, the other series has essentially 1.

Spokane Chiefs vs Portland Winterhawks
Game 1 Friday April 26th 7:05pm PST
Spokane:
F Shea Van Olm, Penn State, OA
D Brayden Crampton, BGSU, OA
Portland:
C Joel Plante, Omaha, 05
RW Ryan Miller, DU, 07
LW Josh Zakreski, UND, 05
C Kyle Chyzowski, DU, OA
D Ryder Thompson, Miami, OA
C Diego Buttazzoni, UML, 06
D Tyson Jugnauth, Michigan State, OA

Medicine Hat Tigers vs Lethbridge Hurricanes
Game 1 Friday April 26th 6pm PST
Medicine Hat:
F Mathew Ward, Northern Michigan, OA
[rumored, injured] F Cayden Lindstrom, Michigan State
Lethbridge:
none

Portland with the big upset in 7 over top seed Everett. Lethbridge beat Calgary in 7 and Victoria lost in 6 to Spokane after G Johnny Hicks (Tennessee State), who still leads in save percentage with .939 got sick and/or injured.

Jugnauth (Michigan State) is 2nd in points with 26, Chyzowski (DU) is 3rd with 25. Chyzowski 2nd in goals with 11, Jugnauth leads in assists with 23. Buttazzoni (UML) leads in ppg with 6. Van Olm (Penn State) tied for 4th in goals with 9.