RPI Recruit Thread 2025-2026

[Ralph Baer]

On Sunday, the Séminaire St-François Blizzard defeated College Laval-Montreal 4-1. Léo-Gabriel Gosselin had a goal and an interference penalty. https://www.m18aaa.com/en/stats/sommaire.html?game=1754429

Gosselin's line is now 23-11-20-31-24.
His total is 23-11-22-33-24.

 

[Ralph Baer]

 # Name                 Ps Team (League)                       Gm- G- A-  P- PM  Next Gm
22 Easton Adrian *      LD Humboldt Broncos (SJHL)              7- 1- 3-  4-  2 traded
 4                         Battleford North Stars (SJHL)        2- 0- 0-  0-  6 traded
23                         Nipawin Hawks (SJHL)                 2- 0- 0-  0-  0 no longer on team
                           total                               11- 1- 3-  4-  8
24 Kamyl Chemrouk       RW Brooks Bandits (BCHL)               16- 6- 9- 15-  6 11/28/25
23 Tafari Chingwaru *   RD Salmon Arm Silverbacks (BCHL)       10- 0- 1-  1-  7 11/26/25
40 Ryan Dwyer            C Baie-Comeau Drakkar (QMJHL)         14- 0- 2-  2-  8 11/28/25
22 Léo-Gabriel Gosselin RC Sémin. St-François Blizzard(QM18AAA)23-11-20- 31- 24 11/28/25
26                         Chicoutimi Saguenéens (QMJHL)        1- 0- 2-  2-  0 back to SSF
                           total                               24-11-22- 33- 24
73 James Guo            RD Saginaw Spirit (OHL)                24- 1-15- 16- 16 11/26/25
11 Ryan Hecker          RD Northern CT Nor'Easters 18U          x- x- x-  x-  x no data
11                         Avon Old Farms Winged Beavers        x- x- x-  x-  x 12/03/25 missing game
                           total                                x- x- x-  x-  x
24 Carter Matthews      LD Trail Smoke Eaters (BCHL)           19- 1- 6-  7- 31 11/28/25
16 Carter Oakenfold *   LC West Kelowna Warriors (BCHL)        13- 4- 8- 12-  2 11/28/25
 2 Ryan Shaw *          LW Rochester Jr. Americans (NAHL)      22-14-13- 27- 53 11/28/25
13 Jack Ziliotto *      RW Trenton Golden Hawks (OJHL)         24-12-29- 41- 10 11/28/25
* Probably no longer an RPI recruit

 

[Ralph Baer]

weekly post

 # Name                 Ps commitm. Team (League)                    Year  DOB      Ht    Wt  Hometown          NZ*s
23 Easton Adrian *      LD 02/15/23 Nipawin Hawks (SJHL)             2026  04/22/05 6'03" 190 Dalmeny, SK       4.00 x
24 Kamyl Chemrouk       RW 01/30/25 Brooks Bandits (BCHL)            2027  01/02/07 6'00" 152 Montreal, QU      x.xx x
23 Tafari Chingwaru     RD 10/09/24 Salmon Arm Silverbacks (BCHL)    2027  09/26/08 6'00" 183 Edmonton, AB      3.75 x
40 Ryan Dwyer            C 01/30/25 Baie-Comeau Drakkar (QMJHL)      2027  03/27/07 5'11" 175 Oreboro, Sweden   3.75 x
22 Léo-Gabriel Gosselin RC 08/07/25 Sém. St-François Blizz.(QM18AAA) 2027  05/19/09 6'02" 170 Québec, QC        4.00 x
73 James Guo            RD 11/17/25 Saginaw Spirit (OHL)             2026  04/02/05 6'01" 190 Woodbridge, ON    4.00 x
11 Ryan Hecker          RD 10/16/25 Northern CT Nor'Easters 18U      2028  06/27/08 6'00" 173 Evanston, IL      3.50 x
11                                  Avon Old Farms Winged Beavers                 
24 Carter Matthews      LD 12/04/23 Trail Smoke Eaters (BCHL)        2026  04/20/06 6'01" 185 Calgary, AB       3.75 x
16 Carter Oakenfold *   LC 11/17/22 West Kelowna Warriors (BCHL)     2026  04/30/05 6'04" 192 Calgary, AB       3.50 x
 2 Ryan Shaw *          LW 08/01/22 Rochester Jr. Americans (NAHL)   2026  01/29/05 5'10" 170 E. Longmeadow, MA 3.50 SH Aw Vi
13 Jack Ziliotto *      RW 12/02/22 Trenton Golden Hawks (OJHL)      2026  06/22/05 6'02" 196 Waterdown, ON     3.50 Aw Ch Vi GS

Women
10 Olivia Aquino         F 12/31/24 Mississauga Jr. Hurricanes (OWHL)2026  03/21/07 5'06" 145 Oakville, ON      3.75 x
 6 Alexine Beaulieu      D 08/01/25 Loomis Chaffee School            2027  03/xx/08 5'07" 130 Hudson, NH        4.00 x
33 Sadie Bellissimo      G 11/07/24 Cushing Academy Penguins         2026  10/xx/06 5'07" xxx Littleton, CO     x.xx x
92                                  East Coast Wizards 19U
14 Kate Elbrecht         F 03/21/25 Northwood HS (NAPHA)             2026  12/14/07 5'08" xxx New Hartford, NY  x.xx x
94 Kaylynn Fisher       RD 10/26/24 Kingston Jr Ice Wolves (OWHL)    2026  09/22/08 x'xx" xxx Peterborough, ON  3.00 x
26 Claire Jelinek       RD 03/27/25 Minnetonka HS (MN-HS)            2026  03/19/08 5'07" 145 Centennial, CO    x.xx x
22 Keira Johnson         D 03/27/25 Central York Jr. Panthers (OWHL) 2026  xx/xx/07 5'09" 130 Scarborough, ON   x.xx x
29 Corinne Leibowitz     F 10/13/25 Bishop Kearney Selects 19U       2027  01/xx/08 5'02" 155 Whitehouse Sta.,NJx.xx x
 8 Ellie Mehling        LD 12/18/24 NAHA Major Jr. (White Team 18U)  2026  06/xx/08 5'04" 108 Burnt Hills, NY   x.xx x
 9 Megan Meola          LW 12/09/24 Bishop Kearney Selects Acad 19U  2026  07/24/07 5'02" 118 Long Valley, NJ   3.75 x
xx Barbora Proskova     DF 03/16/25 Brynäs IF U19 Sweden             2026  05/07/07 5'04" 140 ? Czechia         x.xx x
47 Miriam Toet-Uddveg    F 03/27/25 MODO Hockey 2 (NDHL) Sweden      2026  04/25/07 5'09" 176 Lorenskog, Norway x.xx x

* Probably no longer an RPI recruit
# Known to have signed National Letter of Intent
[b]The years the recruits are listed as arriving at RPI are not necessarily accurate.[/b]
The dates on which some of the women are listed as committing on may be considerably after the actual dates.
"Hometown" is sometimes where the player was born and sometimes where he or she currently lives.
I am assuming that Neutral Zone regards their Star ratings as public because they often tweet them with committals.

STRENGTHS according to Neutral Zone (NZ rarely includes them for women):
Aw=Awareness/IQ, Ch=Character/Leadership, GS=Goal Scoring Ability, Sk=Skating, Sp=Speed, SH=Stick Handling Skill, 
St-Strength, To=Toughness, Vi=Vision/Passing

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

Very true, es

I wouldn’t be too concerned about it. We’ve seen players’ NZ grades bounce about (in both directions) as they age. In this case a Neutral Zone scout has probably seen him a few times and gave a 3.5. Eric Lang, who lives in Avon and is involved with the Nor’easter program (via his son) where Hecker is playing 18U gave him a scholarship offer. I’ll go with Lang’s evaluation.

Agree. Especially since the kid is only 17...plenty of time to round out his game and fill out his frame. I think I need to trademark that ! LOL

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

Noticed Q'pac signed up two more stud forwards out of the OHL. The rich get richer. Does anyone know if RPI has a pay to play plan even in the works ?

 

[Ralph Baer]

Wednesday’s game(s)

Chingwaru https://bchl.ca/stats/game-center/13789
Guo https://chl.ca/ohl/gamecentre/28391/

I will post the summary(ies) whenever.

 

[DrDemento]

Noticed Q'pac signed up two more stud forwards out of the OHL. The rich get richer. Does anyone know if RPI has a pay to play plan even in the works ?

I doubt it. I think the only time we had any sort of pay to play in Troy is when we had Mame Faye and her establishment on 6th St.

 

[tony/troy]

Wicked Slappaahs said:
Noticed Q'pac signed up two more stud forwards out of the OHL. The rich get richer. Does anyone know if RPI has a pay to play plan even in the works ?

I doubt it. I think the only time we had any sort of pay to play in Troy is when we had Mame Faye and her establishment on 6th St.

The woman was still a legend when we first started heading up to all those magnificent stores all by ourselves in the very early 60's, some 20 years after her passing just a handful of years after her "retirement". Read the previous sentence carefully!!! Yes, kids went there completely unattended on foot or by bus at less than 10 years old and met up with other kids about the same age to go to the likes of The Proctors, Charlie's Hot Dogs, Woolworths, Jupiters and more than one record store. Even stops at Fatone's Gift Shop, Frear's or Copeland's Travel Agency, who all had RPI SATELLITE BOX OFFICE OUTLETS, where you could buy tickets for Fieldhouse games and events (hockey, roller derby, pro wrestling, boxing and concerts) without having to go up to the Fieldhouse.

Those were the days and sadly they are gone forever. Today, you sometimes find yourself pressing you door lock button just to make damned sure whenever driving through the very same streets. Twice if the element wondering those street these days look even more scary than usual.

Getting back to Faye who "retired" circa 1940, her place of "commerce" on 6th was just a handful of doors north of the police station and right across from Troy's Union Train Station. Legend also had it that Faye had a set of stairs (in addition to the stairs of the approach) leading from the back of her place that went up the steep hill to 7th and, of course, the RPI campus.

Logical assumptions by reasonable people would include that the cops had to be in on the "deal" in lieu of "other considerations", attending or working at RPI prior to 1940 or so could have possibly been a lot more fun than it is now and that in those days male travelers getting stuck at the station in a long layover (not a play on words) between trains may not have found it all that annoying.

Supposedly, the sum total of Faye's "career" resulted in an estate of well over a quarter million dollars upon her passing. To lazy to research it but would guess that's about 3 million in today's' money. If Faye were plying her trade today, she could have possibly been a major player in any pay to play plan we could have in the works to get our players paid enough to ever be competitive again. That, of course, assumes Faye liked hockey.

 

[Ralph Baer]

On Wednesday, the Saginaw Spirit lost to the Flint Firebirds 5-4. James Guo had a tripping penalty. https://chl.ca/ohl/gamecentre/28391/

Guo's line is now 25-1-15-16-18.

 

[Ralph Baer]

On Wednesday, the Salmon Arm Silverbacks lost to the Sherwood Park Crusaders 5-2. Tafari Chingwaru did not dress. https://bchl.ca/stats/game-center/13789

Chingwaru's line is now 10-0-1-1-7.

 

[Ralph Baer]

 # Name                 Ps Team (League)                       Gm- G- A-  P- PM  Next Gm
22 Easton Adrian *      LD Humboldt Broncos (SJHL)              7- 1- 3-  4-  2 traded
 4                         Battleford North Stars (SJHL)        2- 0- 0-  0-  6 traded
23                         Nipawin Hawks (SJHL)                 2- 0- 0-  0-  0 no longer on team
                           total                               11- 1- 3-  4-  8
24 Kamyl Chemrouk       RW Brooks Bandits (BCHL)               16- 6- 9- 15-  6 11/28/25
23 Tafari Chingwaru *   RD Salmon Arm Silverbacks (BCHL)       10- 0- 1-  1-  7 11/28/25
40 Ryan Dwyer            C Baie-Comeau Drakkar (QMJHL)         14- 0- 2-  2-  8 11/28/25
22 Léo-Gabriel Gosselin RC Sémin. St-François Blizzard(QM18AAA)23-11-20- 31- 24 11/28/25
26                         Chicoutimi Saguenéens (QMJHL)        1- 0- 2-  2-  0 back to SSF
                           total                               24-11-22- 33- 24
73 James Guo            RD Saginaw Spirit (OHL)                25- 1-15- 16- 18 11/28/25
11 Ryan Hecker          RD Northern CT Nor'Easters 18U          x- x- x-  x-  x no data
11                         Avon Old Farms Winged Beavers        x- x- x-  x-  x 12/03/25 missing game
                           total                                x- x- x-  x-  x
24 Carter Matthews      LD Trail Smoke Eaters (BCHL)           19- 1- 6-  7- 31 11/28/25
16 Carter Oakenfold *   LC West Kelowna Warriors (BCHL)        13- 4- 8- 12-  2 11/28/25
 2 Ryan Shaw *          LW Rochester Jr. Americans (NAHL)      22-14-13- 27- 53 11/28/25
13 Jack Ziliotto *      RW Trenton Golden Hawks (OJHL)         24-12-29- 41- 10 11/28/25
* Probably no longer an RPI recruit

 

[DrDemento]

Wicked Slappaahs said:
Noticed Q'pac signed up two more stud forwards out of the OHL. The rich get richer. Does anyone know if RPI has a pay to play plan even in the works ?


The woman was still a legend when we first started heading up to all those magnificent stores all by ourselves in the very early 60's, some 20 years after her passing just a handful of years after her "retirement". Read the previous sentence carefully!!! Yes, kids went there completely unattended on foot or by bus at less than 10 years old and met up with other kids about the same age to go to the likes of The Proctors, Charlie's Hot Dogs, Woolworths, Jupiters and more than one record store. Even stops at Fatone's Gift Shop, Frear's or Copeland's Travel Agency, who all had RPI SATELLITE BOX OFFICE OUTLETS, where you could buy tickets for Fieldhouse games and events (hockey, roller derby, pro wrestling, boxing and concerts) without having to go up to the Fieldhouse.

Those were the days and sadly they are gone forever. Today, you sometimes find yourself pressing you door lock button just to make damned sure whenever driving through the very same streets. Twice if the element wondering those street these days look even more scary than usual.

Getting back to Faye who "retired" circa 1940, her place of "commerce" on 6th was just a handful of doors north of the police station and right across from Troy's Union Train Station. Legend also had it that Faye had a set of stairs (in addition to the stairs of the approach) leading from the back of her place that went up the steep hill to 7th and, of course, the RPI campus.

Logical assumptions by reasonable people would include that the cops had to be in on the "deal" in lieu of "other considerations", attending or working at RPI prior to 1940 or so could have possibly been a lot more fun than it is now and that in those days male travelers getting stuck at the station in a long layover (not a play on words) between trains may not have found it all that annoying.

Supposedly, the sum total of Faye's "career" resulted in an estate of well over a quarter million dollars upon her passing. To lazy to research it but would guess that's about 3 million in today's' money. If Faye were plying her trade today, she could have possibly been a major player in any pay to play plan we could have in the works to get our players paid enough to ever be competitive again. That, of course, assumes Faye liked hockey.

if anyone is interested, there was a short movie (27 minutes) all about Mame produced in about 2008 called 'Sittin on a Million'. Allegedly one of her more famous quotations. As TT has posted, even 2 decades after her establishment was allegedly closed down, when I cam to Troy in the early 60's, the legend continued and there was still an active legacy in the downtown area. Speaking of which, the description of downtown from those days was spot on accurate. And you are once again correct, those days are gone forever!!

 

[jericho]

Wicked Slappaahs said:
Noticed Q'pac signed up two more stud forwards out of the OHL. The rich get richer. Does anyone know if RPI has a pay to play plan even in the works ?


The woman was still a legend when we first started heading up to all those magnificent stores all by ourselves in the very early 60's, some 20 years after her passing just a handful of years after her "retirement". Read the previous sentence carefully!!! Yes, kids went there completely unattended on foot or by bus at less than 10 years old and met up with other kids about the same age to go to the likes of The Proctors, Charlie's Hot Dogs, Woolworths, Jupiters and more than one record store. Even stops at Fatone's Gift Shop, Frear's or Copeland's Travel Agency, who all had RPI SATELLITE BOX OFFICE OUTLETS, where you could buy tickets for Fieldhouse games and events (hockey, roller derby, pro wrestling, boxing and concerts) without having to go up to the Fieldhouse.

Those were the days and sadly they are gone forever. Today, you sometimes find yourself pressing you door lock button just to make damned sure whenever driving through the very same streets. Twice if the element wondering those street these days look even more scary than usual.

Getting back to Faye who "retired" circa 1940, her place of "commerce" on 6th was just a handful of doors north of the police station and right across from Troy's Union Train Station. Legend also had it that Faye had a set of stairs (in addition to the stairs of the approach) leading from the back of her place that went up the steep hill to 7th and, of course, the RPI campus.

Logical assumptions by reasonable people would include that the cops had to be in on the "deal" in lieu of "other considerations", attending or working at RPI prior to 1940 or so could have possibly been a lot more fun than it is now and that in those days male travelers getting stuck at the station in a long layover (not a play on words) between trains may not have found it all that annoying.

Supposedly, the sum total of Faye's "career" resulted in an estate of well over a quarter million dollars upon her passing. To lazy to research it but would guess that's about 3 million in today's' money. If Faye were plying her trade today, she could have possibly been a major player in any pay to play plan we could have in the works to get our players paid enough to ever be competitive again. That, of course, assumes Faye liked hockey.

My grandfather, WWII vet and survivor of Iwo Jima, and after returning owned a restaurant in Lansingburgh called The Viaduct Bar and Grill, and still later in life former Mayor and City Councilman, used to tell me that when soldiers returned from the war, they all wanted to come to Troy because they had a place to stay at their “Aunt Faye’s”. A lot of soldiers would get off (pun fully intended) at that station and a lot of military bosses thought their soldiers were safely spending the night on their way to the next city/assignment.