UNH Recruits Update: Week 26

Player of the Week - Jamie Hill

As the Waterloo Black Hawks battle to finish 1st in the Western Conference of the USHL, 2012 Recruit Jamie Hill has stepped up his game. With four games remaining in the regular season, Waterloo (70 points) trails second-place Lincoln by only 2 points and first-place Omaha by 3. Last week, the Black Hawks won all three games and Jamie Hill posted some impressive numbers. In the 4-2 win over Tri-City, Hill had 3 assists and a +/- rating of +3. He added 2 more assists in the 4-1 victory over Muskegon. Last night, Waterloo defeated Lincoln, one of the teams they are chasing, 4-1 and Hill scored a goal and an assist.

Jamie Hill is now the 5th leading scorer on the Waterloo Black Hawks. In 50 games, Hill has 8 goals and 25 assists. In his first two seasons in the USHL, Hill scored 23 and 26 points respectively. Early in March, Hill announced on his twitter account that he had been accepted at the University of New Hampshire. The right-shot forward will be a freshman on the 2012-13 UNH squad.

NOTE
The statistics for the recruits, presented in the table, are categorized by the projected year they will enroll in UNH. For example, the "2012 Recruits" are projected to begin playing for UNH in the Fall of 2012. I have based these projections on a number of factors including:
~ How old the player would be upon admission.
~ Number of years in junior hockey prior to admission.
~ Anticipated date of high school graduation.
~ Number of seniors leaving the team at the end of the previous season.
~ The player's performance in the current season.

Player	Team	League	GP	Goals	Asst	Pts	PIM
2012 Recruits
Dan Correale	Nanaimo Clippers	BCHL	25	9	13	22	14
Maxim Gaudreault	Sioux City	USHL	56	13	14	27	53
Jamie Hill	Waterloo	USHL	50	8	25	33	57
Collin MacDonald	Jersey Hitmen	EJHL	45	27	18	45	14
	Playoffs	EJHL	6	2	1	3	0
Brett Pesce	Jersey Hitmen	EJHL	17	1	5	6	18
Harry Quast	Bay State	EJHL	45	8	24	32	58
	Playoffs	EJHL	2	0	0	0	0
Jamie Regan	Philly Revs	EJHL	25	9W	16L	3.97	.903
Kyle Smith	Junior Bruins	EJHL	43	24	38	62	32
	Playoffs	EJHL	2	1	1	2	0
2013 Recruits
Jordan Masters	Muskegon	USHL	31	5	10	15	39
Matias Cleland	Waterloo	USHL	37	1	8	9	38
Dylan Maller	Tri-City	USHL	39	3	6	9	10
Andrew Poturalski	Buffalo Jr Sabres	OJHL	33	16	22	38	32
	Playoffs	OJHL	8	5	2	7	4
2013 or '14 Recruit
Michael McNicholas	Muskegon	USHL	44	5	4	9	14
2014 Recruits
Dylan Chanter	Merritt Cents	BCHL	53	2	11	13	47
	Playoffs	BCHL	8	1	1	2	0
Shane Eiserman	Cushing Academy	NEPSAC	29	18	26	44	-
	Playoffs	NEPSAC	1	0	0	0	-
Tyler Kelleher	USA U17 Team	USHL	33	14	10	24	16
2015 Recruits
Jason Kalinowski	Salisbury Prep	NEPSAC	25	12	15	27	-
	Playoffs	NEPSAC	2	2	1	3	-

News & Notes

British Columbia Hockey League:

~ 2014 Recruit Dylan Chanter and the Merritt Centennials have given the Penticton Vees a run for their money in the BCHL Playoffs. Penticton entered the playoffs as the winningest team in BCHL history. After losing the first game of the final series in the Interior Conference, Chanter and the Cents won the second game on the road 4-3. Chanter assisted on the game-winning goal. When the series moved to Merritt for Game 3, both the Vees and the Cents registered 26 shots on goal. The Vees won 3-2. In Game 4, Merritt lost in overtime 3-2. Again, the SOG were fairly even with Penticton edging Merritt 45-41. The Cents face a must-win situation in Game 5 which will take place tonight in Penticton. The winner of the series will advance to the Fred Page Cup Finals against the winners of the Coastal Conference.

United States Hockey League:

~ 2012 Recruit Maxim Gaudreault and the Sioux City Musketeers clinched a playoff berth last week by winning 2 games against Des Moines and one against Fargo. Gaudreault had 3 assists which raised his total points for the season to 27. In this, his second season in the USHL, Gaudreault has doubled his scoring output.

There are only 4 games remaining in the regular season of the USHL. The top 6 teams in both the Western and Eastern Conferences qualify for the USHL Playoffs. If the season ended today, 5 UNH Recruits currently playing for USHL teams would be eligible to participate in the playoffs:
Jamie Hill & Matias Cleland (3rd Place, Waterloo Black Hawks)
Maxim Gaudreault (5th Place, Sioux City Musketeers)
Dylan Maller (6th Place, Tri-City Storm)
Tyler Kelleher (6th Place, Team USA)
The USHL Playoffs begin the third week in April.