UNH Recruits Update: Nov-11-2014

Skipjacks' Jason O'Neill
4g, 3a, in 2 games

Player of the Week - Jason O'Neill

The Skipjacks Hockey Club, based in Odenton, Maryland, is only in it's second year of existence. It fields two midget-level teams - 16-Under (Midget Minor) and 18-Under (Midget Major) - which compete in the United States Premiere Hockey League (USPHL). Last season, Jason O'Neill lead the Skipjacks 16U team in scoring and was the second-leading scorer in the 13-team league. He posted 27 goals and 49 assists in 29 regular season games.

O'Neill moved up to the Skipjacks 18U team this season and over the first 11 games, he was scoring at a point-a-game clip (5 goals and 7 assists). Over the weekend, O'Neill nearly doubled his total goals as the Skipjacks won 2 games against the Wilkes Barre Scranton Knights. In a 5-2 win on Saturday, O'Neill scored 2 goals and assisted on the game-winner. On Sunday, the Skipjacks won again 5-2 and O'Neill scored 2 more goals, including the game-winning goal, plus 2 more assists. Jason O'Neill is now the third-leading scorer in the 18U Division of the USPHL. He is on track to enroll at UNH in the Fall of either 2017 or 2018.

NOTE
The statistics for the recruits, presented in the table, are categorized by the year the player and UNH coaches have targeted for enrollment in UNH. For example, the "2015 Recruits" have a target of the Fall of 2015 to begin playing for UNH.

Player	Team	League	GP	Goals	Asst	Pts	PIM
2015 Recruits
Jason Kalinowski  (F)	Bloomington Thunder	USHL	2	0	0	0	0
	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders	USHL	5	0	0	0	4
Joseph Masonius  (D)	USA U18 Team	NCAA	6	1	1	2	4
		USHL	4	0	1	1	4
		NAHL	1	0	0	0	0
		Int'l.	4	0	1	1	14
Christopher Miller  (F)	Junior Bruins	USPHL	12	3	4	7	6
Danny Tirone  (G)	Junior Bruins	USPHL	13	9W	4L	2.33	.923
Brendan van Riemsdyk   (F)	Islanders Hockey Club	USPHL	19	16	5	21	40
Marcus Vela  (F)	Langley Rivermen	BCHL	20	3	13	16	26
2015 or '16 Recruits
Liam Blackburn  (F)	West Kelowna Warriors	BCHL	19	10	25	35	12
Liam Darcy  (D)	Berwick Academy	NEPSHC	0	0	0	0	0
	Islanders Hockey Club 18U	USPHL 18U	4	0	0	0	0
Patrick Grasso  (F)	Des Moines Bucs	USHL	13	3	6	9	6
Charlie Kelleher  (F)	Junior Bruins	USPHL	17	8	13	21	8
Aaron O'Neill  (F)	Green Bay Gamblers	USHL	1	0	0	0	0
Ara Nazarian  (F)	Des Moines Bucs	USHL	13	2	3	5	2
Nick Nonis  (D)	Powell River Kings	BCHL	20	0	1	1	16
2016 Recruits
Joey Cipollone  (F)	Selects Academy 18U	USPHL 18U	8	4	10	14	0
Justin Fregona  (F)	St. Andrews College	CISAA	0	0	0	0	0
		Non-Conf	7	5	3	8	16
Jake Ryczek  (D)	Sioux City Musketeers	USHL	13	2	0	2	2
2017 Recruits
Mike Robinson  (G)	Boston Jr Rangers	EHL	8	4W	4L	2.35	.937
	Lawrence Academy	NEPSHC	0	0	0	0	0
2017 or '18 Recruits
Eric Esposito  (F)	CT Wolfpack U16 Split	CT HC	29	14	13	27	34
	Loomis Chaffee	NEPSHC	0	0	0	0	0
Jason O'Neill  (F)	Skipjacks Hockey Club 18U	USPHL 18U	13	9	10	19	9

News & Notes

United States Hockey League:

~ 2015 or 16 UNH recruit Aaron O'Neill had shoulder surgery over the summer and missed the first 11 games of the USHL season. Last Saturday night, O'Neill suited up for his first game of the season with the Green Bay Gamblers.

USA Hockey/New England District Regional Championships:

~ Eric Esposito competed in the New England District Midget Minor Championships over the weekend. Esposito and the Wolfpack U16 Split Season team made it to the championship game but lost to the Selects Academy.

2014 World Sports School Championship:

~ 2016 recruit Justin Fregona and the St. Andrew's College Saints won the 2014 World Sports School Championship sponsored by the Edge School in Alberta, Calgary. Fregona scored 3 goals and 2 assists in 6 games.