Friday, March 28, 2025

UNH Commits Update 3-28-2025: Spotlight on High-Scoring QMJHL Forward Jacob Newcombe

Jacob Newcombe (LW/C)
2025 UNH Commit

Player Spotlight
Jacob Newcombe Left Wing/Center, 6'1", 215 lbs. Shoots Left
Hometown: Sambro, Nova Scotia, Canada
DOB: April 27, 2004; 20 years, 11 months old
Neutral Zone Rating: 4.0 out of 5 Stars
2024-25 Team: Cape Breton Eagles (QMJHL)
Committed to UNH in February, 2025 at Age 20 years, 10 months.

Late last month UNH received a commitment from Jacob Newcombe, one of the top goal-scoring forwards this season in the Quebec Maritime Junior Hockey League. Newcombe just completed the Cape Breton Eagles' regular season with 36 goals - tied for 8th most goals in the QMJHL. As a left winger and center he added 37 assists in 63 games. His 73 points were tied for 12th in the league.

Newcombe's success is noteworthy given the challenges he's overcome. In July, 2023 Jacob was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and missed the first half of the 2023-24 season with the Cape Breton Eagles (QMJHL). Following treatment and recovery he scored at a point-a-game pace for the remaining 26 regular season and 14 playoff games. Newcombe was named Cape Breton's captain at the beginning of this season and has played in 63 of the 64 regular season games. The Eagles begin the QMJHL Playoffs today.

March 2025 Highlight Reel
In March Newcombe scored 4 goals and 9 assists in 9 games. As this highlight reel shows, he goes strong to the net to score goals.


Neutral Zone Scouting Report
QMJHL Game Report, February 6, 2025
"Newcombe is a strong, physical forward who excels in puck battles, particularly along the walls. His ability to win these battles allows him to maintain possession and create opportunities for his team. With the puck on his stick, he has the skillset to make plays and distribute effectively. Offensively, Newcombe consistently drives the net and is not afraid to create chaos in front of the opposing goaltender, whether with or without the puck."
News & Notes

~ Sam Oliver earned the Mario-Lemieux Trophy as the leading goal-scorer for the 2024-25 QMJHL regular season. He scored 50 goals in 63 games with the Drummondville Voltigeurs. Eighteen of the goals came on the power play, the most in the QMJHL. Seven of the 50 were game-winning goals, 4th most in the league. Here are all of them:


~ CHL: The 6 UNH Commits playing major junior hockey in the Canadian Hockey League begin their playoff run on Friday, March 28th. They are:
QMJHL
Alex Carr (Rouyn-Noranda Huskies)
Jacob Newcombe (Cape Breton Eagles)
Sam Oliver (Drummondville Voltigeurs)
Jesse Allecia (Drummondville Voltigeurs)
Ontario Hockey League
Nicholas DeAngelis (Sudbury Wolves)
Western Hockey League
Ryan Grout (Tri-City Americans)

2024-25 Statistics for All 22 UNH Commits

Player NZ Stars** Team League GP Goals Asst Pts PIM +/-
2025 Commits
Sebastian Bradshaw 5/26/05 (F) 3.75 Langley Rivermen BCHL 36 5 9 14 49 -
Coquitlam Express BCHL 14 1 2 3 6 -
Alex Carr* 3/30/04 (D) 3.75 Rouyn-Noranda Huskies QMJHL 62 6 39 45 55 +29
Playoffs - - - - - -
Reid Conn* 2/2/04 (D) 3.75 Chicago Steel USHL 43 7 12 19 90 +5
Nicholas DeAngelis* 5/22/04 (D) 4 Sudbury Wolves OHL 66 6 32 38 44 +10
Playoffs - - - - - -
Conner de Haro* 10/17/05 (D) 3.75 Youngstown Phantoms USHL 49 5 11 16 16 +4
Connor DeTurris 10/8/04 (F) 3.75 Nanaimo Clipper BCHL 44 13 16 29 10 -
Jacob Newcombe* 4/27/04 (F) 4.0 Cape Breton Eagles QMJHL 63 36 37 73 40 +27
Playoffs - - - - - -
Sam Oliver* 7/4/04 (F) 4.25 Drummondville Voltigeurs QMJHL 63 50 28 78 57 +19
Playoffs - - - - - -
Ryan Philbrick* 6/20/04 (D) 3.5 Salmon Arms Silverbacks BCHL 26 4 6 10 12 -
Eliot Séguin-Lescarbeau* 9/14/05 (G) 3.75 Des Moines Buccaneers USHL 29 8 19 3 3.69 .884
2025 or '26 Commits
Price Grimes* 1/28/06 (D) 3.5 Vernon Vipers BCHL 14 0 3 3 8 -
Chilliwack Chiefs BCHL 35 3 4 7 35 -
2026 Commits
Jesse Allecia 10/12/05 (F) 3.5 Drummondville Voltigeurs QMJHL 38 8 14 22 2 +1
Playoffs - - - - - -
Alberni Valley Bulldogs BCHL 20 4 6 10 4 -
Yale Junior Bulldogs 18U USA 18U Nationals 6 1 1 2 2 -
Geno Carcone 11/14/06 (F) 3.75 Green Bay Gamblers USHL 56 7 36 43 72 -15
Ryan Grout* 8/15/07 (G) 4 Tri-City Americans WHL 12 2 7 2 4.42 .874
Playoffs - - - - - -
Salmon Arms Silverbacks BCHL 13 8 4 0 2.37 .912
Kole Hyles* 1/16/06 (F) 3.75 Cedar Rapids RoughRiders USHL 53 7 7 14 16 -11
Nikita Konevych 6/3/06 (D) NR Corpus Christi IceRays NAHL 41 3 12 15 63 +6
Cedar Rapids RoughRiders USHL 2 0 0 0 2 +1
Jack Sadowski* 7/29/06 (F) 3.75 West Kelowna Warriors BCHL 17 0 10 10 31 -
Cedar Rapids RoughRiders USHL 20 0 1 1 10 -8
Niko Tournas 2/17/06 (F) 4 Danbury Hat Tricks NAHL 52 35 32 67 26 +16
2026 or '27 Commits
George McCaffrey 1/2/07 (F) 3.5 Long Island Gulls 18U Beast 18U 8 1 3 4 2 -
Bismarck Bobcats NAHL 2 0 1 1 0 -2
MidFairfield Rangers 16U USA 16U Nationals 4 1 1 2 2 -
New England District USA Selects 17 6 1 5 6 2 -
Jayden Connors 2/26/07 (D) 3.75 St. Michael's Buzzers OJHL 27 8 17 25 16 -
Playoffs 6 1 1 2 2 -
Prince George Spruce Kings BCHL 20 0 4 4 8 -
Pavel Martinu 12/20/07 (F) 3.0 Seacoast Performance Academy 18U 18U AAA 49 23 34 57 26 -
Johnstown Tomahawks NAHL 3 0 0 0 0 -3
2027 Commits
Blake Cash 5/9/08 (F) 4.0 Seacoast Performance Academy 16U 16U AAA 52 32 46 78 - -
Seacoast Spartans USA 15 Only Nationals 4 0 1 1 1.5 -
USA 16U Nationals - - - - - -
* = Signed NCAA Financial Aid Agreement
** = Neutral Zone 5-Star Rating
NOTE
The statistics for the commits, presented in the above table, are categorized by the projected year they will enroll in UNH. For example, I project the "2025 Commits" will begin playing for UNH in the Fall of 2025. My projections are based on the following factors:
~ Number of UNH players leaving the team at the end of the previous season and the position they played.
~ Number of incoming transfer players and the position they play.
~ The commit's performance in recent seasons as well as injuries.
~ If a NCAA Financial Aid Agreement has been signed.
~ The year the commit and UNH coaches originally targeted for enrollment in UNH.
~ How old the commit would be upon admission.
~ Number of years in junior hockey and remaining years of junior eligibility.
~ Anticipated date of high school graduation.
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