UNH Commits Update 3-27-2026: Current Stats and Status for All 18 UNH Commits

2025-26 Stats Sheet for All 18 UNH Commits

The Stats Sheet (shown below) provides a variety of information on the 18 players currently committed to enroll and play hockey for UNH in the future. It includes the following:
Identifying Information
Name, date of birth, position, 2025-26 team(s) and league(s).
Clicking the player's name connects to his historical statistics on eliteprospects.com.

Production Statistics
Total games played, scoring production, penalty minutes and +/- rating are shown for forwards and defensemen.
Goalie stats include games played, wins/losses/ties, Goals Against Average and Save Percentage.

Projected Year of Enrollment
The committed players are categorized by the projected year they will enroll at UNH. Projections are based on the several factors including:
~ Number of years playing junior hockey and remaining years of junior eligibility.
~ Performance development throughout junior career.
~ Number of roster openings created by 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.
For example, the "Projected 2026 Freshman Class" are on track to play for UNH in the Fall of 2026.
Players in the "2026 or '27 Commits" group have the potential to enroll in Fall 2026 or 2027.

Signed NCAA Financial Aid Agreement
By signing a Financial Aid Agreement (otherwise know as Athletic Aid Agreement) with any NCAA Division I school, the hockey prospect commits to attending the school for one year, and in return, the school guarantees a specific amount of athletic financial aid for that academic year.
Depending on the financial resources available to the university and decisions on how to allocate those resources, the athletic aid package may cover any of the following:
~Tuition & mandatory fees       ~Room & board       ~Standard Book Allowance
~Cost of Attendance stipend (approximately $2,000 to $6,000 annually) for general day-to-day expenses not directly billed by the university.
~Alston Award for academic achievement (up to $5,980 annually).
~Direct Revenue Sharing of money from TV deals, ticket sales, and sponsorships.

NCAA financial aid agreements do not include Third-Party NIL Agreements.
Once a prospect signs a athletic aid agreement, a recruiting ban goes into effect. Other schools are prohibited from communicating with them.

Players who have signed an NCAA Financial Aid Agreement with UNH have a * next to their name in the Stats Sheet.

Neutral Zone Player Ratings
Neutral Zone provides detailed scouting reports on college hockey prospects. NZ developed a 1-5 star scale for rating NCAA and Canadian Interuniversity Sport (U Sports) prospects. The star rating reflects how the prospect compares to other players in his birth year.

The Stats Sheet also includes the Neutral Zone star rating for each UNH Commit. Clicking the numerical rating for any player connects to all their evaluations and game reports performed by NZ's scouts. NZ is a paid subscription service.

2025-26 Stats Sheet for All 18 UNH Commits

Player	Neutral Zone★'s	Team	League	GP	Goals	Asst	Pts	PIM	+/-
Projected 2026 Freshman Class
Nicky Romeo* 5/2/05 (LW)	3.75	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders	USHL	58	27	25	52	2	+18
Mason Zebeski* 10/4/05 (LW)	3.75	Barrie Colts	OHL	29	6	12	18	28	+4
			Playoffs
		Brampton Steelheeds	OHL	38	13	15	28	37	-4
Niko Tournas* 2/17/06 (RW)	4.0	Moncton Wildcats	QMJHL	64	43	31	74	44	+22
			Playoffs
Parker Von Richter* 5/17/06 (D)	4.0	Barrie Colts	OHL	28	8	16	24	15	+23
			Playoffs
		Brampton Steelheeds	OHL	38	4	21	25	26	+2
2026 or '27 Commits
Leo Henriquez 4/29/07 (G)	4.0	Green Bay Gamblers	USHL	33	17	9	2	2.28	.919
Kole Hyles* 1/16/06 (F)	3.75	Omaha Lancers	USHL	54	22	18	40	32	+4
Cash Koch 3/31/07 (F)	3.75	Tri-City Americans	WHL	41	7	9	16	84	-6
Price Grimes* 1/28/06 (D)	3.5	Aberdeen Wings	NAHL	53	2	17	18	98	+9
2027 or '28 Commits
Ryan Grout* 8/15/07 (G)	3.75	Tri-City Americans	WHL	30	8	16	3	3.99	.879
Pavel Martinu 12/20/07 (F)	3.75	Sioux City Musketeers	USHL	48	8	9	17	57	-7
Jayden Connors 2/26/07 (D)	3.75	Truro Bearcats	MHL	32	7	19	26	12	-
			Playoffs	5	1	4	5	6
		Sudbury Wolves	OHL	3	0	0	0	0	-4
2028 or '29 Commits
Cole Sabourin 1/23/08 (F)	3.5	Mount St. Charles Academy	18U AAA	48	25	35	60	-	-
			Prep Hockey Conference	5	2	3	5	14	-
		USA NTDP Juniors	USHL	2	0	0	0	2	-5
		New England District	USA Selects 17	6	3	2	5	3	-
Blake Cash 5/9/08 (F)	3.75	Cushing Academy	NE Prep	30	15	12	27	-	-
			Playoffs	3	2	2	4	-	-
Xavier Cormier 12/18/08 (D)	3.75	Drummondville Voltigeurs	QMJHL	42	6	11	17	10	+16
			Playoffs
2029 or '30 Commits
Evan Sercerchi 2/18/09 (F)	4.0	Val-d'Or Foreurs	QMJHL	43	0	3	3	8	-11
			Playoffs
Cody Costello 4/22/09 (D)	3.75	Washington Township HS	USHS-NJ	14	8	15	23	18	-
		Woodbridge Wolfpack 16U	Tier 1 16U	12	2	5	7	16	-
			Beast 16U	7	0	0	0	0	-
			Playoffs	2	1	0	1	0	-
			NEPACK 16U	15	1	8	9	20	-
			USA 16U Nationals	2	0	0	0	4	-
Bastien Michaud 5/2/09 (D)	4.0	Bishop's College School Varsity	Overall	39	8	24	32	45	-
			CSSHLE U18	15	3	11	14	13	-
			Playoffs	5	1	4	5	0	-
			Canadian Prep	8	1	1	2	10	-
		Quebec Ramparts	QMJHL	5	0	1	1	0	0
Caine Bickel 8/13/09 (F)	3.75	Seacoast Performance Academy 16U	16U AAA	61	80	70	150	-	-
* = Signed NCAA Financial Aid Agreement
★'s = Neutral Zone 5-Star Rating

NOTE
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 "2026 Freshman Class" will begin playing for UNH in the Fall of 2026.
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.
~ Number of years in junior hockey and remaining years of junior eligibility.
~ Junior Leagues played in.
~ If a NCAA Financial Aid Agreement has been signed.

College Hockey Insider Mike McMahon on Challenges Facing UNH Hockey & Head Coach Mike Souza

Mike McMahon

UNH Head Coach Mike Souza

Veteran sportswriter Mike McMahon has been covering college hockey for 20 years. He began as a beat reporter for The Eagle-Tribune in August 2026, covering Merrimack College and Hockey East. Later that year, McMahon began contributing to College Hockey News and is currently their columnist and co-host of CHN Insiders Podcast.

Five seasons ago, McMahon launched College Hockey Insider*, a newsletter providing daily coverage of college hockey news, analysis, and commentary. He's also does play-by-play and color analysis on ESPN+ broadcasts of Hockey East games.

The "Mailbag" edition of College Hockey Insider (3/13/26) included several questions from hockey fans. In his answer to one of them, McMahon provided his analysis of challenges facing the UNH men's hockey program and Head Coach Mike Souza. Here is the fan's question and McMahon's answer:

Fan: "Has Mike Souza’s performance this season tipped the scales at all on his potential departure from UNH, or do you anticipate that the school will extend him again?"

Mike McMahon: "I’ve written about this before, and I know it frustrates some UNH fans to hear it, but the reality is this: New Hampshire doesn’t have a coaching problem. It has a resource problem.

Compared to the rest of Hockey East, UNH funds its program at or near the bottom of the league. For example, they’re still one of the only programs that do not fund a third full-time assistant coach — something that has become standard across most of the country, let alone the conference. And this past year, they lost Ryan Conmy, in large part because of revenue-sharing opportunities elsewhere that UNH couldn’t match.

Someone asked me in January where associate head coach Glenn Stewart had been, because they had not seen him on the bench for several weeks. He was recruiting. Every weekend. Because they don’t have a full-time third assistant like the rest of the teams in their league.

Fifteen years ago, UNH was almost a lock to finish in the top four of Hockey East most seasons. But back then, the program also operated with top-tier resources. That simply isn’t the case anymore. They kept their investment level the same, while everyone else — Providence, UMass Lowell, UMass — all started to invest heavily in the sport.

Institutionally, UNH has fallen behind several of its conference peers. In terms of overall investment, they’re easily in the bottom three in Hockey East — and arguably in the bottom two.

And in today’s landscape, there’s no magic fix. It’s not like 1995, when a new coach could arrive with a different recruiting pipeline and immediately reshape a program. The recruiting world is far more transparent now. Everyone knows who the best players are. UNH just can’t get them to Durham, and that’s a resource and facility issue.

At first, UNH started losing ground because it fell behind in facilities. Now the gap exists in both facilities and revenue-sharing resources. That combination makes the climb extremely difficult, regardless of who is behind the bench."

The same fan replied to McMahon with comments on UNH's budget/resources and Souza's performance plus these follow up questions:

Fan: "does UNH fire Souza with one year remaining on his contract, does UNH have him return next season as a lame duck coach, or does UNH extend him for another few seasons like they did last time? Also, I get the sense that if you were AD of UNH, you would be bringing him back given you think it is a resources issue not a coaching issue, but am I wrong on that?"

Here are excerpts of McMahon's reply:
Mike McMahon: "I don't think they'll fire him. They had him go into the last year of his deal three years ago, and I think they'll do the same here. I do think it's a resource issue, and not a coaching issue. They don't staff their program to Hockey East levels, and from a budgetary standpoint, they are in the bottom tier with Merrimack and Vermont. Those are institutional problems."

"I'd rather see the school invest first, and then see what Souza and his staff can do with comparable resources to the rest of Hockey East. I believe he's a good coach. If they do that and it's still not working, then you have to figure it's time for a change. Until then, I think you're looking at a school that's just looking to pass its investment shortcomings onto a coach."

"And if I were the AD, I'd want to see what the current staff could do with a real Hockey East budget, and with real Hockey East resources. You get what you pay for. I don't think you can expect even a middle-of-the-pack finish when you're funding your program at the 10th-place level."


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