Team USA announced the first two cuts from their preliminary World Juniors roster this morning. OHL forwards Logan Brown and Alex DeBrincat were released.
We’ll start with Logan Brown. I had Brown pegged as one of, if not the main contributor on this year’s team.
Though he only recently returned from injury, Keller projects as one of Team USA’s most exciting forwards to watch. Keller is a known quantity for USA Hockey — he holds the U.S. National Team Development Program record for points (189 on 71 goals and 118 assists) — and in the games he has played for Boston University this season, he’s shown he’s exactly the player everyone thinks he is.
Twenty-seven players, including five members of the bronze-medal winning 2016 U.S. National Junior Team, have been named to the preliminary roster for the 2017 U.S. National Junior Team.
Joseph Woll(Boston College) is a solid third string option that could earn a lot of playing time if the other two struggle and he gets hot.
It was not the homecoming Windsor Spitfires centre Logan Brown had envisioned.
Although he was born in the United States, Brown spends most of his summers in the nation’s capital and has plenty of family in the area.
The Ontario Hockey League today announced that Ottawa Senators prospect Logan Brown of the Windsor Spitfires is the Pioneer Energy OHL Player of the Week for the week ending October 9 after recording two goals and six assists for eight points in three games with a plus-minus rating of plus-2.
Logan Brown is doing his best to not look too far ahead, but the Ottawa Senators big first-round selection at the NHL entry draft on Friday — a long and lanky 6-foot-6, 211-pound forward — can’t help but see the big picture.
In his role as the Ottawa 67’s GM/head coach, it’s his job to draft and develop players to help them pursue their dream of getting to the NHL.
But Friday at the First Niagara Center, he played the role of proud father.
It was around the time Matthew Tkachuk turned 8 when a prospect from the St. Louis Blues, Lee Stempniak, moved into the family household. Stempniak was from Buffalo, had played college hockey at Dartmouth College, and Tkachuk’s father, Keith, wanted to help the first-year player make the transition to professional hockey.
The dreams were so much simpler then, Matthew Tkachuk recalls. Back then, he, Logan Brown, Clayton Keller and Luke Kunin were four kids playing youth hockey for the AAA Blues at Hardee’s Iceplex in Chesterfield.
