Neutral Zone, LLC is the largest and most reputable independent hockey scouting service in the industry; with a staff of over 50 experienced, qualified, professional scouts from across North America.
In the past five years NZ has had five scouts go on to NHL scouting jobs, six NCAA coaching jobs and six CHL scouting/management positions along with several junior hockey GM’s, Director of Scouting, Head Coaches, etc.
This upcoming season we are growing and expanding the footprint and will be hiring more scouts than ever before in company history.
Neutral Zone has partnered with RinkNet and all scouts will have access to the RinkNet platform, will conduct reports on RinkNet which can be accessed by every team in the NHL, CHL, NCAA D1 and most junior leagues in North America, etc.
We are looking for scouts in the following areas:
Women’s Hockey
- Western Canada (4 Scouts)
- Eastern Canada (1 Scout) – Preferably Halifax area
- Quebec (1-3 scouts)
- New England (3-5 scouts)
- Michigan (1-2 scouts)
- Minnesota (1-3 scouts)
- Southwest US (1 scout)
- West Coast US (1 scout)
All applicants interested in scouting for women’s hockey reach out to Jess Cameron, Director of Women’s Hockey at jcameron@neutralzone.net Include your location and a resume of your hockey background.
NHL Draft Scouting
- Western Canada (1-2 scouts)
- Eastern Canada / Quebec (1-2 scouts)
- Midwest USA (1-2 scouts)
- Europe (2-4 scouts)
All applicants interested in scouting for NHL Draft reach out to Ian Moran, Director of NHL Scouting at imoran@neutralzone.net Include your location and a resume of your hockey background.
Men’s Hockey
Central Canada
- Toronto, ON area (1-2 scouts)
- Ottawa, ON area (1 scout)
All applicants interested in scouting for Central Canada reach out to Paul O’Hagan, Director of Ontario Scouting at pohagan@neutralzone.net Include your location and a resume of your hockey background.
Western Canada
- British Columbia, Canada ( 3 scouts)
- Alberta, Canada (3 Scouts)
- Saskatchewan, Canada (1 Scout) – preferably Saskatoon or northern Sask
- Manitoba, Canada (1 scout) – preferably around Winnipeg
All applicants interested in scouting for Western Canada reach out to James McGuigan, Director of Western Canadian Scouting at jmcguigan@neutralzone.net Include your location and a resume of your hockey background.
Eastern Canada / Quebec
- Quebec (1-2 Scouts)
- New Brunswick/PEI (1 scout)
- Nova Scotia ( 1 scout)
All applicants interested in scouting for Eastern Canada reach out to Murray Nystrom, Director of Eastern Canadian Scouting at mnystrom@neutralzone.net Include your location and a resume of your hockey background.
United States
- Minnesota (3-5 Scouts)
- Michigan (1-2 Scouts)
- Mid-Atlantic (1-2 Scouts)
- Atlantic (2-3 Scouts)
- Southeast (1 Scout)
- Northern Plains (1 Scout)
- Wisconsin (1-2 Scouts)
- Pacific (1-2 Scouts)
- Rocky Mountain (1-2 Scouts)
- Central (1-2 Scouts)
- New York (1-3 Scouts)
- New England (1-3 Scouts)
All applicants interested in scouting for the United States reach out to Brian Murphy, Director of United States Scouting at bmurphy@neutralzone.net Include your location and a resume of your hockey background.
Remote Scouting / Video Scouting
We offer a video scouting department for scouts who may not live in a hockey hotbed or may have problems due to work or families, etc. to physically get to the rinks. This past year we had 5 video scouts, 3 of which were playing professional hockey in Europe, 1 was a retired coach who didn’t have great mobility to get around and another was a new scout breaking into the industry. If you are interested in a video scouting position where you would be in charge of scouting a specific junior league or age group, please email Ed Besinger, Director of Video Scouting, at ebesinger@neutralzone.net Include your resume.
Internships
For people looking to crack into the hockey industry, Neutral Zone offers internships, typically associated with a University for course credit or to fill a requirement. These internships have a wide range of duties from social media, data entry, analytics, journalism, administrative tasks, accounting, editing, customer service and managing player profile database. If you are interested in an internship with Neutral Zone please contact our Internship Director Mark Bilotta, at mbilotta@neutralzone.net Please include your location and resume.
