Scouting Reports
2000 Birth Year Master List
Posted on February 15, 2021
Neutral Zone scouting staff has compiled a list of the 1200+ prospects born in 2000 who have been scouted and are actively playing junior hockey this season. These prospects are listed in alphabetical order (by first name) and show their current team and current star rating. We will make a final update/edit to this list…
USHL Top 60 Rankings: 2000 Birth Year
Posted on February 14, 2021
The USHL is the only Tier 1 Junior hockey league in the United States and the highest rated amateur league in North America. The league has been able to play games despite COVID complications so our scouts have been able to track and scout these prospects throughout the season. Our rankings are based mostly on…
National Rankings 2000’s: Top 300
Posted on February 13, 2021
The 2020-2021 season has been in hockey terms, a “gongshow” for the 2000 born age out junior players. We would typically release our mid-term rankings for each birth year in December but with several seasons having late starts (or no starts at all) we had to push it to February. The list below is for…
USHL: Sioux Falls @ Sioux City and Muskegon @ NTDP U17
Posted on October 30, 2018
Sioux Falls Stampede @ Sioux City Musketeers; Saturday October 27 The rivalry continued Saturday night at the Stamped visited Sioux City in an exciting, up and down, fast paced game. Sioux Falls carried the play most of the game, getting a 3-1 lead with under 10 minutes to go in the game. After that it…
USA Select 17 Player Development Camp Rankings
Posted on July 28, 2017
Neutral Zone scouts were in attendance for every game of the USA Hockey Select 17 National Player Development Camp this summer in Buffalo, NY. The tournament is a collection of the best 180 players (minus NTDP) in the 2000 age group as deemed by USA Hockey officials throughout the country. As is the case every…
Pre Draft: 100 Players
Posted on May 22, 2017
Neutral Zone headed to the annual Pre-Draft showcase on May 12-14, 2017 just south of Boston. There were 100 teams in attendance. We primarily focused on finding players that we have not evaluated before. In addition, we also commented on players below that we have seen/had rated but we felt played in a way that…
U16 USA Tier 1 Nationals: Top 160 Rankings
Posted on April 21, 2017
Neutral Zone attended the 2017 USA Hockey U16 Tier 1 Nationals in Pittsburgh, PA. The tournament showcased a lot of talented players including several NTDP selections and USHL tenders. Given that . Due to the high volume of players (160) evaluated here, we decided to go away from the typical organization by grade and instead…
AYHL U16 Playoffs: Top 30
Posted on March 29, 2017
Neutral Zone checked out the U16 AYHL playoffs. As most expected, the NJ Avalance won but the Titans gave them a bit of a run. The champs won two games. The Virtua game was a 6-2 win but chippy and nasty all the way. It was only 1-0 after one but the Avs had a…
NJ Avalanche at Virtua U16
Posted on February 15, 2017
2/12/17 NJ Avs 7 @ Virtua 1 AYHL 16U This was a close game for maybe five minutes then the Avs put it into gear and never looked back. The 49-19 shot total may have been generous. After the Avs went up 3-0 and the closest got was 3-1 for 5 minutes. It was a…
AYHL 16U; USPHL 16U Philadelphia Showcase
Posted on February 13, 2017
1/29/17 AYHL U16: NJ Avalanche vs. Philadelphia Jr. Flyers NJ Avalanche 5 @ Jr Flyers 1 The Avs dominated two periods but the Flyers played a solid third. Burles scored two and the line of Mitton-Wazny-Burles accounted for 4 of the 5 goals. It got chippy at the end. The Avs were without Robbins who usually…
