Although they’ve solely been on the job for a number of months and have but to register a win for UMass, Greg Carvel and his employees are doing a very good job of convincing excessive profile recruits to decide to the Massachusetts hockey program.  This week they picked up a dedication from Jeremy Davidson, a proper shot ahead who is without doubt one of the high beneath 17 gamers within the nation.  In truth he’ll be representing Crew USA within the upcoming U17 5 Nations Event subsequent week.

Davidson performed this previous season for Minnesota prep powerhouse Shattuck-St Mary’s on their Below 16 crew.  He had 17 objectives and 28 assists in 51 video games there.  Previous to Shattuck he performed within the highly-regarded Honeybaked junior program in his native Michigan.  Davidson measures 5’10”, 165lbs however at solely age 16 these numbers will seemingly enhance.  He’s projected to reach at UMass in fall of 2020.  His USHL rights are held by the Bloomington Thunder who took him within the fifth spherical of final yr’s draft.

Right here’s some response to the dedication on Twitter:

Davidson is without doubt one of the high gamers in his age group presently and is a superb pickup for Carvel and his employees.  He was mentioned to have over a dozen colleges pursuing him, with Large Ten colleges seemingly making up a few of them.  It in all probability didn’t damage UMass’ probabilities that Davidson is from Kalamazoo, the town the place assistant coach Ben Barr referred to as house for the final couple years earlier than becoming a member of the UMass employees.

It’ll be some time till Davidson pulls on the maroon and white, but it surely’ll be thrilling to comply with his journey whereas we’re ready.

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UMass made Jack Suter’s addition to this yr’s recruiting class official.

SNB Faculty Hockey’s Jeff Cox ranked the incoming recruiting courses for the Hockey East applications.  Cox has UMass’ freshmen because the tenth greatest class within the league, highlighting the additions of goaltender Ryan Wischow and defenseman Shane Bear.  Contemplating the swiftness with which Carvel and the employees put the category collectively, I feel that is fairly good.  As Carvel makes an attempt to reverse the fortunes of this system it’s not a lot the rating of recruits that can matter in these preliminary years, however what he’s in a position to do with them as soon as they arrive in Amherst.  UMass has had fairly quite a few excessive profile gamers be a part of this system lately, but it surely hasn’t translated into wins resulting from how poorly the groups have performed on the ice.  What’s necessary is the crew enjoying successfully and cohesively.  With wins and displaying progress in the direction of his imaginative and prescient for this system, extra high recruits like Davidson will make the selection to come back to UMass.

The Newburyport Each day Information has a very good article on incoming switch Josh Coutuier’s resolution to move to the state’s flagship.