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2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2025 10:21 am
by dueling21
With West Metro passing on, no one started up the early departure watch list, so figured I'd through it up on the board and see what sticks.
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2025 10:36 am
by bardown27
Confirmed:
Mason Minor - BSM (Cedar Rapids USHL)
Mason West - Edina (Fargo USHL)
Freddie Schneider - Edina (NTDP U17)
Ben Geiger - Northfield (NTDP U17)
Carson Scott - Hill-Murray (NTDP U17)
Gunnar Conboy - Lakeville North (Green Bay USHL)
Luca Jarvis - Stillwater (Tri City USHL)
Potential to do B/A, on USHL/NAHL roster right now:
Carter Ernst - Lakeville South (Cedar Rapids USHL)
Nate Chorlton - Cretin (Chicago USHL)
Ryland Rooney - Gentry (Des Moines USHL)
Riley Zupfer - Hill-Murray (Des Moines USHL)
Becker Wenkus - Edina (Des Moines USHL)
Zac Zimmerman - Moorhead (Fargo USHL)
Jack Kultgen - Shakopee (Green Bay USHL)
Casey Vandertop - Edina (Lincoln USHL)
Nate Pederson - Shakopee (Lincoln USHL)
Tyden Bergeson - Moorhead (Madison USHL)
Caleb Pittsley - Edina (Madison USHL)
Cash Cruitt - Andover (Madison USHL)
Nate Celski - WBL (Muskegon USHL)
Max Anderson - Cretin (Sioux City USHL)
Caz Carlson - Rock Ridge (Waterloo USHL)
Connor Schubert - Rosemount (Youngstown USHL)
Carson Steinhoff - Shakopee (MN Mallards NAHL)
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2025 10:52 am
by CakeScout17
West Metro is missed. A true character and love of the game/community.
Thanks for starting this and the update!
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2025 10:01 am
by BP
bardown27 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 09, 2025 10:36 am
Confirmed:
Mason Minor - BSM (Cedar Rapids USHL)
Mason West - Edina (Fargo USHL)
Freddie Schneider - Edina (NTDP U17)
Ben Geiger - Northfield (NTDP U17)
Carson Scott - Hill-Murray (NTDP U17)
Gunnar Conboy - Lakeville North (Green Bay USHL)
Luca Jarvis - Stillwater (Tri City USHL)
Potential to do B/A, on USHL/NAHL roster right now:
Carter Ernst - Lakeville South (Cedar Rapids USHL)
Nate Chorlton - Cretin (Chicago USHL)
Ryland Rooney - Gentry (Des Moines USHL)
Riley Zupfer - Hill-Murray (Des Moines USHL)
Becker Wenkus - Edina (Des Moines USHL)
Zac Zimmerman - Moorhead (Fargo USHL)
Jack Kultgen - Shakopee (Green Bay USHL)
Casey Vandertop - Edina (Lincoln USHL)
Nate Pederson - Shakopee (Lincoln USHL)
Tyden Bergeson - Moorhead (Madison USHL)
Caleb Pittsley - Edina (Madison USHL)
Cash Cruitt - Andover (Madison USHL)
Nate Celski - WBL (Muskegon USHL)
Max Anderson - Cretin (Sioux City USHL)
Caz Carlson - Rock Ridge (Waterloo USHL)
Connor Schubert - Rosemount (Youngstown USHL)
Carson Steinhoff - Shakopee (MN Mallards NAHL)
Some more to add:
Owen Lunneborg - Shakopee (Vancouver - WHL)
Caden Zasada - Hill-Murray (Spokane - WHL)
Phoenix Cahill - CDH (Prince Geroge - WHL)
Carter Casey - Grand Rapids - (Medicine Hat - WHL)
Luke Christopherson - Two Rivers (Portland - WHL)
Brandon Mickelson - Moorhead (Wenatchee - WHL)
Caden Lindsay - Minnetonka (Minot - NAHL)
Issak Kalis - Little Falls (St Cloud - NAHL)
Cooper Siegert - Shakopee (Fairbanks - NAHL)
Jackson Knight - Orono (Minnesota Wilderness - NAHL)
Grady Suchy - Alexandria (Northstar Christian U16)
Nate Garski - Grand Rapids (Bismarck - NAHL)
Joe Erickson - Blake (Wisconsin - NAHL)
Grady Schmidt - Mankato West (Austin - NAHL)
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 8:32 pm
by ClassAGuy
Just got through all the Class A Team Previews below is what was found (Sure some are missing)
Early Departures
Ben Geiger - Northfield (NTDP U17)
Jackson Knight - Orono (Minnesota Wilderness - NAHL)
Luca DeCubellis - Orono (Salmon Arm Silverbacks - BCHL)
Ryker Rehm - MN River (Shattuck U18)
Brandon Wright - Mahtomedi (Northstar Christian U16)
Mitchell Haase - Mora/Milaca (Granite City- NA3HL)
Keaton LeGrande - St Cloud Cathedral (Rock Springs Miners - NCDC)
Ethan Wise - Hermantown (Northstar Christian U16)
Carter Nash - Hermantown (Honeybaked U15)
Mason Deraney - Detroit Lakes (Sioux Falls U16)
Parker Deraney - Detroit Lakes (Fox Motors U15)
Before and After (Been told coming back for HS Hockey)
Issak Kalis - Little Falls (St Cloud - NAHL)
Joe Erickson - Blake (Wisconsin - NAHL)
Grady Schmidt - Mankato West (Austin - NAHL)
Tucker Lovejoy - East Grand Forks (Austin - NAHL)
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2025 8:36 am
by BSUBeaver
Joey Cullen (Moorhead) Honeybaked 15U
Easton Dozark (Moorhead) Honeybaked 15U
Henry Buttwieller (Moorhead/Alexandria??) Honeybaked 15U
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 9:36 am
by oldmaverick
Is there a date that players have to be back to be eligible for the HS season?
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 9:36 am
by oldmaverick
Is there a date that players have to be back to be eligible for the HS season?
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:59 am
by Sparlimb
oldmaverick wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 9:36 am
Is there a date that players have to be back to be eligible for the HS season?
Yes. I forget what it is, but something like 5 weeks after the season starts, or something close to that. I recall a player from WBL missing the deadline a couple years ago and not getting to play his senior year.
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 12:15 pm
by BSUBeaver
Seeing reports on X that Joey Cullen is coming back to Moorhead for the HS season. Kind of interesting since his dad is a coach with Honeybaked, if true.
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 2:23 pm
by mnpuckster
Sparlimb wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:59 am
oldmaverick wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 9:36 am
Is there a date that players have to be back to be eligible for the HS season?
Yes. I forget what it is, but something like 5 weeks after the season starts, or something close to that. I recall a player from WBL missing the deadline a couple years ago and not getting to play his senior year.
This was covid related.
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 5:50 am
by East Side Pioneer Guy
Sparlimb wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:59 am
oldmaverick wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 9:36 am
Is there a date that players have to be back to be eligible for the HS season?
Yes. I forget what it is, but something like 5 weeks after the season starts, or something close to that. I recall a player from WBL missing the deadline a couple years ago and not getting to play his senior year.
Five weeks??? Good Lord, why not just make the 3rd Friday of February? Or the first intermission of the section quarterfinals?
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 6:33 am
by bardown27
Players have to be rostered by the third Monday after tryouts start.
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 7:54 am
by BSUBeaver
Brooks Suter returning to Edina, according to X.
Also reading that Cullen would be eligible to go back to Honeybaked after the HS season for the Michigan District playoffs and possible Nationals (have Fox Motors and Little Caesars in there). All Honeybaked has to do is have him taking up a roster spot on January 1.
I know the MSHSL allowed HS kids to do the "before and after" with Junior teams, but didn't realize it could also be used with AAA teams. Is this the first time this aspect is being tested?
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 12:48 pm
by smhockey77
"Returns to Edina" is funny given he played for Moorhead last season.
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 6:09 pm
by BSUBeaver
smhockey77 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 12:48 pm
"Returns to Edina" is funny given he played for Moorhead last season.
Yeah, leave it to Minnesota Hockey to allow a free for all in youth hockey.
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:03 pm
by SpreadOut!
X
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:03 pm
by SpreadOut!
X
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:04 pm
by SpreadOut!
X
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:04 pm
by SpreadOut!
X
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:05 pm
by SpreadOut!
The MSHSL and Minnesota Hockey at this point should just come out and publicly admit that there are no eligibility rules based on where you live or where you played last year (or earlier this year). You can live wherever you want to now and play for whoever you want to. There are zero rules being followed or enforced regarding residency. It’s getting so bad that, pretty soon, you’ll probably be able to play for a high school team if you don’t even go to the high school. It’s a joke.
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:07 pm
by SpreadOut!
Sorry on the multiple same posts. I got a message after posting saying the post didn’t post but then when I looked afterwards it did? My apologies.
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 8:47 am
by headsupsticksdown
Why was Suter up in Moorhead anyways? After Dallas, the fam said f it and didn't go to STL and instead settled on a one year lease in Moorhead??
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 9:42 am
by BSUBeaver
headsupsticksdown wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 8:47 am
Why was Suter up in Moorhead anyways? After Dallas, the fam said f it and didn't go to STL and instead settled on a one year lease in Moorhead??
Well, they did get a Bantam AA State Title out of the deal, so there is that.
It is a free for all right now. He played in Moorhead last year for Bantams (District 15), them played HP Spring with District 6 (Edina). Ends up getting a trip to the USA Hockey combine in Buffalo, NY in the summer, and then goes to the Madison Capitals 15U AAA for the fall, now is coming back to Edina for HS.
Re: 2025-26 Early Departure Watch List
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 11:58 am
by elliott70
BSUBeaver wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 6:09 pm
smhockey77 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 12:48 pm
"Returns to Edina" is funny given he played for Moorhead last season.
Yeah, leave it to Minnesota Hockey to allow a free for all in youth hockey.
This is not a Minesota Hockey controlled event.
And MH (at least most directors) work very hard at regulating movement.
It is discussed frequently.