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2015 CCM/USA HOCKEY ALL-AMERICAN PROSPECTS GAME FIRST NIAGARA CENTER • BUffALO, NEW YORK • THURSDAY, SEPT. 24, 2015 • The fourth annual CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game features 42 top American-born players eligible for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. • Some 150 NHL scouts are in attendance at tonight’s game. • Twenty-two players in tonight’s game appear on the 2015-16 NHL Central Scouting Futures List, which highlights players that have potential to be selected in the first three rounds of the draft. TONIGHT’S GAME USA HOCKEY HAPPENINGS NCAA HOCKEY WORLD CUP OF HOCKEY 2016 Twenty-six players are verbally committed to NCAA On Monday, USA Hockey announced that John Tor- programs. Additionally, defenseman Charlie McAvoy torella (Boston, Mass.), who ranks first on the NHL’s is a freshman at Boston University, while forwards all-time wins list among American-born coaches, will Luke Kunin and Tage Thompson are first-year play- serve as head coach of Team USA for the 2016 World ers at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Cup of Hockey. Connecticut, respectively. The U.S. management group for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey includes Dean Lombardi (Ludlow, Mass./L.A. UNITED STATES HOCKEY LEAGUE Kings) as general manager; Paul Holmgren (St. Paul, Thirty-three players have developmental roots in the Minn./Philadelphia Flyers) as assistant general manag- USHL. As the top junior league in the United States, er; Brian Burke (Edina, Minn./Calgary Flames) as se- the USHL prepares players for NCAA Division I hockey nior advisor; and Jim Johannson (Colorado Springs, as well as careers in the NHL.
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