Tuesday, January 12, 2016
USHL Prospects to Face Off
Recruits headed to 22 schools set to face off in Top Prospects Game.
Dozens of future college stars will take the ice Tuesday night for the 2016 USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game in Omaha, Neb., with a free live broadcast of the game available at USHL.com.
Thirty-four of the players have already committed to Division I programs, with a remarkable 22 NCAA teams represented – more than one-third of all of Division I. North Dakota and Notre Dame lead all schools with four recruits each in the game, followed by Cornell, Miami, Minnesota, Northeastern, Providence and Western Michigan (two each).
The selection process for players competing in the game was completed in cooperation with NHL general managers and scouts, NHL Central Scouting and USHL general managers. All 40 players chosen are eligible for the 2016 NHL Draft, including 27 players that are in their first year of eligibility for the NHL Draft.
A Skills Competition at 7:35 p.m. ET precedes the game, set to face off at 8:05 p.m. ET.
2016 USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game Participants
Team East
| Pos. | Name | USHL Team | NCAA Team |
| F | Ross Colton | Cedar Rapids | Vermont |
| F | Matt Filipe | Cedar Rapids | Northeastern |
| F | Matt Gosiewski | Cedar Rapids | Harvard |
| F | Jake Jaremko | Chicago | Minnesota State |
| F | Willie Knierim | Dubuque | Miami |
| F | Tanner Laczynski | Chicago | Ohio State |
| F | John Leonard | Green Bay | Massachusetts |
| F | Cam Morrison | Youngstown | Notre Dame |
| F | Michael O’Leary | Dubuque | |
| F | Rem Pitlick | Muskegon | Minnesota |
| F | Sam Sternschein | Cedar Rapids | Cornell |
| F | Max Zimmer | Chicago | Wisconsin |
| D | Zachary Berzolla | Muskegon | Colorado College |
| D | Derek Daschke | Muskegon | Western Michigan |
| D | Mitch Eliot | Muskegon | Michigan State |
| D | Bo Hanson | Muskegon | |
| D | Matthew Kiersted | Chicago | North Dakota |
| D | Luke McInnis | Youngstown | Boston College |
| G | Cale Morris | Waterloo | Notre Dame |
| G | Jan Ruzicka | Des Moines |
Team West
| Pos. | Name | USHL Team | NCAA Team |
| F | Jack Adams | Fargo | Princeton |
| F | Wade Allison | Tri-City | Western Michigan |
| F | CJ Dodero | Sioux City | |
| F | Vlad Dzhioshvili | Bloomington | Cornell |
| F | Ludvig Hoff | Lincoln | North Dakota |
| F | Grant Jozefek | Lincoln | Northeastern |
| F | Jackson Keane | Sioux City | North Dakota |
| F | Carson Meyer | Tri-City | Miami |
| F | Collin Peters | Sioux Falls | Northern Michigan |
| F | Matt Steeves | Siouux City | Notre Dame |
| F | Garrett Wait | Waterloo | Minnesota |
| F | John Wojciechowski | Omaha | |
| D | Michael Boyle | Sioux City | Denver |
| D | Jacob Bryson | Omaha | Providence |
| D | Christian Evers | Lincoln | North Dakota |
| D | Andrew Peeke | Green Bay | Notre Dame |
| D | Jake Ryczek | Sioux City | Providence |
| D | Justin Wells | Sioux Falls | Bowling Green |
| G | Peyton Jones | Lincoln | Penn State |
| G | Zackarias Skog | Omaha |