New Hampshire Junior Monarchs center Grant Porter committed to Holy Cross, it was announced earlier this week.
The ’02 from Wellesley, Mass., is in his first season playing junior hockey in the USPHL NCDC. In 12 games with the Monarchs, he has six goals and 13 assists. Porter played the previous two seasons for Proctor Academy.
Porter potted 17 goals and nine assists in 27 games during the 2019-20 season for the Hornets. In his first season playing at Proctor in 2018-19, he had six goals and 11 assists. Porter is a big forward with a hard shot and an ability to cycle pucks below the dots. His older brother, Aidan Porter, is a sophomore goaltender at Princeton.
Northeast Generals captain makes commit
Dylan Schuett, who has been a two-year captain for the Northeast Generals, has committed to Long Island University. The ’00 from Medicine Hat, Alberta, will bring close to 200 games of junior hockey experience to Brett Riley’s upstart program.
In 13 games this season in the North American Hockey League, Schuett has three goals and nine assists. He scored 10 goals and 19 assists in 48 games last season. Prior to his stint with the Generals, Schuett played for the NAHL’s Brookings Blizzard and the EHL’s East Coast Wizards.
Dorrington gets the call
Cushing Academy and Junior Bruins defenseman Jackson Dorrington has been called up to join USA Hockey’s NTDP U-17 team for this weekend’s games against the Janesville Jets, a team in the NAHL.
Dorrington, an ’04 from North Reading, Mass., has six assists in 12 games for the Junior Bruins in the USPHL NCDC this season. Dorrington played in 34 games for Cushing last season, registering nine goals and 18 assists. As a freshman for the Penguins in 2018-19, he tallied a goal and four assists.
Dorrington is a prospect who NHL scouts will be keeping close tabs on prior to the 2022 NHL draft. He has good size, skates well and has the puck on his stick a lot. When he’s on top of his game, he’s pushing possession and contributing offensively. Dorrington also has the ability to defend well with his athleticism, mobility and physicality.
Dorrington, who committed to Northeastern earlier this fall, will be the first Massachusetts-born player to appear in a game for the NTDP U-17 team this season. He’ll join two New Englanders, forward Brady Berard (East Greenwich, R.I.) and defenseman Charlie Leddy (Fairfield, Conn.) when the U-17 team takes the ice this weekend. Both Berard and Leddy, committed to Providence and Boston College, respectively, made the team last April.
Northeastern goaltender to represent Canada
Northeastern freshman goaltender Devon Levi has made the roster for Hockey Canada’s entry at the 2021 World Junior Championship that starts Dec. 25 in Edmonton, Alberta.
Levi went 34-2-1 with a 1.47 goals-against average and .941 save percentage in 37 games last season with the Carlton Place Canadians in the CCHL. The Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, native has yet to appear in a college game with the Huskies having been sidelined due to the coronavirus.
