24 new NCAA commits, and the Ivy League grabbed seven of them

Hey, welcome back.

Quick correction first. Last Thursday we said nobody new had committed Oct 15–21. RinkNet's list was just running behind. Since then it's added 24 new NCAA commitments, and 13 of them are dated Oct 15–21. So the "quiet week" was actually a pretty busy one. Four more are dated this week (Oct 25–27), and the rest are older pledges that only just made the list.

All 24 are Division I. Here they are, grouped by league and team.

The new commits

USHL (6)

Tri-City Storm

Jackson Smith (C) to Miami, starts 2028-29 (Oct 26)
Joseph Hyten (C) to Alaska Fairbanks, starts 2027-28 (Sept 26)

Cedar Rapids RoughRiders

Joseph Skidmore (G) to Dartmouth, starts 2027-28 (Oct 13)

Dubuque Fighting Saints

Olle Darth (C) to Maine, starts 2027-28 (Oct 19)

Muskegon Lumberjacks

Louis Jonerheim (LW) to Omaha, starts 2027-28 (Oct 8). He was listed with RIT before.

Sioux Falls Stampede

Markus Jakobsen (RD) to St. Cloud State, starts 2027-28 (Mar 4, only just added)

QMJHL (3)

Cape Breton Eagles

Eliot L'Italien (C) to Union, starts 2027-28 (Oct 19)

Sherbrooke Phoenix

Andrew Martin (LW) to Holy Cross, starts 2028-29 (Oct 15)

Halifax Mooseheads

Quinn Kennedy (C) to Dartmouth, starts 2027-28 (Oct 15)

NEPS prep (3)

Avon Old Farms

Marshall Paul (RD) to UConn, starts 2028-29 (Oct 19)
Maksim Yakub (LD) to Sacred Heart, starts 2028-29 (Oct 15)

Berkshire School

Alexander Kim (G) to Dartmouth, starts 2027-28 (Oct 15)

Minnesota high school (3)

Minnetonka

Max Aronson (RW) to Cornell, starts 2028-29 (Oct 25)

Hill-Murray

Landon Sampair (RW) to Holy Cross, starts 2028-29 (Oct 25)

Eden Prairie

William Jesse Tucker (F) to Yale, starts 2029-30 (Oct 19)

NAHL (3)

Janesville Jets

Daniel Rudman (RD) to Army, starts 2030-31 (Oct 19). Yes, 2030-31.

New Hampshire Mountain Kings

Matthew Smith (G) to Air Force, starts 2027-28 (Oct 18)

Corpus Christi IceRays

Andrew Waugh (C) to Brown, starts 2027-28 (Oct 6)

OHL (2)

Peterborough Petes

Braydon McCallum (C) to UMass Lowell, starts 2027-28 (Oct 21)

Niagara IceDogs

Finn Merrill (C) to Harvard, starts 2029-30 (Oct 19)

BCHL (2)

Cowichan Valley Capitals

Trace Frieden (LW) to Michigan Tech, starts 2028-29 (Oct 19)

Brooks Bandits

Dmitrijs Dilevka (RW) to Stonehill, starts 2027-28 (Apr 14, only just added)

NTDP (1)

USA U17

RJ Thompson (C) to Michigan, starts 2028-29 (Oct 27)

No current team listed

Owen Nelson (G) to Augustana, starts 2027-28 (Sept 29)

Leaderboard movers

Tri-City Storm (USHL) had the biggest jump of the week. Two new commits put them at 10, up from tied for 23rd to tied for 12th.
Cedar Rapids RoughRiders (USHL) went from 10 to 12, tied for 8th. Skidmore is one, and RinkNet now lists Matas Janulis with Cedar Rapids instead of Lawrence Academy.
Sioux Falls Stampede (USHL) added Jakobsen and sit alone in 2nd with 18, behind only USA U18 (20).
The top CHL spot changed hands. Brantford dropped from 14 to 13 because RinkNet now lists Jack Torr with Erie. That leaves Moncton (QMJHL) and Penticton (WHL) tied for 3rd at 14, and Brantford tied for 5th.
USA U17, Sherbrooke and London each got to 9, tied for 19th.

The insight: the Ivies had a week

Seven of the 24 new commits went to Ivy League schools: three to Dartmouth, and one each to Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Brown. Dartmouth's three all start in 2027-28, and two of them are goalies (Skidmore from Cedar Rapids and Kim from Berkshire). The Ivy pledges also came from all over the map: three from high school and prep (Minnetonka, Eden Prairie, Berkshire), two from the USHL and NAHL, and two from major junior (Halifax and Niagara).

See the full leaderboard at hockeypipelinereport.com, or every week's commits at Weekly commits.

See you next Thursday.

Commitment data via RinkNet (collegecommitments.com). Commitments are non-binding and subject to admission and NCAA eligibility certification. "Active commits" measures recruiting interest, not roster spots.

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