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Prospects Tracker

The NCAA’s November 2024 decision to allow CHL players into Division I hockey has reshaped the recruiting landscape. I have been tracking that shift, sharing data and analysis through Hockey 101 and The Dan K Show.

Prospects Tracker brings that work together in one place, combining recruiting data with decades of scouting and hockey leadership experience to explain where players are going and what their decisions reveal. Follow where top prospects land, which leagues are winning the recruiting battles, and how the pathways toward the NHL are changing.

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PROSPECTS TRACKER ALERT
Prospects Tracker Alert chart showing the leagues supplying NCAA freshmen from 2024–2025 through 2026–2027
NCAA freshmen ·

What leagues are supplying NCAA D1 from for the 2026-2027 season?

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With only RPI, Yale, Ferris State and Penn State yet to post their full rosters, the percentage of leagues supplying NCAA D1 hockey with their freshmen are almost set.

PROSPECTS TRACKER ALERT
Prospects Tracker Alert chart showing NCAA freshmen totals by league from 2024–2025 through 2026–2027
NCAA freshmen ·

What leagues are supplying NCAA D1 from for the 2026-2027 season?

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With only RPI, Yale, Ferris State and Penn State yet to post their full rosters, the percentage of leagues supplying NCAA D1 hockey with their freshmen are almost set.

PROSPECTS TRACKER ALERT
Prospects Tracker Alert showing the New North American Ladder of Development from junior leagues through NCAA and the NHL
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The New North American Ladder of Development

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How can anyone deny that the North American ladder of development has flipped 180 degrees since the NCAA rule change in November 2024?

View the “NHL Draft Summaries” tab on the tracker to see how more NHL draft picks are projected to advance to professional hockey from the NCAA than from the CHL.

View the “CHL Graduating to NCAA” tab to see the 154 NHL-drafted players who have left—or will leave—the CHL for the NCAA.

Then, look at the two “USHL Left for CHL” tabs to see how the CHL is turning the USHL into one of its primary development leagues.

TRACKER UPDATE
Welcome to ProspectsTracker.com overview of the hockey data and analysis covered by Prospects Tracker
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Tracker Update

When you click the "tracker" you will find valuable NHL draft insights and trends along with various tracking data on topics like is the NCAA taking the best players from the CHL or is the CHL taking the best players from the USHL.

Bob Turow
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About Bob

Since 1994 Bob has worked at every level of hockey under the NHL. For 11 years, from 1994–2004, Bob was the provincial scout for the Sault Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League.

From 2005 through 2010 Bob was the first Director of Central Scouting for the United States Hockey League and established the USHL Showcases, which are now the USHL Combines.

From 2020 through 2024 Bob was the Commissioner of the United States Premier Hockey League.

What Bob is best known for, though, is The Prospects Hockey Tournaments, which ran from 1995 through 2010 and is widely accepted as the greatest spring hockey tournament ever, with over 1,000 participants advancing to the NHL—including eight first overall selections: Joe Thornton, Rick DiPietro, Rick Nash, Sidney Crosby, Eric Johnson, Patrick Kane, Steven Stamkos, and John Tavares—as well as over 4,000 NCAA Division I players and over 4,000 CHL players.

Bob tracks data, uses his experience and knowledge, to make predictions as to the direction in the elite hockey world and its players that will eventually make up the base of the National Hockey League.