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NCAA route. This fall, he’ ll play at Nebraska-Omaha, but it’ s been a long and winding road to the NCAA for Court. He played Triple A bantam and midget with the Monarchs and then played provincial midget with the Wild and had a big year in 2013-14 when he scored 30 goals and 63 points in 43 games. At that point, he committed to the UN-O Mavericks, but his travels were just about to begin. He played a season with the Cedar Rapids Roughriders in the USHL in 2014-15 before moving to the BCHL’ s Nanaimo Clippers. Nanaimo traded him him to Merritt, where he kept improving and finished this season as a solid 200-foot player with 11 goals and 34 points in 57 games for the Centennials.
WYATT KALYNUK, BLOOMINGTON THUNDER
JACKSON KEANE, SIOUX CITY MUSKETEERS
TYLER JUBINVILL, Dauphin, Bemidji State: A solid player with the Winkler Flyers this season, Jubinvill came out of Gilbert Plains, played Triple A bantam and midget with the Parkland Rangers and is now in his second year with the Flyers. Flyers head coach Ken Pearson loves this 17-year-old defenseman and hopes he’ ll spend one more year in the MJHL before heading off to Bemidji State. Pearson, by his own admission, is being a bit selfish. He’ s paired Jubinvill with 19-year-old Lawson McDonald all season, but McDonald is definitely heading to Nebraska-Omaha this fall and Pearson would hate to lose his entire No. 1 defensive unit in one offseason. Jubinvill was a second-team MJHL all-star in his second year in the league and Pearson would love to have him back for one more year in 2017-18.
WYATT KALYNUK, Brandon / Virden, Wisconsin: Listed at No. 131 by the National Hockey League’ s Central Scouting Bureau in its 2017 mid-term rankings, Kalynuk is an outstanding defenseman with the Bloomington Thunder of the USHL. Kalynuk, 19, has had his mind set on playing NCAA Division 1 hockey for a long time. When he was 15 years old, he and his family decided that he’ d move away from home in order to pursue a junior hockey career in the United States. That junior hockey career, hopefully, would lead to an NCAA Division 1 hockey scholarship. After being named to the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’ s all-rookie team as a defenseman for his hometown Virden Oil Capitals in 2013-14, Kalynuk moved south to play in the United States Hockey League and is currently in his third season in the junior circuit. A year ago, he pledged to join the Western Michigan University Broncos, but has changed his mind and will now join the University of Wisconsin Badgers next season.
Listed at 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds, Kalynuk originally committed to Western Michigan in 2003 and signed a National Letter of Intent in 2014. But he never joined the Broncos and de-committed.
JACKSON KEANE, Winnipeg, North Dakota: One of the best young players in the MJHL, he’ s the son of three-time Stanley Cup champion Mike Keane. When he was 16, Jackson Keane had 20 goals and 61 points in 50 games with the Winnipeg Blues in 2014-15. He moved on to play for the Sioux City Musketeers in the USHL in 2015-16 and has 11 goals and 20 points in 65 games over two seasons with Sioux City. He is slated to enter the University of North Dakota this fall but could play one, or even two more years in the USHL
BRADY KEEPER, OCN BLIZZARD
BRADY KEEPER, Cross Lake, Maine: The most valuable player in the MJHL this year – and the league’ s top defenseman – Keeper is a gifted player who committed to Maine after the 2015-16 season. This year, with the OCN Blizzard, he has had an amazing season. Originally planning to play in the USHL this past year, his coach at OCN, Doug Hedley, quietly convinced him to stay in the MJHL and it was the best move he could have made.
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