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This week’s episode is an interview with Omaha Lancers (USHL) General Manager and Head Coach David Wilkie. We talked about their draft, the Lancers and a couple of other topics.

For those of you looking to listen on Spotify, it will be up there shortly.

Previous episodes of the Amateur Hockey Podcast can be found there or by clicking here: Amateur Hockey Podcast Ep. 04: Kyle Quick, Rochester Coalition, Amateur Hockey Podcast Ep. 03: Ryan Hardy, Chicago Steel GM, Amateur Hockey Podcast Ep. 02: Matt Plante, Mount 18s Head Coach, Amateur Hockey Podcast Ep. 01: Andover (MN) Head Coach Mark Manney. There are other podcast episodes and content that can be found in the Archive by clicking here. Thanks for listening..

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Hey guys, this episode is an interview with Rochester Coalition hockey director Kyle Quick. We talked about his 6th-ranked 18s team, which had some of the top players in prep hockey and finished the year with 11 players securing Division 1 commitments. We talked about plenty of other topics in this episode which came in at just over twenty minutes long.

For those of you looking to listen on Spotify, it will be up there shortly and will be on my YouTube channel later as well. The previous episodes of the Amateur Hockey Podcast can be found on Spotify or by clicking here: Amateur Hockey Podcast Ep. 03: Ryan Hardy, Chicago Steel GM, Amateur Hockey Podcast Ep. 02: Matt Plante, Mount 18s Head Coach, Amateur Hockey Podcast Ep. 01: Andover (MN) Head Coach Mark Manney. There are other podcast episodes and content that can be found in the Archive by clicking here. Thanks for listening.

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Hey all, hope everyone is alright in the midst of what is happening with the Coronavirus. Here is another episode of my podcast — this time featuring Chicago Steel General Manager Ryan Hardy. I had a lot of fun with this interview (which is nearly an hour long), getting to ask a lot of questions that I had been hanging on to for most of this past season and I’m very thankful to Ryan for taking part. Hope you all enjoy and thanks for listening.

For those of you looking to listen on Spotify, it will be up there shortly and will be on my YouTube channel later as well. The previous two episodes of the Amateur Hockey Podcast can be found on Spotify or by clicking here: Amateur Hockey Podcast Ep. 02: Matt Plante, Mount 18s Head Coach, Amateur Hockey Podcast Ep. 01: Andover (MN) Head Coach Mark Manney. There are other podcast episodes and content that can be found in the Archive by clicking here.

P.S. If there are questions or topic ideas you have for other people in the game, I’m going to continue doing interviews and my own podcasts so feel free to send them forward and I will try to get some of them answered. Cheers Jasper

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Hey guys, here is another episode of my Prep Hockey podcast — in this one I talked a bit about the two match-ups coming on Saturday in the New England Tournament: Dexter x Berkshire and Avon x Salisbury. Dexter’s game will likely be streamed on HockeyTV + here is the link to Avon’s live stream page for tomorrow’s game. The Minnesota State Tournament is also going all day today and will continue into the weekend. Here’s the link to watch that.

Thanks for listening!

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Hey all, in this episode of the Prep Hockey Podcast I talk about the New England Elite Eight tournament for about ten minutes, especially the quarter-final match-ups and some players to watch. Thanks for listening and sorry about some of the background noise — I recorded this in the middle of the day and you can definitely tell!

Best of luck to all the teams participating as well as those in the Small and Large School tournaments. The Minnesota high school state tournament also gets going tomorrow, check out MNHockeyHub for more on that.

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In the third episode of the Prep Hockey Podcast, I spoke with St. Andrew’s College (Ontario) head coach David Manning ahead of their annual MacPherson Tournament which will take place this weekend on their campus in Aurora. Topics for the episode include prospects on the St. Andrew’s team, prospects they’ve played against, views on development, their season so far and more. Click here to listen on Spotify. Thanks for listening and to David for coming on.

To learn more about St. Andrew’s you can visit their website by clicking here and check out their YouTube for game film.

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Hi guys, this episode of my podcast follows up on the USA World Junior team’s performance after previewing them in last month’s episode, as well as taking a look at the USA team at the Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland and discussing some other related topics. Thanks for listening… previous episodes can be found on the site archive by clicking here or on Spotify by clicking here.

A couple of things referred to in the episode:

The Athletic (paywall): How Wasserman agents found success repping first-rounders in all 6 major North American league drafts in 2019

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The second episode of the Amateur Hockey Podcast is out now, featuring Mount St. Charles Hockey Academy 18U coach Matt Plante. Matt’s team is one of the top ranked midget major teams in the country in Mount’s first year of operation as a AAA program. I also interviewed Mount 16 coach and hockey co-director Devin Rask back in the fall, which you can read by clicking here. See below for the remaining games on the schedule for Mount’s 18 team, their roster and statistics so far.

Topics for this episode, which runs a few minutes shy of half an hour, include:

* Mount’s win at the inaugural True Cup tournament to start the new year

* Top prospects on the current Mount team

* Matt’s former players excelling at the highest levels of amateur hockey (NCAA, World Juniors)

* 18U AAA hockey and its role in player development

* Some of the best players Mount has faced this season

* + more!

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Merry Christmas!

This is the first episode of my ‘Tealcast’ for the 2019-20 season — second ever, following this summer’s draft episode. This one includes a brief update with some thoughts on the USA World Junior roster and a couple comments on this month’s WJAC, which subscribers can read more about here. Thanks for listening and click here for the Spotify link - Jasper

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This is the first episode of the Over the Boards Amateur Hockey Podcast, it’s going to be similar to my Prep Hockey Podcast in that I will be interviewing people around the amateur hockey world and discussing the scene. This episode features head coach Mark Manney from Andover high school in Minnesota. Andover (4-1) are out-scoring opponents 31 to 8 and boast a top 2020 NHL Draft prospect in blue liner Wyatt Kaiser, a Minnesota-Duluth recruit. The Huskies have a big test tonight as the Maple Grove Crimson come to town at 7:30 PM CST.

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