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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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