Another week where Zayne Parekh dominated the Ontario Hockey League - what’s new?
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This is the Feb. 15-21 edition of the Flames prospect roundup, where we look at how Calgary Flames prospects did this past week, specifically those at the junior and college levels. The American Hockey League prospects have their own article in the Wranglers recaps.

<span style="font-weight: 400">Let’s take a look at the week that was!</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400">Editor’s note: All stats are updated as of Saturday afternoon. Any non-Russian games this Saturday will be included in next week’s prospect roundup.</span></i>
<h2>Zayne Parekh</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Zayne Parekh and the Saginaw Spirit played three games this past week, defeating the Sudbury Wolves 8-3, the Sarnia Sting 7-3, and the North Bay Battalion 5-1.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400"><a href="https://publish.flamesnation.ca/2025/02/13/could-zayne-parekh-be-the-flames-best-defensive-prospect-ever/">As you can imagine, it was a good week for Zayne Parekh</a>. The Flames’ top prospect scored a goal and two assists in their 8-3 win, two assists in their 7-3 win, and three assists in their 5-1 win, picking up the game’s first star. For the season, Parekh has 27 goals and 83 points in 50 games, just six goals and 13 points back of matching his career-high.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400">With a 32-21-2 record, the Spirit sit fourth in the Ontario Hockey League’s Western Conference. They’ve gained separation on the fifth-placed Erie Otters, now with a seven-point lead, but still trail the third-placed Kitchener Rangers by 17 points. The top eight teams in the conference make the post-season, but the Spirit will more than likely play the Otters.</span>
<h2>Matvei Gridin</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Matvei Gridin’s Shawinigan Cataractes played two games this past week, defeating the Saint John Sea Dogs 6-4 and the Acadie-Bathurst Titan 5-0.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">Gridin only played the first game where he scored a goal and three assists, named the second star of the game. This season with the Cataractes, the 18-year-old has 29 goals and 66 points in 49 games.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">With a 30-18-5 record, the Cataractes have 65 points and have clinched a post-season berth. They are just a point back of the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada for second in the Québec Maritimes Junior Hockey League’s Western Conference, with the top seven teams making the post-season.</span>
<h2>Andrew Basha</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Andrew Basha remains out of the Medicine Hat Tigers’ lineup but the team went 2-1 this past week. They defeated the Regina Pats 1-0, the Lethbridge Hurricanes 5-1, and fell 5-4 to the Edmonton Oil Kings.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">The Tigers sit at the top of the Western Hockey League’s Eastern Conference with a 37-17-4 record with 78 points, one point ahead of the Calgary Hitmen. The top eight teams in the conference make the post-season.</span>
<h2>Jacob Battaglia</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">This week, Jacob Battaglia and the Kingston Frontenacs played three games, falling in their first game 3-2 to the Peterborough Petes. However, they defeated the Barrie Colts 6-4 and the Brantford Bulldogs 4-2.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">Battaglia was held off the scoresheet in the first two games but came back with a vengeance in their 4-2 win over the Bulldogs on Friday, <a href="https://publish.flamesnation.ca/2025/02/22/flames-prospect-jacob-battaglia-continues-standout-season-with-spectacular-spinning-goal/">scoring a goal and picking up two assists</a>. This season, the 18-year-old has 33 goals and 76 points in 55 games and continues to build off his career high.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400">The Frontenacs have clinched their trip to the post-season, as they have a 33-14-8 record. Their 74 points are the third-most in the Ontario Hockey League’s Eastern Conference, but they sit fourth due to the Barrie Colts leading the other division in points. The Frontenacs are just one point back of the Bulldogs for the division lead with two fewer games played. Moreover, the top eight teams in the conference make the post-season.</span>
<h2>Henry Mews</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">If you want high-scoring hockey, watch the Sudbury Wolves. They fell 8-3 to the Saginaw Spirit, and played a barn burner against the Guelph Storm where they fell 7-6, before smashing the Owen Sound Attack 8-1.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">Henry Mews had himself a solid week though, picking up two assists in each of the losses, before scoring a goal in their 8-1 victory. This season, the right-shot defenceman has 14 goals and 73 points in 56 games. He’s second in defenceman scoring, five behind Zayne Parekh.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">The Wolves have a 26-23-5 record with 57 points, sitting firmly in seventh place in the Ontario Hockey League’s Eastern Conference. They are four points back of the Niagara IceDogs and Brampton Steelheads, while they have nine more points than the eighth-placed Brampton Battalion. The top eight teams in the conference make the post-season.</span>
<h2>Kirill Zarubin</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Kiril Zarubin and the Tula Mikhailov Academy didn’t play this past week. As it stands, they have a 28-12-3 record with 59 points, fifth in the Western Conference’s Gold Division. The top five teams avoid the play-in qualifier contested between the sixth through eighth teams in the division as well as the top three teams in the Silver Division.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">For the season, Zarubin has a .933 save percentage and a 2.38 goals against average in 16 games, with an 8-8-0 record. Play him more!</span>
<h2>Trevor Hoskin</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Trevor Hoskin looks like a terrific draft selection for the Flames. This past week, the University of Niagara won both games they played - a 2-1 victory over Robert Morris and a 6-3 victory over Canisius.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">The forward had a good week, assisting on both goals in their 2-1 victory, before scoring the game-winning goal in their 6-3 victory. For the season, Hoskin has 12 goals and 37 points in 32 games. His assist total is fifth in the NCAA and first for all freshmen, while his 36 points are tied for 11th. Pretty darn good.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">This season, Niagara has a 15-8-2 record in the conference with 48 points, which puts them fourth. All 11 teams make the post-season, with the top five teams getting a bye in the first round.</span>
<h2><b></b>Luke Misa</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">It was a busy week for Luke Misa and the Brampton Steelheads. They picked up seven of a possible eight points as they defeated the Oshawa Generals 4-2 twice, the Niagara IceDogs 6-0, and fell 4-3 in overtime to the London Knights.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">In the Steelheads’ first 4-2 victory over the Generals, Misa picked up an assist and four shots. The 19-year-old followed that up with a goal and two assists in their 6-0 victory but was held pointless in their other 4-2 victory. Thankfully, he picked up two assists against the Knights. This season, Misa has a career-best 32 goals, as well as 75 points. He’s just six points back of matching his career-best point total.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400">With a 26-20-9 record, the Steelheads have 61 points and sit sixth in the Ontario Hockey League’s Eastern Conference. They are tied with the IceDogs in points and have a four-point lead over the Sudbury Wolves. The top eight teams in the conference make the post-season.</span>
<h2>Hunter Laing</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Hunter Laing’s Saskatoon Blades had a busy week. Their first game saw them fall 6-5 in a shootout against the Swift Current Broncos, followed by a 6-3 defeat at the hands of the Brandon Wheat Kings. The Blades got back on track with a 4-3 win over the Lethbridge Hurricanes and capped off the week with a 3-2 overtime win over the Red Deer Rebels.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">It was a good week for the Flames’ prospect, scoring a goal in their 6-5 shootout loss. That was followed up by a pretty rough game where he was a -3, but he made up for it with a two-goal game in the Blades' 4-3 victory over the Hurricanes. Laing was held pointless in the Blades’ 3-2 overtime victory on Friday. This season with the Prince George Cougars and Blade, Laing has 18 goals and 34 points in 53 games.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400">With a 30-18-7 record, the Blades sit sixth in the Western Hockey League’s Eastern Conference, a point back of the division-leading Prince Albert Raiders and tied with the Wheat Kings. The leaders of the two divisions sit first and second in the conference, with eight teams making it to the post-season</span>
<h2>Eric Jamieson</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Sticking in the Western Hockey League, Eric Jamieson and the Everett Silvertips had a solid week. They lost 5-1 to the Prince George Cougars but followed that up with a 3-2 victory against the Victoria Royals and a 4-1 victory over the Portland Winterhawks.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">Jamieson was held pointless in their defeat (although not for a lack of trying with five shots on net). He made up for it by scoring all three of the Silvertips' goals in their 3-2 victory. To make things even better, he picked up an assist in their 4-1 victory. For the season, Jamieson has a career-high 12 goals and 32 points, matching his career-best from last season.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400">The Silvertips sit first in the Western Hockey League with a 40-10-7 record and 87 points, nine points up on the Spokane Chiefs. Their post-season spot has been clinched for a while now.</span>
<h2>Étienne Morin</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Étienne Morin and the Moncton Wildcats had a good week, defeating the Halifax Mooseheads twice before shutting out the Cape Breton Eagles 6-0.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">Sadly, Morin was held pointless throughout the week, finishing with two shots on net and a +1. Still, he’s been one of the best offensive defencemen in the Québec Maritimes Junior Hockey League this season, scoring 11 goals and 44 points in 51 games. His 11 goals are tied for the second-most for defencemen while his 44 points are fourth for defencemen.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">Like the Silvertips, the Wildcats punched their ticket into the post-season a while ago, as they have a 42-9-2 record with 86 points. They have a seven-point lead over the Rimouski Océanic for the QMJHL lead, with nine teams in the conference making the post-season.</span>
<h2><b>Aydar Suniev</b></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Aydar Suniev and UMass played two games this past week, falling 4-1 to Boston College and 4-3 in a shootout to New Hampshire.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">The Flames’ prospect was held pointless in their 4-1 defeat but scored two goals and an assist in their 4-3 shootout loss, his best game since returning from injury. This season, the 20-year-old Russian winger has 16 goals and 30 points in 26 games, both markers being a career-best season.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400">UMass has 19 games played in the division while picking up 25 points thanks to a 7-9-3 record. All 11 teams make the post-season, with the bottom six teams playing in the opening round.</span>
<h2>Jaden Lipinski</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">The Vancouver Giants had a great week, winning all three games they played. First was a 4-3 shootout victory over the Victoria Royals, followed by a 7-2 victory over the Prince George Cougars and a 5-1 victory over the Kelowna Rockets.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">Lipinski picked an assist in their 4-3 victory and was held pointless in their 7-2 victory. However, he popped off with two goals and two assists with a +5  in the Giants’ 5-1 victory, somehow not being named a top-three star. For the season, the right-shot centre has 12 goals and 46 points in 46 games.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400">This season,  the Giants have a 28-21-5 record with 62 points, putting them in sixth place in the Western Hockey League’s Western Conference. They are just a point back of the Portland Winterhawks and six points of the Prince George Cougars, while the top eight teams in the conference make the post-season.</span>
<h2>Yegor Yegorov</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Yegor Yegorov’s Moscow Krylya Sovetov had a great week when they needed it most, defeating Moscow JHC Atlant 4-2 and beating Primorsky Krai Taifun twice, one game was a 4-3 victory in overtime and the other a 5-2 victory.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">The Russian netminder played two games this past week, both against Taifun. In the first game, he had an .893 save percentage and 2.93 goals against average in a 4-3 overtime win, followed by saving 30 of the 32 shots he faced for a .938 save percentage and  2 goals against average in their 5-2 victory. For the season, Yegorov has a .910 save percentage and 2.96 goals against in 15 games played.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">It was a crucial three victories for Krylya Sovetov, as those three wins propelled them back into a top three spot in the Western Conference’s Silver Division. The top three teams in that division played the sixth, seventh, and eighth-seeded teams of the Gold Division. It’s still tight though, as their 22-19-4 record gives them just 48 points, one ahead of Russkie Vityazi.</span>
<h2>Axel Hurtig</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">The Calgary Hitmen played four games this past week, falling 4-2 to the Prince Albert Raiders, before defeating the Swift Current Broncos 5-2, the Regina Pats 5-0, and the Brandon Wheat Kings 5-0. Unfortunately, Axel Hurtig missed all four games and still has four goals and 13 points in 44 games this season.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">Some good news though, as the Hitmen clinched a post-season berth this week as they now have a 36-15-5 record with 77 points. They are just a point back of the Medicine Hat Tigers for the conference lead.</span>
<h2>Cade Littler</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">The North Dakota Fighting Hawks and Cade Littler had a good week, defeating Denver University 3-1 and Minnesota-Duluth 4-2. More importantly, Cade Littler picked up his fourth goal of the season in the 4-2 victory, giving him six points in 27 games this season.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">This season, North Dakota has a record of 11-7-1 for 34 points in the conference. The top eight teams in the nine-team conference make the post-season, playing in the traditional 1-8 format.</span>
<h2>Arsenii Sergeev</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Aresenii Sergeev and Penn State played two games this past week, defeating Notre Dame 3-2 and Michigan State 3-2 in a shootout.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">As you can imagine, Sergeev played in both games, saving 36 shots on 38 attempts in each game, finishing with a .947 save percentage. The victory over Notre Dame saw him post a 2 goals against average, while their shootout win saw the Russian netminder post a 1.85 goals against average.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">Thanks to those two wins, Penn State now has a 7-15-1 record in the conference, which brings them to fifth. All seven teams make the post-season, though.</span>

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