Scouting Reports

I found some scouting reports from the 2004-2005 season from Red Line Junior, which is Red Line Report's focus on scouting younger players. The reports are old but have many interesting names to Wisconsinites. There is information on players that have verballed to UW and backed out, on players who have verballed and not backed out, as well as some Wisconsin-based players and potential UW recruits.

The first report is Red Line Junior's Top 60: Full Scouting Profiles. This report has pretty good detail and lists Sam Gagner at #3, Nigel Williams at #6, Matt Thurber at #18, Ryan Schnell at #33 and Brendan Smith at #52. The fact that Thurber's report starts out..."Nasty piece of work" should endear him to all Badger fans immediately. The fact that he was also a 4.0 student at the time of the report means the Badgers are also getting a guy who should have no trouble in the classroom. Another piece of information I found interesting in this report is that Brendan Smith apparently played both defense and wing up until about the 2004-2005 when he began concentrating only on defense.

The second report is the USNTDP Camp Tryout report from Red Line Junior for 2004-2005. Players evaluated include Patrick Johnson of Madison Memorial (he is Mark Johnson's son) as well as Ryan Schnell.

Next is the U.S. Tier I National Championships Report from Red Line Junior from 2004-2005. Nigel Williams and Ryan Schnell are evaluated, as is Seth Soley from Eau Claire Memorial who was playing with the Wisconsin Fire at the National Championships.

The final report of interest is from the OHL Cup Showcase Tournament in 2004-2005. Sam Gagner was the MVP of this tournament. He is evaluated as well as Brendan Smith.