{"id":264102,"date":"2025-10-24T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/264102\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:42:11","slug":"winchendon-what-to-expect-in-boys-prep-hockey-in-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/264102\/","title":{"rendered":"Winchendon: What to expect in boys prep hockey in 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"775\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ben-Short-Winchendon-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Ben Short was tied for the team lead in points (23) last season and is committed to Merrimack. (Zach Martin\/@zach_take_picture) <\/p>\n<p>In our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockeyjournal.com\/which-teams-will-be-surprising-boys-prep-contenders-next-year-inside-the-coaches-survey-part-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England boys prep hockey coaches postseason survey<\/a> conducted this past spring, one of the questions was about which team would be a surprising contender next season.<\/p>\n<p>The overwhelming answer from coaches, who were granted anonymity, was Winchendon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have a very strong incoming class and return some talent,&#8221; one coach said.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s true. They do have a strong incoming class and most of their talent from last season is back. It&#8217;s also Mike Busconi&#8217;s third year in charge. Three is typically the magic number for coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Short was tied for the team lead in points (23) last season and is committed to Merrimack.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[2060,40368,5082,5,40369,2064,2065,38489],"class_list":{"0":"post-264102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-boys-prep-hockey","9":"tag-charlie-puglisi","10":"tag-college-hockey-prospects","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-mike-busconi","13":"tag-nepsac-hockey","14":"tag-new-england-prep-hockey","15":"tag-winchendon-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115429674165878989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}