{"id":284303,"date":"2025-11-04T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/284303\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:01:16","slug":"deerfield-what-to-expect-in-boys-prep-hockey-in-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/284303\/","title":{"rendered":"Deerfield: 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\/11\/Matteo-Alvarez-Deerfield.jpg\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Matteo Alvarez will be a top forward for Deerfield this winter. (Brian Kelly\/NEHJ) <\/p>\n<p>Deerfield wasn&#8217;t in my New England boys prep hockey preseason top 10 last season, and finished as the No. 1 seed in the Elite 8.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Green either came out of nowhere, or my rankings were rubbish. (I think it was a little bit of both). They got to the semifinals, where they lost to Cushing, 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>It will take some work for Deerfield to pick up where it left off.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Tim McVaugh&#8217;s team lost its top four scorers from last season to graduation. They graduated five defensemen and were dealt a major blow recently when current senior Nate Watson, projected to be one of the better defenders this winter, broke his ankle and will likely be out for the season.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s in store for Deerfield this winter? Can it make it back to the Elite 8?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matteo Alvarez will be a top forward for Deerfield this winter. (Brian Kelly\/NEHJ) Deerfield wasn&#8217;t in my New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[2060,5082,32482,5,2064,2065,42079],"class_list":{"0":"post-284303","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-college-hockey-prospects","10":"tag-deerfield-hockey","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nepsac-hockey","13":"tag-new-england-prep-hockey","14":"tag-tim-mcvaugh"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115492742571775078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284303","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=284303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}