{"id":375440,"date":"2025-12-27T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/375440\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T02:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:15:09","slug":"boston-college-eagles-sign-oscar-hemming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/375440\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston College Eagles Sign Oscar Hemming"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026 NHL Draft prospect Oscar Hemming<\/a> has officially signed a commitment agreement<\/a> with the NCAA\u2019s Boston College Eagles. This news ends what has turned into a small saga for the projected first-round pick. Hemming has not yet played a league game this season \u2013 not due to injury, but instead due to a strange conflict between Finland\u2019s Liiga, the OHL, and the BCHL. On the other side, Hemming won\u2019t appear in any of those leagues and instead heads to a BC team in need of another difference-maker.<\/p>\n

Hemming grew up through the Kiekko-Espoo youth hockey program in Finland. He stood out as a star at every level and broke into the U20 league as a 16 year old last season. He scored 10 points in 18 games with Kiekko-Espoo\u2019s top youth club. It was a great breakthrough that set Hemming up to be a pillar of the U20 club, and maybe break through to the Liiga lineup, this season. More importantly, another strong season would lock the physically-mature Hemming into a high NHL draft pick, which could return the Finnish club a hardy development fee from the NHL.<\/p>\n

Instead, Hemming announced after the conclusion of the 2025 Hlinka Gretzky Cup his plans to sign with the OHL\u2019s Kitchener Rangers. The move would have pushed Hemming into a starring, and potentially pretty easy, as the motor of Kitchener\u2019s offense.<\/p>\n

But Kiekko-Espoo disputed the decision, arguing that Hemming should stay in Finland for the season. The argument didn\u2019t carry much impact at first \u2013 until the IIHF declared that Hemming would lose his eligibility if he joined Hockey Canada.<\/p>\n

To get around that, Hemming instead signed with the Sherwood Park Crusaders in the BCHL, a league not overseen by Hockey Canada. That appeared to thwart any concerns, but ultimately wouldn\u2019t come together as Hemming looked to ensure no conflict with the IIHF. Now, it seems no home in Canada will work out, leaving one of Finland\u2019s top prospects to move to American college hockey.<\/p>\n

Luckily, it seems Hemming will now indeed find a place to play, while getting an education on top of it. Hockey East will offer great competition, giving Hemming a chance to really hone the gritty and strong game that has earned him so much attention. He is a true puck hound, who seeks out possession and excels at bullying his way through opponents.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-4, 200-pound forward fires hard shots from high in the offensive zone, and crashes the net hard in search of rebounds. He should be a welcome addition to BC\u2019s top-six, where he\u2019ll offer a power-forward compliment to the likes of Boston Bruins prospect James Hagens<\/a> and Nashville Predators prospect Teddy Stiga<\/a>. Hemming is a left-hand shot.<\/p>\n

Hemming is the younger brother of Dallas Stars prospect Emil Hemming<\/a>, who was selected 29th overall in the 2024 NHL Draft. The younger Hemming carrries as much, if not a little bit more, favor than his older brother. A quick adjustment to the college flight could earn Hemming attention as a top-10 or top-15 pick. He will hope to beat his brother\u2019s selection by a few picks otherwise. The news of Hemming\u2019s NCAA commitment is the latest excitement in a run of news around the NCAA.<\/p>\n

The story of Hemming\u2019s saga was first reported by Josh Brown of the Waterloo Region Record<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 NHL Draft prospect Oscar Hemming has officially signed a commitment agreement with the NCAA\u2019s Boston College Eagles.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7704,5,901,4,26990,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-375440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-2026-nhl-draft","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-oscar-hemming","13":"tag-prospects"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115789124357359714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375440","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=375440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}