{"id":431018,"date":"2026-01-27T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/431018\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:28:13","slug":"new-jersey-devils-prospect-update-your-ushl-goaltender-of-the-week-veeti-louhivaara-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/431018\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils Prospect Update: Your USHL Goaltender of the Week, Veeti Louhivaara"},"content":{"rendered":"

With plenty of positive goalie news amongst the Devils prospects in recent weeks, one goaltender\u2019s achievements went largely unnoticed.<\/p>\n

Veeti\u2019s Very Good Week<\/p>\n

Goaltender Veeti Louhivaara has excelled since joining the Chicago Steel of the USHL midseason, his third team he\u2019s played for this year. In seven games for the Steel, Louhivaara is 3-1-3 with a 2.63 GAA and .917 SV%. It was all capped by a glorious week earning the netminder USHL goaltender of the week<\/a> honors for his two wins including a sterling 30 save shutout, his first in Chicago for coach Scott Gomez.<\/p>\n

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Yes, that Scott Gomez.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too early and too small a sample size to call this a breakout yet for Veeti Louhivaara, but his overall play has improved since coming over to Chicago, making him a prospect to keep a closer eye on.<\/p>\n

Around the Pool:<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know the Devils plans (if any) for center Samu Salminen, but they could use some centers in Utica.<\/p>\n

Utica winger Shane LaChance has been hot this month with seven points in his last ten games, moving him up to seventh on the team in scoring with 15.<\/p>\n

Goaltender Tyler Brennan has been quietly putting together quality appearances for the Adirondack Thunder of the ECHL and now sits with a 6-6-2 record, 2.51 GAA and .911 SV%.<\/p>\n

Your Take<\/p>\n

Have an opinion? Post it in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With plenty of positive goalie news amongst the Devils prospects in recent weeks, one goaltender\u2019s achievements went largely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[12092,201,1169,4284,5,53219,576,151,5185,5184,4,53220,12093,2694],"class_list":["post-431018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-jersey-devils","tag-chicago-steel","tag-devils","tag-gaa","tag-goalie","tag-hockey","tag-louhivaara","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-newjersey","tag-newjerseydevils","tag-nhl","tag-samu-salminen","tag-scott-gomez","tag-ushl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115968481920510971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431018","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=431018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}