{"id":482959,"date":"2026-03-03T15:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/482959\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:48:24","slug":"who-will-win-2026-nepsac-boys-elite-8-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/482959\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will win 2026 NEPSAC boys Elite 8 quarterfinals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"775\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tyler-Roccas-Salisbury-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Tyler Roccas is a leader on defense for Salisbury. (Brian Kelly\/NEHJ) <\/p>\n<p>Let the fun begin. May the best team win.<\/p>\n<p>The New England boys prep hockey Elite 8 tournament gets underway with quarterfinal action on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 Dexter Southfield hosts No. 8 Avon Old Farms, No. 2 St. Mark&#8217;s takes on rival No. 7 Belmont Hill, No. 3 Salisbury clashes with No. 6 Kimball Union and No. 4 St. Sebastian&#8217;s faces No. 5 Hotchkiss.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s quite the field.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve broken down each team in a separate story. But before the puck drops on all four games, there&#8217;s only one thing left to do: make predictions.<\/p>\n<p>I went 13-8 last season across the Elite 8, Large School and Small School fields, and put up the same record the year before. I&#8217;m hoping to boost those numbers this year.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s dive into my predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Roccas is a leader on defense for Salisbury. (Brian Kelly\/NEHJ) Let the fun begin. May the best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[28392,29156,2060,25566,57709,5,44376,23877,2064,2065,11957,28393,19307],"class_list":{"0":"post-482959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-avon-old-farms-hockey","9":"tag-belmont-hill-hockey","10":"tag-boys-prep-hockey","11":"tag-dexter-southfield-hockey","12":"tag-elite-8-tournament","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-hotchkiss-hockey","15":"tag-kimball-union-hockey","16":"tag-nepsac-hockey","17":"tag-new-england-prep-hockey","18":"tag-salisbury-hockey","19":"tag-st-marks-hockey","20":"tag-st-sebastians-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116166035075359402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482959","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=482959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}