{"id":487509,"date":"2026-03-05T19:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487509\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:10:17","slug":"who-will-win-2026-nepsac-boys-elite-8-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487509\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will win 2026 NEPSAC boys Elite 8 semifinals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"775\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hotchkiss-Avon.jpg\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Hotchkiss and Avon Old Farms met on Jan. 14. (Avon Old Farms School)<\/p>\n<p>Of the three NEPSAC boys hockey playoff fields, the Elite 8 was far and away the craziest on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>No. 8 Avon Old Farms produced quite the upset, taking down No. 1 Dexter Southfield, 4-2. No. 6 Kimball Union edged out No. 3 Salisbury, 1-0. No. 5 Hotchkiss went into No. 4 St. Sebastian&#8217;s and took down the hosts, 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>The only game that went chalk was No. 2 St. Mark&#8217;s beating No. 7 Belmont Hill, 7-2.<\/p>\n<p>That was also the only Elite 8 game I predicted correctly. A rough showing from yours truly.<\/p>\n<p>While I did better in the Large School (3-for-4) and Small School (3-for-4) tournaments, the Elite 8 is the big dance for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my picks for the semifinal matchups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hotchkiss and Avon Old Farms met on Jan. 14. (Avon Old Farms School) Of the three NEPSAC boys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[28392,57709,5,44376,23877,2064,58148,2065,28393],"class_list":{"0":"post-487509","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-elite-8-tournament","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-hotchkiss-hockey","12":"tag-kimball-union-hockey","13":"tag-nepsac-hockey","14":"tag-new-england-boys-hockey","15":"tag-new-england-prep-hockey","16":"tag-st-marks-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116178154997376862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487509","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=487509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}