{"id":520194,"date":"2026-03-24T13:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/520194\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:59:14","slug":"new-england-16u-girls-to-watch-at-2026-usa-hockey-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/520194\/","title":{"rendered":"New England 16U girls to watch at 2026 USA Hockey Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Simone<\/p>\n

Simone Burns is coming off a career season for Rivers. (Brian Kelly\/NEHJ)<\/p>\n

The prep and high school seasons are behind us.<\/p>\n

Soon enough, Mass. Hockey’s Festival and the New England District tryouts will be center stage on the local hockey scene.<\/p>\n

Before we get there, though, club hockey is the main focus for a lot of the region\u2019s hockey players once again.<\/p>\n

Some of the best teams in Massachusetts and New England will compete for a shot at glory during USA Hockey Nationals.<\/p>\n

Among the local 16U Tier 1 teams, the Boston Americans qualified automatically after winning the Mass. state title<\/a> over Lovell Academy last November. The Lions also qualified on an at-large basis, as did the East Coast Wizards. The Connecticut Polar Bears also automatically qualified after taking the New England District crown<\/a> last fall.<\/p>\n

Other stalwart programs like Shattuck-St. Mary’s and the BK Selects also have prospects with local ties.<\/p>\n

This year’s 16U Tier 1 Nationals will be held from March 24-29 in Amherst, N.Y.<\/p>\n

We broke down the region’s 19U representation earlier this week<\/a>. Now, here are the local 16Us to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simone Burns is coming off a career season for Rivers. (Brian Kelly\/NEHJ) The prep and high school seasons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[60422,27034,35592,5082,39689,45383,5,9070,1996,60423],"class_list":["post-520194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-bishop-kearney-selects","tag-bk-selects","tag-boston-americans","tag-college-hockey-prospects","tag-connecticut-polar-bears","tag-girls-16u-hockey","tag-hockey","tag-lovell-academy","tag-shattuck-st-marys","tag-usa-hockey-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116284514682951802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520194","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=520194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}