University of Denver Athletics

NHL: Selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in Round 2 (58th Overall) of the 2021 NHL Draft ... Signed a three-year, entry-level contract with Pittsburgh on April 20, 2024.

Honors and Awards: 2024 NCAA National Champion … 2024 NCAA Frozen Four All-Tournament Team … 2024 NCAA Northeast Regional All-Tournament Team … 2x NCHC Academic All-Conference Team (2022-23, 2023-24) ... NCHC Forward of the Week (Jan. 16, 2023)

2023-24: Posted career highs with 16 goals, 24 assists and 40 points while playing in 43-of-44 games … Tied for third on the Pioneers in goals and ranked fourth in points, sixth in assists and fifth in shots (88) … Was third on the team with four game-winning goals, including scoring in overtime in both the NCAA Northeast Regional Semifinals vs. Massachusetts and NCAA Frozen Four Semifinals vs. Boston University … Became the first Division-I player in NCAA history to score multiple overtime goals in the same national tournament … Spent much of the final weeks of the season as the top-line center, going 128-for-265 (.483) at faceoffs … Finished the year with a +20 plus/minus rating and 13 penalty minutes … Had nine power-play points (2g/7a) … Totaled 19 points (7g/12a) in the final 17 games … Had 11 multi-point games during the season and three contests with three or more points … Matched a career long with a five-game point streak from Nov. 17-Dec. 1 (3g/5a), which also included a personal-high four-game assist stretch from Nov. 17-25 (1g/5a) … Tallied in consecutive games twice, tying his longest goal streak: Nov. 25-Dec. (3g/1a), Feb. 3-16 (2g/1a) … Recorded his 50th career point on Nov. 25 vs. Yale … Scored twice on Dec. 1 vs. North Dakota … Matched a career high by registering four points in a game twice, tallying two goals and two assists on Jan. 6 vs. Niagara and notching one goal and tying a career high with three assists on Feb. 24 vs. Miami … Totaled 13 points (6g/7a) in eight all-time games against the RedHawks …  Also had three assists on March 2, 2024 at St. Cloud State—third time overall in his career … Played in his 100th career game on Jan. 26 at North Dakota … Contributed two helpers in Game 1 of the NCHC Quarterfinals vs. Minnesota Duluth on March 15 (0g/2a) … Picked up two points (1g/1a) on a career-high seven shots and won a personal-best 16 faceoffs (16/21, .762) in Game 2 vs. UMD on March 16 … Scored the overtime-winning goal on March 28 vs. Massachusetts in the NCAA Regional Semifinals, tallying at 12:28 of the second OT to end the longest game in school history (92:28) and the sixth-longest regional game in tournament history … Tallied his third career overtime-winning goal at 11:09 of the extra frame on April 11 vs. Boston University in the Frozen Four Semifinals in his home state of Minnesota … Went 7-for-14 on faceoffs in the NCAA Championship Game on April 13 vs. Boston College in St. Paul, Minn. … Attended the Pittsburgh Penguins summer development camp in June 2023 … Signed a three-year, entry-level contract with Pittsburgh after the season on April 20 … Played in two AHL Calder Cup Playoff games with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins while on an amateur tryout, making his professional debut on April 24 vs. Leigh Valley … Finished his collegiate career with 79 points on 32 goals and 47 assists in 119 total games … Recorded 68 points (26g/42a) in 83 games in two seasons at Denver from 2022-2024.

2022-23: Registered 28 points (10g/18a) while playing in all 40 games in his first season with the Pioneers after transferring from Minnesota … Tied for fifth on the squad with 18 assists … Had a +17 plus/minus rating and finished tied for third on the squad with 35 penalty minutes … Made his DU debut on Oct. 7 vs. Notre Dame in the Ice Breaker Tournament … Picked up his first point as a Pioneer with an assist on Oct. 14 at Massachusetts and scored his first goal in crimson and gold on Oct. 28 at Miami … Played his 50th career NCAA game and had first multi-point performance of the season on Nov. 26 vs. Omaha (1g/1a) … Tallied his first career overtime goal and first game-winner at Denver on Dec. 9 at Minnesota Duluth … Went on a career-long three-game assist streak from Dec. 10-17 (2g/5a) … Scored in consecutive games for the first time in his career on Dec. 16-17 vs. Lindenwood: Two points (1g/1a) on Dec. 16 before recording a career-high three assists and four points (1g/3a) on Dec. 17—tying a DU season high for scoring in a contest and his first of two such four-point outings of the year … Scored his first career multi-goal game by tallying four goals, including his final three coming consecutively in the third period, on Jan. 14 vs. Miami ... It was the first four-goal performance by a Pioneer since Kevin Doell on Feb. 21, 2003 vs. Michigan Tech and the first of two during the season (also Jack Devine, March 10 vs. Miami) … The final three of his four tallies on Jan. 14 came consecutively in a matter of 6:57 during the third period (10:36, 16:48, 17:33)—the fastest trio of markers by one player during the season and second-fastest in program history … The three markers in the third were also the most in a period in the campaign while the three points in the stanza were tied for the most by a Denver player … Recorded a career-long, five-game point streak from Feb. 4-18, totaling six points (1g/5a) … Had two assists in Game 1 of the NCHC Quarterfinals on March 1 vs. Miami.

2021-22 (Minnesota): Recorded six goals and five assists in 36 contests as a freshman at Minnesota … Helped the Gophers win the Big Ten regular-season championship and secure its first Frozen Four berth since 2014 … Notched his first collegiate point with an assist in his Minnesota debut on Oct. 8 vs. Mercyhurst … Began his college career with assists in each of his first two games … Scored his first goal with the Gophers on Jan. 14 vs. Alaska Fairbanks … Registered his first game-winning goal at Notre Dame on Jan. 28 … Registered a career-high three points on Feb. 26 vs. Wisconsin (1g/2a) … Tallied in the first round of the 2022 NCAA Tournament vs. Massachusetts on March 25 … Team went 6-0-0 when he scored a goal and 9-0-0 when he tallied a point.
 
Before College:
Spent the previous two-plus seasons with the Fargo Force of the United States Hockey, tallying 90 points (34g/56a) in 108 career games … Added 11 points (3g/8a) in 11 career playoff games … Served as an alternate captain on Fargo in 2020-21 and helped the team reach the USHL Clark Cup Final … Posted 51 points (19g/32a) in 54 regular season games and 11 points (3g/8a) in the postseason in 2020-21 … Earned Second-Team USHL All-Rookie honors in 2019-20 after registering 35 points (14g/21a) in 48 games … Participated in the 2021 BioSteel All-American Game … Played two years of Minnesota high school hockey with The Blake School (2017-2019).
 
Personal:
Son of Paul and Elizabeth … Has two younger sisters, Samantha and Annabelle … Intends to major in business at DU … Wants to play in the NHL … Enjoys golf … Ranked 28th among North America skaters by NHL Central Scouting ahead of the 2021 NHL Draft.
 
Why DU:
“I really enjoyed talking to the coaching staff and felt like Denver was a strong fit for myself as a person and as a player.”