Biography
NHL: Selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in Round 3 (No. 90 overall) of the 2022 NHL Draft ... Signed a two-year, entry-level contract with Chicago on April 12, 2025 … Joined the Blackhawks’ AHL affiliate, Rockford IceHogs, on a professional tryout and made his professional debut with the IceHogs on April 13, 2025 at Milwaukee … Recorded his first professional point with an assist on April 18, 2025 vs. Grand Rapids.
Honors and Awards: 2024 NCAA National Champion ... Team Alternate Captain (2024-25) … 2025 NCAA Northeast Regional All-Tournament Team … All-NCHC Second Team (2024-25) … NCHC Player of the Month (November 2024) … 3x NCHC Academic All-Conference Team (2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25) ... 3x NCHC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete (2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25) ... NCHC Forward of the Week (Nov. 4, 2024) … NCHC Rookie of the Week (Nov. 14, 2022) ... Tim Taylor Award Watch List (2022-23) ... Hobey Baker Award nominee (2024-25) ... DU’s Barry Sharp Freshman of the Year Award (2022-23)
2024-25: Named a team alternate captain prior to the season on Sept. 27 … Recorded career highs during his junior campaign by registering 21 goals and 34 assists for 55 points, finishing second in the NCAA in scoring behind only teammate Jack Devine (57) … Was one of 19 skaters in college hockey during the year to record at least 20 markers and his 34 helpers were tied for the third-most in the country, with only teammates Devine (44) and Zeev Buium (35) having more … Finished sixth in the nation in shots on goal (164) and recorded personal bests in both power-play goals (7) and game-winners (3) … Registered a +16 plus/minus rating, 26 penalty minutes and won 68.5-percent of his faceoffs (37/54) … Played in all 44 games and recorded a point in 36 of them, never going more than two contests without reaching the scoresheet … Had 16 multi-point contests during the campaign … Made up one-third of the top-scoring line in the NCAA during the season with teammates Jack Devine and Carter King, as the Pioneers' top trio combined for 55 goals and 155 points during the campaign … Scored twice on the power play in the season opener on Oct. 5 at Alaska Anchorage for his first of three multi-goal outings during the year and added another marker on Oct. 6 at UAA … Began the season by registering a point in each of the first 14 games from Oct. 5-Nov. 23, a career-long point streak (10g/12) that was the third-longest overall in the NCAA during the year … It was the longest season-opening point streak by a Pioneer in the last 10 years (since 2015-16), surpassing Henrik Borgstrom's 11-game run to begin the 2017-18 campaign … The 14-game streak tied with Bobby Brink (Dec. 31, 2021-Feb. 19, 2022) for the second-longest by a Pioneer in the last two decades, with only Danton Heinen's run of 18 straight contests from Jan. 22-March 27, 2016 being longer … Also registered a personal-best seven-game assist streak during the overall run from Oct. 18-Nov. 8 (3g/10a) … Set a career high for assists and points in a game with four helpers on Oct. 19 vs. Northeastern—tied for the most in a contest by a DU player during the season and the first four-assist contest since Massimo Rizzo on Jan. 20, 2024 at Omaha … Recorded his 50th career assist during a three-point outing (2g/1a) on Nov. 2 at Yale … Also had a career-high 11 shots in the Nov. 2 game, the most by a Pioneer since Dylan Gambrell had 12 SOG on Jan. 5, 2018 at Miami … Finished the two-game series at Yale on Nov. 1-2 with four points (2g/2a), helping him earn his first career NCHC Forward of the Week honor on Nov. 4 … Tallied seven goals in a nine-game stretch from Oct. 26-Nov. 23 and scored in three straight outings from Nov. 9-16 (3g/1a), tying a career-long streak (Feb. 10-17, 2023) … Led the NCHC in scoring during the month of November with 11 points (6g/5a) and was named the conference’s Player of the Month—his first such honor of his collegiate career … Appeared in his 100th career game on Jan. 25 at Minnesota Duluth ... Went on a nine-game point streak from Feb. 1-March 1 (4g/10a) … Had his third multi-goal contest of the season and tallied his third career overtime goal in the last minute of the extra period on Feb. 7 at Arizona State … Became the 104th member of the Pioneers' 100-point club after recording an assist on Feb. 21 at Miami … Registered two points (1g/1a) in Game 2 on March 15 and an assist in Game 3 on March 16 in the NCHC Quarterfinals vs. Colorado College … Contributed an assist and scored his third game-winning goal of the season in the NCHC Frozen Faceoff Semifinals vs. Arizona State on March 21 in St. Paul, Minn. … Totaled five goals and two assists in five games vs. ASU during the campaign … Became the third DU player to reach the 20-goal threshold during the season by scoring on March 28 vs. Providence in the NCAA Northeast Regional semifinals in Manchester, N.H. … Added an assist in the Regional Final on March 30 vs. No. 1 Boston College and earned a spot on the Regional All-Tournament Team … Scored in the NCAA Frozen Four Semifinals vs. No. 1-seed Western Michigan on April 10 in St. Louis, Mo., finishing the season on a three-game point streak (2g/2a) … Registered 11 points (5g/6a) in his final nine games and had 25 points (8g/17a) in his final 19 contests … Finished his collegiate career with 42 goals and 75 assists for 117 points, ranking tied for 62nd on the program's all-time scoring list … Played all 120 career games consecutively after missing the first eight contests as a freshman due to injury ... Attended the Chicago Blackhawks' development camp in summer 2024.
2023-24: Played in all 44 games during Denver’s NCAA-record 10th national championship campaign … Scored a career-high 11 goals while adding 19 assists for 30 points … Ranked first on the team with 344 faceoff wins and third with a .510 winning percentage at the dot (344/675) … Was fourth on the squad in shots (93), penalty minutes (35) and power-play goals (4) … Put together eight multi-point outings during the year … Skated in his 50th career game on Dec. 9 at Western Michigan … Tallied in consecutive games on Jan. 13 vs. St. Cloud State and Jan. 19 at Omaha, the latter of which marked his 50th career point … Recorded his first career multi-goal game and scored in overtime on Feb. 16 at Minnesota Duluth—his second career OT goal at UMD (Dec. 10, 2022) … Went 19-for-25 on faceoffs on Feb. 23 vs. Miami, setting a new single-game career high and winning the most draws in a game since Cole Guttman also won 19 vs. UMass Lowell on March 24, 2022 … Posted nine points (2g/7a) in an eight-game stretch from Feb. 24-March 22 … Had two assists in Game 1 on March 15 and one goal in Game 2 on March 16 in the NCHC Quarterfinals vs. Minnesota Duluth … Recorded two helpers in the NCHC Frozen Faceoff Semifinals vs. St. Cloud State on March 22 … Attended the Chicago Blackhawks’ summer development camp in July 2023.
2022-23: Led all Pioneer freshmen in scoring as a point-per-game player with 32 points (10g/22a) in 32 games … Second on the team with 22 assists and also added 10 goals to finish fifth on the Pioneers in scoring (32) … Placed third on DU with a .507 faceoff-winning percentage … Tied for fourth with 14 power-play points (3g/11a) … Made his collegiate debut on Nov. 4 vs. St. Cloud State and picked up first NCAA point with an assist on Nov. 5 vs. SCSU … Missed the first eight games of the season (Oct. 7-29) with a lower-body injury that he suffered while attending USA Hockey's National Junior Evaluation Camp for the 2022 World Junior Championship in the summer … Recorded at least a point in 23 of the 32 games he played … Scored his first goal and added an assist on Nov. 11 at North Dakota for his first career multi-point contest ... Added a second goal on Nov. 12 at UND, helping him earn NCHC Rookie of the Week honors on Nov. 14 … Tallied his first career overtime goal and game-winner on Dec. 10 at Minnesota Duluth … Recorded a career-high three assists on Jan. 14 vs. Miami and then matched the personal best in points with a goal and two assists on Feb. 17 vs. Minnesota Duluth … Registered at least a three-game point streak six times during the year, including going on a season-long, seven-game point stretch from Jan. 27-Feb. 26 (3g/6a) … That run also included personal best three-game goal (Feb. 10-17, 3g) and assist (tied) streaks (Feb. 17-24, 4a) … Had two points (1g/1a) and the game-winner in the regular-season finale on March 4 at Colorado College … Went 16-for-28 on faceoffs in Game 1 of the NCHC Quarterfinals vs. Miami on March 10—the most draw wins by a Denver player during the year … Totaled four points (1g/3a) in the two-game playoff series with Miami, recording two assists in Game 1 and a goal and an assist in Game 2 … Attended Chicago Blackhawks Development Camp in July 2022 and participated in USA Hockey's National Junior Evaluation Camp in July and August in preparation for the 2022 and 2023 IIHF World Junior Championships.
Before Denver: A product of the Colorado Thunderbirds and Rocky Mountain Roughriders organizations … Played two-plus seasons with the Lincoln Stars of the United States Hockey League, tallying 116 points (34g/82a) in 117 career games … Served as an alternate captain of the Stars in 2021-22 and registered 24 goals and 58 assists for 82 points in 57 outings, earning Second-Team USHL All-Star Team honors … Had four assists in three outings during the 2022 USHL Clark Cup Playoffs … Picked up 33 points (10g/23a) in 52 games with Lincoln during the 2020-21 season … Played prep school hockey for most of the 2018-19 and 2019-20 campaigns with the Berkshire School in Massachusetts and was recognized as an All-New England First-Team member (West) in 2019-20 when he also led the team in scoring … Suited up in eight USHL contests with Lincoln and had an assist in 2018-19.
Personal: Son of Brad and Jenny Thompson … Has a younger brother, Marek … Intends to major in finance at DU … Also enjoys golf … Aims to win both an NCAA National Championship and Stanley Cup … Also played tennis in high school, earning the most improved player award in 2020.
Why DU: "I chose Denver because of the hockey program and the location of the school in my home state."
