August 1 is the date this class has been building toward. It's the first day college programs can open direct contact with the 2010s, and for a group that has already been through two USA Hockey national camps, an NTDP selection cycle, a USHL Phase I draft, and a QMJHL draft, the file on most of these players is already thick.
This is the forward group — the companion to our Top 15 Defensemen board. Fifteen Massachusetts forwards, ranked on what they actually did rather than what they might become: 2025-26 production, both national camps, NTDP selection, and where they landed in the two junior drafts.
Two numbers frame it. Jack Queally and Sam Lee were both selected to the National Team Development Program, which is the highest credential available to an American player at this age and the reason their National 16 Camp cells are blank — NTDP players don't attend. And Thomas Egan scored 32 points at Austin Prep without a single camp invitation, festival, or draft selection to his name, the third-highest forward total in the class and the loudest gap on this board between what a player did and what the system noticed.
The Board
| # | Player | School 26-27 |
2025-26 G-A-P |
Nat 15 Camp 2025 G-A-P |
Nat 16 Camp 2026 G-A-P |
NTDP 2026 |
USHL 2026 |
QMJHL 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack Queally | USA Hockey NTDP | 16-21—37 | 0-4—4 | — | NTDP | — | Halifax |
| 2 | Carter Felt | Rivers | 20-14—34 | 1-2—3 | 0-2—2 | — | Cedar Rapids | Rimouski |
| 3 | Sam Lee | USA Hockey NTDP | 15-16—31 | 0-3—3 | — | NTDP | — | Moncton |
| 4 | Jamie Calla | Governor's Academy | 11-7—18 | 6-2—8 | 3-3—6 | — | Sioux Falls | Halifax |
| 5 | Colin Walsh | Rivers | 35-19—54 MIAA | — | 3-3—6 | — | Chicago Steel | Newfoundland |
| 6 | Drew Short | Belmont Hill | 8-18—26 | — | 3-1—4 | — | — | Gatineau |
| 7 | Michael Barrett | Phillips Andover | 10-13—23 | 1-1—2 | 0-1—1 | — | Madison | Quebec |
| 8 | Robert Dekleine | Belmont Hill | 9-11—20 | 3-1—4 | 1-2—3 | — | Sioux City | Charlottetown |
| 9 | Jameson Needham | St. Sebastian's | 12-8—20 | — | 0-3—3 | — | Waterloo | Blainville |
| 10 | Thomas Egan | Austin Prep | 13-19—32 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Drew Gallucci | Holderness | 12-15—27 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Owen Frick | Master's Academy Intl | 5-7—12 | — | 0-3—3 | — | Omaha | Cape Breton |
| 13 | Blake Wilichoski | Cedar Rapids USHL | 7-11—18 | 2-1—3 | — | — | Cedar Rapids | Chicoutimi |
| 14 | Liam Carlin | Winchendon | 3-14—17 | — | 1-1—2 | — | — | — |
| 15 | Austin Wu | Dexter Southfield | 8-6—14 | 1-0—1 | 0-0—0 | — | Tri-City | — |
One more column is coming. Starting August 1, we'll add a College column to the right side of this board and fill it in as commitments are announced. The board stays live through the season — same fifteen names, same credentials, destinations filled in one at a time. That's the point of publishing it now: it's the baseline before anybody signs.
Five In, Five Out
Ten Massachusetts forwards went to the National 15 Camp in 2025. Ten went to the National 16 Camp in 2026. Only five are the same players.
Calla, Felt, Barrett, Dekleine, and Wu went to both. Walsh, Short, Frick, Needham, and Carlin broke in this year. Queally, Lee, Wilichoski, Owen Lundin, and Ethan Machado didn't return — though in Queally's and Lee's case that's because the NTDP took them, which is a promotion, not a cut.
Strip those two out and the honest turnover is three forwards replaced by five. The blue line saw half its group change in twelve months; the forward group was steadier. Either way, a camp invite at fifteen was not a guarantee of one at sixteen, and college staffs reading this board should weigh it accordingly.
The Fifteen
In board order — where each player stands, what backs it up, and what the numbers don't say.
The leading scorer in the 2010 Massachusetts class and the only forward here who's already gone. Thirty-seven points at St. Sebastian's — 16 goals and 21 assists, meaning he was both the finisher and the setup man on his line. He had four assists at the National 15 Camp in 2025, and this year he was selected to the USA National Team Development Program, which is why his National 16 Camp cell is blank. NTDP players don't attend. Halifax holds his Q rights. He will not play club hockey this fall or return to St. Sebastian's for 2026-27 — he's in Plymouth full time. For college programs the pitch is simple: he's already inside the highest-development environment American hockey has, and everyone knows exactly where to find him.
The only 20-goal scorer in the class. Thirty-four points at Rivers with the goal total leading everyone, and he's one of just five Massachusetts forwards to attend both national camps — three points at the 15, two at the 16. Cedar Rapids took him in the USHL and Rimouski in the Q. He is the most complete non-NTDP forward on this board: he produces at the highest volume, he's been in front of national evaluators two summers running, and both junior leagues committed picks to him. Rivers adds Colin Walsh this fall, which puts the two highest-scoring forwards in the class on the same roster.
Thirty-one points at Belmont Hill, split almost evenly between goals and assists, and the second Massachusetts 2010 forward taken by the NTDP. Three assists at the National 15 Camp. Like Queally, his blank 16 camp cell is a promotion rather than an absence. Moncton drafted him in the Q. Like Queally, he's gone from the Massachusetts landscape entirely for 2026-27 — no club team, no return to Belmont Hill. That school still sends Short and Dekleine to the top eight of this board, but Lee was the engine of it last winter.
The best camp resume of any Massachusetts forward in this birth year, and it isn't close. Eight points at the National 15 Camp in 2025 — six of them goals, the highest total of any Massachusetts skater there. Six more at the National 16 Camp in 2026, tied for the lead among Massachusetts forwards. Nobody else produced at both. His prep total of 18 is lower than five players ranked below him, and that is the entire argument against him. The counter is that he has scored every single time the sport has put him in a room with the best players in his age group in the country, two years running, and Sioux Falls and Halifax both noticed.
Thirty-five goals and 54 points at Framingham High School, the highest scoring total of any forward at the National 16 Camp. The caveat is real and worth stating plainly: MIAA production doesn't convert one-to-one to NEPSAC prep numbers, and the schedules aren't comparable. What isn't in doubt is what he did once the competition leveled — six points at the camp, tied with Calla for the Massachusetts forward lead. Chicago Steel took him in the USHL and Newfoundland in the Q. He moves to Rivers this fall, joining Carter Felt. This season answers the only open question about him.
Eighteen assists is the second-highest playmaking total among forwards in the class, and he added four points at the National 16 Camp — three of them goals, which is a different look than his prep season suggests. He was not at the 15 camp. He moves from Winchendon to Belmont Hill this fall. Gatineau drafted him in the Q with no USHL club following, and that split is the only thing holding him out of the top five. The camp performance says the scoring is in there.
One of five Massachusetts forwards at both national camps, with 23 points at Andover between them. His camp scoring is modest — two points then one — but the invitations are the credential, and holding a spot across two cycles when half the group turned over means the evaluators kept seeing what they liked. Madison and Quebec both drafted him. He's the most durable name on this board in the sense that matters: he keeps getting asked back.
Twenty prep points, four at the National 15 Camp and three at the 16 — the second-best two-camp scoring line among Massachusetts forwards behind Calla. Sioux City and Charlottetown hold his junior rights. Everything about his profile is consistent: he produces at a solid clip everywhere he plays without ever topping a leaderboard. That's a real archetype and college staffs recruit it, but he needs a scoring jump this winter to climb this board.
Twelve goals at St. Sebastian's and three points at the National 16 Camp, all assists — the reverse of his prep profile. He was not at the 15 camp, which makes him one of the five forwards who broke into the process this year. Waterloo and Blainville-Boisbriand both drafted him. His club situation for 2026-27 is still unsettled, which is the one loose end on an otherwise clean rising profile.
The most under-credentialed player in the entire 2010 class. Thirty-two points at Austin Prep — the third-highest total of any Massachusetts forward this year, behind only Queally and Felt — with no national camp invitation, no Boys Festival, no Final 40, and no draft selection in either league. Thirteen goals and 19 assists means he did it both ways. There is no version of this board where a player producing at that level sits outside the top ten, credentials or not. If a college staff wants a player nobody else has processed yet, this is the name.
Twenty-seven points at Pingree last season, the fifth-highest forward total in the class, and he made both the Boys Festival and the Final 40 this spring before the cut. That's further into the USA Hockey process than anyone else without a camp invitation got. He moves to Holderness this fall. The production is top-five in this class; the credential is one round short. A strong first season at Holderness closes that gap fast.
A late addition to the National 16 Camp roster who made it count — three assists once he got there. Twelve prep points at Cushing is the lowest total in the top twelve, and it's the reason he sits here rather than higher. But Omaha and Cape Breton both drafted him, and being called into a national camp on short notice and producing is a data point that doesn't show up in a season total. He joins Master's Academy International this fall alongside Machado and Lundin.
Eighteen points at Milton and three at the National 15 Camp, two of them goals. He did not get the callback for the 16 camp, and he's the clearest case among forwards of a player the junior leagues valued after USA Hockey moved on — Cedar Rapids and Chicoutimi both drafted him anyway. He's confirmed to Cedar Rapids in the USHL for 2026-27, which makes him the third player across these two boards with his next stop settled and the only non-NTDP forward leaving Massachusetts this fall. When the national program and the junior leagues disagree about a player, this is usually how it resolves: somebody gives him the ice time and finds out. He gets it a year early.
Fourteen assists against three goals is the most lopsided distribution profile among forwards in this class. Seventeen points at Winchendon, two more at the National 16 Camp, and no draft selection in either league — the only 16 camp forward in that position. Pure playmakers are harder to evaluate at sixteen than pure scorers, which may be the whole explanation. If the goal total moves at all this winter he jumps significantly.
One of only five Massachusetts forwards invited to both national camps, and he went pointless at the second one. Fourteen prep points at Dexter. Tri-City drafted him in the USHL with no Q club following. The two invitations are the argument for him and the scoring is the argument against — he's been in every room that matters and hasn't yet produced in one. Sophomore year decides which of those two facts ends up mattering.