Where do you even begin with Jack Queally?
From mites to midgets. From half-ice at a town rink in Milton, Massachusetts to first-line center in the ISL at St. Sebastian's. Across every level, every program, every rink in Massachusetts and a good number beyond it, the answer has never once changed.
He dominates. He always has.
Now he has committed to Boston College. That's the news, and the credentials behind it are easy enough to look up — leading scorer in the Massachusetts 2010 class, one of only two players from the class selected to the USA Hockey National Team Development Program, top name on our forwards board.
So you begin at the beginning.
Ulin Rink, 2017
I was on the ice volunteering with Milton Youth Hockey — one of the largest youth programs in Massachusetts — helping run half-ice sessions at Ulin. Jack was seven, maybe eight years old. A mite.
Two things registered immediately. He was a stocky little lefty — already bigger and faster than the kids around him — and he controlled the half-ice game completely. He had the puck more than anyone else and he knew exactly what he wanted to do with it. And what he wanted to do was score. Not set up, not cycle, not look pretty. Score.
That was the whole read at seven years old, and nine years later it is still the entire scouting report. What got Jack Queally committed to Boston College is the same thing that made him impossible to ignore in a half-ice game at a town rink in Milton.
Ten Cup, Pilgrim Rink
In 2019, Ryan Foley created the Ten Cup at Pilgrim Rink in Hingham — a summer tournament built entirely around 2010 birth-year players, organized by hometown rather than by club program. Four teams that first year, four South Shore hockey towns: Hanover, coached by Ryan Foley; Hingham, coached by Jeff Chisholm and Matt Elio; Milton, coached by me; and Pembroke, coached by Rick Casavant.
That distinction matters. These kids scatter across the state all winter for their club programs. In the summer they came back and played for the town they actually grew up in. It made the Ten Cup one of the cleanest looks anybody got at the South Shore's 2010 crop before USA Hockey ever evaluated a single one of them.
Milton won the first one, in 2019, on the back of Jack Queally. Milton won it again with him.
The tournament grew, and the names on those town rosters have aged extremely well. Look at where they landed.
Ryan Porter came out of Hanover and is now a defenseman at Dexter Southfield, with USHL rights held by Sioux Falls and QMJHL rights held by Drummondville. Nicholas Ware came out of Weymouth, won a Division 1 MIAA state championship at Catholic Memorial, and was then plucked by Belmont Hill — where he promptly put up 25 assists running the power play. Omaha took him in the USHL, Cape Breton in the Q. Jake Guerriero came out of Braintree and is at St. George's. Lochlan Horsman went the MIAA route to Xaverian, one of the genuine Division 1 powerhouses in Massachusetts high school hockey.
Braintree has won four Ten Cups to Milton's three across seven summers, and one of those came against Jack head-to-head.
Then the town rivals became club teammates. Guerriero, Ware, Horsman and Queally all played together for the Neponset Valley River Rats. That's how South Shore hockey works: you spend summers trying to beat a kid for your hometown, and winters on a line with him.
The Climb, Program by Program
The path wasn't a straight ladder. Like most kids in this state, Jack ran two tracks at once — town hockey in Milton alongside club hockey, going back to his mite years with the South Shore Kings. Boston Advantage came in there too. Eventually the club side took over: the Kings in Foxboro, one of the top programs in Massachusetts, and then the Neponset Valley River Rats.
What stayed constant through all of it is the only thing that matters. He was the best player at every stop.
The Shot
If you have watched Jack play, you already know what this section is about.
He has a missile from the left side. Not a good shot for his age — an actual missile, the kind that changes what a defense is allowed to do. He is a left shot, so the left side is his natural side, and he releases it in stride without needing to set his feet. Goalies at every level he has played have had to respect it from the moment he crosses the blue line, and that respect is what opens up everything else.
It is also why the numbers look the way they do. He is a center who can beat you from distance on his strong side, which means defenders have to close on him, which means he has room to distribute. The 21 assists at St. Sebastian's last season aren't separate from the 16 goals. They're a consequence of them.
Elite Prospects lists him at 5'11" and 181 pounds. That listing is almost certainly stale — watching him last winter, he looked to have cleared six feet. He has been bigger than his birth year since he was a mite, and he has never given that advantage back as the levels rose. The shot is attached to a body that can protect the puck long enough to use it.
What Changed Between Freshman and Sophomore Year
This is the part of his record that will get overlooked, and it shouldn't.
| Season & Team | Level | GP | G | A | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 · South Shore Kings | 13U AAA Elite | — | — | — | — |
| 2024-25 · NV River Rats | 14U AAA | 49 | 26 | 42 | 68 |
| 2024-25 · St. Sebastian's | Prep | 20 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2025-26 · NV River Rats | 15U AAA | 32 | 26 | 26 | 52 |
| 2025-26 · St. Sebastian's | Prep | 27 | 16 | 21 | 37 |
| 2026-27 · U.S. National U17 Team | NTDP | — | — | — | — |
| 2029-30 · Boston College | NCAA | — | — | — | — |
Three goals in 20 games as a freshman. Sixteen in 27 as a sophomore. His goal total more than quintupled while his games played went up by seven.
That is what a fourteen-year-old looks like when he is figuring out prep hockey, followed by what he looks like once he has. The club numbers stayed steady across the same span — 68 points at 14U, 52 at 15U in 17 fewer games, essentially the same per-game production against older opposition. The prep line is where the leap shows.
Plymouth Next
Queally reports to the U.S. National Team Development Program this fall as a member of the Under-17 Team. It is the highest credential available to an American player at his age — roughly 23 players per age group nationally — and it is the reason he has no National 16 Camp line on any of our boards. NTDP players don't attend that camp. The blank is a promotion, not an absence.
The U17 season opens September 11 in Anchorage against the Wolverines and runs through April 2. Three international events are on the schedule: the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Oakville, Ontario in November, the U17 Vierumäki Cup in Finland in December, and the U17 Five Nations in Sweden in February.
The rest is a USHL slate, and there's something in it for anyone following this class. Queally will face Green Bay in late November and again in March. Green Bay is where Logan Cotter — who committed to Northeastern last week — is playing this season on a USHL tender. He'll also face Cedar Rapids, who drafted Tyler Poti, and Madison, who drafted Michael Barrett.
Four Massachusetts 2010s committed in a single week, and one of them is going to spend his winter playing against the others.
Chestnut Hill After That
Boston College has won five national championships — 1949, 2001, 2008, 2010 and 2012 — and has reached the Frozen Four more than two dozen times. The Eagles play at Kelley Rink inside Conte Forum.
Greg Brown enters his fifth season as head coach. He is a BC alum from the Class of 1990, a two-time U.S. Olympian, and spent 14 seasons on Jerry York's staff — helping deliver the 2008, 2010 and 2012 titles — before succeeding York in 2022 as only the fifth head coach the program has had since 1932. His record through three seasons is 75-30-9, with a trip to the 2024 national championship game and the Spencer Penrose Award as Division I National Coach of the Year.
BC lists Queally for 2029-30. That's three seasons away: two years in Plymouth and one more after.
What I Think Happens
Start with the workload, because it's the part nobody talks about. The U17 schedule carries 37 dated games plus five multi-game events — the NAHL Showcase, the World Under-17 Challenge in Ontario, the Vierumäki Cup in Finland, the Five Nations in Sweden, and the NAHL Top Prospects Tournament. Call it something north of fifty games between September 11 and April 2.
Last season Jack played 59 games: 27 at St. Sebastian's and 32 with the River Rats. Similar volume. Completely different air. Every one of those 59 was prep or 15U club hockey. This year every single game is against USHL clubs, college teams and national programs — opponents two and three years older, on a professional travel schedule, in three countries.
That is the whole point of Plymouth. It is not a reward for what he has already done. It is the first environment built to make it hard.
Here is my expectation, and I'll put my name on it. The thing Jack was at seven — a kid who wanted the puck and wanted to score — never got coached out of him and never got diluted as the levels rose. It just kept scaling. Milton to the Kings to the River Rats to St. Sebastian's to a national team, same player every time. I don't think that stops in Michigan. I think he goes to even greater heights.
Which, given where he's headed after, is not entirely a figure of speech.
If you have never watched Jack Queally play hockey, try to catch him this season. It starts September 11 in Anchorage, and USA Hockey streams the U17 schedule. Green Bay in late November is worth circling too — Logan Cotter will be on the other bench.
And if you can't, I'll keep you posted.
Because I'll be watching.