New Jersey Devils Prospect Update: Mikhail Yegorov, Beanpot Champion

Mikhail Yegorov helped Boston University win an upset victory in the Beanpot tournament and also took home the Eberly Award for goaltender with highest save percentage. This post highlights Yegorov’s blazing start to college hockey.

The Yegorov hype has been real.

Ever since joining Boston University for the second semester, goaltender Mikhail Yegorov has showed why he was drafted in the 2nd round, 49th overall, by the New Jersey Devils in the 2024 NHL entry draft. Yegorov, who will still be only eighteen years old for a few more weeks, has been dominating the net for the Terriers with a 4-3 record, 1.67 GAA and .944 SV%, even earning his first collegiate shutout in a 3-0 win over Providence this past weekend. Per BU Hockey Stats, the last time a BU freshman goalie shutout Providence was in 2009.

Before that, Yegorov got a taste of an NHL arena playing in the TD Garden against top-ranked Boston College in the Beanpot Championship, a tournament of the four greater Boston teams each year. Yegorov shined in the championship game making 43 saves in a 4-1 victory. Yegorov even took home the Eberly award for the best SV% in the tournament with some gaudy numbers.

Yegorov even earned an assist in the game, his first collegiate point.

Yegorov’s development this year has been extremely encouraging. With Jakub Malek consistently topping the Liiga, the Devils appear to have two legitimate goalie prospects for the first time in a very long time. Three, if commentators want to include Nico Daws, who, at 24, is aging out of the pool and has struggled with consistency in recent years, but still has the ability to dominate at times, such as his February 4th win over Pittsburgh.

Around the Pool:

• Forward Matyas Melovsky is the first Devils prospect to hit 60 points this season. Melovsky is on an 82 point in 61 games pace per Elite Prospects.
• After I made some comments doubting the long-term future of winger Cole Brown in last week’s comments, the kid exploded with a hattrick, four point night and is now over a point per game. That’s great to see. It’ll be interesting what Devils management decides to do with Brown this summer.

• Winger Kaspar Pikkarainen has been injured all season, but it looks like he is returning to TPS in the Liiga. How close Pikkarainen is to a returning to the ice is less clear at the moment.
• Lenni Hameenaho has been red hot lately for Assat.

• Congratulations are in order for winger Cam Squires.

• Anton Silayev scores his first goal of the season to go along with 10 assists, by far leading KHL defensemen in his age group.

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