Hockey Expert Sees Promise in Edina’s Connor Hurley

Hockey Buzz’s Bill Meltzer sees potential for Edina junior Connor Hurley as a power forward—but Hurley’s time may have not come quite yet.

Hurley, who is right at the age cutoff for the 2013 NHL Draft, has committed to Notre Dame.

Meltzer had this to say about his prospects:

The center is said to play a hybrid of a speed/finesse and power game that one scout likened to a "poor man's Jeremy Roenick at the same age but has the upside to be a pretty good NHL player of that general style." I have also read scouting reports that say the 6-foot-1, 175-pound center tends to play too much along the perimeter and needs to better develop his power game as he fills out over the next few years. Born right at the age cutoff date for eligibility in 2013, Hurley has plenty of time to develop before attempting to make the jump to the NHL.