Written by March 13, 2024 – Here are your NH D2 Hockey All-State Teams 2024. Congratulations to each person recognized. There are so many deserving athletes each season.
Sam Chapman, Junior, Forward, scored 16 goals in 17 games for the Grizzlies this season. NHIAA Hockey. (Photo by Meagan Tarrier)
2024 NH High School Hockey
NH D2 Hockey All-State Teams
2024 NH D2 Hockey All-State Teams. Player of the Year. Coach of the Year.
Cam Miner (21) gets ready to make a hit on Sam Chapman (14). While Talon Beyer (7) gets his stick caught in Chapman’s wake, at Sullivan Arena. (Photo by Meagan Tarrier)
We see youth hockey teams playing 50-75 games per season here in New Hampshire. Then as the kids grow and become young men and women the funnel narrows. Players move on and make their high school hockey teams, and a major shift takes place. Not only does the competition level increase, but far fewer games are played. Before you know it, a high school career has passed and players have played maybe 70-90 games in their entire high school careers.
These are the days of their lives. Playing alongside schoolmates, neighbors, and best friends, it doesn’t get better than that. So, bringing the very best effort every night, lifting up teammates on and off of the ice, and having all the fun you can have along the way is what it’s all about.
Perhaps, you and your mates make a run in the playoffs, or play for a title. Maybe you graduate as one of your school’s all-time great players. But most likely, you will graduate with a bunch of players that you will spend the rest of your lives looking forward to the times when you can get together and lace them up for a skate. Or just to sit somewhere together and remember, fondly, the bad, the good, and the hilarious.
So, to those players who are recognized this season on the NH D2 Hockey All-State Teams, my sincerest congratulations.
Congratulations to their teams as well. These awards don’t happen in a vacuum. They are not based on solo efforts in a team environment. These things come as a result of excellence on the ice, nurtured over the years by family sacrifice, player sacrifice, teamwork, connection with coaching, and perseverance. Job well done.
Congratulations to Coach Ferullo of Spaulding on the Coach of the Year honor, and also on their great run to the Finals. Congratulations to Oyster River and Coach Harwood on their program’s first NHIAA Hockey Title. To all of the teams playing NHIAA Hockey, thank you for another great season of high school hockey. New Hampshire High School Hockey is a great place to play.
Bryce Larco faces off against Zack Tarrier at Sullivan Arena. This was a night to raise money for the Flutie Foundation, and to raise Autism Awareness. (Photo by Meagan Tarrier)
NH D2 Hockey All-State Teams for 2024 – NH Legends of Hockey.
The current look at my ‘hockey office’. So many hours spent in this space, tracking numbers and capturing season after season. (C) 1inawesomewonder 2023.
The beginning of every article. (C) 1inawesomewonder 2017.
The thoughts and opinions expressed here are those of the individual contributors, mostly mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the schools, coaches, players, or characters listed in any of these blog posts. Or, maybe they do, but you would have to ask them directly.
Either way, “It’s a great day for hockey” ~ the late “Badger” Bob Johnson.
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