The season of Devon Levi and Yaniv Perets

The NCAA unveiled on Wednesday the identities of the 10 finalists in view of the Hobey-Baker Trophy opening, presented annually to the player by American university hockey. On this list, op finds the names of two players from outside the United States: the Quebec Guardians Devon Levi, Northeastern University, and Yaniv Perets, who defend the colors of Quinnipiac University.

Levi and Perets did not steal their place within this select group, as evidenced by the hallucinatory statistics and records they signed.

The lines that unite them all yield their story even more particular. Levi and Perets have in effect expanded to a pier from one of the other in the east of the Isle of Montreal. And in addition to being childhood friends, these two former Lac Saint-Louis Lions peaufinent their abilities with the same trainer during the season.

Yaniv and I are friends since the age of 7 or 8 years. We have even disputed some seasons together in the minor hockey and our families are close to one anotherDevon Levi says that hockey amateurs are getting to know each other for the sake of exploits that he has been doing for some seasons.

Not long after last February, Devon Levi was in Beijing with the Canadian Olympic team.

After having compiled an exceptional average efficiency of, 964 at the Junior World Cup in 2021 and declining the title of Guardian of Excellence of the Junior World Challenge (Junior A) in 2020, the Hockey Canada executives have abstracted their 20 years and he made a place in the national team.

I have not disputed a match in the Games, but I have no regret of being away. I represented Canada and I appreciated something new every day on contact with veterans like Eric Staal. It was very enrichingwitness Devon Levi, who is a hopeful of the Buffalo Sabers.

It’s an exceptional premiere in the uniform of the Huskies of Northeastern University who valued this invitation to Pékin. Moreover, in addition to his nomination for the Hobey-Baker, we have just received the title of Recrue par excellence from the Hockey East conference.

With Northeastern, he presented a 12-6-1 record and now maintains an average efficiency of .951 (1.64 but matched). In the history of the East Hockey Conference, only Detroit Red Wings defender Jimmy Howard (in 2003-2004) has maintained an average performance efficiency that Levi (, 953).

For the whole season, if there are any matches played outside of the Hockey East conference, Levi’s figures are even better! Its average efficiency is 954 and its allotted goals average is 1.47.

In addition, Devon Levi is taking another chance to beat Northeast NCAA Championship conquest. In fact, the Huskies will face the University of Connecticut in the semifinals of their conference at the start of Friday night.

We know an incredible season until present. My teammates play very solidly in front of me. We hope to know success, but there is a big difference between hoping for something and realizing it. That said, our work is not over yetlevi.

The Guardian of Quebec counts among its teammates Ryan St-Louis as well as the brothers Riley and Jack Hughes, whose fathers are respectively trainer and general manager of Canada.

Yaniv Perets, as far as he is concerned, has just celebrated his 22nd birthday. It has always been excellent, but, for various reasons, it has passed under the radar of LNH recruiters in recent years.

This was not the time to sign the best season in the history of the ECAC conference, since it was attended by the Bobcats of the University of Quinnipiac. And the most incredible in his story, is that Perets ignores at what point, from a statistical point of view, his performance was exceptional!

I’m asking someone a little strange to tell you, it was launched at the beginning of our interview. Is it possible that I do not know what are my statistics? I have no idea. I do not consult the media or social networks during the season and I concentrate solely on what happens on the skating rink. I think that in this way, the good things will come from them.

Yaniv Perets literally tailored his opponents in pieces this winter. It shows a 20-4-2 record as well as the average best-scoring goal (0.89) of the entire NCAA network. He scored two goals or less in 24 of his 26 starts, signed 11 runs (best national performance) and had a record record of 369 minutes of play without being released. With an average efficiency of, 952 ranks second on the national stage, Levi is just behind.

On the right track, in addition to his nomination for the Hobey-Baker, Yaniv Perets has been proclaimed player of the year and guarded by the excellence of the ECAC.

For him, the work is not over yet, since the Quinnipiac Bobcats will face Colgate University in the semifinals of their conference, at Lake Placid, Friday afternoon.

Since I was more childish, I always wanted to be a guard and I have always been passionate about this position. In Quinnipiac, I’ve had the chance to find myself in an environment where the world works hard and where trainers are very demanding. It’s an ideal place to develop your talent. It’s very stimulating, too, to be part of a program where fighting for the national title is part of the warningstells Yaniv Perets.

At the end of the day, guard coach Marco Raimondo did not seem to be surprised by his students’ disappointing results.

Presenting the Guardian of the Guardians of the Redbirds of McGill and ex-trainer of the Guardians of the Mooseheads of Halifax, in particular, Raimondo supervised the stevedoring preparation of Devon Levi for five years, and the cell of Yaniv Perets for the last year. (Perets worked prematurely with Marco Marciano, of the Rocket of Laval. And he also attributes a very large part of his success.)

I am going to tell you a story that illustrates well what kind of athlete on an affairannounced Raimondo.

During the season, Devon and Yaniv spent their time reserving me extra hours of ice cream. There is no need to present to the arena at 7 am on Saturday and Sunday to train to the advantage that our program provides.

It was last night, they wrote me a Friday night to make me such a request. And they reminded me of FaceTime at the end of the evening to confirm everything. To my great stupefaction, they had their mask in the face, and they were in the process of receiving Tuesday in a basement!

I had two boys aged 20, a Friday evening in Montreal, who played hockey instead of having a beer with their friends. When I was raped, I told my wife that nothing had succeeded in stopping these two guys.

Marco Raimondo maintains that it is the quality of game lectures and the intelligence that are the first qualities of exceptional guards. His speech is dethroned with the dominant thinking of the LNH, where the guards of less than 6 feet 2 feet are less and less regarded by the recruiters.

Oder, Devon Levi made 6 feet and Yaniv Perets measured 6 feet 1 inch. And their trainer believes that their performances speak for themselves.

In its second year of rehearsal, Devon was in my superior opinion to all the guardians of his age because of his intelligence, his sense of hockey and his sense of anticipation (in 2020, Levi was finally selected in the 7th round (212e) by the Panthers of the Florida).

The job of a guard consists of identifying a situation and placing oneself in an optimal position to make a stop or react to the next move. When you record a Devon Levi match, over 50 game situations, he makes the best decision between 48 and 50 timesexplain it.

And Yaniv Perets is another guard who does not see the matches of the same kind as the others, he supports.

This season, for example, Yaniv and I spent an hour on the phone decorting a goal in a match between Boston and New York. I wanted to know what would have been the best way to react to this game. He absolutely wanted the good answer.

Yaniv is another extremely intelligent young man. It is attentive to the less detailed and sociable to commit the optimal gesture before integrating into its technical baggageanalyze-t-il.

Even if he is a second-year player at the university, Perets obviously attends the regards of several teams at the LNH because he is an autonomous player.

Why was he not in the LNH? It’s a good question because Yaniv has always been good. I think he fouled between the fillet emails because he only played one season on the M-18 in Quebec before passing the junior A ontarien, by the New England and then by the BCHL in Colombia-Britannique. It was more difficult to follow than othersestimated Raimondo.

At the bottom of the list, it’s time to take a look at the guards who really stop the roundabouts rather than those who could potentially stop because they only have 6 feet 4 feet.

Juuse Saros (Predators of Nashville) measures 5 feet 11 inches and there is no guard in the LNH who gets more tears than he has between the two legs. He is one of the guards who excels the most through the League. Demonstrate that there is a place for the guards who will make the best game lecturesthe conclusion Marc Raimondo.