ITHACA, N.Y. — Fifteen current and former Cornell men's hockey players will attend various NHL development camps this week.
Of the 15 members at development camps, 13 will be on the Big Red's roster for the upcoming 2025-26 season. Recently graduated defenseman
Hank Kempf '25 and former forward
Dalton Bancroft are the two Cornell alumni wearing NHL sweaters, focusing on on-ice and off-ice training with their respective teams.
Boston and Ottawa are the only two NHL teams with multiple Cornell players at their development camps, as Bancroft and rising junior forward
Ryan Walsh are both at the Bruins' camp, and rising junior defenseman
Hoyt Stanley and rising sophomore forward
Charlie Major are both skating with the Senators.
Bancroft, whose one-year, two-way contract with the Bruins begins this season after he turned pro following his junior year, joined the Providence Bruins, Boston's AHL affiliate, on an amateur tryout (ATO) for the rest of last season. Walsh, who will only participate in off-ice activities with Boston, was a sixth-round pick by the Bruins in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft.
Stanley is returning to Ottawa's development camp for a third consecutive year after being selected in the fourth round of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft by the Senators. Major is attending his first development camp as a non-roster invitee, one of four Cornell players invited to development camps, along with rising senior forward
Nick DeSantis (Philadelphia) and incoming freshmen forwards
Aiden Long (Los Angeles) and
Gio DiGiulian (New Jersey).
Other Big Red players attending development camps who NHL clubs have already drafted include rising junior forwards
Jonathan Castagna (Utah) and
Luke Devlin (Pittsburgh), as well as rising junior defenseman
George Fegaras (Dallas), rising sophomore transfers
Luke Ashton (Columbus) and
Michael Fisher (San Jose), and incoming freshman defenseman
Xavier Veilleux (N.Y. Islanders). Additionally, rising freshman goaltender
Alexis Cournoyer (Montréal),
who was selected in the fifth round of this past weekend's NHL Draft, is attending the Canadiens' development camp.
| Cornellians at 2025 NHL Development Camps |
