Top-ranked recruit and Massachusetts native picks Gophers

MINNEAPOLIS – It’s near unimaginable to discover a good lobster roll within the State of Hockey, our chowder largely comes from a can, and whereas there are a number of Dunkin areas across the metro space, Minnesota stays solidly Caribou Espresso nation. Regardless of all of that, highly-touted prospect Cole Eiserman has determined a number of extra Minnesota winters are in his future.

Eiserman, a local of Newburyport, Massachusetts, introduced by way of Instagram on Wednesday afternoon that he’s certain for the College of Minnesota, possible two years from now. He spent the final two seasons at Shattuck-St. Mary’s and scored 56 targets in 53 video games there final 12 months. Eiserman, who turned 16 in August, is starting his first season within the USA Hockey Nationwide Crew Improvement Program this winter.

“There’s rather a lot to love in Minnesota. I had some household ties there and a whole lot of good mates in Minnesota. It is a fantastic spot,” Eiserman instructed The Rink Stay by telephone from Michigan on Wednesday night, a number of hours after making his announcement.

Whereas he admits to cheering for the Boston Pink Sox, New England Patriots and Boston Bruins like every good Massachusetts child, Eiserman additionally posted an image of himself and twin brother Caden from a dozen years in the past, all decked out in maroon and gold Gophers gear. Eiserman’s cousin is married to former Gophers girls’s hockey participant Kelly Olson, and so they nonetheless have household ties within the St. Paul suburbs.

“I’ve identified about Minnesota for some time, and I made a decision to go to Shattuck, so it is at all times been a faculty that I’ve stored tabs on,” Eiserman stated. “I’ve bought that over some jap youngsters who haven’t got the publicity there. I gladly did, and it is a fantastic place.”

He’s one in every of 5 boys within the Eiserman household. His father, Invoice is a recently-retired Massachusetts state trooper who performed some faculty hockey for UMass-Lowell. Different boys within the Eiserman household have performed for UMass-Lowell, New Hampshire and Bentley.

On the ice, Eiserman had a breakout season for Shattuck and appears to switch these abilities to Crew USA for the approaching winter. He’s fast to credit score linemates for his success, however coaches rave about Eiserman’s puck abilities.

“He is the actual deal. He is a puck fortunate goal-scorer that is form of like a Pat Micheletti who can actually skate,” stated Shattuck coach Tom Ward, who famous that the Eiserman household in Massachusetts hockey circles is akin to the Brotens or the Michelettis in Minnesota, so it is a big committment for the Gophers.

“He’s going to get the individuals in Mariucci up out of their seats. He is an electrical form of participant,” Ward stated, providing comparisons to former Gophers objective scorers like Tim Harrer and Thomas Vanek. “He is a flat-out goal-scoring machine.”

Referred to as a rink rat, Eiserman stated one of the best half about going to Shattuck was discovering a bunch of hockey-minded teammates keen and desperate to play shinny at 6 a.m. on winter mornings. Requested about his adjustment to the customarily harsh winter climate in Minnesota, Eiserman introduced it again to hockey once more.

“It is a whole lot of pond hockey,” he stated. “It is a hockey state, so you are taking the chilly climate pretty much as good. When winter is coming, you recognize it is hockey season.”