Just 30 games into 2024-25, Jack Roslovic is already enjoying the second-best goal-scoring season of his NHL career.
The former Winnipeg first-round pick and first-year Carolina Hurricane has netted 13 goals in 30 games, including six in a five-game stretch around Halloween.
Roslovic’s career high of 22 markers came in 2021-22 with his hometown team Columbus. He scored 12 times in 2019-20 with Winnipeg and again with the Blue Jackets a year later.
Some early-season highlights by league:
NHL: It has taken nearly a decade of pinballing between the AHL and NHL, but Kiefer Sherwood seems to finally found a home in Vancouver and is putting up top-six numbers and recorded his first career hat trick this week.
In his seventh NHL season, Sherwood already has a career-high 11 goals, eclipsing his previous high of 10 set last seasons with Nashville, and he is tied with Pius Suter for second on the Canucks. Sherwood trails only Jake DeBrusk for the team lead (14).
Sherwood, who turned pro in 2018 after three seasons at Miami, has logged 217 NHL games, 98 of which have come since the start of 2023-24.
He scored all three of the Canucks’ goals in a 3-1 win over Colorado on Monday.
— New York Rangers forward Reilly Smith leads all former RedHawks in the NHL with 15 points.
Smith, Miami’s all-time leader in NHL goals, has scored three times in his last six games and is seventh on the Rangers in points.
— Blake Coleman was a 30-goal scorer with Calgary last season, finishing with 54 points, but his production has waned significantly in 2024-25.
Coleman is just 6-7-13 through 31 games, although he does have a goal and an assist in his last two contests.
— Defenseman Grant Hutton is getting his second extended look with the New York Islanders, and he has already picked up two assists in 12 games.
Hutton, who turned pro in 2019 following four seasons at Miami, had logged 246 games with AHL Bridgeport but dressed for just 18 NHL contests the past six seasons heading into 2024-25.
AHL: Curtis McKenzie is in his 12th season in this league, and the Texas forward leads all seven former Miamians in this league with 13 points (6-7-13).
McKenzie, who is 10-13-23 in 99 NHL games — all with Texas affiliate Dallas — has played in 609 AHL games, including nine seasons with Texas.
— Louie Belpedio is 3-3-6 in his seventh AHL season and his third with Lehigh Valley, the Triple-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers. Belpedio has two goals and four assists in 16 NHL games.
— Former Columbus Blue Jackets draftee Carson Meyer is 3-6-9 in 15 games with San Diego, the Anaheim Ducks’ affiliate. Until this season, the Powell, Ohio, native had spent his entire post-juniors career with an Ohio team, from Miami to Ohio State, four seasons with AHL Cleveland and 16 games with the Blue Jackets.
— Goalie Ben Kraws was recalled by Texas last weekend after posting a 6-4 record and .900 save percentage with ECHL Idaho.
ECHL: Defensemen alumni are racking up the points in this league.
Utah’s Derek Daschke is tied for his team lead with 17 points, tied for sixth-best in the league among blueliners. He has three goals and 14 assists.
Last season, Daschke led Kalamazoo in defenseman points with 38 (edging Michael Joyaux).
— Tulsa blueliner Jack Clement also leads his team’s D-corps with 12 points — 11 of which have come on helpers. Clement played eight games with Cincinnati after turning pro last spring and is in his first full pro campaign.
SPHL: Huntsville’s Austin Alger is tied for eighth in the league with nine goals and is seventh in scoring, having racked up 17 points.
EUROPE: To no one’s surprise, Austin Czanik is leading Swiss-A’s Bern in points with 29 in his European debut, including 10 goals.
Bern averages over 16,000 fans per game.
Czarnik bounced between the NHL and AHL the past 10 seasons, logging 205 NHL games and recording 51 points.
— In his second season with DEL’s Wolfsburg, Andy Miele is third on the Grizzly Adams with nine goals in the former Hobey Baker winner’s eighth season in Europe. Miele played in 15 NHL games and notched two assists.
COACHING: Matt Barry has joined the coaching staff of USHL Tri-City, which Anthony Noreen headed the previous seven seasons.
The newest assistant, who graduated from Miami in 2022 and played two pro seasons in Europe, takes over a Storm team with four RedHawks commits, including USHL scoring leader Artemi Nizameyev, Tri-City defenseman points leader Shaun McEwen and potential NHL first-round pick Ilia Morozov.
Below are the 2024-25 stats of all former Miamians currently playing pro hockey around the globe:
Skaters
| NHL | Pos. | Team | GP | G | A | Pts. | PIM | + / — |
| Jack Roslovic | F | Carolina | 30 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 4 | -2 |
| Kiefer Sherwood | F | Vancouver | 30 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 12 | 8 |
| Reilly Smith | F | NY Rangers | 29 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 1 |
| Blake Coleman | F | Calgary | 31 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 10 | -2 |
| Sean Kuraly | F | Columbus | 31 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 |
| Alec Martinez | D | Chicago | 15 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | -7 |
| Grant Hutton | D | NY Islanders | 12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| AHL | Pos. | Team | GP | G | A | Pts. | PIM | +/– |
| Curtis McKenzie | F | Texas | 23 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 43 | -6 |
| Carson Meyer | F | San Diego | 15 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | -3 |
| Jonathan Gruden | F | WB/Scranton | 22 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 18 | -1 |
| Louie Belpedio | D | Lehigh Vly | 22 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 3 |
| Matthew Barbolini | F | Toronto | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Grant Hutton* | D | Bridgeport | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 |
| ECHL | Pos. | Team | GP | G | A | Pts. | PIM | +/– |
| Derek Daschke | D | Utah | 16 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 4 | -2 |
| Jack Clement | D | Tulsa | 21 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 22 | 6 |
| Carter Johnson | F | Maine | 14 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| P.J. Fletcher | F | Bloomington | 20 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -9 |
| Justin Vaive | F | Cincinnati | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 32 | -3 |
| Alex Wideman | F | Indianapolis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SPHL | Pos. | Team | GP | G | A | Pts. | PIM | +/– |
| Austin Alger | F | Huntsville | 11 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 7 |
| Europe | Pos. | Team | GP | G | A | Pts. | PIM | +/– |
| Austin Czarnik | F | Bern | 25 | 10 | 19 | 29 | 31 | 8 |
| Gordie Green | F | Trencia Dukla | 24 | 5 | 20 | 25 | 10 | 0 |
| Michael Regush | F | Coventry | 18 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 4 | 5 |
| Chase Gresock | F | Coventry | 18 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 8 | 9 |
| Jack Olmstead | F | Bad Toelz | 27 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 6 | 6 |
| Andy Miele | F | Wolfsburg | 25 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 2 |
| Matthew Caito | D | Leksands | 25 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 3 |
| Anthony Louis | F | Augsburg | 17 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| Josh Melnick | F | Karpat | 27 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 2 |
| Riley Barber | F | Nivnekamsk | 13 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | -2 |
| Anders Nilsson | F | Kalmar | 23 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Carter Camper | F | Oskarshamn | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Will Weber | D | Schwennigen | 24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 27 | -3 |
| Joey Cassetti | F | Belfast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goalies
| AHL | Team | GP | W-L | GAA | Sv % | SHO |
| Ben Kraws | Texas | 1 | 0-1 | 4.03 | .867 | 0 |
| ECHL | Team | GP | W-L | GAA | Sv % | SHO |
| Ben Kraws | Idaho | 10 | 6-4 | 3.95 | .900 | 0 |
| Logan Neaton | Allen | 3 | 0-2 | 4.99 | .859 | 0 |
| Europe | Team | GP | W-L | GAA | Sv % | SHO |
| Ludvig Persson | Braynas | 8 | 4-3 | 1.60 | .924 | 1 |
View From the Glass 
Jack Roslovic was selected in the first round, 25th overall by the Winnipeg Jets (not the CBJ) in the 2015 NHL entry draft.
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Yep, sure was. I forgot about the Dubois trade.
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