Top-pair ceiling, skating the swing. Matched a young Cale Makar's freshman line two years younger.
Keaton Verhoeff does not sign an NHL entry-level contract with San Jose on or before May 31, 2027, and returns to North Dakota for a third college season.
San Jose hosts the Rookie Faceoff from September 12 to 15 at Tech CU Arena and Sharks Ice, playing Los Angeles on the 12th and Utah on the 13th, and five of its draft picks are barred from it because they are enrolled college players: Keaton Verhoeff at North Dakota, Ryan Lin at Denver, Haoxi Wang at Boston University, Joshua Ravensbergen at Michigan State and Cole McKinney at Michigan. College Hockey Inc's eligibility rules allow a student-athlete to attend an NHL development camp and forbid him from playing in a rookie tournament. Four of the five came out of major junior and are in college only because the NCAA changed the rule in 2024. One take filed.

What the scouting reports leave out about Keaton Verhoeff
