Men's Hockey Incoming Class: Jeremy Bracco
June 25, 2015 | Men's Hockey
The final piece of the 2015-16 recruiting class under head coach Jerry York is Jeremy Bracco, a diminutive, yet fiery forward who has etched his name in USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program’s record books.
In the midst of resetting NTDP’s annals, Bracco skated alongside incoming freshman Colin White and dispensed the assist on White’s overtime game-winning goal for the U.S. Men's National Under-18 Team over Finland.
This past season, the Freeport, N.Y., native broke the NTDP assist record for a season, logging 64 assists in 2014-15. Along with 30 goals (94 total points) that year, Bracco became the all-time career assist record holder for the National Team Development Program with 122 total.
With such astronomical assist figures, Bracco etched his name alongside a couple of NHL greats and is in third place, all-time, in career points (46-122-168) behind Phil Kessel (180) and Patrick Kane (172).
In 2013-14, Bracco started off his NTDP career with 74 points for the U.S. Men's National Under-17 Team (16-58-74) in 54 games played. That same year, the incoming rookie was a member of the gold-medal winning U-17 World Hockey Challenge team and led the tournament with eight assists.
Prior to his time in Ann Arbor, Mich., Bracco stockpiled 50 points (16-34-50) for the New Jersey Rockets and was dubbed the Atlantic Junior Hockey League Rookie of the Year. In that season, Bracco was selected to play in the AJHL All-Star Game.
Before his junior hockey career, the Long Islander logged 42 points, including 15 goals and 27 assists, in 20 games played at Portledge School.
Bracco just missed out on the World Junior roster this season, but was among 30 players named to the preliminary roster for the 2015 U.S. National Junior Team.
Even though Bracco’s game is predicated around offense, he hails from a family of goaltenders. His father, Michael, was a goalie at Dartmouth from 1990 to 1994 while his uncle, Jon, staffed the pipes for St. Lawrence from 1993 to 1997.
