{"id":112143,"date":"2025-09-02T02:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112143\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T02:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:16:06","slug":"blue-jackets-prospect-malte-vass-transfers-to-boston-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112143\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets Prospect Malte Vass Transfers To Boston University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept. 1: Vass has made his college commitment official as Boston University recently announced (Twitter link<\/a>) that the blueliner will indeed suit up for them this season.\u00a0 He\u2019s their final addition to a class that saw them add multiple NHL draft picks including Ryder Ritchie<\/a>, Haoxi Wang<\/a>, and\u00a0Sacha Boisvert<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n

Aug. 9: It\u2019s not very often that a player will leave a professional team to go to college but it does happen periodically with international players.\u00a0 It appears that Blue Jackets prospect Malte Vass<\/a> will be one of them as Varmlands Folkblad\u2019s Johan Ekberg reports (subscription link<\/a>) that the blueliner is leaving Sweden to play in the NCAA next season.\u00a0 Which school he has chosen to go to yet remains unknown but Boston University is a school that is believed to have shown interest in him.<\/p>\n

Vass was a third-round pick by Columbus last month, going 76th overall.\u00a0 However, he was rated much higher on their draft board as Brian Hedger of The Columbus Dispatch relayed<\/a> after the draft that the Blue Jackets had Vass within the top 15 in their rankings, a sign that they clearly viewed him as being first-round-worthy.<\/p>\n

Vass spent last season in Farjestad\u2019s system, playing predominantly with their junior team where he had 11 points and 53 penalty minutes in 40 games.\u00a0 However, he also got into five games with their SHL club where he was held off the scoresheet.\u00a0 It\u2019s likely that he would have had a chance to get some more action at their top level in 2025-26 but that\u2019s no longer in the cards.<\/p>\n

Vass noted that the recent change to allow CHL players to play in the NCAA expedited his decision to come to North America as the spot that\u2019s being made available to him now might not have been available next year, given the number of junior players now seeking a school to play at. \u00a0It will be interesting to see if other international players start to feel that same pressure and up the urgency to pursue an NCAA spot as well over the next couple of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 1: Vass has made his college commitment official as Boston University recently announced (Twitter link) that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3936,80140,704,575,5193,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-112143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","11":"tag-malte-vass","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-shl","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}