{"id":371864,"date":"2025-12-27T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/371864\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:22:09","slug":"2026-nhl-draft-prospect-oscar-hemming-to-join-boston-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/371864\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NHL Draft prospect Oscar Hemming to join Boston College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Hemming finally has a place to play hockey ahead of the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish-born forward will join Boston College for the second half of the season, the NCAA team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A 2026 NHL Draft prospect, Hemming was taken by the Kitchener Rangers in this summer&#8217;s CHL Import Draft, and had hoped to play for the OHL team.<\/p>\n<p>But Kiekko-Espoo, Hemming&#8217;s Finnish club, disputed his transfer, leaving the six-foot-four player without a place to play.<\/p>\n<p>The BCHL&#8217;s Sherwood Park Crusaders then <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SPcrusaders\/status\/1981481711704953251\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> they had signed Hemming in October. The BCHL does not fall under the Hockey Canada umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>But the Waterloo Region Record&#8217;s Josh Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrownRecord\/status\/1989041342018908496\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> the forward changed his plans after concerns about his IIHF eligibility arose.<\/p>\n<p>Hemming had four goals and two assists in five games for Finland at last summer&#8217;s Hlinka Gretzky Cup under-18 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Boston College (10-5-1) resumes play Sunday against reigning national champion Western Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Hemming finally has a place to play hockey ahead of the 2026 NHL Draft. The Finnish-born forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-371864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}