At the age of 16, he was a talented first baseman who played on his high school varsity team as a freshman. Still, when Rogowski was drafted into the OHL, he had to make a quick decision on whether he was going to stick with baseball or commit his later teenage years to trying to pursue a hockey career.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
That decision to chase the dream of being drafted in the NHL clearly paid off.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another tough decision came to Rogowski in the past few months. He is committed to attending the powerhouse Michigan State Spartans in the NCAA but has decided to return to the OHL for a third season of Major Junior hockey before moving on to the NCAA for the 2027-28 season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because he is still new(ish) to hockey, he is looking to get more reps in a bigger role before heading up to challenge himself at a higher level for the 2027-28 season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI could go to [Michigan] State and maybe be a\u00a0third or fourth line\u00a0guy, and sure, I would get stronger, but I don\u2019t think I would get the puck touches I need,\u201d said Rogowski.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a newer hockey player, I think I can\u00a0benefit\u00a0from a playoff run, hopefully with 80+ games.\u00a0I think\u00a0the 80\u00a0or more games\u00a0are\u00a0going to give me more growth than\u00a0the 30\u00a0games\u00a0with\u00a0fewer minutes. So, the way I see it, I can play 30 games 10 minutes a night, or I can play 80\u00a0games at\u00a020 minutes a night.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0just more puck touches and more game reps. I think\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0just a better opportunity for me to grow my game.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFinding that scoring touch is going to be a big part for me this\u00a0year and\u00a0finding that consistency night in and night out. I want to be a physically dominant player who is also a threat in the offensive zone in every game,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Being that player who can be a threat in the offensive zone in every game\u00a0puts\u00a0Rogowski in more of a\u00a0top-six\u00a0type of player\u00a0mould. That is exactly what he is trying to\u00a0accomplish\u00a0this coming season and wants it to be how he is known going forward.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people think I am just a bottom-six guy, and I think there\u2019s a lot more there,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s\u00a0a lot of offensive poise that is still developing, and sure, right now maybe it looks like that, but hopefully at the end of this year there\u2019s\u00a0top-six\u00a0potential that everyone can see. I think\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0just a lot more there offensively.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rogowski finished the 2025-26 season third in scoring for the Oshawa Generals. He scored 15 goals and added 27 assists for 42 points in 46 games played (0.91 PTS\/GP). In his sophomore OHL season, he nearly doubled the 23 points he put up in his first year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now, Rogowski is currently playing for USA\u2019s Team Blue at the World Junior Summer Showcase\u00a0(WJSS). He is going into the camp with an underdog mentality. He wants to make a case to be a player the USA will select for the World Junior Championships in one of the next two tournaments.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the USA Team Blue roster,\u00a0Rogowski scored\u00a0two goals so far through\u00a0the\u00a0WJSS.\u00a0He gave his\u00a0group a 3-0 lead\u00a0en\u00a0route to their 6-1 victory over Sweden, and he\u00a0scored\u00a0against Finland helping USA Blue to a 5-1 win.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Team USA will use a centralized roster for the rest of the tournament, with their\u00a0next matchup against Finland on Wednesday, July 29th at 12:00 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the age of 16, he was a talented first baseman who played on his high school varsity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-834427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834427","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=834427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}