Cole Eiserman is headed to the pros. On Wednesday, Eiserman left Boston University to sign with the NHL's New York Islanders, who drafted him 20th overall in 2024. He signed an amateur tryout contract (ATO) with the team's AHL affiliate, the Bridgeport Islanders. From Newburyport, Mass., Eiserman has been at BU for the past two...
Cole Eiserman is headed to the pros.
On Wednesday, Eiserman left Boston University to sign with the NHL's New York Islanders, who drafted him 20th overall in 2024. He signed an amateur tryout contract (ATO) with the team's AHL affiliate, the Bridgeport Islanders.
From Newburyport, Mass., Eiserman has been at BU for the past two seasons.
He led BU and all college hockey rookies with 25 goals last winter, guiding the Terriers to the national championship game. He finished his freshman year with 36 points in 39 games.
His sophomore year was a bit more difficult. Eiserman scored 18 times and finished with 28 points in 32 games for a BU squad that struggled.
He has always been known as a pure goal-scorer at left wing. Nothing shows that more than him being the all-time leader in U.S. National Team Development Program goals with 127. He spent 2022-24 in Plymouth, Mich.
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For his 14U and 15O seasons, he played for Shattuck-St. Mary's. After scoring 97 goals and posting 154 points with the 14Us in 2020-21, he played up with the 18U team in 2021-22, tallying 56 goals and 86 points in 53 games.
He grew up playing for the Middlesex Islanders and is one of the best local prospects of the last decade.
