Recent Hobey Baker Award winners Johnny Gaudreau (BC) and Jack Eichel (BU) are among the Hockey East players who start the season in the NHL.

WAKEFIELD, Mass. – A record 69 alumni of Hockey East schools will start the 2016-2017 season on National Hockey League rosters, 10 more players than the previous record of 59 that began the 2015-16 season on NHL teams, and the most of any college hockey conference this year. A full listing of players, schools and teams is below.

Boston College boasts the highest total of NHL alumni of any NCAA school, with 17 former Eagles earning an NHL roster spot, including 2014 Hobey Baker Award winner and 2015 Calder Trophy finalist Johnny Gaudreau (Carneys Point, N.J.). Boston University developed nine players tabbed to NHL squads, including 2015 Hobey Baker Award winner Jack Eichel (North Chelmsford, Mass.). Maine also produced nine players, while Notre Dame sends eight, UMass Lowell and Northeastern each boast five players and Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Providence and Vermont all have four alumni skating in the NHL to begin the year.

Seven players that skated in the 2015-16 Hockey East season were named to an NHL club as Boston College products Zach Sanford (Auburn, N.H./Washington), Steven Santini (Mahopac, N.Y./New Jersey) and Miles Wood (Manchester, Mass./New Jersey), former BU netminder Sean Maguire (Powell River, B.C./Pittsburgh), former Maine defenseman Dan Renouf (Pickering, Ont./Detroit), former Northeastern blueliner Matt Benning (St. Albert, Alta./Edmonton), and former Friar forward Brandon Tanev (Toronto, Ont./Winnipeg) will begin the year at hockey's top level. Hockey East alumni are featured on 27 of 30 NHL teams and nine carry at least three Hockey East alumni: Boston, Carolina, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, New Jersey, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh, and Washington.