BOSTON — Jon Goyens began his amateur coaching career when he was 15 years old, and has spent the past decade in charge of a Midget AAA program in Montreal. The list of future NHL players he has helped develop includes Jonathan Drouin, Alex Killorn, Anthony Duclair and Michael Matheson.



One player who could join Goyens’ growing collection of alumni from the Lac-St. Louis Lions is Devils prospect Jeremy Davies, who has emerged as one of the top players in college hockey this season. In a career that has spanned a quarter of a century, Goyens has spent countless hours sitting in rinks and observing young players skating around without much of a clue what they’re doing.



The first time Goyens watched Davies play, when he was 13 years old, was a slightly different experience.



“He just happened to be playing for a school that sometimes played their home games in our rink. I used to be a substitute teacher at that school, and a buddy of...