Jordan Charron, who was previously committed to St. Lawrence, will now attend UMass Amherst.
It's the season of NCAA commitments, and Pittsburgh Penguins prospect and Soo Greyhounds forward Jordan Charron is next on the list of players who are announcing the next step in their hockey journey.
The 18-year-old will head to the University of Massachusetts Amherst at the end of his junior career, flipping his prior commitment from St. Lawrence University.
While he was initially expected to join St. Lawrence for the 2026-27 season, it's unclear whether he'll join UMass this fall or play out his age 19 season in Sault Ste. Marie before joining the Minutemen for 2027-28.
Jordan Charron with the Soo Greyhounds. (Photo: Terry Wilson/OHL Images)Charron had 47 (25+22) points in 66 games with the Greyhounds last season, his second in the league after being made a sixth-round pick in the 2023 OHL draft.
A tenacious, hard forechecking winger, Pittsburgh saw enough of the Ayr native to select him in the fifth round of the 2025 NHL draft, and it surely helps that he plays for Pens GM Kyle Dubas' alma matter in the Soo.
Recently, Charron joined the AHL's Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on an amateur tryout agreement following the Greyounds' playoffs ending, but did not get into a game, which kept his NCAA eligibility clean.
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