St. Thomas adds Devils pick David Rozsival after USHL breakout

St. Thomas has added David Rozsival, the New Jersey Devils’ 2025 sixth-round pick, after the Czech forward broke through with 23 goals and 37 points in 57 USHL games for the Green Bay Gamblers. Listed by New Jersey as a 6-foot-1, 187-pound right wing, Rozsival arrives with the kind of junior résumé that suggests he is ready for a bigger role at the college level.

His Green Bay season was not built on one hot streak. Rozsival scored across the schedule, and one of his sharpest nights came in a 7-1 win over Chicago on Feb. 21, 2026, when he scored two goals. Landon Hafele also had a pair in that game, and Green Bay led 4-1 by the first intermission, a snapshot of a roster that spent much of the year overpowering opponents when its top scorers found room.

That production matters for St. Thomas because the Tommies needed it. When Rico Blasi announced 15 newcomers for the 2025-26 roster on June 26, 2025, he also noted that the program was returning 13 players from a 19-14-5 team that reached its first Mason Cup Final game, while still having to replace 58 goals and 144 points from the previous season. Rozsival gives that rebuild another NHL-drafted piece and adds a scorer who has already shown he can finish at USHL pace.

The fit also fits the moment in St. Thomas hockey. The Tommies are heading into their first season in the NCHC in October 2026, and adding a player who just posted 23 goals for the USHL’s reigning Organization of the Year gives the program another layer of credibility in the transfer and recruit market. Green Bay’s standing underlines the level of competition Rozsival came through, and the Gamblers’ recent success has become part of the player-development pitch attached to its alumni.

Rozsival’s path carries a family connection as well. New Jersey noted that he is the nephew of former NHL defenseman Michal Rozsíval, who played more than 900 NHL games and won two Stanley Cups with the Chicago Blackhawks. At Devils development camp on June 30, 2026, Rozsival said he enjoyed living in Green Bay and taking in a Packers game with his billet family, another reminder of how the USHL shapes players well beyond the box score before they move on to college and, eventually, the pro game.