Yes, with COVID and all, but there are other things, out there. His EP page has links to all of these, suggesting he was one of the evaluated players at each (I don't have a Neutral Zone subscription)
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Neutral Zone had three scouts in Chicago for the annual CCM 68 tourney/showcase. This year for the first time, four Canadian teams were invited making it an eight-team event. These... Read more
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Neutral Zone was in attendance for the NAR HockeyTown 14U tournament Friday, September 29 - Sunday, October 1st. There were 16 teams from all over the country and games were... Read more
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Neutral Zone was in attendance for the Battle of the Borders 2009's showcase hosted by Honeybaked. Games were played at Suburban Ice Arena in Farmington Hills, MI Friday 11/17 -... Read more
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You can see the Florida Alliance 14U AAA schedule a bit here.
14U - Florida Alliance Youth Hockey
It would be incorrect to assume Daley is only playing against crappy Southeast kids that just learned how to skate for the first time. (As an aside, I can't imagine how ridiculously expensive it is to be traveling that much in a single season, elite minor level hockey is not for anyone but the wealthy...)
I am not really sure what your point here is. Just that "top American 09s" is a fairly useless exercise? Yeah I suppose we can agree on that (they are still young and their bodies are rapidly changing at that age that makes projecting into adult years difficult), but we're about to head into the aged 15 season, which is pivotal for determining who will make the USNDTP, get drafted into Juniors, etc. Those evaluations rarely start from nothing. Daley has likely seen a good chunk of all the top 09 Americans at least once the past couple years by this point and in-person evaluators can certainly have reactions to that.