"Henry is a very good two-way defenseman with high character and leadership skills," said Grier. "He was named captain for Harvard this year and has a solid pedigree as a player, earning All-American honors last season after helping guide Harvard to an ECAC Championship."
Thrun, currently a senior at Harvard University (ECAC), has posted 26 points (five goals, 21 assists), a plus-16 rating and 14 penalty minutes in 28 games. Thrun was named ECAC Defender of the Month in Nov. 2022, after picking up nine points (three goals, six assists) during the month.
The left-shot blueliner ranks fourth on the Crimson in points and second in assists, and amongst all ECAC players, he ranks T-6th in assists and fifth in assists/game with 0.75. Amongst all NCAA defensemen, he ranks ninth in points-per-game.
Last season, Thrun was named a Second Team AHCA All-American, recording 32 points (seven goals and a team-high 25 assists) to go along with a plus-15 rating in 35 games. He finished eighth among all NCAA defensemen and tops among ECAC Hockey blueliners in scoring (.91 points per game) and earned First Team All-Ivy and Second Team All-ECAC Hockey honors.
In his rookie season of 2019-20, he was one of the top scoring rookie defensemen in all of college hockey, recording 21 points (three goals, 18 assists) in 31 games (6th, NCAA among first year blueliners) and he led Harvard with a plus-17 rating. He was named to the ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team and was an ECAC Hockey Best Defensive Defenseman finalist.
Thrun was a member of USA Hockey's gold medal-winning 2021 World Junior Championships team, notching one assist and a plus-six rating in seven games.
Prior to attending Harvard, the six-foot-two, 195-pound native of Southborough, Mass, played also extensively with USA Hockey, He was a member of the US NTDP U-18 Team during the 2018-19 season, posting 37 points (eight goals, 29 assists) in 64 games and won a bronze medal with the U.S. U18 team at the IIHF World U18 Championships in 2019. Additionally, he was selected for the 2018 All-American Prospects Game, won a gold medal at the 2017 U17 World Hockey Challenge, and was a 2018 Five Nations Champion and 2017 Four Nations Champion.
Thrun was originally selected by Anaheim 2019 NHL Draft (fourth round, 101st overall).
