USA WJC Final Roster

Pos.		Name	Ht	Wt	Birthdate	S/C	Hometown	2010-12 Team
G	1	Jack Campbell*^	6-2	182	1/9/92	L	Port Huron, Mich.	Soo Greyhounds (OHL)
G	35	John Gibson	6-3	200	7/14/93	L	Pittsburgh, Pa.	Kitchener Rangers (OHL)
G	29	Andy Iles*%	5-9	180	1/30/92	L	Ithaca, N.Y.	Cornell Univ. (ECACH)
D	5	Adam Clendening	5-11	190	10/26/92	R	Niagara Falls, N.Y.	Boston Univ. (HEA)
D	4	Derek Forbort*	6-5	200	3/4/92	L	Duluth, Minn.	Univ. of North Dakota (WCHA)
D	12	Kevin Gravel	6-4	190	3/6/92	L	Kingsford, Mich.	St. Cloud State Univ. (WCHA)
D	28	Stephen Johns	6-4	221	4/18/92	R	Wampum, Pa.	Univ. of Notre Dame (CCHA)
D	15	Jon Merrill*	6-3	209	2/3/92	L	Brighton, Mich.	Univ. of Michigan (CCHA)
D	24	Jarred Tinordi	6-7	215	2/20/92	L	Millersville, Md.	London Knights (OHL)
D	8	Jacob Trouba	6-2	191	2/26/94	R	Rochester, Mich.	U.S. NTDP U-18 (USHL)
F	21	Josh Archibald	5-10	170	10/6/92	R	Brainerd, Minn.	Univ. of Nebraska Omaha (WCHA)
F	14	Bill Arnold	6-0	215	5/13/92	R	Needham, Mass.	Boston College (HEA)
F	27	Nick Bjugstad*	6-4	204	7/17/92	R	Blaine, Minn.	Univ. of Minnesota (WCHA)
F	23	Connor Brickley	6-1	195	2/25/92	L	Everett, Mass.	Univ. of Vermont (HEA)
F	3	Charlie Coyle*	6-2	207	3/2/92	R	East Weymouth, Mass.	Boston Univ. (HEA)
F	2	Austin Czarnik	5-8	152	12/12/92	R	Washington, Mich.	Miami Univ. (CCHA)
F	10	Emerson Etem*	6-1	197	6/16/92	L	Long Beach, Calif.	Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL)
F	11	J.T. Miller	6-1	195	3/14/93	L	East Palestine, Ohio	Plymouth Whalers (OHL)
F	20	Kyle Rau	5-8	172	10/24/92	L	Eden Prairie, Minn.	Univ. of Minnesota (WCHA)
F	22	Brandon Saad	6-2	206	10/27/92	L	Gibsonia, Pa.	Saginaw Spirit (OHL)
F	19	T.J. Tynan	5-8	170	2/25/92	R	Orland Park, Ill.	Univ. of Notre Dame (CCHA)
F	26	Austin Watson	6-3	195	1/13/92	R	Ann Arbor, Mich.	Peterborough Petes (OHL)
F	16	Jason Zucker*^	5-11	180	1/16/92	L	Las Vegas, Nev.	Univ. of Denver (WCHA)

Here is the link to the team USA page. As I predicted Kyle RAU has made team USA.

Steve Ott is at it again

First off, Dallas Stars hack Steve Ott is a jerk and if he never played another game in the NHL, it wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit. Second, there was no reason for Steve Ott to engage or say anything to Peter Laviolette, so what he walking down the tunnel to the locker room. If you look at the video you will see that Laviolette isn't wearing a uniform there is no reason for Ott to engage the coach of the Flyers.

After the end of the first period on Wednesday night, the Versus telecast showed Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette having some words with Dallas Stars center Steve Ott in the entrance to the tunnel. After Ott appeared to have blocked the coach's path back to the dressing room, wanting the coach to allow the Stars to go off first, Lavy gave Ott a bit of a shove to get out of his way. [The700Level]

To top it all off, during the second period of tonight's game Steve Ott continued to the be the jerk that he is. Ott was running his big mouth and chirping the whole Philadelphia Flyers bench. I mean, no one should be shocked by this, it's his modus operandi. Then when the bill came due, Ott was challenged to a fight in the second period by the Flyers defenseman Marc-Andre Bourdon, and of course Ott turtled and wouldn't fight Bourdon.

Evander Kane runs over Al Montoya

This happened in last night's game. Winnipeg Jets forward Evander Kane ran over Islanders starting goalie Al Montoya, Montoya would leave the game with an apparent upper body injury. If I had to guess if there was a suspension coming to Evander Kane. I would say I have no clue. 

Deryk Engelland will get a call from Shanny

This is why I like the NHL; a player dishes out what I would classify as a dirty bush league check on an opposing player. His teammate who happens to be trailing the play takes issue with the questionable hit and challenges the offending player to a fight.

In this case Blackhawks heavy weight John Scott, reacted appropriately to the questionable hit; Scott came to his teammates aid and immediately challenged the perpetrator Deryk Engelland's to a Fight. per the hockey code, Engelland immediately paid for his dirty check on Markus Kruger by getting the tar beat out of him. 

After watching this display, the Pittsburgh Pengiuns have no room to complain about head shots, while most of us know that the league's top player in on the shelf  with a concussion, one of his teammates is out there hitting other players in the head with a dirty checks like this, which in my opinion is definitely a violation of rule 48.

Per NHL.COM  Pittsburgh's Deryk Engelland faces a supplemental discipline hearing with the NHL's Department of Player Safety on Thursday morning. In my opinion you can expect a 2-4 game suspension would be the proper call.

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UAH Fundraiser Webpage

The University of Alabama Huntsville is running a campaign to raise funds for the UAH Chargers and if you want to donate money to their program you can go to this webpage and click on this link.

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The NHL watching the Bruins because they play too rough

Gunning Sports

This is what hockey is starting to become; we now have the National Hockey League watching the Bruins because they play “too rough” for some. When the Boston Bruins are affective they are taking it to their opponents. The Bruins will beat you up on the ice and on the scoreboard as well.

Doug Flynn; NESN.COM --- Playing by the rules has been difficult for the Bruins this season, or at least playing by the rules as they have been applied to Boston's games. The Bruins may have avoided a few suspensions prior to Lucic's one-game ban on Monday, but they have certainly picked up more than their fair share of penalties this year. Boston has been called for 505 total penalty minutes, an average of 15.8 a game. Only Philadelphia (529, 16.5 a game) has spent more time in the sin bin.

Some of that has been accounted for by the Bruins' willingness to drop the gloves. They're tied for the league lead in major penalties with 25, with 23 of those being matching majors for fighting. But Boston also leads the NHL with eight misconduct penalties and is one of just three teams with multiple game misconducts so far this season, as referees have shown they have a very short leash for the Bruins' aggressive tactics.

The Bruins don't have any individual players in the top 10 for penalty minutes, but four Bruins are in the top 25 with Lucic 11th (63 PIMs), Marchand tied for 15th (58), Shawn Thornton 22nd (49) and Chara tied for 25th (47).

The Bruins haven't been officially warned to curb their style of play, but the numbers show there is definitely a crackdown on teams trying to playing an intimidating, physical style like that employed by the Bruins.

I had a feeling that Milan Lucic would be suspended for his hit on Zac Rinaldo, while the hit wasn’t as egregious as many that had gone unpunished this season, Brendan Shanahan NHL Senior Vice President Player Safety had to suspend him to placate the black helicopter fans that think the NHL is in bed with the Boston Bruins.

Brad Marchand has a nose for the net

This is a perfect example of what happens when your team plays a solid, relentless fore check in the offensive zone, the Boston Bruins are a very good team on the fore check in the offensive zone. Nice goal by Bruins forward Brad Marchand but you can't discount the effort from Tyler Seguin and Patrice Bergeron

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