Mr Kanadensisk
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- May 13, 2005
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I thought all these preliminary rosters were supposed to be out on Monday, has anyone found the US or Finish rosters?
Rabid Ranger said:Forwards (x40):
Modano, Guerin, Conroy, Brown, Roenick, Kesler, Higgins, Weight, Tkachuk, Cullen, Cole, Adams, McEachern, Gomez, Parise, Langenbrunner, Gionta, Parrish, York, Blake, Halpern, Legwand, Hall, Arnason, Smolinski, Malone, LeClair, Konowalchuk, Rolston, Amonte, Park, Marchant, Fritsche, Knuble, Drury, Connolly, Grier, Dimitrakos, Reasoner, Holik
Rabid Ranger said:It shouldn't be too hard to make up a list for the U.S. Here's mine:
Forwards (x40):
Modano, Guerin, Conroy, Brown, Roenick, Kesler, Higgins, Weight, Tkachuk, Cullen, Cole, Adams, McEachern, Gomez, Parise, Langenbrunner, Gionta, Parrish, York, Blake, Halpern, Legwand, Hall, Arnason, Smolinski, Malone, LeClair, Konowalchuk, Rolston, Amonte, Park, Marchant, Fritsche, Knuble, Drury, Connolly, Grier, Dimitrakos, Reasoner, Holik
Defense (x30):
Mara, Tanabe, Ballard, Miller, Gleason, Corvo, Carney, Weinrich, Roach, Chelios, Schneider, Suter, Eaton, Leetch, Gill, Komisarek, Hedican, Hill, Poti, Orpik, Klee, Leopold, Martin, Rafalski, Pothier, Liles, Preissing, Fahey, Hatcher, Fitzpatrick.
Goaltenders (x10):
Miller, DiPietro, Snow, Conklin, Esche, Grahame, Boucher, Johnson, Dunham, Adam Berkhoel.
I understand this isn't a great looking list, especially when compared to the likes of Canada, but a competitive team can and will be assembled.
CDeeps said:Holik lobbied to play for the 2004 US World Cup team but was not selected by GM Larry Pleau. He was actually pretty ticked off about it and complained about the politics involved in USA Hockey.
The problem here is I don't think Holik will be eligible to play for the USA in Turin. My understanding is, according to IIHF rules, a hockey player is only allowed to represent one country and Holik has already played for the Czech Rep. The World Cup wasn't an IIHF sanctioned event, but organized by the NHL. I believe this is the reason.
CDeeps said:Holik lobbied to play for the 2004 US World Cup team but was not selected by GM Larry Pleau. He was actually pretty ticked off about it and complained about the politics involved in USA Hockey.
The problem here is I don't think Holik will be eligible to play for the USA in Turin. My understanding is, according to IIHF rules, a hockey player is only allowed to represent one country and Holik has already played for the Czech Rep. The World Cup wasn't an IIHF sanctioned event, but organized by the NHL. I believe this is the reason.
Anway, as for the USA roster - I can't picture Keith Tkachuk being named to this roster. By showing up to camp fat and then suffering an injury "unrelated" to his obesity, he can't being winning over Don Waddell. IMO, only Weight, Modano, Guerin, and Leetch will be be representing the US from the older generation of players. And maybe Aaron Miller.
TORRUS said:But Nabokov played for Kazakhstan in the IIHF WJC and is now eligible for team Russia. Ahhh, those are details which I'm not familiar with. I'll try to find it somewhere in the IIHF rulebook...
sk84fun_dc said:yup, there aren't too many choices once you make a list that long. I imgaine your list is a little lengthier than the list the US submitted since the AJC said about 75, probably 1 or 2 goalies and forwards a piece left off the list.
I believe Bryan Berard is the only player that was invited to the Sept. orientation camp not on your list.
roshiajin said:Holik is Canadian, isn't he?
roshiajin said:Holik is Canadian, isn't he?
Sotnos said:Based on what I've read, it seems like John Grahame isn't even on the preliminary list, since he wasn't invited to the camp in the summer, and I hope he makes USA Hockey very sorry for the oversight.
Sotnos said:The article on TSN and elsewhere states that the only change from the camp invitees is they added some veterans (Chelios, etc). Grahame wasn't invited to camp, and he's not one of the usual suspects, therefore it sounds to me like he's not on the list.
That's not what I got from their comments at all. To me "Our list was all the guys that came to our camp plus we added a few veteran guys. We added guys like (Chris) Chelios, (Mathieu) Schneider, (Jeremy) Roenick, those types of veterans" is fairly specific. Doesn't sound to me that they put 60+ names on there.Rabid Ranger said:That might be, although I think Waddell was being purposefully vague. If the U.S. list has between 60-70 names on it (which I think it does), you can bet Grahame's name is on the list, especially since there aren't that many solid American goaltenders in the league right now.