The biggest farce is who picks the teams. To have these fools, and I repeat, FOOLS from US hockey do the selection is a joke
To bring in 3 BC d and most of the rest from natl team makes me sick. They do it to cover their a ss and validate their existance.
Torey Krug should have been there and should have been the captain. Ramage is all political and it was laughable to watch him knuckle puck up the middle 50 times a game. WHEN YOU HAVE POSSESION, KEEP IT AND MAKE A PLAY
Torey Krug has a better resume than anyone from their D corps. How many times did we have to watch Samuelson at a camp look like a cone to decide he couldnt be on the team.
Michigan State beat Michigan last night 4-3, Torey Krug had a hat trick, more goals than Samuelson and Dumoulin combined this year in 1 game. Both suck compared to him but he couldnt even get a chance to skate at one of the camps?
Why? Because usa hockey and the natl program is corrupt and run by scared people, scared to lose their jobs so they drive the Ramages etc down our throats.
Let the same guys who pick olympic team pick the kids, put Blais, Eaves, Jackson etc types on the bench and stay out of the way.
Surprised Clendenning didnt make it? He has sucked beyond belief theis year and looked like a cone at the camps. He should never have been part of the discussion. The olympic team has no problem leaving the right kids home and taking the best guys to round out the team. USA's D was scared of Canada and played like a flock of deer in the headlights. Krug was better than all of them, including Faulk, who does look good overhandling the puck and pretending he is quick but how many times did you see his number gliding in towards the goalie after another goal by the opposing team?
Torey Krug
2 time national champion with 90 Detroit Honeybake while playing up a year
won Silversticks
Won the Quebec tournament
Won national championship while playing at own age with Belle Tire
Won six Michigan state championships
Went to Indiana Ice/USHL as a 17 year old. Played there 1 year and did as follows
Team won the league championship. he had 47 points, next closest D was 2 + years older with 28 points. This put him 2nd in league for all dman as a 17 year old and broke Indiana's all time dman scoring record. In playoffs had 7 points and led team with a plus 11. Member of the USHL All-Rookie Team
Moved on to Michigan State as an 18 year old freshmen
As a freshmen, led all D in scoring with 21 points as well as 80 blocked shots. and named to all CCHA rookie team.
Was named the CCM CCHA Rookie of the Month for December, and earned the HCA National Rookie of the Month honors for December as well
Named the CCM CCHA Rookie of the Month for January, the second straight month he earned the honor .
Blocked a season-high nine shots in the CCHA quarterfinals against Michigan (3/12-13), with an assist in each game ... Finished the season on a four-game point-scoring streak, the longest active streak on the team.
Graduated with a 4.02 grade-point average from Cathedral High School in Indianapolis
East Lansing, Mich. - Michigan State sophomore captain Torey Krug has been named to the CCHA Preseason All-Conference Team, as announced today by the CCHA office.
Krug received the third-most votes of any blueliner in the conference, garnering three first-place votes and 30 points. An All-Rookie team selection a season ago, Krug had a 3-18-21 scoring line while playing approximately 24 minutes per game as a freshman. Krug was voted the captain of the Spartans by his teammates during summer workouts.
Aug. 31, 2010
East Lansing, Mich. - -- Michigan State hockey coach Rick Comley has announced that sophomore Torey Krug (Livonia, Mich.) will captain the Spartans in the upcoming season, with seniors Dustin Gazley (Novi, Mich.) and junior Trevor Nill (Novi, Mich.) serving as alternate captains.
Krug is only the second player in Michigan State history to wear a captain's "C" on his sweater as a sophomore. Detroit native Don McSween was a captain in the 1984-85 season, sharing the captaincy with Kelly Miller and Dan McFall. Krug becomes the only solo sophomore captain in program history.
"Torey has established himself as a leader in our locker room, and it's a testament to him that his teammates voted him to be their captain," said head coach Rick Comley, who is embarking on his ninth season behind the bench at Michigan State. "We saw those leadership qualities in him as we recruited him, and we knew that he would bring that to our program. Dustin Gazley and Trevor Nill are two hard-working players who expect the best of themselves and the others around them, and they are great leaders by example. It's their conduct, effort and initiative that has established them as leaders among their teammates, and the vote was very indicative of their stature in our locker room."
This year with Michigan State, he is second on the team in scoring with 18 points in 17 games, 3 times more than the next dman on the team.
Samuelson is 3rd on his team for d scoring and 4th in plus minus on D. Has been very sloppy, been to the WJC camp 3 times now, with the first 2 being the first rd cut group. has done zero this year on the ice to be there again.
I know there are many great canidates but none more so deserving, if so please provide info. USA hockey on purpose makes sure they only have Natl kids and other chosen ones there.
He at least deserved the chance to skate with the group and if got cut, so be it. Cant do that though, we need to see samuelson for the 5th or 6th time to realize that if his name was smith, he would still be playing 5th D for PC Changs team. Canada laughed when they saw our D corp and political picks
College Hockey:
Krug’s hat trick lifts Spartans past Wolverines in OT
Read more:
http://www.uscho.com/recaps/2011/01...spartans-past-wolverines-in-ot/#ixzz1ASIg46Qv
