2009 World Juniors in Ottawa

Name your WJC Rosters

Sweden :)

Pääjärvi-Svensson-Backlund-Moller
Tedenby-Joakim andersson-Josefsson
Lasu-Ullstrom-Henrik eriksson
Anton gustavsson-Lander-Marcus johansson
Enström

Hedman-Karlsson
Rundblad-Torp
Sebastian erixon-Westin
Urbom-Mylläri

Markstrom
Ridderwall

Sweden :)

Pääjärvi-Svensson-Backlund-Moller
Tedenby-Joakim andersson-Josefsson
Lasu-Ullstrom-Henrik eriksson
Anton gustavsson-Lander-Marcus johansson
Enström

Hedman-Karlsson
Rundblad-Torp
Sebastian erixon-Westin
Urbom-Mylläri

Markstrom
Ridderwallsounds great but we´ll see how they do!

Sweden :)

Pääjärvi-Svensson-Backlund-Moller
Tedenby-Joakim andersson-Josefsson
Lasu-Ullstrom-Henrik eriksson
Anton gustavsson-Lander-Marcus johansson
Enström

Hedman-Karlsson
Rundblad-Torp
Sebastian erixon-Westin
Urbom-Mylläri

Markstrom
Ridderwall

that is seriously a killer lineup.

Sweden :)

Pääjärvi-Svensson-Backlund-Moller
Tedenby-Joakim andersson-Josefsson
Lasu-Ullstrom-Henrik eriksson
Anton gustavsson-Lander-Marcus johansson
Enström

Hedman-Karlsson
Rundblad-Torp
Sebastian erixon-Westin
Urbom-Mylläri

Markstrom
Ridderwall


GRRRRREAT line up. But I want to see MSP and Tedenby play together.

United States:

Thomas McCollum
Mike Lee

Defense:

McDonagh/Cole
Blum/Carlson
Petrecki/Shattenkirk
Fairchild

Forwards:

vanRiemsdyk-Wilson-Schroeder
Long-Wahl-Bowman
Palushaj-Tangradi-Palmieri
O'Brien-Rust-McCrae
Morin

My Finland: (age order)

Metsola
Säteri

Jyrkkiö
Järvinen
Melart
Hyvönen
Niemi (90)
Vittasmäki (90)
Kivistö (91)

Sallinen
Lucenius
Palonen
Pöysti
Lähde
Roppo
Helenius (90)
Jormakka (90)
Hartikainen (90)
Blomqvist (90)
Nättinen (91)
Haula (91)
Granlund (92)

Very hard to get success because the 89 class is quite poor and there should be lots of underagers in the team. There could be also many players from North American series. I know I might be hanged by some of you but I would leave Toni Rajala out of the team. He just hasn't been as good as earlier. Center is not very deep but the wing are quite talented.

My Finland: (age order)
Haula (91)

I know I might be hanged by some of you but I would leave Toni Rajala out of the team. He just hasn't been as good as earlier.

Yeah, Haula in team but no Rajala, why I'm not surprised this is posted by Ässät-fan...:laugh:

I can't wait to see Taylor Hall playing for Canada.

United States:

Thomas McCollum
Mike Lee

Defense:

McDonagh/Cole
Blum/Carlson
Petrecki/Shattenkirk
Fairchild

Forwards:

vanRiemsdyk-Wilson-Schroeder
Long-Wahl-Bowman
Palushaj-Tangradi-Palmieri
O'Brien-Rust-McCrae
Morin

Excellent picks Rabid.....I hope USA Hockey brass are as wise as you.

Excellent picks Rabid.....I hope USA Hockey brass are as wise as you.

McRae leads the London Knights in scoring now with 12 g, 16 asst's = 28 pts in 20 games. Plus 10. Would look good on the USA Roster.

Is the World Juniors going to be on NHL Network?

Name your WJC Rosters

OK. My prediction, Team Canada is going to look like:

Goalies

Chet Pickard - starter
Dustin Tokarski - backup


Defense

P.K.Subban-Alex Pietrangelo
Thomas Hickey-Kevin Marshall
Mike Del Zotto-Colten Teubert
Mark Katic

Forwards

John Tavares-Cody Hodgson-Jordan Eberle
Jamie Benn-Maxime Sauve-Zach Boychuk
Tyler Ennis-Riley Nash-Nicolas Deschamps
Dana Tyrell-Logan Couture-Greg Nemisz
Taylor Hall

doesn't canada's selection camp roster come out today?

According to this article, the U.S. WJC Team is to be announced today (on Versus?): http://news.therecord.com/Sports/article/452079

Rabid, I just read an article earlier today that said the USA team will be announced on Wed. on NHL Network. I don't recall where, but if I do I will post it here.


edit update: here it is, it was in Schlossman's Area Voices blog

"At noon Wednesday, USA Hockey will announce this winter's World Junior Championship squad. It will be televised on the NHL Network and broadcast on XM 204"

link (http://www.areavoices.com/undhockey/?blog=37395)

Rabid, I just read an article earlier today that said the USA team will be announced on Wed. on NHL Network. I don't recall where, but if I do I will post it here.


edit update: here it is, it was in Schlossman's Area Voices blog

"At noon Wednesday, USA Hockey will announce this winter's World Junior Championship squad. It will be televised on the NHL Network and broadcast on XM 204"

link (http://www.areavoices.com/undhockey/?blog=37395)

Which means we're getting ever closer to this tourney! Woo! :handclap:

We'll see how close Rabid is to picking the team, any last second changes Rabid?

Preliminary roster for Slovakia has been released today:
Goalies: Zdenko Kotvan, Matúš Andreanin (both HK Orange 20 Púchov), Marek Čiliak (Kometa Brno/ČR), Jaroslav Janus (Erie Otters/Kan.)
D-men: Martin Štajnoch, Radek Deyl, Ján Brejčák, Marek Ďaloga, Matúš Vizváry, Marek Pekar, Filip Košecký (all HK Orange 20 Púchov), Juraj Valach (HKm Zvolen), Michal Kozák (HC Košice), Michal Šiška (Kamloops Blazer/Kan.).
Forwards: Marek Metrel, Ondrej Rusnák, Adam Bezák, Jozef Molnár, Radoslav Tybor, Matej Mišura, Tomáš Vyletelka, Martin Uhnák, Marek Hrivík Peter Kopecký, Maroš Grošaft (all HK Orange 20 Púchov), Tomáš Tatar (HKm Zvolen), Adam Lapšanský (HK Aquacity ŠKP Poprad), Milan Kytnár (Saskatoon Blades/Kan.), Richard Pánik (HC Třinec/ČR), Marek Viedenský (Prince George Cougars/Kan.).

Which means we're getting ever closer to this tourney! Woo! :handclap:

We'll see how close Rabid is to picking the team, any last second changes Rabid?

No real changes, although I wouldn't be surprised if Warsofsky is named as one of the d-men.

in related news,

Yeah!

"In each of the next three IIHF World Junior Championships, the NHL Network will provide live television coverage of all U.S. games and all games of the medal round - including all quarterfinal and semifinal games, the bronze-medal game and the gold-medal game."

link (http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=395622)

McCollum and Unice to be the goaltenders for the U.S: http://blog.mlive.com/snapshots/2008/12/mccollum_rangers_unice_to_back.html

I like that they didn't give Smith a free pass as a returnee. Both keepers are playing very well *now* and that's key.

Two solid tenders. Both are more than capable of taking the number 1 spot.

Goaltending should not be an issue for the U.S. this year.

more "sort of" news before the official roster is released tomorrow: "...No Jeremy Morin or Cam Fowler on the Yanks either"

http://therecord.blogs.com/rangers_rap/2008/12/the-us-goalies-will-be-.html

more "sort of" news before the official roster is released tomorrow: "...No Jeremy Morin or Cam Fowler on the Yanks either"

http://therecord.blogs.com/rangers_rap/2008/12/the-us-goalies-will-be-.html

Didn't expect Fowler with the depth of the U.S. defense, but thought Morin would make it as the 13th forward with the ability to move up if he played well.

It may have been, but I don't recall seeing this posted: "Team Canada is announcing their world junior team tryout roster Wednesday" at 12:15pm

link (http://communities.canada.com/theprovince/blogs/dubhub/archive/2008/12/02/tsn-to-cover-world-junior-team-tryout-announcement.aspx)

if our Goalkeeping holds up we got a chance to medal, IMHO

if our Goalkeeping holds up we got a chance to medal, IMHO

no doubt about it!

no doubt about it!

who's the starter? Gayduchenko?