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How is a player a “Rampage”?  And “Go Rampage?”  Messed up, but best of luck to Andrew Orpik, one of my favorite Eagles to shoot over the last four years.

A little awkward after being so happy that Ferriero escaped the Phoenix organization, but I’m sure Orpik will shine with the Rampage :-). 

Many more images available.

Woo hoo – two of the Boston College Eagles taking part in the camp were named to the team – Molly Schaus in goal and Kelli Stack up front.  Unfortunately Maggie Taverna, Meghan Fardelmann and Allie Thunstrom were not :-(.    Personally I’d dump the 3 skaters I’ve never shot and put those three Eagles in their place so I’d have a complete gallery of the team below, less 1 goalie, instead of missing 4 players.

There will be two more players cut before the 2010 Olympics, but for now the team is made up of:

• 29 – Brianne McLauglin, Robert Morris (not pictured)
• 1 – Molly Schaus, Boston College
• 31 – Jessie Vetter, University of Wisconsin
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• 22 – Kacey Bellamy, University of New Hampshire
• 8 – Caitlin Cahow (Harvard)
• 11 – Lisa Chesson (Ohio State – not pictured)
• 6 – Rachael Drazan, University of Minnesota
• 9 – Molly Engstrom (University of Wisconsin)
• 4 – Angela Ruggiero (Harvard)
• 23 – Kerry Weiland (University of Wisconsin)
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• 13 – Julie Chu (Harvard)
• 20 – Natalie Darwitz (University of Minnesota)
• 10 – Meghan Duggan, University of Wisconsin
• 15 – Angie Keseley, University of Wisconsin
• 21 - Hilary Knight, University of Wisconsin
• 17 – Jocelyn Lamoureux, University of Minnesota last season, transferring to North Dakota
• 7 – Monique Lamoureux, same school situation as sister above (not pictured)
• 2 – Erika Lawler, University of Wisconsin
• 19 – Gigi Marvin, University of Minnesota
• 12 – Jenny Potter (Duluth)
• 16 – Kelli Stack, Boston College
• 5 – Karen Thatcher (Brown/Providence)
• 3 – Jinelle Zaugg-Siergiej (Wisconsin – not pictured)

Benn Ferriero has signed with the San Jose Sharks (no article there yet, but finally found it on TSN’s tracker after seeing it on fan blogs yesterday) and gotten away from the Phoenix Coyotes mess of an organization that drafted him.  Ferriero joins Boston College Eagles teammate and fellow 2008 National Champion (got to type that whenever an excuse arises)  Nick Petrecki who signed with San Jose back in the spring after his sophomore season.

If the 99 images above aren’t enough there are many many more available via the Search box – just Benn or Benn and Nick.

You are in the wrong place!  While this isn’t one of those – here’s a big photo, say ooh, say aah, but you aren’t getting anything more today – kind of blogs (no, not because I can’t dig out photos that would cause you to oooh and aaah although to be honest new entries would be infrequent), it is still image-focused (you can read that “still” either way).

But if you need to read and have a great sense of humor (aka one that matches mine), you should really visit Mimi Smartypants - I’ve been reading her for years and years (not from the exact beginning, but I immediately read the year or so of archived posts way back when I first visited).  Posting is irregular which probably makes it perfect for RSS reading whatever that is, but I like the happy surprise of finding a new post.  Current one isn’t really one I’d point to normally to get someone hooked, but this bit IS Mimi Smartypants:  “…I have a fever (and not any of the good kinds [Pac-Man, disco]) …”  Disco Fever!  Love it.

And now I’ve posted for the day :-).  (I don’t know “Mimi” or Nora or the cats or the man and there isn’t even any hockey aside from occasional, pretty rare mentions of the Blackhawks as she is in Chicago.)

This was my fifth or sixth year to shoot USA Hockey’s Under 20 evaluation camp and while I was disappointed in the format change that saw Russia [no offense to the Russian team or staff] replace Sweden and Finland and thus a reduction in the number of games and participants, I did like one addition the US staff made. No, not Dean Blais as head coach – although he seemed very nice and his drill instructions were short and sweet [I like tv timeouts during games, but Ron Rolston's drill instructions provided time to take solo shots of every player, upload and edit them on computer and then take a nap on the bench before the drill would actually be run :-)] – but Mac Moore as an assistant to the Equipment Managers.

Mac is the 13-year-old brother of camp participant and Columbus Blue Jackets prospect John Moore. Super hard worker and if the eventual US team has his work ethic, they’ve got to beat Canada this year (please!!). Mac’s only fault was his hatred of me taking his picture which I can completely understand though it didn’t stop me from stalking him one afternoon until I got a few shots where his face was visible. I look forward to shooting Mac as a camp participant in a few years.

Note:  Still working on editing work from Lake Placid; no single day is complete, but have 750+ images uploaded and available if you need a shot now (search on +”player name” + “2009 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp” to limit results to the Camp).