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From Ken Daneyko to Mike Brennan, my favorite players are often defensemen, the more D-oriented the better. It didn’t feel right to highlight the high scorers in the earlier post on completing the U20 camp galleries, especially since the US D shut out the Russians in one game and held them to only 1 goal in two others (the Russians scored 6 in Friday’s game, but that’s just being a polite host, right?). So here are the 10 defensemen who took part in the full camp. Posted previously – Cam Fowler and John Moore.

John Carlson (Washington Capitals):

Adam Comrie (Guelph Storm/Florida Panthers):

Matt Donovan (University of Denver/New York Islanders):

Jake Gardiner (University of Wisconsin/Anaheim Ducks):

Nick Leddy (University of Minnesota/Minnesota Wild):

Aaron Ness (University of Minnesota/New York Islanders):

David Warsofsky (Boston University/St. Louis Blues):

Chris Wideman (Miami University/Ottawa Senators):

Boston College had four incoming freshmen taking part in the US camp. Philip Samuelsson (previous gallery)  and Patrick Wey took part in the opening three day – US-only portion of camp:

Chris Kreider and

Kenny Ryan survived the cut of 13 players to take part in the full camp.  BTW – if you are using the search function to look for particular images of the player Kenny Ryan add his birthdate (19910710) to the search as you’ll get many more images of Kenny Ryan the former BC student manager if you don’t.  Also I don’t know Boston politicians yet so this isn’t a personal endorsement (I’m in Chelsea), but manager Kenny Ryan would like you to vote for Tom Menino in the Boston mayoral election (see the 10 second mark of this news video).

Over 3500 images have been uploaded from the 7 days I spent at the U20 camp - 2009 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp images.

The top two scorers for the USA were Jordan Schroeder with 5g, 9a in 6 games:
 

and Danny Kristo with 7g, 5a in 6 games.:

For the Russians, the leading scorer was Vladimir Tarasenko (previous gallery) with 2g, 2a in 4 games followed by Sergey Ostapchuk with 2g, 1a in 4 games:

 In the mood for more pictures?  Some links:

• Adirondack Daily Enterprise - 8/17  (note the player identified as Czarnik is really Jordan Schroeder and the player identified as AJ Jenks is Kyle Palmieri – USA Hockey VERY ANNOYINGLY changed some numbers every freaking day, their photographer likely used the wrong day’s roster)
• Adirondack Daily Enterprise – 8/13
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/11 practice (Note links to earlier days were listed here)
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/11 game
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/12 game
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/14 practice
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/14 game
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/15
• Bruce Bennett – Getty Images - can’t provide direct link, but if you search on Bruce Bennett and choose Editorial and date range 8/14/2009-8/15/2009, he has 211 images from the camp
• Nancie Battaglia took the camp head shots & covered the 8/14 game, but I’m not sure where they are online and there were atleast a couple of others shooting during camp – if you have images online and would like me to link to them here – just email me.

Have my first two days at the Camp now fully online (I skipped day 1 so this is days 2 and 3 which involved the full US roster/none of Team Russia) -

Some samples from August 8 below – click here for the full gallery

Some samples from August 9 below – click here for the full gallery

Images are available for all of the camp participants:

• Goalies:  Jack Campbell, Connor Knapp (unfortunately injured on day 1 so the action images are strictly from practice), Mike Lee, Brandon Maxwell
• Defensemen:  John Carlson, Adam Comrie, Matt Donovan, Cam Fowler, Jake Gardiner, Nick Leddy, Sean Lorenz, John Moore, Aaron Ness, Philip Samuelsson, Beau Schmitz, Dave Warsofsky, Patrick Wey, Chris Wideman, William Wrenn
• Forwards: Ryan Bourque, Zach Budish, Mike Cichy, Robbie Czarnik, Jerry D’Amigo, AJ Jenks, Justin Florek, Tyler Johnson, Chris Krieder, Danny Kristo, Kevin Lynch, Tyler Maxwell, Philip McRae, Jeremy Morin, Kyle Palmieri, Kenny Ryan, Vinny Saponari, Jordan Schroeder, Drew Shore, Derek Stepan, AJ Treais, Mitch Wahl, Andrew Yogan
• Coaches/Staff:  Jason Bailey, Dean Blais, Brock Bradley, Mark Carlson, Steve Castelletti, Alex Clark, Joe Exter, Tony Granato, Jason Hodges, John Hynes, Jim Johannson, Mac Moore, Mark Osiecki, Ben Smith, Tim Taylor, Jay Varady, Stan Wong

Alex Clark, USA Hockey manager of communications, was also shooting during Camp:  August 7 non-game and game, August 8 non-game and game and August 9 non-game and game

Still working on the rest – there are 500+ additional images online already, but not in a gallery – they can be found by searching on +”2009 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp” +”player name”.

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).