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The Vancouver Canucks are hosting a Young Stars tournament from September 12-16 in Penticton, BC, home of the Vees (home of future NCAA players).  Participating teams: the Canucks, Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers and San Jose Sharks.

Edmonton will be streaming their games on EdmontonOilers.com:
September 12 at 10:00 pm EST vs. Vancouver (also streamed on Canucks.com)
September 14 at 10:30 pm EST vs. Calgary
September 15 at 10:30 pm EST vs. San Jose

(FYI, I was an eejit when I first posted the above and went the wrong way w/ my time adjustment – above is corrected.)

Edmonton Oilers tournament roster:

Forwards:
Cameron Abney
Philippe Cornet
Drew Czerwonka
Jordan Eberle

Taylor Hall

Curtis Hamilton

Teemu Hartikainen

Milan Kytnar

James Livingston

Ryan Martindale
Magnus Pääjärvi (he’s dropped “Svensson”)

Kristians Pells
Tyler Pitlick
Chase Schaber
Mike Thomas
Chris Vande Velde

Defensemen:
Jordan Bendfeld
Jeremie Blain
Brandon Davidson
Dallas Ehrhardt
Martin Marincin

Johan Motin

Jeff Petry (reportedly injured today 9/11, not sure of status)

Alex Plante
Dominik Schlumpf

Nolan Toigo

Goaltenders:
Tyler Bunz
Bryan Pitton
Olivier Roy

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Article discusses changes made in 2002 both structural and mental – “…Boustedt said it used to be acceptable for Swedish junior teams to finish in the top four in international competitions. “Now the only thing the players are going for is gold,” he said. …” 

I’ve been lucky enough to be able to shoot a number of the drafted kids – click for a full list of 2009 National Hockey League-drafted players available in my archives.

I’ve included some of the Swedes in the gallery below:

• 002 – Victor Hedman, Tampa Bay Lightning
• 006 – Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Phoenix Coyotes
• 010 – Magnus Pääjärvi-Svensson, Edmonton Oilers
• 017 – David Rundblad, St. Louis Blues
• 020 – Jacob Josefson, New Jersey Devils
• 023 – Tim Erixon, Calgary Flames
• 024 – Marcus Johansson, Washington Capitals
• 034 – Calle Klingberg, Atlanta Thrashers
• 040 – Anton Lander, Edmonton Oilers
• 046 – Robin Lehner, Ottawa Senators
• 087 – Simon Bertilsson, Philadelphia Flyers
• 088 – Mattias Lindström, Carolina Hurricanes
• 143 – Peter Andersson, Vancouver Canucks
• 181 – Viktor Ekbom, Pittsburgh Penguins
• (left out Philip Samuelsson as he has now played in a IIHF game as a member of Team USA, but a number of photos in the archive which will only grow as he is joining Boston College this Fall.)

Unrelated Pt. 1 – Is there a way to make a single-spaced list w/o bullets on WordPress?

Unrelated Pt. 2 – The televised Sugarland concert from Lexington, Kentucky (in Boston on WCVB) was terrific, much better than Soundstage concert televised earlier this year on WGBX – both are staying on my DVR which is handy since I keep their cds in my car.  Apparently tonight’s concert is going to be for sale tomorrow, but only at Walmart :-(.  Maybe they’ll include their REM cover on their next regular album.

I still don’t understand using “Joey” for an audience singalong.  Am I totally misunderstanding the lyrics? The song sounds like her friend “Joey” was killed while drunk driving.  Am I wrong?   Of course, I don’t understand why people would be yelling out during “Stay” either. 

Okay, while looking for a link for Sugarland’s website to use above – only found the “fan” membership site so grabbed the CMT artist link and discovered this:

I think I’m going to have to make an appropriate charitable donation to assuage my guilt over buying from Walmart.com – it not only has Love Shack, but several other covers, I even like the Beyonce cover judging by the mini-clip on Walmart’s website.  Thank God I’m a Presbyterian and therefore can sin (shop at Walmart) with zero need for confession or worry about going straight to hell :-).