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No, not the game in Detroit, I really do go back and edit old games and just finished the Joe Whitney in OT 2008 Regional Final in Worcester.

Player of the Year: Cody Reichard, Miami

Rookie of the Year: Andy Taranto, Alaska
Best Defensive Forward:  Tommy Wingels, Miami

Offensive Defenseman: Erik Gustafsson, Northern Michigan
Defensive Defenseman: Will Weber, Miami

Scholar-Athlete of the Year and Humanitarian:  Dion Knelsen, Alaska
Terry Flanagan Memorial Award: Aaron Lewicki, Ferris State
Coach of the Year: Enrico Blasi, Miami

The Lake Erie Monsters, the Colorado Avalanche’s AHL affiliate, have a new coach from Boston University, David Quinn:

 
and include some BU alum on their current roster including Brandon Yip and Kevin Schaeffer

 
but it was Boston College’s former captain Brock Bradford that scored their gamewinner versus the Rochester Americans last night.

 
The Lake Erie Monsters roster also includes Ryan Stoa, Justin Mercier,

 
 Billy Sauer,
 

 and Kevin Montgomery.

Update:  Brett Motherwell is now with the Chicago Wolves.

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):

NHL teams are continuing to cut their training camp rosters as AHL camps are set to open this week.  The Los Angeles Kings announced more changes earlier today.

First, I’ll take the opportunity to highlight a former Boston College Eagle captain Peter Harrold from the Kings roster:

Fifteen players are headed to Manchester, the Kings’ AHL affiliate, including Oscar Möller:

and Jeff Zatkoff:

Heading back to the Dub is Colten Teubert:

And looking for a different opportunity is Dennis McCauley who was in camp on a tryout: