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NHL Trade Deadline at noon on March 3
Some of the trades so far:
Steven Kampfer to Boston (earlier blog gallery) Boston Bruins article
Aaron Palushaj to Montreal (earlier blog gallery); Matt D’Agostini to Montreal
Cody Wild to Boston; Matt Marquardt to Edmonton
Brett Westgarth to Worcester Sharks (future considerations)
Kenny Roche (released by Hartford)
Mike Radja to Bridgeport (future considerations)
Matt Dalton assigned to Reading Royals by Boston
Greg Moore to Columbus; Dylan Reese to NYI
Joe Fallon to St. Louis (Peoria); Hannu Toivonen and Danny Richmond to Chicago
Under 18s and the Denver Pioneers
Was hoping to get a gallery finished & related sibling post up today, but looks like I won’t finish until tomorrow so copying a little from yesterday, but substituting the University of Denver for Michigan.
Current members of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program’s Under-18 team that have committed to Denver are:
Jason Zucker (Zucker played 16 games with the U18s last season including the Worlds in Grand Forks)
Nick Shore
NTDP alumni on the Denver Pioneers 2009-10 roster include:
Senior Rhett Rakhshani
and freshmen Adam Murray
Drew Shore (older brother of Nick Shore) – Denver Post article on the four hockey-playing Shore brothers
and William Wrenn.
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Matt Donovan, another Denver Pioneer freshman, took part in USA Hockey’s Under-20 evaluation camp in August – earlier Matt Donovan gallery. Donovan went to Denver from the Cedar Rapids Roughriders of the USHL.
Saturday’s NHL Debuts
The following players could make their NHL debut in their team’s opening game today.
Anaheim Ducks: None
Columbus Blue Jackets: None
Dallas Stars: Jamie Benn, Luke Gazdic
Edmonton Oilers: None
Los Angeles Kings: Alec Martinez
Nashville Predators: Teemu Laakso
New Jersey Devils: None
New York Islanders: John Tavares
Ottawa Senators: Erik Karlsson
Phoenix Coyotes: None
D
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):
Okposo – mild concussion; Stoa & Kennedy score
Good to read that Kyle Okposo was able to fly home with the New York Islanders last night after a huge hit (hit comes around the 1:00 minute mark) by Dion Phaneuf in Calgary – Calgary Herald on reaction to hit; Newsday re: his condition.
Okposo’s former teammate with both the Minnesota Golden Gophers and Team USA (the two won bronze at the 2007 WJC in Sweden), Ryan Stoa, scored the gamewinner last night in the Colorado Avalanche’s 3-1 defeat of the Dallas Stars. From the Denver Post: “I just went in with the pump fake and they both went down, and slid it in there low-glove,” Stoa said. “I’m excited and I had a lot of fun tonight.”
Former Michigan State Spartan Tim Kennedy scored his first preseason goal for his hometown Buffalo Sabres (definitely this season; not sure if he did last year) cutting the Washington Capitals lead to 1 goal in their 4-3 defeat of the Sabres.