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Transaction list-inspired post:

Jamie McBain called up to the Carolina Hurricanes for his NHL debut vs. the Boston Bruins – previous blog galleries: college/USA, Albany River Rats

Viktor Tikhonov was recalled from Cherepovets by Phoenix

Brian Lee assigned to Binghampton by Ottawa.

And most-rumored item in my twitter feed:  Will he sign or won’t he re: Jordan Schroeder (most including link to Vancouver Sun story) – earlier blog gallery

Matt Rust to Columbus Blue Jackets (earlier blog gallery); Mathieu Roy to Florida Panthers

Chad Kolarik to Columbus; Alex Picard to Phoenix

Chris Peluso to Toronto; sixth round pick to Pittsburgh

Oskar Osala and Brian Pothier to Carolina; Joe Corvo to Washington

Lee Stempniak to Phoenix; Matt Jones (and 4th & 7th round picks) to Toronto

Jeff Halpern to LA; Teddy Purcell (and 3rd round pick) to Tampa Bay

Sean Zimmerman (& conditional pick) to Vancouver; Mathieu Schneider to Phoenix

Peter Mueller and Kevin Porter to Colorado; Wojtek Wolski to Phoenix

Byron Bitz, Craig Weller (& second round pick) to Florida; Dennis Seidenberg, Matthew Bartkowski to Boston

The Phoenix Coyotes reduced their training camp roster by 15 players today:

Among the 13 players headed to their AHL affiliate, the San Antonio Rampage are:

Andrew Orpik (previous gallery), Joel Gistedt:

Sean Sullivan:

and Colin Long:

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.

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 :-).