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Haven’t featured a Swede in a gallery since October 3 so thought a quick post was needed. Carl Hagelin is a junior at the University of Michigan and barring injury should play in his 100th game for the team this season. Great that he remained at Michigan despite being assigned the worst roommate (too bad Quick and Milano couldn’t have roomed together). Hagelin was also a member of Sweden’s U20 team at the 2008 WJC.

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:

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:

It’s been a while since I did a birthday inspired post and I thought it had been a while since I did one on a Swede, but that was just my continued being bummed they weren’t in Lake Placid this year (no offense Russia).  So Happy 20th Birthday to Nicklas Lasu :-).

Ryan Bourque has “graduated” from the National Team Development Program and will be playing for the Quebec Remparts (de-committed from the University of New Hampshire)
 

Ryan Bourque is the brother of Chris Bourque currently in the Washington Capitals organization after a year at Boston University and the son of former NHL-er Ray Bourque.

 
David Musil joins the Vancouver Giants after playing in the Czech Republic.  A good bit of controversy over how Musil wound up with the Giants (major junior teams draft players and European players are handled differently than North American players).  Gregg Drinnan covered it here and here.

 
Musil’s father is former NHL-er Frantisek (Frank) Musil

and his uncle is former NHL-er Bobby Holik (those who know me as a former Devils STH are now amazed that I typed out his name properly rather than using the name I used at games, but there is a limit to my restraint):

The hockey lineage doesn’t stop there – Holik’s father and uncle, Jaroslav and Jiri, were stars in Czechoslovakia.  Behind the rubber chicken, you can see the book “Dynastie Holiku” by Jaroslav Kirchner which I picked up at CEZ Arena in Pardubice during the 2008 World Juniors (not sure if they have a bookstore in town, but if I understood correctly, they have a few tables of books and videos at all hockey games held there).  I also picked up a copy of Slovenske Hviezdy v NHL.  

Philip Samuelsson is making the move from the USHL (Chicago Steel) to the Boston College Eagles.   Samuelsson played for Team Sweden during the Four Nations Cup last November, but as that was not an IIHF tournament, it did not bind him to Sweden.   In April, he played for Team USA in the IIHF Under 18 Championship.  (Note – a quick google shows there were some changes in the rules.  Not sure if they’d allow him to change again in the future or not.
 

Philip Samuelsson’s father Ulf Samuelsson is a former NHL-player and now is a coach with the Phoenix Coyotes.