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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

Via a quick review of the team rosters – not game notes:

Washington Capitals vs. Boston Bruins – none
Montreal Canadiens vs. Toronto Maple Leafs
     Montreal – none
     Toronto – Carl Gunnarson, Jay Rosehill, Viktor Stålberg
San Jose Sharks vs. Colorado Avalanche
     San Jose – BENN FERRIERO!!!!!, Jason Demers
     Colorado Avalanche – Matt Duchene, Ryan O’Reilly
Vancouver Canucks vs. Calgary Flames
     Vancouver – Sergei Shirokov
     Calgary – John Armstrong

May they all have great debuts – limited a bit for the Toronto kids (Go Habs Go!) and the Colorado kids.

Boston College had four incoming freshmen taking part in the US camp. Philip Samuelsson (previous gallery)  and Patrick Wey took part in the opening three day – US-only portion of camp:

Chris Kreider and

Kenny Ryan survived the cut of 13 players to take part in the full camp.  BTW – if you are using the search function to look for particular images of the player Kenny Ryan add his birthdate (19910710) to the search as you’ll get many more images of Kenny Ryan the former BC student manager if you don’t.  Also I don’t know Boston politicians yet so this isn’t a personal endorsement (I’m in Chelsea), but manager Kenny Ryan would like you to vote for Tom Menino in the Boston mayoral election (see the 10 second mark of this news video).

Normally I wouldn’t be that interested in the fortunes of a major midget team in Burnaby, British Columbia, but I’m now a fan of the Northwest Giants who have added Kaleigh Fratkin at D. Fratkin,17, is a member of Canada’s U18 Women’s team and according to Burnaby Now, she is the first female to play in the full-contact AAA major midget league in BC (not sure who/how many may have done so elsewhere).  The coach told the Burnaby Now – “…”I decided to take her. She’s an exceptionally good hockey player. I evaluated her as a hockey player and not as a female,” said Giants head coach Jon Calvano. “She was given the green light to try out and my job as coach is to pick the best team, and she was one of the best defencemen to come to camp.” …”

Good luck with the Giants, not so much with Canada ;-).

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Joey Gasparini has re-joined the University of Vermont Catamounts as Assistant Coach – official announcement

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Adam Proteau’s Hockey News blog today highlights Juraj Mikus and Juraj Mikus :-).  They were actually both members of Team Slovakia at the 2007 World Juniors although I only seem to have shot the Los Angeles Kings/Manchester Monarchs Mikus:

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Proteau’s piece also mentioned the expansion of the Toronto Maple Leaf’s scouting team and checking the announcement – that expansion includes Dave Starman.  My feelings re: the Toronto Maple Leafs make me hesitant to consider this a good thing, but I’ll say good luck to Dave – may he recommend great talent and may the GM ignore :-).

In honor of my first chance to watch NHL hockey on tv this year (old tv went kaput on the weekend; replacement delivered today), a random player from each of the teams on NHL Network tonight:

Okay, choosing Brad Marchand is not that random – despite my feelings regarding Team Canada, he’s one of those kids that makes you feel their joy in playing hockey (probably helps that he won most, if not all, the games I covered at the 2007 WJC in Sweden & 2008 WJC in the Czech Republic) and as part of that has an expressive face and reacts to play so is fun to watch and/or shoot:
 

Viktor Stålberg went pro after his junior year with the University of Vermont Catamounts who made it to the Frozen Four last year (Stålberg was a Hobey Baker Award finalist).