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Team USA features two players who have already won gold at both the 2009 Under-18s and the 2010 World Junior Championship – Jack Campbell (previous blog gallery) and Jason Zucker (previous blog gallery).  Campbell earned the shutout in today’s win while Zucker had two goals.

Three others won gold at the 2009 Under-18s: – Adam Clendening, Jon Merrill (previous blog gallery) and Matt Nieto.  All three had an assist in the game.

Bryan Rust (previous blog gallery) is looking for his first gold and scored two goals in the game.

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

Check out Alex Clark’s US paralympic team blog on USA Hockey.  Very interesting so far and the games haven’t even started.  I’d love to see (and for me, that always turns into wanting to shoot) a game sometime.

Goalies:
Ryan Miller, Michigan State University
Jonathan Quick, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Tim Thomas, University of Vermont

Defensemen:
Tim Gleason, OHL

Erik Johnson, University of Minnesota

Jack Johnson, University of Michigan

Brooks Orpik, Boston College
Brian Rafalski, University of Wisconsin

Ryan Suter, University of Wisconsin
Ryan Whitney, Boston University

Bobby Ryan scored the opening goal for men’s hockey at the 2010 Olympics which obviously was also the first US goal. Nice to see the US go so young with the team this year.