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Two current Wolverines who previously played on the Under-18 team have younger brothers relatives on the National Team Development Program’s 2009-2010 Under 18 team.  Neither younger brother player has committed to Michigan – Bryan Rust has committed to Notre Dame while Austin Czarnik is afaik currently uncommitted.  Note:  I was sloppy and screwed up – Austin and Robbie Czarnik are cousins, not brothers (thanks Chris!).   Oops!

BU split the net time between Kieran Millan (first two periods) and Adam Kraus (third period).  Both Terrier goalies (sadly) came up with big saves against USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program’s Under-18 team for a 3-2 win:

Full gallery: NTDP Under-18s at Boston University Terriers including their banner raising ceremony.

Over 3500 images have been uploaded from the 7 days I spent at the U20 camp - 2009 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp images.

The top two scorers for the USA were Jordan Schroeder with 5g, 9a in 6 games:
 

and Danny Kristo with 7g, 5a in 6 games.:

For the Russians, the leading scorer was Vladimir Tarasenko (previous gallery) with 2g, 2a in 4 games followed by Sergey Ostapchuk with 2g, 1a in 4 games:

 In the mood for more pictures?  Some links:

• Adirondack Daily Enterprise - 8/17  (note the player identified as Czarnik is really Jordan Schroeder and the player identified as AJ Jenks is Kyle Palmieri – USA Hockey VERY ANNOYINGLY changed some numbers every freaking day, their photographer likely used the wrong day’s roster)
• Adirondack Daily Enterprise – 8/13
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/11 practice (Note links to earlier days were listed here)
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/11 game
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/12 game
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/14 practice
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/14 game
• Alex Clark – USA Hockey – 8/15
• Bruce Bennett – Getty Images - can’t provide direct link, but if you search on Bruce Bennett and choose Editorial and date range 8/14/2009-8/15/2009, he has 211 images from the camp
• Nancie Battaglia took the camp head shots & covered the 8/14 game, but I’m not sure where they are online and there were atleast a couple of others shooting during camp – if you have images online and would like me to link to them here – just email me.

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:

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.