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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

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.

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 :-).