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Congratulations to UMass-Lowell River Hawk Carter Hutton – after getting to serve backup duties for a game with the Philadelphia Flyers while on an ATO, he has signed with the San Jose Sharks.  (previous blog gallery)

Great move by the NHL Players Association to rename the Pearson Award after Ted Lindsay.  The Ted Lindsay Award is the top award an individual NHL player can receive as it is for the “Most Outstanding Player” as voted on by the players.  By the way, Gordie “Mr. Hockey Union Buster” Howe does not have any major awards named after him. 

Nice story you’ve probably already seen – Brooks Laich stops to help a mother and daughter stuck on a bridge with a flat tire after Game 7 loss.

Maine Black Bear Will O’Neill started his birthday yesterday helping clean Alfond Arena – Youtube video from Maine.  (previous blog gallery)

Atlanta Thrashers article on Zach Bogosian (previous blog gallery)

Nice touch – at the end of this Maine cleaning video, you can see that they have the nameplates from former locker occupants in the back of each locker.  (And yes, I’m going through a bunch of saved URLs in no particular order.)

Stephane Da Costa will be playing for France at the Worlds (previous blog galleries 1   2)

Rookies Matt Duchene, Jimmy Howard and Tyler Myers are up for the Calder Trophy.

I’m traditionally a Habs fan, but my initial reaction to John Carlson’s goal which tied the game with 1:21 remaining in the third period was happiness.  After all, the kid beat Team Canada :-).  It helps that it wasn’t a Game 7.

(previous blog gallery)

From Ken Daneyko to Mike Brennan, my favorite players are often defensemen, the more D-oriented the better. It didn’t feel right to highlight the high scorers in the earlier post on completing the U20 camp galleries, especially since the US D shut out the Russians in one game and held them to only 1 goal in two others (the Russians scored 6 in Friday’s game, but that’s just being a polite host, right?). So here are the 10 defensemen who took part in the full camp. Posted previously – Cam Fowler and John Moore.

John Carlson (Washington Capitals):

Adam Comrie (Guelph Storm/Florida Panthers):

Matt Donovan (University of Denver/New York Islanders):

Jake Gardiner (University of Wisconsin/Anaheim Ducks):

Nick Leddy (University of Minnesota/Minnesota Wild):

Aaron Ness (University of Minnesota/New York Islanders):

David Warsofsky (Boston University/St. Louis Blues):

Chris Wideman (Miami University/Ottawa Senators):

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).

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 :-).