USA 2010 Olympic Hockey Team Roster

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:48:55 +0000

The USA Olympic Hockey Team 2010 roster was reveled during the 2010 Winter Classic hockey game. Team USA hopes to improve their disappointing eighth place finish at the last winter games and bring back the type of team that gave them Gold in 1980 at Lake Placid. Only three players with prior Olympic experience have been included

Have a look at the Team USA 2010 roster:

Forwards include:
David Backes
Dustin Brown
Ryan Callahan
Chris Drury
Patrick Kane
Ryan Kesler
Phil Kessel
Jamie Langenbrunner
Ryan Malone
Zach Parise
Joe Pavelski
Bobby Ryan
Paul Stastny.

DEFENSEMEN:
Erik Johnson
Jack Johnson
Mike Komisarek
Paul Martin
Brooks Orpik
Brian Rafalski
Ryan Suter.

GOALTENDERS:
Ryan Miller
Jonathan Quick
Tim Thomas.

Some key players that were left off the roster include Dustin Byfuglien, Scott Gomez, Bill Guerin and Ron Hainsey.

The Head Coach will be Ron Wilson and General Manager is Brian Burke (hopefully they do not use too much from the Toronto Maple Leafs secret play books

We will have to wait and see in February if the Team USa selection was the winning combination or not.

The Russian Olympic Roster should be named later this week.

Team Canada 2010 Olympic Hockey Team Roster

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:22:51 +0000

The Canadian Olympic Hockey Team 2010 roster was released today and already hockey analysts all over have begun to debate the roster for Team Canada witch is also the host country of the 2010 Olympics that will be held in Vancouver in February. The team hopes that it can improve on the disappointing seventh place finish at the last Olympic Games and perhaps bring back the gold like they did in 2002. The roster has some return players but a lot of new faces with the hope to bring in a younger hockey generation.

Forwards include:
Patrice Bergeron (Boston Bruins)
Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Penguins)
Ryan Getzlaf (Anaheim Ducks)
Dany Heatley (San Jose Sharks)
Jarome Iginla (Calgary Flames)
Patrick Marleau (San Jose Sharks)
Brenden Morrow (Dallas Stars)
Rich Nash (Columbus Blue Jackets)
Corey Perry (Anaheim Ducks)
Mike Richards (Philadelphia Flyers)
Eric Staal (Carolina Hurricanes)
Joe Thornton (San Jose Sharks)
Jonathan Toews (Chicago Blackhawks)

Defensemen:
Dan Boyle (San Jose Sharks)
Drew Doughty (Los Angeles Kings)
Duncan Keith (Chicago Blackhawks)
Scott Niedermayer (Anaheim Ducks)
Chris Pronger (Philadelphia Flyers)
Brent Seabrook (Chicago Blackhawks)
Shea Weber (Nashville Predators)

Goaltenders:

Martin Brodeur (New Jersey Devils)
Marc-Andre Fleury (Pittsburgh Penguins)
Roberto Luongo (Vancouver Canucks)

Some key players that were left off the roster include Jeff Carter, Shane Doan, Vincent Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis, Brad Richards, Mike Green, Dion Phaneuf and Jay Bouwmeester.

Former NHL star Steve Yzerman is the team’s GM and Mike Babcock will assume be the Head Coach for Team Canada.

We will have to wait and see in February if the Team Canada selection was the winning combination or not.

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USA 2010 Olympic Hockey Team Roster

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