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.

Maple Leaf Rebuilding Mode

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:07:32 +0000

We all know that the Toronto Maple Leafs have been a troubled team over the past few years missing the playoffs again for another year (a Leaf franchise record now) but they are in the middle of what is often called a rebuilding mode.

Over the past few seasons we saw them shed a number of players in an attempt to give the team’s youth more ice time. Some of the players that were let go over the past year included Mats Sundin, Bryan McCabe, Nik Antropov, Dominik Mora, Darcy Tucker, Pavel Kubina, Martin Gerber, Brad May, Boyd Devereaux, Tim Stapleton and Curtis Joseph. There has also been a major change with the General Manager and coaches. Bryan Burke has come to the team to try and turn the franchise around and Ron Wilson was brought in as head coach for the 2008-09 season.

The Leafs did not just cut and trade away players, they also added some new names to the roster that include Mike Komisarek, Francois Beauchemin, Garnet Exelby, Colin Stuart, Colton Orr, Wayne Primeau and Jonas Gustavsson.Adding players like Komisarek, Beauchemin and Exelby shows that the leafs are trying to regain a tougher image as well as a younger squad.

The Leafs also have plenty of salary cap room left to play with, so we should look forward to seeing Burke fills that space with some players from teams like SanJose, Boston and Calgary that still need to add players but shed salary. The Leafs are therefore very well positioned to act as a salary dump one of of those teams looking to free up some space in order to improve their team. The question is which teams are running out of cap space and still have roster spots to fill? And who will Burke find to help the team finally make it back into the playoffs.

Double Deke » Brian Burke

USA 2010 Olympic Hockey Team Roster

Maple Leaf Rebuilding Mode