Patrice Cormier (Captain of the 2009 Team Canada Silver Medal Junior Team) was suspended indefinitely yesterday by the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Monday following a nasty mid ice hit that sent Quebec Remparts defenceman Mikaël Tam to hospital. The league has reported that it will continue to investigate the elbowing incident, and would not say when its disciplinarian, Raymond Bolduc, would issue a ruling on the incident.

Video footage of the incident shows Patrice coming on to the ice from the bench and skating towards Tam, whom started to rush from behind his goal up the ice. Cormier then caught him with in the trolley tarjks with his elbow near centre ice, dropping him instantly.

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Repeat offender? Cormier is well known to be a physical player with good and bad major hits. He connected with Sweden’s Anton Rodin in a similar elbow to the mouth during the world juniors tournament month. He was drafted by New Jersey in 2008 and has since signed a three-year entry level contract with the Devils — maybe a good replacement for the Former Devils Scott Stevens!!

Check out some of his other notorious known elbows … Like the nasty Elbow on Anton Rodin – Sweden vs Canada – Dec 20th 2009

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Canada 2010 Olympics hockey tribute featuring Jarome Iginla & Dion Phaneuf

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Patrice Cormier (Captain of the 2009 Team Canada Silver Medal Junior Team) was suspended indefinitely yesterday by the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Monday following a nasty mid ice hit that sent Quebec Remparts defenceman Mikaël Tam to hospital. The league has reported that it will continue to investigate the elbowing incident, and would not say when its disciplinarian, Raymond Bolduc, would issue a ruling on the incident.

Video footage of the incident shows Patrice coming on to the ice from the bench and skating towards Tam, whom started to rush from behind his goal up the ice. Cormier then caught him with in the trolley tarjks with his elbow near centre ice, dropping him instantly.

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Repeat offender? Cormier is well known to be a physical player with good and bad major hits. He connected with Sweden’s Anton Rodin in a similar elbow to the mouth during the world juniors tournament month. He was drafted by New Jersey in 2008 and has since signed a three-year entry level contract with the Devils — maybe a good replacement for the Former Devils Scott Stevens!!

Check out some of his other notorious known elbows … Like the nasty Elbow on Anton Rodin – Sweden vs Canada – Dec 20th 2009

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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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A top ten high lights video in lieu of the summer Canadian Mens Hockey Olympic training camp held in Calgary featuring the likes of Sidney Crosby, Rick Nash, Martin Brodeur, Roberto Luongo and more.