Habs Prospects at the WJC in Ottawa

[NWTHabsFan]

The US team announced its roster today and two Hab prospects are headed to Ottawa: Ryan McDonagh and Danny Kristo. Ryan was a surprise omission last year and Danny does well as an 18 year old to crack the roster.

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PK Subban will be in Ottawa from Dec 11-15 for Team Canada's selection camp. He does have a good chance based on his great play so far and the fact he is one of the few returning guys to a very young team. They have an intersquad game on Friday December 12th for those that want to see PK play live.

Nichlas Torp was already named to the Swedish team.

Maxim Trunev has an outside chance at being named to the Russian team, but it quite young.

[BadCompany]

PK does in fact return for another kick at the gold can...

Your 2009 Team Canada Roster:

Goaltenders
Chet Pickard Tri-City (WHL), NSH
Dustin Tokarski Spokane (WHL) TB

Defence

Keith Aulie (WHL) CGY
Ryan Ellis (OHL) 2009
Cody Goloubef (WCHA) CBJ
* Thomas Hickey (WHL) LA
Tyler Myers (WHL) BUF
Alex Pietrangelo (OHL) STL
* P.K. Subban (OHL) MTL
Colten Teubert (WHL) LA

Forwards

Jamie Benn (WHL) DAL
* Zach Boychuk (WHL) CAR
Patrice Cormier (QMJHL) NJ
Stefan Della Rovere (OHL) WSH
Chris DiDomenico (QMJHL) TOR
Jordan Eberle (WHL) EDM
Tyler Ennis (WHL) BUF
Angelo Esposito (QMJHL) ATL
Cody Hodgson (OHL) VAN
Brett Sonne (WHL) STL
* John Tavares (OHL) 2009
Dana Tyrell (WHL) TB

[Lord Bebop]

We are going to have a nice contingent of prospects this year:

Team Canada- PK Subban
Team USA- Ryan McDonagh
Team USA- Danny Kristo
Team Sweden- Nichlas Torp

And Robert Mayer on Team Swiss in this years WJ's Div 1B

Nice to see Angelo Esposito finally get a spot after three years of disappointment after being cut.

Canada is a very inexperienced team at the WJ level with only 4 returnees which includes Subban (PK will also be sporting an 'A')

[duster]

I'm curious to see how well Danny Kristo will match up against bigger and faster players. He's the youngest member of the USA team and the least experienced. Yet, from what I've seen so far (two games), he has terrific skills and speed to burn.

[Lord Bebop]

Got to see Nichlas Torp play for the first time last night and he did not disappoint. He was throwing his small frame around all night.

Not sure about Subban's placement on the powerplay. Him playing in front of the net while abandoning his defensive position looks rather odd..... but I guess nothing to lose trying that kind of thing in pre-tourny game.

[NWTHabsFan]

Dec 20, 2008 14:45:39 GMT -5 Lord Bebop said:

Got to see Nichlas Torp play for the first time last night and he did not disappoint. He was throwing his small frame around all night.

Not sure about Subban's placement on the powerplay. Him playing in front of the net while abandoning his defensive position looks rather odd..... but I guess nothing to lose trying that kind of thing in pre-tourny game.

Team Canada also lost a forward in that game and had eight defensemen, so I think he offers the most versatility in a pinch. They have since replaced their injured forward with Evander Kane of the Giants. Good choice.

PK had two assists from the back end tonight in a 7-3 exhibition win over Finland.

They are on TSN on Tuesday against the Slovaks in an exhibition tilt and then for real on boxing day at 7:00 pm ET and 5:00 pm MT.

[NWTHabsFan]

Dec 20, 2008 14:45:39 GMT -5 Lord Bebop said:

Got to see Nichlas Torp play for the first time last night and he did not disappoint. He was throwing his small frame around all night.

A few of those hits had some serious hang time as well...hehe!! He sure plays a physical in your face style.

Hard to imagine a kid missing a whole season like he did last year. Nice to see him get the call in the WJC.

[seventeen]

Let me be the first to say I hope Nicholas can make the Habs and Torp'edo' some Hurricanes.