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December 27, 2002
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WJC ROSTERS
Listed here are preliminary rosters for the 2003 World Junior Championship. Players are listed by position and team. League abbreviations are OHL-Ontario League; QMJHL-Quebec League; WHL-Western League; USHL-United States League. See pg. S12 for Canada and USA rosters. The 2003 WJC is Dec. 26 to Jan. 5 in Halifax and Sydney, N.S. BELARUS GOALTENDERS Vitali Arystau, Keramin-Minsk; Alexei Hrytsenka. Junior Minsk; Dmitri Kamovich. Vitebsk; Sergei Rahouski, Gomel. DEFENSEMEN Konstantin Dournov, Junior Minsk; Uladzimir Dzianisau, Vitebsk; Artim Hlinkin, Polymiir, Novopolotsk; Andrei Karshunou, Neman, Grodno; Andrei Kazachok, Junior Minsk; Dmitri Parakhonka. Vitebsk; Alexei Shahau, Junior Minsk; Maxim Tsishkin, Junior Minsk; Anatoli Varivonchik, Junior Minsk; Dmitri Yudzin, Junior Minsk. FORWARDS Timofei Filin, Oshawa (OHL); Mikhail Grabovski, Junior Minsk; Ramon Harbakon, Vitebsk; Vasili Harbavy, Polymir, Novopolotsk; Alexei Hiarlouski, Junior Minsk; Vadim Karaga, Polymir, Novopolotsk; Yauheni Kashtanau, Yunost. Minsk; Andrei Kastsitsyn, CSKA…
UNITED STATES LEAGUE
They may only play at the junior level, but the Waterloo Black Hawks are winning with a rather professional approach. “Our system is based on puck pressure,” said coach RK. Handley. “We put two men on the puck at all times. We want body contact from the first and second guy to pick up the puck. It’s kind of a modified trap, sort of like how the Detroit Red Wings played a couple years ago and our guys are playing it to a tee.” Call it what you will, but it is working. With Waterloo’s 6-1 win over Sioux City Dec. 7, the Black Hawks extended their winning streak to 10 straight. During the streak, the Hawks were getting exemplary efforts from a number of sources, such as forwards Joe Pavelski and Joel Hanson-both…
Canada’s big edge: Home-ice advantage
If you know Scottie Upshall at all, you know this has been the longest year of his young life. Upshall, 19, has been waiting and hoping for one more chance to don the maple leaf and play for Canada at the World Junior Championship. The Fort McMurray, Alta., native, who is in his third season with the Western League’s Kamloops Blazers, quite enjoyed the 2002 tournament. He just didn’t like the way it finished. You may recall Upshall, a lefthand shot who can play either wing, scored 37 seconds into the second period of the gold medal game in Pardubice, Czech Republic, giving Canada a 3-1 lead over Russia. Eventually, though, the Russians rallied to win 5-4 and take home the gold. “It has been a long wait to get back at it,…
Center of attention
Thirty NHL teams have centers playing on what passes for a first line nowadays. Now, let’s turn that statement around and make it interesting: how many legitimate first line centers grace NHL rosters? Hmmmm. We’re not talking about glorified power play specialists who’d normally be playing on a second line, or heroic, past-their-prime veterans. This is creme de la creme, my-best-guy-against-your-best-guy Analyze the skill, do the math and you have a couple of handfuls-tops. The names have a familiar ring: Sakic and Forsberg, Sundin and Thornton, Modano and Fedorov, Mario, maybe Doug Weight, maybe Saku Koivu, Alexei Yashin when he feels like it. Is Brendan Morrison a first line center or a product of Todd Bertuzzi and Markus Naslund? What about Eric Lindros, in his post-concussion era? Then you have Jason Allison of the L.A.…
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