Scott Oake

Gene Principe

Christine Simpson

Glad to have Romanuk back in the mix, surprised to see Stock brought on board (still not certain what he brings to the table). But this is a solid group.

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Remember when Nicklas Backstrom tested positive for a banned substance (his allergy medication) and could not play the gold-medal game of the Olympics? Well, he finally received his silver medal.

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I managed to dig up six teams’ rosters for the upcoming rookie tournaments in London and Traverse City. Here is:

Chicago – CHADD BAUMAN; ALEX BROADHURST; MATT CAREY; CODY CARON; PHILLIP DANAULT; RYAN HARTMAN; MARK MCNEILL; DENNIS RASMUSSEN; GARRET ROSS; TEUVO TERAVAINEN      CORY THORSON; RYAN VAN STRALEN; BRETT WELYCHKA; JAMIE WISE; DILLON FOURNIER; KIRILL GOTOVETS; JUSTIN HOLL; STEPHEN JOHNS; VIKTOR SVEDBERG; PAUL SWINDLEHURST; TREVOR VAN RIEMSDYK; KEN APPLEBY; MAC CARRUTH

Tampa Bay – AVIANI, Michael; BLUJUS, Dylan; COSTELLO, Jeff; CURRAN, Kodie; DARCY, Cameron; DeANGELO, Anthony; DIGIACINTO, Cristiano; DOTCHIN, Jake; DROUIN, Jonathan; ERNE, Adam; GUDLEVSKIS, Kristers; IKONEN, Henri; KOEKKOEK, Slater; KUNYK, Cody; MACLISE, Cameron; MASIN, Dominik; NESTEROV, Nikita; PAQUETTE, Cedric; POINT, Brayden; RICHARD, Tanner; SERGEEV, Artem; THOMAS, Ben; VASILEVSKIY, Andrei; VERMIN, Joel;

Minnesota – Olivier Archambault; Jessey Astles;                Brady Brassart; Raphael Bussieres; Reid Duke;   Tyler Graovac; Kurtis Gabriel; Reid Gardiner;     Ryan Graham; Pavel Jenys; Chase Lang; Zack Mitchell; Andrew Ryan;      Ryan Walters; Matt Dumba; Tanner Faith; Christian Folin; Guillaume Gelinas; Alex Gudbranson; Dylan Labbe; Gustav Olofsson; Hunter Warner; Alexandre Belanger; Johan Gustafsson; Brandon Whitney;

Toronto – Forwards

Biggs, Tyler

Bilcke, Ty

Bowles, Parker

Bratina, Zachary

Broll, David

Brown, Connor

Findlay, Brett

Gauthier, Frederik

Hall, Zachary 

Hopponen, Waltteri 

Leivo, Josh

Nylander, William

Philp, Luke 

Rupert, Matt

Rupert, Ryan

Verhaeghe, Carter 

Watling, Patrick

Defensemen

Doetzel, Kayle

Donaghey, Cody  

Finn, Matt

Fraser, Jeremie

Knodel, Eric

Loov, Viktor

Nilsson, Tom

Valiev, Rinat 

Goaltenders

Bibeau, Antoine

Gibson, Christopher

Sparks, Garret 

Carolina – Goalies: Daniel Altshuller, Alex Nedeljkovic

Forwards: Alex Aleardi, Clark Bishop, Patrick Brown, Mathew Campagna, Phil Di Giuseppe, Dryden Hunt, Brock McGinn, Brent Pedersen, Victor Rask, Carter Sandlak, Sergey Tolchinksy, Brady Vail, Brendan Woods

Defense: Trevor Carrick, Jake Chelios, Haydn Fleury, Tyler Ganly, Kyle Jenkins, Patrick McEachen, Dennis Robertson, Josh Wesley

Pittsburgh – Features Dumoulin, Harrington, Kapanen, Kuhnhackl, Zlobin, Sundqvist, Jarry and Murray

Sorry for the messy formats – each team had it posted in weird ways that made neatening it up for the ramblings quite a task.

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Look for Tom Collin’s Puck Daddy debut later today as he goes over some sleepers. And I conclude the week-long run on Puck Daddy tomorrow (Saturday) with fantasy hockey rookies.

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Haha – Ryan Kesler‘s Ice Bucket challenge. Yikes!

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