[lafountain]

Games between Canda's Juniors and Russia's juniors starts up tomorrow. Players who are under-20 from both Countries will start a 8 Game Series on Monday. Could be fun to watch to see many of the future NHL-Stars and some of these guys aren't draft eligible until next year so it could be a good way to see some of next years prospects.

Canada Roster

GOALTENDERS
Player Catches Ht. Wt. Birthdate Hometown Team NHL
Jonathan Bernier L 6'0 185 08/07/88 Laval, QC Lewiston LOS 2006
Leland Irving L 6'0 177 04/11/88 Swan Hills, AB Everett CGY 2006
Steve Mason R 6'3 186 05/29/88 Oakville, ON London CBJ 2006


DEFENSEMEN
Player Shoots Ht. Wt. Birthdate Hometown Team NHL
Karl Alzner L 6'2 209 09/24/88 Burnaby, BC Calgary WAS 2007
Keaton Ellerby L 6'3 185 11/05/88 Calgary, AB Kamloops FLA 2007
Drew Doughty R 5'11 190 12/08/89 London, ON Guelph DRAFT 2008
Josh Godfrey R 6'0 187 01/15/88 Kingston, ON Sault Ste. Marie WSH 2007
Thomas Hickey L 5'10 182 02/08/89 Calgary, AB Seattle LOS 2007
Logan Pyett R 5'10 199 05/26/88 Milestone, SK Regina DET 2006
Luke Schenn R 6'2 210 11/02/89 Saskatoon, SK Kelowna DRAFT 2008
Ty Wishart L 6'4 205 05/19/88 Comox, BC Prince George SJ 2006



FORWARDS
Player Shoots Ht. Wt. Birthdate Hometown Team NHL
Zac Boychuk L 5'9 176 10/04/89 Airdrie, AB Lethbridge DRAFT 2008
Cory Emmerton L 6'0 190 06/01/88 St. Thomas, ON Kingston DET 2006
x - Angelo Esposito L 6'1 180 02/20/89 Montreal, QC Quebec PIT 2007
Sam Gagner R 5'10 190 08/10/89 Oakville, ON London EDM 2007
Colton Gillies L 6'3 189 02/12/89 Surrey, BC Saskatoon MIN 2007
Claude Giroux R 5'11 172 01/12/88 Ottawa, ON Gatineau PHI 2006
Zach Hamill R 5'10 180 09/23/88 Port Coquitlam, BC Everett BOS 2007
Stefan Legein R 5'9 170 11/24/88 Oakville, ON Mississauga CBJ 2007
Milan Lucic L 6'2 220 06/07/88 Vancouver, BC Vancouver BOS 2006
Brad Marchand L 5'9 183 05/11/88 Hammonds Plains, NS Val d'Or BOS 2006
David Perron R 5'11 180 05/28/88 Fleurimont, QC Lewiston STL 2007
Brandon Sutter R 6'3 170 02/14/89 Red Deer, AB Red Deer CAR 2007
John Tavares L 6'0 196 09/20/90 Oakville, ON Oshawa DRAFT 2009
Kyle Turris R 6'1 170 08/14/89 New Westminster, BC Burnaby (BCHL) PHX 2007
Dana Tyrell L 5'10 185 11/20/88 Airdrie, AB Prince George TB 2007

x - Injured


Russia Roster

GOALTENDERS
Player Catches Ht. Wt. Birthdate Team NHL
Sergei Bobrovsky L 6'1 174 09/20/88 Novokuznetsk -
Semen Varlamov L 6'1 180 04/27/88 Yaroslavl WSH 2006
Vadim Zhelobnyuk L 5'11 185 04/22/88 Dynamo Moscow -


DEFENSEMEN
Player Shoots Ht. Wt. Birthdate Team NHL
Yuri Alexandrov L 6'1 174 06/24/88 Cherepovets -
Konstantin Alexeev R 6'2 188 04/22/88 Novosibirsk -
Maxim Chudinov R 5'10 181 03/25/90 Severstal Cherepovets DRAFT 2008
Pavel Doronin L 6'1 180 08/21/88 Ufa Salavat/RUS 2 -
Alexi Grishin R 6'3 194 09/28/88 Chekhov/RUS 2 -
Evgeny Kurbatov / 6'0 196 05/18/88 Omsk -
Kiril Tulupov R 6'3 220 04/23/88 Quebec/QMJHL NJ 2006
Ivan Vishnevsky L 6'0 180 02/18/88 Quebec/QMJHL DAL 2006
Vyatcheslav Voynov L 5'11 180 01/15/90 Chelyabinsk DRAFT 2008
Valeri Zhukov L 6'2 189 02/08/88 N. Novgorod/RUS 2 -
Igor Zubov R 6'0 187 07/04/88 Yaroslavl -



FORWARDS
Player Shoots Ht. Wt. Birthdate Team NHL
Artem Anisimov L 6'3 183 05/24/88 Yaroslavl NYR 2006
Egor Averin L 5'11 172 08/25/89 Avangard Omsk/RUS 2 -
Yevgeny Bodrov L 6'1 163 01/08/88 Lada Togliatti -
Alexei Cherepanov L 6'1 181 01/15/89 Omsk NYR 2007
Evgeni Dadonov L 5'10 159 03/12/89 Chelyabinsk FLA 2007
Nikita Filatov R 6'0 159 05/25/90 CSKA Moscow DRAFT 2008
Anton Glovatski L 5'11 174 08/06/88 Magnitorsk -
Mikhail Glukhov L 6'2 189 05/13/88 Mytyschi Khimik -
Ilya Kablukov L 6'3 180 01/18/88 Novosibirsk VAN 2007
Sergei Korostin L 5'10 185 07/05/89 Dynamo Moscow/RUS 2 DAL 2007
Maxim Mamin L 6'0 176 05/17/88 Magnitogorsk -
Maxim Mayorov L 6'2 187 03/26/89 AK Bars Kazan CBJ 2007
Kirill Petrov L 6'3 198 04/13/90 AK Bars Kazan DRAFT 2008
Andrei Popov L 6'0 187 07/15/88 Chelyabinsk PHI 2006
Alexander Ryabev L 6'0 172 08/24/88 Yaroslavl -
Vyacheslav Solodukhin L 6'2 189 07/31/88 SKA St. Petersburg -
Alexander Vasyunov R 5'11 187 04/22/88 Yaroslavl NJ 2006
Sergei Zachupenko L 5'10 183 01/05/88 Ufa Salavat NJ 2006

[DesertRat]

Are any of these games to appear on American TV?

[lafountain]

DesertRat, on Aug 27 2007, 02:17 AM, said:

Are any of these games to appear on American TV?

I would love for any of these to air in the US, but I seriously doubt that any of them will. The first four games are being played in Russia, then the next 4 in Canada.

[lafountain]

Canada 4 - Russia 2 in the First Game.

Box score can be seen here.

http://www.hockeycan...ame_id/1337.htm

[villavelocity]

good first game.
Mason did not look all that good though.
they should ride Bernier.

[Brilliant!]

Anybody have any word on why Cherepanov was benched in the first game?

[CryWolf]

lafountain, on Aug 27 2007, 11:12 AM, said:

I would love for any of these to air in the US, but I seriously doubt that any of them will. The first four games are being played in Russia, then the next 4 in Canada.

TSN Broadband is showing the games. Just not sure if they are making them available worldwide or only in Canada. Just go to tsn.ca and see.

[JeffB]

DesertRat, on Aug 27 2007, 03:17 AM, said:

Are any of these games to appear on American TV?

We can't even get the World Juniors Championship in the US. I seriously doubt this series will be show here in the land of endless NFL Pre-season games.

[SabreFaninNYC]

CryWolf, on Aug 28 2007, 08:03 AM, said:

TSN Broadband is showing the games. Just not sure if they are making them available worldwide or only in Canada. Just go to tsn.ca and see.

If its tsn they probably still have that stupid American IP address block on. If the NHL was smart (what are the odds?) they would stream it on their site....

[villavelocity]

FYI- Sutter will give each goalie a chance to play in the series.
I really believe that Bernier is the best of the 3
But i bet he wishes he could have had Carey Price!

[lafountain]

Canada 3 - Russia 0 in the 2nd game of the Series. From what I have read Bernier looked really good in net for Canada. For all you Phoenix fans, Turris scored his second goal in as many games in this one too.

Box score link.

http://www.hockeycan...ame_id/1338.htm

[lafountain]

Canada completed the series by going 7-0-1 in the 8 game set.

Russia managed to get a tie in the 7th game 4-4, which based on what I read was their best chance to win a game in the series.

Canada outscored Russia 39 - 13 in the series as well.