McKee Added To Added To 2006 U.S. Men's National Team Roster
Former Big Red goalkeeper joins team in Latvia for qualifying
http://cornellbigred.cstv.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/051506aaa.html
Sweet. Any remote chance he sees playing time?
McKee is now listed on the USA roster at http://live82.ihwc.net/english/teams/roster.ihwc?team=USA
According to http://live82.ihwc.net/english/teams/statistics.ihwc?team=USA Craig Anderson (Blackhawks) has played 4 of the team's 5 games and put up good numbers.
Jason Bacashihua (Blues) played one game, a 2-1 loss to Canada. However, from here on they're all big games: vs Czech Republic for a higher QF seed, then knockout rounds.
It's nice to see McKee's "club" still listed as Cornell.
I'm not sure the stats are 100% reliable. They have a couple players listed as having played in 1 game, but nobody else is listed as playing in anything less than 5 games. It's hard for me to imagine them dressing fewer players than they are allowed.
That happens in the world championships. Sometimes, they don't have a full roster, and dress less players in the round-robin portion of the tournament. For example, I think Canada dressed 15 players for one of their games.
Is it being televised?
[quote las224]Is it being televised?[/quote]
Not in the States, but the USA games all have free streaming audio on the web at http://www.usahockey.com/
Any idea what the limit on the number of players is? In college it's 18 plus 2 or 3 goalies. Here I see 19 plus 2 goalies for every game and two others who have played. That mean a limit of at least 20.
It's 13 forwards + 7 defenseman + 2 goalies = 22 players that can dress for each game. These are international rules. Recall, during the World Juniors that Pokulok was the 7th defenseman (dressed, but didn't play).
[quote tim]It's 13 forwards + 7 defenseman + 2 goalies = 22 players that can dress for each game. These are international rules. Recall, during the World Juniors that Pokulok was the 7th defenseman (dressed, but didn't play).[/quote]
You sometimes also see 12 forwards + 8 defensemen, which makes four full lines of offense and defense.
I hope McKee enjoyed the trip. It would have been nice if he got into a game but I'm not sure this was the ideal game to be between the pipes. (http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2448190)
I wonder how much Eaves had to do with McKee's invitation
and they're out!
Ah, thanks. I obviously don't follow international hockey closely enough to remember those details.