McKee added to World's roster

[saff678]

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

[French Rage]

Sweet.  Any remote chance he sees playing time?

[jtwcornell91]

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.

[David Harding]

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.

[tim]

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.

[las224]

Is it being televised?

[jtwcornell91]

[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/

[David Harding]

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.

[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).

[jtwcornell91]

[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.

[ugarte]

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.

[redhair34]

I wonder how much Eaves had to do with McKee's invitation

[jaybert]

and they're out!

[David Harding]

Ah, thanks.  I obviously don't follow international hockey closely enough to remember those details.