LeNeveu and World Juniors

[ugarte]

Congratulations, Lenny.  And . . . well . . . damn. (Though I was rooting for him to make the team, my evil twin was rooting against him. Rooting hard. ;-) )

[Adam \'01]

Right, good point Josh, I forgot about age limitations and stuff.  I doubt that Dougie displayed enough talent earlier in his career to warrent consideration.

[ugarte]

You are obviously better versed in the 19-and-under Swedish hockey talent pool than I am.

[melissa\'01]

another link:

http://tsn.ca/world_jrs/news_story.asp?ID=18023&hubName=world_jrs

[JDeafv]

The WJr tournament's gold medal game is January 5th, is there a chance that LeNeveu would return for the Clarkson game on the 6th?

What is Canada is eliminated earlier, do players traditional return immediately to their respective teams?

And to start a debate:  Who gets the start against Maine?  I say it will be Marr or Chabot B-]

[JDeafv]

http://tsn.ca/world_jrs/

Click on photo gallery VI, picture 6 ... awwww ... facetimer ...

Are they really going to let the other goalie keep his yellow pads!?!?  ::help::

[littleredfan]

For anyone who had any doubts about whether Lenny should go or not, just the fact that the roster selection is really one of the top stories on tsn.ca just goes to show that Dave's getting an incredible amount of exposure from the World Juniors.  I mean, if you look at the pictures, the players cut from the team had tape recorders and cameras shoved in their faces for the evening news!! I dont think that happened with the US team...

He's also getting to play against THE top talent in the world from his age group, and so is going to sharpen his skills, make a great impression on people all over, and get his name out there (and consequently, Cornell's, since we're the only NCAA school to send a kid to the Canadian team).  This kid is great; I just hope he makes it back home for our accounting prelim tomorrow morning!!  ::twitch::

[Section A]

I believe the Clarkson game is on the 5th, not the 6th

[JDeafv]

Damn 2002 Calender ... the first Sunday in Jan is the 6th this year, but next year the 5th.  

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great Lenny made the team, just curious what players do if their team is eliminated.

[cbuckser]

The teams that play for the bronze and gold medal play on January 5.  The other six teams finish on January 4.  After the tournament ends, it's up to the player, plus the available travel arrangements, to determine how quickly to return to his college team.  I remember that a few years ago a BU player (Tom Poti?) pulled an all nighter to play for BU merely hours after playing in the WJC in Europe.

I suspect Dave LeNeveu will suit up for Canada on January 5.

[atb9]

Sorry guys, it's been a long week of finals and it only gets longer...

::After some serious editting::

If you're considering travel by the WJC participants, Europe and Sydney (Canada, not Australia) can not be compared.  Travel will be somewhere less than 2.4 hours depending on layovers and NE Canada is the same as Eastern North America in terms of time zones.  I don't suspect Lenny is a seasoned vet at changing his body clock by forcing sleep on inter-continental flights, and it doesn't even matter in this case.  Don't expect Lenny to be at full strength for a few days after he makes it back, unless (knock on wood) he was the back-up during the playoffs.

Oye Vey, I have a headache.

[Josh '99]

The tournament is being played in Sydney, Nova Scotia (along with Halifax, NS), not Sydney, Australia.

[atb9]

Well that changes my post quite a bit then, doesn't it...   ::nut::

Edits have been made.  :-)



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[melissa\'01]

vote in the poll on the bottom right of the following link.

http://www.canadianhockey.ca/e/teams/mens/junior/2003/index.html

sure it is just an opinion - but we all know that some of the people making decisions will at least be looking at such things - and it looks bad when the poor boy has so little support - especially when we all know that it is mostly due to him playing college hockey in the US instead of playing in the Canadian juniors. He is simply unknown.

[Adam \'01]

Ut-oh, Lenny's gettin' schooled on that poll.

Of course, that's only by %, and there might be a really low n at this point.