More World Junior rosters have been announced - preliminary rosters are available at TSN for the Czech Republic, Russia, and Switzerland. These look like tryout rosters since there are way more players on each roster than the 22 allowed by the IIHF on the final roster.
But, for WHL players NOT on those rosters, they likely aren't going to be playing. The Russian roster, for example, does not have a single CHLer on it - which means Everett's Vitaly Karamnov isn't going.
For the Czechs, they have numerous CHLers on their list but none from the WHL. So, no Tomas Vincour of the Oil Kings, no David Steiler of the Broncos, no Ondrej Roman of Spokane, etc, etc.
There are two WHLers on the Swiss roster - Lethbridge defenceman Luca Sbisa, and Kootenay forward Arnaud Jacquemet.
Interesting to note that the Czechs have Radek Meidl on there - he played for Seattle last year but was released before the import draft. Nobody else in the CHL picked him up. So, good enough to play for the Czechs at the World Juniors but not good enough to play for Seattle? Or were there other issues why he was released and not picked up anywhere in the CHL? Maybe he didn't want to play in North America anymore.....who knows.
Anyway, I have updated the list of players who will be away from the WHL clubs (below).
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Meidl was dropped to allow the TBirds to get Riku Helenius
True, but apparently nobody wanted him since he was not picked up by any team anywhere in the CHL. Makes you wonder.
I hear he is now on Tri-City's PPL. We'll see if the Ams can convince him to come spend the rest of the season here after the WJCs perhaps.
Hello Alan:
Its 1:45pm Monday afternoon and no update. Its hard enough to go all weekend without your blog, its the best. Hope your ok.
Heh heh....sorry, some days it just doesn't work out as far as writing an entry. I'm usually writing it while at work and have a minute or two. Sometimes those minutes just don't materialize unfortunately.
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