World U18 roster

[cbrooks]

Here's the roster for team USA which plays next month in Germany

http://undhockey.areavoices.com/?p=87668

[cbrooks]

I predict Seth Jones will be a Fighting Sioux recruit in the near future

[solbes]

Wouldn't be a surprise as Eades has ties to USA hockey also. Guy's great at recruiting that's for sure.

[cbrooks]

Both of Seth's brothers(Matt, Zach) played for the Sioux. Hopefully Eades doesn't get a head coaching offer anytime soon.

Solbes what do you know about the goalie thats a UMD recruit?

[solbes]

Matt McNeely? Not a lot, but I check in every so often. He's 6'2" which seems to be about the norm for goalies these days. He comes from Burnsville, MN. He's roughly split his time with Gibson this year, with Gibson having the better numbers. Still great experience playing against such a wide variety of teams.

I think he will be on the team next year. Up until this past weekend, I would have thrown Kenny under the bus and said it was McNeely's spot to earn. Now I'm not so sure. Kenny walked on a couple of years ago and has done okay all things considering. He now has the NCAA experience. Kenny has had some great nights in goal (Crandall too), but struggled at times with consistency.

[cbrooks]

USA and Sweden in the gold medal game for the second straight year.

http://unitedstatesofhockey.com/

[cbrooks]

The US game will be at 11:30 AM today on www.fasthockey.com. It cost $7.

[scsavre]

Sweet, amazing how good our team are at this age. Not sure what happens after. The other countries must have a lot of players that they dont let play or something.

[cbrooks]

I haven't watch the the USA U-18 team besides the game back in December when they played UND. Out of the team these four seem to be the upcoming stars; Tyler Briggs(Miami recruit), Rocco Grimaldi(UND recruit), JT Smith(UND recruit) and Henrik Samuelsson(uncommitted).

[cbrooks]

US win gold in OT 4-3.

http://undhockey.areavoices.com/?p=87851

[scsavre]

Awesome.

[Bear55]

"]Sweet, amazing how good our team are at this age. Not sure what happens after. The other countries must have a lot of players that they dont let play or something.

We have a pretty big advantage at this tournament, with the USDP these guys play as a team all year long and that can make a huge difference in a short tournament. Every other country just throws together a team that has very little time to gel. Also the big dogs (Canada) has a very large number of their best players in the CHL playoffs so they kind of send the B team over for this tournament.

It is nice to see them pulling in all the Golds at the under 18's but when the World Jr's under 20 tournament arrives that really is best on best.

[cbrooks]

evaluation of the forwards for team USA

http://unitedstatesofhockey.com/2011/04/28/u18wc-evaluating-team-usas-forwards/

evaluation of the defensemen and goaltenders

http://unitedstatesofhockey.com/2011/04/27/u18wc-evaluating-team-usas-defensemen-and-goalies/