Canadian National Team Roster

[dave1381]

Released today:
http://www.hockeycanada.ca/e/teams/womens/worlds/2004/rosters/can.html

Apps, Piper, Kingsbury, and Ouellette all made the cut.
Carla MacLeod did not.
Now what does this mean for the Frozen Four?

[dave1381]

Canada's National Women's Team will be arriving in Nova Scotia on March 20, 2004 for a five-day pre-competition camp in Halifax and Antigonish, NS. Details regarding the pre-competition camp will be announced shortly.
Five-day competition camp would run March 20-24 (or 21-25?)
Frozen Four is March 26th and March 28th. Hmmmm. This might be good news, or at the very least, better than we thought it might be.

[binnyrus]

(Since it appears that UMD isn't going to make it this year, it won't effect Ouellette at all.) My hope would be that all of the players would be able to play with their college team and make the FF what it is supposed to be - the best teams, with the best players they have, playing for the National title.

[dave1381]

And to clarify my post - I was originally under the impression that the camp would overlap with the Frozen Four. It appears now that the camp does not. So it appears players would have the option of competing in the Frozen Four after abandoning their college teams for the prior week. That's what I meant by this being better than I thought.

The bad news, however, is that the ECAC tournament is being held on March 20th and March 21th, and the camp does overlap with that. Tough luck for Dartmouth and St. Lawrence.

[dave1381]

Originally posted by Spirit of '82
Roster is now posted at www.hockeycanada.ca -any comments? What happened to Carla McLeod? Transition to a younger team will be a slow process.
It will be as long as the Canadian players keep playing, and the American ones do not.

I think it was slowed down significantly by the fact that this WWC is in Canada, hence a greater demand for players wanted to compete on their home ice.

[dave1381]

now I think there's also the chance that players might get out of the first day or two of the camp for ECACs, but they'll be stuck in exhbition games during the Frozen Four. Is their schedule up somewhere? I'll look for it myself in a sec.

[dave1381]

Some press on the game...
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/sports/story.html?id=8dc65ca7-e541-41e0-94b3-21d6d3f3371c

As testimony to Canada's depth, Nicole Corriero, a third-year player at Harvard, wasn't even invited to Canada's selection camp last month despite being a nominee for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award - which goes annually to the outstanding player in women's U.S. college hockey.

Yes, clearly the reason why she wasn't invited to the camp - and didn't even make the U-22 team - was because of Canada's unbelievable depth. Riiight.

[crisp kringle47]

she was not the only canadian patty kaz nominee not invited to the camp, i do believe St. Cloud's Kobi Kawamoto is in the same position, however she is a senior and did play on the Under 22 team at one point.

[dave1381]

When the article says "nominee" what it meant to say was Patty Kaz final 10 (can't blame them for getting it wrong though, the awards has always flip-flopped between calling the final 10 finalists, or the final 3 finalists, etc.) Kobi did not make the final 10. Ouellette and Corriero were the only Canadians that made that cut.