Wednesday, July 11, 2007

U-17 Select Team

USA Hockey announced their roster for their Under-17 team that they picked from the Select 16 Festival.

This is what it looks like:

No. Name Ht. (cm) Wt. (kg) Birthdate S/C Hometown 2006-07 Team
GOALTENDERS (2)
1 Brandon Maxwell 6-1 (185) 182 (83) 3/22/91 L Winter Park, Fla. Cambridge (Ont.) Hawks (midget)
30 Matthew Skoff 5-11 (180) 170 (77) 7/23/91 L McKees Rock, Pa. Pittsburgh Hornets (midget)

DEFENSEMEN (7)
2 Daniel Furlong 5-11 (180) 170 (77) 2/11/91 L Malden, Mass. Catholic Memorial (Mass.) (high school)
3 Nick Leddy 5-10 (178) 170 (77) 3/20/91 L Eden Prairie, Minn. Eden Prairie (Minn.) (high school)
4 Eamonn McDermott 5-9 (175) 150 (68) 12/17/91 R Shaker Hts., Ohio Cleveland Barons (midget)
5 Paul Phillips 5-11 (180) 192 (87) 7/16/91 L Darien, Ill. Chicago Chill (midget)
6 John Ramage 6-0 (183) 180 (82) 2/7/91 R Chesterfield, Mo. St. Louis Amateur Blues (midget)
7 Nate Schmidt 6-0 (183) 185 (84) 7/16/91 L St. Cloud, Minn. St. Cloud (Minn.) Cathedral (high school)
8 Brad Walch 6-1 (185) 200 (91) 1/24/91 L Saginaw, Mich. Honeybaked (Mich.) (midget)

FORWARDS (12)
9 Kyle Beattie 6-0 (183) 160 (73) 5/29/91 R Avondale, Ariz. PF Chang’s (Ariz.) (midget)
10 Josh Birkholz 6-0 (183) 170 (77) 3/28/91 R Maple Grove, Minn. The Blake School (Minn.) (high school)
11 Zach Budish 6-2 (188) 212 (96) 5/9/91 R Edina, Minn. Edina (Minn.) (high school)
12 Dakota Eveland 5-7 (170) 145 (66) 9/2/91 L Anaheim, Calif. LA Selects (midget)
14 Jared Maetche 5-10 (178) 160 (73) 6/18/91 L St. Cloud, Minn. St. Cloud (Minn.) Tech (high school)
15 Cody Murphy 5-10 (178) 176 (80) 4/22/91 L Highwood, Ill. Team Illinois (midget)
16 Nick Oliver 6-1 (185) 195 (88) 5/4/91 L Wannaska, Minn. Roseau (Minn.) (high school)
17 Kit Sitterley 5-10 (178) 175 (79) 8/5/91 L Mooresville, N.C. Culver (Ind.) Academy (prep school)
18 Brad Smith 5-9 (175) 160 (73) 3/28/91 R Trenton, Mich. Belle Tire (Mich.) (midget)
19 Garrett Taylor 6-0 (183) 160 (73) 5/13/91 L San Diego, Calif. LA Selects (midget)
20 Ryan Walters 6-0 (183) 175 (79) 7/30/91 L Rosemount, Minn. Saint Thomas Academy (Minn.) (high school)
21 Steven Whitney 5-6 (168) 155 (70) 2/18/91 R Reading, Mass. Lawrence (Mass.) Academy (prep school)

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting that half the team is from non-traditional hockey states.

Anonymous said...

The Central District picks for this age group from Wisc. had a rough week. The top players from the camp included IL. players Teglia, Tullis, Phillips, Calabrese, and Brickler. Kord Miller was at the camp but was a late add as he didn't tryout at Central District and didn't make the camp out of the MI tryouts. IL. is strong at the '91 level with other top players of Murphy, Smith, Bearson.

Anonymous said...

Kord Miller Did make the camp out of MAHA
I would leave you the web page But MAHA just change there website and I cant seem too find that on the site anymore

Anonymous said...

I dont want too be negative But
The selection process for the team to go on to chec was very political to say the least, there were some kids that played alot better than some that were invited.

Anonymous said...

hey, tell us the real story.......just like last year no doubt. The process is always flawed.......there are guys who they miss and those that shouldn't be there.......every year!
Go USA!

Anonymous said...

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:7E7jazmvfUEJ:www.maha.org/youth/Selects/Rosters_2002.html+2007+maha+select+16+selections&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari


Found that page for Maha selections

Anonymous said...

Is this selection for the US Hockey under 17 team or is this some other select 17 team. I only ask because the players listed are different than the players listed on Chris H's recruiting page.

Tom
Wahoo, NE

Chris said...

This is just the team that is going to the Czech Republic for a tournament.

As for the selections, I don't think they were political. Even though USA Hockey looks at the Select camp, I think they also try to pick the best overall players, not just who had the best week. From that standpoint, I think they probably picked a pretty good team.

Anonymous said...

The USA website lists Brickler as the 11th player on the list