Coach Jeff Jackson has named Center, Anders Lee
the Captain of Notre Dame fighting Irish this season. Lee served as the
Alternate Captain in 2011-12 as a Sophomore, and will take the next step in his
hockey career as the lone Captain for his squad.
Coach Jackson has praised Lee for his off the
ice character and his abilities as a player to be relied upon by his
teammates. "Anders has the locker room's ear and his teammates like
him and respect him. It's a good combination - not just being the voice in the
locker room but also being the heart of the locker room as well …”
Selected by the New York
Islanders in the 6th round, 152nd over all in the 2009
NHL Entry Draft, Lee went 17 and 17 for 34 pts in 40 games played last season
for Notre Dame.
The 22 year old Edina Minnesota
native will serve his first game as Captain on October 7th when his
Irish face the USA Under-18 team. Their
regular season will open vs. Maine on Oct. 12th.
Arthur Staple reported that the Bridgeport Sound
Tigers training camp was open to the public on Saturday, with a couple
autograph sessions on tap for attending fans.
The stacked Isles ladened line up looked like this:
On Saturday
F’s - Persson-Ullstrom-McDonald, Niederreiter-Nelson-Kabanov, Halmo-Sundstrom-Backman, DeFazio-Watkins-Riley, Gallant-MacKay.
F’s - Persson-Ullstrom-McDonald, Niederreiter-Nelson-Kabanov, Halmo-Sundstrom-Backman, DeFazio-Watkins-Riley, Gallant-MacKay.
D - de Haan-Wishart, Donovan-Hamonic,
Ness-Landry, McIver-Cantin. Poulin, Nilsson & Reiter on the ice as well.
Casey Cizikas (groin) is day-to-day and is not
practicing.
Today, the Camp line up was similar:
F’s – Persson-Ullstrom-McDonald; Niederreiter-Nelson-Kabanov; Halmo-Sundstrom-Backman; DeFazio-Watkins-Riley and Gallant-Clark-MacKay is the final BST line at this morning's practice.
D - de Haan-Wishart, Donovan-Hamonic,
Ness-Landry, McIver-Cantin. Poulin, Nilsson & Reiter also on ice.
Casey Cizikas was not on the ice again today.
Per Larry Brooks, “Wang wants $300M for
Islanders; price way too high for investors seeking to lure storied alumni into
mix. Todays Post.”
To paraphrase, B.D. Gallof contends that if
anything, the supposed price tage of $300 million is a DEFINITIVE statement
that Charles & co. are not giving team away. This
rumor involving the Isles, simply is not happening and fans should expect a
million more of these rumors. “I have
no doubt bunch of LI’ ers are pushing notions of local heroes, European
investors & more pie in sky as Nassau hopeful. Baseless.”
I think the LaFontaine story seems too perfect
and Fairytale as a “solution” for the Isles problems to some fans. BD made good
points. These types of rumors always resurface when there is no real Islanders news
to be had.
We will have to wait and see to be sure.
Isles Notes:
Per Katie Strang on 9/27, “John Tavares will
join Islanders teammate Mark Streit to play for Bern of the Swiss-A league.”
Arthur Staple reports on Tavares on his decision
to play in SUI: "I wouldn't say it's b/c I don't think a CBA will get
done. I feel like I need to play."
Per Matias Strozyk on 9/27, “Lubomir Visnovsky
has an elbow injury and is doubtful for Saturday's away game vs. Magnitogorsk.
Has 2 pts in 3gp. Via Hokej.sk. “
Per
nhlfreeagents.com, “South Carolina Stingrays signed forward
Tyler McNeely to a one year contract .”
Per
NHLhistorygirl, “1981—Isles traded Bob Lorimer & Dave
Cameron to the Colorado Rockies for the Rockies' first round draft pick in
1983: Pat LaFontaine.”
NHL Notes:
The NHL and
NHLPA met on 9/28 for their first formal session in weeks according to Katie
Strang. There were No
core economic issues addressed. Don Fehr and Bettman had private meeting. It has been mentioned by the league that the
NHLPA to make the next move to facilitate talks on key economic issues of the
lock out. They would meet again the
following day, but not discuss core elements.
Strang added that Legal issues, including grievances, on the agenda for
the third straight day of talks on Sunday. HRR may resurface as well. At the days conclusion, the two sides talked
about player safety issues and CBA legal issues. Said it was productive. The NHL has plans to review internally.
The NHL, NHLPA to have conference call on
pension issues tonight. Two sides will then meet tomorrow on HRR issues discussed
Saturday.
Per Kevin Gibson, “92 lockedout NHLers are now
officially signed in Europe. 29 of 30 NHL teams represented. VAN has no players
officially signed, some rumoured.”
Per Elliotte Friedman, “NHL teams preparing for
regular-season cancellations this week. Expectations games will be erased in
two-week "blocks."
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