Re: The WJC Thread that HOKYDOPE didn't Start. USA! USA! USA!
Re: The WJC Thread that HOKYDOPE didn't Start. USA! USA! USA!
He's not the only one with those qualities!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unless you know personally every single kid that was invited and can say they don't have those qualities, I don't know how you can determine this has COMPLETELY to do with politics. Politics is always involved, but it's not 100 percent the factor in every decision ever made by an organization.
Like it's been said, there's a lot of depth in the USA right now. They can't invite everyone. USA hockey has to fill different roles, so sometimes good players get left off. It's time to move on and get over it.
Torey Krug
2 time national champion with 90 Detroit Honeybake while playing up a year
won Silversticks
Won the Quebec tournament
Won national championship while playing at own age with Belle Tire
Won six Michigan state championships
Went to Indiana Ice/USHL as a 17 year old. Played there 1 year and did as follows
Team won the league championship. he had 47 points, next closest D was 2 + years older with 28 points. This put him 2nd in league for all dman as a 17 year old and broke Indiana's all time dman scoring record. In playoffs had 7 points and led team with a plus 11. Member of the USHL All-Rookie Team
Moved on to Michigan State as an 18 year old freshmen
As a freshmen, led all D in scoring with 21 points as well as 80 blocked shots. and named to all CCHA rookie team.
Was named the CCM CCHA Rookie of the Month for December, and earned the HCA National Rookie of the Month honors for December as well
Named the CCM CCHA Rookie of the Month for January, the second straight month he earned the honor .
Blocked a season-high nine shots in the CCHA quarterfinals against Michigan (3/12-13), with an assist in each game ... Finished the season on a four-game point-scoring streak, the longest active streak on the team.
Graduated with a 4.02 grade-point average from Cathedral High School in Indianapolis
East Lansing, Mich. - Michigan State sophomore captain Torey Krug has been named to the CCHA Preseason All-Conference Team, as announced today by the CCHA office.
Krug received the third-most votes of any blueliner in the conference, garnering three first-place votes and 30 points. An All-Rookie team selection a season ago, Krug had a 3-18-21 scoring line while playing approximately 24 minutes per game as a freshman. Krug was voted the captain of the Spartans by his teammates during summer workouts.
Aug. 31, 2010
East Lansing, Mich. - -- Michigan State hockey coach Rick Comley has announced that sophomore Torey Krug (Livonia, Mich.) will captain the Spartans in the upcoming season, with seniors Dustin Gazley (Novi, Mich.) and junior Trevor Nill (Novi, Mich.) serving as alternate captains.
Krug is only the second player in Michigan State history to wear a captain's "C" on his sweater as a sophomore. Detroit native Don McSween was a captain in the 1984-85 season, sharing the captaincy with Kelly Miller and Dan McFall. Krug becomes the only solo sophomore captain in program history.
"Torey has established himself as a leader in our locker room, and it's a testament to him that his teammates voted him to be their captain," said head coach Rick Comley, who is embarking on his ninth season behind the bench at Michigan State. "We saw those leadership qualities in him as we recruited him, and we knew that he would bring that to our program. Dustin Gazley and Trevor Nill are two hard-working players who expect the best of themselves and the others around them, and they are great leaders by example. It's their conduct, effort and initiative that has established them as leaders among their teammates, and the vote was very indicative of their stature in our locker room."
This year with Michigan State, he is second on the team in scoring with 15 points in 17 games, 3 times more than the next dman on the team.
Samuelson is 3rd on his team for d scoring and 4th in plus minus on D. Has been very sloppy, been to the WJC camp 3 times now, with the first 2 being the first rd cut group. has done zero this year on the ice to be there again.
I know there are many great canidates but none more so deserving, if so please provide info. USA hockey on purpose makes sure they only have Natl kids and other chosen ones there.
He at least deserves the chance to skate with thegroup and if gets cut, so be it.
