Western Collegiate Hockey Association Bruce M. McLeod Commissioner Carol LaBelle-Ehrhardt Assistant Commissioner of Operations Greg Shepherd Supervisor of Officials Administrative Office Western Collegiate Hockey Association April 12, 2012 2211 S. Josephine Street, Room 302 Denver, CO 80210 Eight WCHA Alums Among First 17 Players Named by USA Hockey p: 303 871-4491. f: 303 871-4770
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[email protected] World Championship, May 4-20, in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden. The group, which Home of a Collegiate Record 37 includes eight Western Collegiate Hockey Association-member team alums, consists of one goal- tender, five defensemen and 11 forwards. Men’s National Championship WCHA alums named to the squad to date are goaltender Richard Bachman (Colorado College), Teams Since 1951 defensemen Justin Faulk (Minnesota Duluth) and Alex Goligoski (Minnesota), and forwards J.T. 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, Brown (Minnesota Duluth), Joey Crabb (Colorado College), Ryan Lasch (St. Cloud State), Kyle 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, Okposo (Minnesota) and Paul Stastny (Denver).