TONIGHT IN 2 Chris Kaufman D 6-2 200 1 Jean-Philippe Lamoureux G 5-10 155 4 Martin Frechette D 6-0 200 4 B.J. Crum D 6-2 205 5 Tyler Scott D 6-0 200 6 Mike Gauthier D 6-4 200 6 Jay Langager D 6-7 220 9 Derick Martin D 6-0 185 7 Scott Balan D 6-3 205 10 Colin Hemingway RW 6-0 195 8 Sean Hurley D 6-3 225 11 Erik Fabian F 6-2 205 9 Andrew Ianiero LW 6-0 201 12 Scott Burt LW 5-11 185 10 Matt Pope F 6-1 200 13 Bo Cheesman RW 6-2 200 12 Brett Pilkington F 6-0 200 15 Bryan Miller D 5-10 190 14 Tylor Michel F 5-10 192 16 Jordan Foreman F 5-10 185 15 Dave Bonk C 5-10 185 17 Brett Hemingway RW 6-1 190 18 Jason Bailey RW 6-1 210 19 Alexandre Imbeault C 6-0 180 20 Charlie Kronschnabel LW 6-4 209 22 Cam Keith RW 6-3 225 22 Liam Huculak RW 6-5 220 24 Ed Hill D 6-4 218 23 Matt Caruana C 6-0 175 25 Erik Felde LW 5-11 185 24 Bruce Graham C 6-6 235 26 Vladimir Novak C 6-1 193 25 Ryan Mahrle D 5-11 175 27 Corbin Schmidt D 5-11 190 27 Chad Painchaud F 6-1 190 29 Tomas Kana F 6-0 202 29 Ryan Nie G 6-1 215 35 Marek Schwarz G 6-0 196 32 Mike Wirll F 5-10 206 41 Matt Shasby D 6-2 200 36 Tom Morrow D 6-7 220 44 Lee Green D 6-1 210 44 Yutaka Fukufuji G 6-1 186 52 Robin Richards LW 6-4 215 55 Kevin Truelson D 6-1 208 71 Lance Gailbrath LW 5-10 185 74 Nick Tuzzolino D 6-5 225 Head Coach - Marty Raymond Asst. Coach - Mark Pederson Head Coach - Keith McCambridge TEAM LEADERS TEAM LEADERS GOALS ASSISTS WINS GOALS ASSISTS WINS 19 22 6 14 30 15 POPE PAINCHAUD NIE C HEMMINGWAY KEITH LAMOUREUX Mark Pederson and The World Junior Championships The World Junior Hockey Championships, held annually around New Year’s, brings together the best hockey players in the world under the age of 21, with Canada taking the Gold last Monday in Ottawa. Just imagine the Elite 8 of the NCAA Basketball tournament, except instead of college teams, it’s the top eight countries playing for the title. In Canada, it’s a big deal. Actually, it’s more than a big deal. Like the Super Bowl. Its media coverage is so pervasive that to realize it receives almost no coverage at all here in the States is almost depressing and embar- rassing. California, by the way, had two players on this year’s American team. Twenty years ago, our very own Assistant Coach Mark Pederson was among those elite players in the world, and took the Gold for Team Canada (a team that also included former Condor Dan Currie, by the way), and returned to Ottawa on New Year’s Eve for a 20-year Team Canada reunion at the game against the U.S. (don’t even ask what the outcome of the game was, I don’t want to talk about it.) “When you’re part of something special, those memories never go away,” says Pederson. “Years go by and you might never get to see those guys again, so to reunite was a special thing. For some of those guys it had been 15 years since we saw each other.” Pederson was on the World Championship Canadian squad, which went 6-0-1 in the round-robin tourney, out- scoring their opponents 37-16 along the way, and taking down a powerful team from their International rivals, the Soviet Union, in a 3-2 battle on New Year’s Day – in Moscow, nonetheless. The Soviets had future NHLers Alexander Mogilny and Sergei Fedorov, and lost just that once in the whole competition. “Russia in the 80’s was a tough time over there, so it was fun exchanging stories from the experiences off the ice over there as well. The hotel room and the bathroom together were tiny… we had to bring our own ketchup and mustard and used it heavily on all the food, and even brought our own Kraft dinners and stuff. The Canadian Embassy one night had us over for dinner for a couple home-cooked meals and that was a big savior for us.” “We arrived the same time as the US team, went through customs, got to our hotel, checked in, dropped our gear off, ate dinner, and then when we got back to our hotel the US team was just arriving. I guess they spent about six hours at customs.” We’ll blame The Cold War for that. But Pederson’s reunion with members of that squad showed that those memories don’t fade too quickly, and also that the success of the past sits upon the shoulders of the current teams, in keeping tradition. “Looking back on it there was a lot of pressure on us, but certainly nowadays the pressure grows with it being in Canada every couple years and now having turned in a fi ve-peat. But it’s up to the coaching staff to use that his- tory to motivate the team, and it’s up to the players to draw energy from it and make it a positive. You all check your egos at the door and do what you have to do to win.” For more info about the World Juniors and its history, log onto the International Ice Hockey Federation at www. iihf.com, or http://www.tsn.ca/World_jrs/. CONDORS STATS as of 01.06.09 ALASKA ACES as of 01.06.09 Name GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG SHG Pt/G PIMPG 10 Colin Hemingway RW 33 14 28 42 5 42 5 0 1.27 1.27 22 Cam Keith RW 33 9 30 39 8 49 3 0 1.18 1.48 21 Luke Erickson F 29 6 18 24 -1 26 2 0 0.83 0.9 19 Alexandre Imbeault C 26 10 12 22 2 30 4 0 0.85 1.15 15 Bryan Miller D 30 6 16 22 6 12 3 0 0.73 0.4 41 Matt Shasby D 33 5 15 20 6 32 1 0 0.61 0.97 26 Vladimir Novak C 33 5 6 11 -3 10 0 1 0.33 0.3 * 16 Jordan Foreman F 26 7 3 10 -5 72 1 0 0.38 2.77 29 Tomas Kana F 14 4 6 10 7 36 0 0 0.71 2.57 27 Corbin Schmidt D 19 2 8 10 5 10 2 0 0.53 0.53 12 Scott Burt LW 28 4 5 9 -7 72 2 0 0.32 2.57 74 Nick Tuzzolino D 28 2 7 9 -6 48 1 0 0.32 1.71 17 Brett Hemingway RW 19 1 8 9 -1 29 0 0 0.47 1.53 71 Lance Galbraith LW 12 4 4 8 -2 41 2 0 0.67 3.42 * 25 Erik Felde LW 22 5 2 7 -1 14 2 0 0.32 0.64 11 Erik Fabian F 19 3 4 7 -1 10 0 0 0.37 0.53 * 28 Mike Curry RW 12 1 2 3 -3 10 0 0 0.25 0.83 * 6 Mike Gauthier (total) D 10 1 1 2 0 17 0 0 0.2 1.7 9 Derick Martin D 15 0 2 2 -2 20 0 0 0.13 1.33 4 B.J. Crum (total) D 31 1 0 1 -2 45 0 0 0.03 1.45 44 Lee Green D 18 0 1 1 1 24 0 0 0.06 1.33 35 Marek Schwarz G 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 Ed Hill D 13 0 0 0 -5 13 0 0 0 1 52 Robin Richards LW 19 0 0 0 -3 60 0 0 0 3.16 * 1 Jean-Philippe Lamoureux G 25 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0.32 Name GP Mins GA Shutouts Avg. W L OTL SOL SA SVS % * Jean-Philippe Lamoureux 25 1501 61 3 2.44 15 9 0 1 802 741 0.924 Marek Schwarz 3 179 9 0 3.01 0 2 1 0 86 77 0.895 as of 01/06/09 ECHL LEAGUE STATISTICS ECHL STANDINGS POINTS GOALS PENALTY MINUTES ATTENDANCE LEADERS GOALTENDING LEADERS .