INSIDE HOCKEY

The United States Women’s Hockey Team has spent the last six months barnstorming North America for this very moment, where all of the pre-Olympic practices, meetings and preparation became reality. Where Team USA would take the ice in front of a boisterous crowd of 5,000+ at UBC Thunderbird Arena and the games would finally be real.

In the brief history of the NHL-Olympic marriage, we've seen Dominik Hasek steal the show, Tommy Salo go from golden to goat and Henrik Lundqvist carry a team on his back in Torino. So what will we see in Vancouver? The answer might lie within one of the following.

This week Denise discusses the results of the World Junior Hockey and QMJHL games, the rosters for the CHL Top Propsects game, the trades that were made, the scholastic players of the month for November, the CHL Top 10, the leaders, and the games to come in the QMJHL, the World Junior Championships, and the World U17 Challenge.