Florida Panthers forward, Vincent Trocheck and Anaheim Ducks
forward, Corey Perry were added to the North American and Canadian rosters as injury
replacements on Friday.
Trochek, replaces Calgary Flames center Sean Monahan on the
North American squad for the tournament which takes place at the Air Canada
Centre in Toronto, from September 17 to October 1. Perry will replace Los
Angeles Kings forward on Team Canada.
Flames general manager, Brad Treliving said, “Sean Monahan has sustained a back strain
during his preseason training, and as a result will not be able to participate
in the World Cup of Hockey with Team North America. We anticipate that this is
not a long term issue and plan on having Sean healthy and ready for the start
of our training camp.”
Monahan put up a career high 63 points, as he scored 27
goals and 36 assists in 81 games for Calgary. Those totals helped earn him a
seven-year, 44.625 million-dollar contract, just two weeks ago.
He told the Flames website, “It is definitely disappointing. It is something that I looked forward to.
It is a long summer, so you want to get back playing right away. It is in
Toronto too. It was going to be nice to have a lot of family and friends who do
not get to watch me often. It is disappointing, but at the same time my
commitment is to the Flames. I just want to make sure I am 100 percent for [Opening
night in Edmonton] October 12.”
Trocheck, 23, set career highs this past season for the
Panthers, as he scored 25 goals and 28 assists for 53 points, with a plus-15,
in 76 games. After returning from an ankle injury, he added an assists in two
Stanley Cup Playoff games against the New York Islanders.
Trocheck, has 37 goals and 46 assists in 146 career National
Hockey League games. Monahan, 80 goals and 79 assists in 237 NHL games.
Perry, 31, has put up 330 goals and 334 assists in 804 NHL
games. This past season he scored 34 goals and 28 assists, while playing in all
82 games for the Ducks. In seven playoff tilts, he added four more assists.
Perry will replace Los Angeles Kings forward, Jeff Carter on
the Canadian roster. Carter, 31, sustained a lower back injury during a
training session. LA Kings Insider,
noted that he is listed as week-to-week.
This past season Carter put up 24 goals and 38 assists in 77
games for Los Angeles. He added two more goals in the Kings five Stanley Cup
Playoff games.
In other News:
The New York Rangers announced that Chris Drury was promoted
to the position of assistant general manager. The 40-year-old, finished out the
last four seasons of his career with the Rangers. Last season he returned to
New York in the role of Director of Player Development.
His new role, will have him assisting, general manager, Jeff
Gorton, with player contracts as well as continuing to scout and evaluate the
players at the collegiate level. He will also help with development of some of
the Rangers prospects.
Drury told BlueshirtsUnited.com, “To be a part of the team in this way is a huge honor. I am certainly
thrilled to be doing it.”
Drury pretty much got an early jump on his new role, with
the team’s negotiations and recruitment process of unrestricted free agent and
Hobey Baker Award winner, Jimmy Vesey.
Vesey said, “Chris
Drury was someone that I was really impressed with during the meeting with the
Rangers and he is someone that I respect a lot based on what he has done in his
career.”
As Vesey did this past season, with Harvard University,
Drury won the Hobey Baker Award, with Boston University in 1998.
Drury, was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques 72nd
overall, in the third round of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. The Little League Baseball
World Series Champion from Trumbull, Connecticut, has scored 260 goals and 355
assists, over 12 seasons, while playing for the Colorado Avalanche, Buffalo
Sabres, Calgary Flames and Rangers.
He helped lead the Avalanche to a Stanley Cup victory over
the New Jersey Devils in 2001 and brought home the silver for Team USA during
the 2002 Salt Lake City and 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
Gorton told BlueshirtsUnited.com, “Chris has become an important and valuable member of our management
team since joining us last year. He has come in with the same qualities we all
know he had as a player: Great work ethic, passion and dedication. I have a
tremendous amount of respect for him, with everything that he has accomplished
in the game, and feel very fortunate to have him working with us in this role.”
Boston Bruins forward, David Krejci will not play for the
Czech Republic team during the World Cup of
Hockey. The team has not named a replacement for Krejci yet, but they expect to make announcement on Saturday.
General manager for the Czech Republic, Martin Rucinsky told
Czech website, iDNES.cz, “It is a huge
loss for us. He should have been our key player and first or second center. And
since we do not have [offensive minded] defensemen for the power play, he
should have been important for our power plays at the blue line.”
The Czech Republic team will open their training camp, at
the O2 Arena, in Prague, on Monday. Just four days ago, Krejci, was looking forward
to ramping up his training and workouts so that he would be ready for the
tournament.
On competing in the World Cup, he said, “If you asked me a long time ago, then yes. But right now I just want
to get to 100 percent. And if I will be ready, then that would be awesome. But
if not, you have to do what you have to do to be a 100 percent.”
During the 2015-2016 campaign, Krejci tied for second on the
Boston Bruins with 63 points in 72 games. Since the 2008-2009 NHL season, he
leads all Czech born players with 445 points in 561 games.
Devils prospect Ben Johnson was found guilty on Thursday, of sexually assaulting
a sixteen-year-old girl, in a restroom of a Windsor, Ontario bar three years
ago. After learning of the conviction, the Devils began the process of terminating his
contract.
Justice Kirk Munroe delivered the verdict, following a three
hour ruling. The former Windsor Spitfires player, was released, under the conditions
of his bail requirements pending his sentencing on Friday.
Johnson, 22, split his time last season between the Albany
Devils of the American Hockey League and the Adirondack Thunder and Orlando
Solar Bears of the ECHL.
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