The team plans to play an exhibition game in Prague of the Czech Republic before moving on to Zurich. With only 18 of a possible 23 roster spots filled, the remaining positions will be used up with players eliminated in the first round of the NHL playoffs and/or National Team members.
Another option open to the coaching staff would be to use National Team members in the early tournament games, replacing them with NHL players as the tournament progresses. Once a player has been replaced however, he cannot be used again.
As has become a spring custom, TSN and RDS will televise the World Hockey Championship, beginning with Canada's game against Slovakia on Saturday, May 9th at 10 AM ET/7 AM PT.
Current 1997-98 Statistics: Po # GP G A Pts +/- PIM PP SH GW GT Sh Sh% C 32 54 12 18 30 14- 51 3 0 1 0 84 11.9Trevor made his debut in Vancouver as an Islander on Wednesday, March 25. He received a very warm welcome, as the crowd gave a substantiated cheer when he took to the ice during the pre-game warmup. Following the national anthems, attention was directed towards "Orca Vision" (the large tv screens on the score board), and a very moving video montage of hilights from Trevor's career in Vancouver was shown to the music of a Green Day song. This culminated in all 8 sides of the scoreboard flashing "THANKS, TREVOR!!" in large letters, as the crowd stood and gave him a standing ovation for 2 minutes, while the Canucks stood banging their sticks on the boards in salute to Trevor. Trevor got up, and saluted and applauded the crowd, and they eventually stopped cheering. Trevor was, unfortunately, a non-factor during the game, as he had been matched up against Mark Messier, Pavel Bure & co. However, the crowd did not forget to boo Messier everytime he touched the puck! (way to go, Canuck fans!!! :) ) Check out more info in the articles section.(Or go here) and here.
The Islanders stormed into Edmonton on Monday, March 23, and and took home a 3-1 victory. It was their first win in 7 games since former GM took over coaching duties. Trevor was the first star, scoring 2 goals late in the game, also ending a 6 game scoreless drought. I will be putting up a video clip soon. Stay tuned!
Trevor seems to know something the rest of the league doesn't know... he's about the only guy who can figure out Hasek. Trevor continues to dominate the Dominator. Ever since the Olympics in Nagano, where Trevor scored Team Canada's only goal in a 2-1 loss to the Czech Republic in the gold medal game qualifying match, He has scored on 3 of his last 4 shots against Dominek, who until the game against the Islanders had played 144 minutes of shutout hockey! Trevor scored 2 goals 36 seconds apart in the end of the first period, as the Islanders stopped the Sabre's 13 game unbeaten streak with a 4-2 win.
See a video clip of Trevor's second goal on Hasek. (March 07, 1998). The clips is about 480 KB, and should take between 3 to 8 minutes to download.
Trevor Linden was named Team Captain of the New York Islanders recently. Bryan McCabe had been the captain, prior to Linden's arrival when McCabe was traded to the Vancouver Canucks along with Todd Bertuzzi for Trevor.
Trevor Linden will be wearing number 32 for the Islanders, as his previous number, 16, which he has worn for 10 years with the Canucks, was already in use by Zigmund Palffy.
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