Marc-André Fleury Heads Lists of Players Named to Home Hardware CHL Top Prospects Game
Marc-Andre Fleury of the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles heads the list of forty players that were selected to participate in the 2003 Home Hardware Canadian Hockey League Top Prospects Game that will be played at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex on Wednesday, January 22 at 7:00 p.m. The announcement of the players selected was made by the CHL and the National Hockey League today at a press conference in Kitchener. The players named are forty of the top prospects from the CHL that are eligible for this year’s NHL Entry Draft that will be held in Nashville on June 21 and 22.
The list of forty names, which was created by the thirty member teams of the National Hockey League and the NHL’s Central Scouting Bureau, consists of four goaltenders, 12 defencemen and 24 forwards. By league there are 13 players each from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Western Hockey with the Ontario Hockey League contributing 14 players.
A member of Canada’s silver medal team at the 2003 World Junior Hockey Championships, Fleury is joined by two other players that participated in the World Junior Hockey Championships in Nova Scotia. The Guelph Storm’s Dustin Brown and Patrick O’Sullivan of the Mississauga IceDogs played for the United States at this year’s junior championships. Also included in the group of 40 are three players that were invited to the final selection camp for Canada’s national junior team. Nathan Horton of the Oshawa Generals, Braydon Coburn of the Portland Winter Hawks and the Peterborough Petes’ Eric Staal will participate in this year’s Home Hardware CHL Top Prospects Game.
The Halifax Mooseheads have the largest team contingent for this year’s Home Hardware CHL Top Prospects Game with four players. The Red Deer Rebels, the Moncton Wildcats, the Brandon Wheat Kings, the Calgary Hitmen, and the Medicine Hat Tigers have all had two players from their respective team selected to play in the January 22 game.
GARDIENS / Goaltenders
Jonathan Boutin, Halifax Mooseheads
Corey Crawford, Moncton Wildcats
Marc-Andre Fleury, Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
Kevin Nastiuk, Medicine Hat Tigers
DEFENSEURS / Defence
Shawn Belle, Tri-City Americans
Paul Bissonnette, Saginaw Spirit
Jean-Michel Bolduc, Quebec Remparts
Braydon Coburn, Portland Winter Hawks
Mike Egener, Calgary Hitmen
Kevin Klein, Toronto St Michael’s Majors
David Liffiton, Plymouth Whalers
Dion Phaneuf, Red Deer Rebels
Alexandre Picard, Halifax Mooseheads
Frank Rediker, Windsor Spitfires
Brent Seabrooke, Lethbridge Hurricanes
Richard Stehlik, Sherbrooke Castors
ATTAQUANTS / Forwards
Steve Bernier, Moncton Wildcats
Alexandre Bolduc, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies
Marc-Andre Bernier, Halifax Mooseheads
Dustin Brown, Guelph Storm
Jeff Carter, SOO Greyhounds
Jeremy Colliton, Prince Albert Raiders
Eric Fehr, Brandon Wheat Kings
Jonathan Filewich, Prince George Cougars
Colin Fraser, Red Deer Rebels
Dan Fritsche, Sarnia Sting
Ryan Getzlaf, Calgary Hitmen
Nathan Horton, Oshawa Generals
Jean-Francois Jacques, Baie-Comeau Drakkar
Kamil Kreps, Brampton Battalion
Maxim Lapierre, Montreal Rocket
Stefan Meyer, Medicine Hat Tigers
Patrick O’Sullivan, Mississauga IceDogs
Corey Perry, London Knights
Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Rimouski Oceanic
Mike Richards, Kitchener Rangers
Eric Staal, Peterborough Petes
Anthony Stewart, Kingston Frontenacs
Ryan Stone, Brandon Wheat Kings
Peter Vrana, Halifax Mooseheads
