Wednesday Afternoon Update

Alan Caldwell has a great post today that outlines the players that will miss time for each of the Junior Championships. You can find it here http://smallatlarge.blogspot.com/2007/12/player-absences.html.

Interesting to note that as of this moment Riku Helenius has not been invited to Team Finland's camp. I would expect that to change. It would seem to me that if Finland can find 3 or 4 junior goaltenders better than Riku... I would be very surprised. If that is indeed true, what a nice break for the Thunderbirds as they would be able to keep both of their two goaltenders throughout the holiday season, something that is desperately needed considering the number of shots being surrendered.