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The 2011 World Junior Hockey Championship has
now come and gone, ending in unprecedented fashion as Louis Leblanc and Team
Canada allowed 5 unanswered goals to Team Russia in the Gold Medal Game. 
Joonas Nattinen and Team Finland weren’t quite as successful as they finished
6th overall.  As always, we’ve tracked how each prospect fared
game-by-game.

Louis
Leblanc (CAN)


Date
Opponent
G
A
PIMS
+/-
SOG
Dec. 26 Russia 0 1 0 +1 2
Dec. 28 Czech Rep. 1 1 0 E 2
Dec. 29 Norway 1 1 0 +3 4
Dec. 31 Sweden 0 0 2 +1 4
Jan. 2 Switzerland 1 0 0 +2 1
Jan. 3 USA 0 0 0 E 2
Jan. 5 Russia 0 1 0 -1 2
–
Totals		 3 4 2 +6 17

Player notes: Leblanc’s goal vs the
Czech Republic was a shorthanded game winner.

Joonas
Nattinen (FIN)


Date
Opponent
G
A
PIMS
+/-
SOG
Dec. 26 USA 1 0 0 +1 2
Dec. 28 Switzerland 1 0 0 +1 3
Dec. 29 Germany 1 0 0 E 3
Dec. 31 Slovakia 0 0 2 E 3
Jan. 2 Russia 0 0 0 E 2
Jan. 4 Switzerland 0 0 0 E 1
–
Totals		 3 0 2 +2 14

Player notes:
Nattinen named Finland’s Player of the Game against Switzerland (he had the GWG). 
All of Nattinen’s 3 goals were Finland’s 1st of each contest.  Nattinen was
named as one of Finland’s top three players as selected by their coaching staff.

Habs in
past WJC’s


Many players who have played for the Habs this season have worn the colours of
their country in previous years.  They are:


Goalies


Player
Year(s)
Team
Record
GAA
SV%
SO
Carey Price 2007 Canada 6-0-0 1.14 .961 2
Alex Auld 2001 Canada 0-0-0 12.00 .667 0

Defence


Player
Year(s)
Team
GP
G
A
PTS
PIMS
Yannick Weber ’06-’08 Switzerland 18 4 7 11 28
P.K. Subban ’08-’09 Canada 13 3 6 9 11
James
Wisniewski		 ’03-’04 USA 13 2 7 9 10
Josh Gorges 2004 Canada 6 0 3 3 4
Roman Hamrlik 1992 Czech Rep. 7 3 0 3 8
Jaroslav Spacek 1994 Czech Rep. 7 2 0 2 8
Andrei Markov* ’97-’98 Russia 6 0 1 1 2

* – Andrei Markov was listed on the 1998 team
but did not play.

Forwards


Player
Year(s)
Team
GP
G
A
PTS
PIMS
Brian Gionta ’98-’99 USA 13 11 8 19 6
Lars Eller ’07-’09 Denmark 16 8 11 19 73
Andrei
Kostitsyn		 ’03-’05 Belarus 16 8 10 18 18
Mike Cammalleri ’01-’02 Canada 14 11 6 17 12
Scott Gomez ’98-’99 USA 13 4 7 11 6
Tomas Plekanec ’01-’02
Czech Rep		 14 4 5 9 6
Dustin Boyd 2006 Canada 6 4 2 6 0
Benoit Pouliot 2006 Canada 6 0 5 5 14
Tom Pyatt ’06-’07 Canada 12 2 3 5 18
Max Pacioretty 2008 USA 6 0 0 0 8

It may be hard to believe but Eller’s PIM
total is not a typo – he really did have 73 PIMS in 16 career tournament games.