Habs at the WJC’s

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.