Well, it's been a few days since the team last checked in with me, and the results of the Coloplast International have now been posted to the US site. You'll notice a considerable amount of can-con in the All Tournament Team, which includes our own:

0.5 - Daniel Paradis (Canada Nordiques)
1.5 - Patrice Simard (Canada Nordiques)
2.0 - Allan Chatrand (Canada Ice)
MVP - Ian Chan (Canada Nordiques)
Sportsmanship - Harry DeBoer (London Annihilators)

Harry, who is the player/coach of the London, Ontario based "Annihilators," beat the Canada Ice team twice at this tournament. The regular Annihilator lineup was supplemented with American 2.5 Justin Patterson, from the Left Coast.

The Ice were running a balanced 4-deuce lineup for much of the time, with Say Luangkhamdeng looking sweet as the chaser. The Ice roster looks something like this:

1.0 Gerard Andruschak (BC Bandits)
2.0 Say Luangkhamdeng (BC Bandits)
2.0 Allan Chartrand (Prairie Dawgs)
2.0 Raymond Lizotte (Quebec Impact)
2.0 Trevor Robinson (Team Manitoba)
3.0 Steven Dunn (Nova Scotia Spokebusters)
3.0 Dale Nording (Prairie Dawgs)

The Nordiques were there to win, and win they did, this time over a Phoenix Heat team that included their Australian Paralympian 3.5 Brad Dubberley, and US Paralympian deuces Andy Cohn and Brent Poppen and 1.0 Scott Hogsett. I believe that Poppen will be ineligible to play for them in the post-season, but he'll be rostered with them at tournaments throughout the season.

Some of the members of the Canada Ice team have gone home by now, while others have remained to review game tapes with the coaching staff and the national team players. A few of them will be sticking around to absorb as much as possible at the Demolition Derby in Birmingham, where the team has now settled in anticipation of the upcoming tournament.

For some casual reading, well-known movie critic Roger Ebert from the Chicago Sun Times, and a long-running television show that bears his name, has now seen and reviewed the Murderball documentary. There is also few photos of interest taken by Ebert, namely the producer/director team who produced the movie, and one of Team USA captain (3.0) Mark Zupan. These photos are in his Sundance Gallery #1.

~That is all~