A dressing room divided, Canucks host Rangers, 6 degrees of hockey separation

Bulldog Coaches Alan Kerr and Bryant Perrier have a huge task on their hands- keeping their dressing room together.

Before I go any further, I must tell you this is all a JOKE and all in good fun. Because no doubt some puck-for-brains will go Olgie Oglethorpe or hockeygod7 on the message board and say that I'm claiming the Dogs have problems in their room. If anything, this is the CLOSEST group of guys I've seen in my 10 years of doing this. I think the fact that it's been a trying season at times has brought the guys together, but what I also think has been a big factor is that almost every guy came in with what appeared to be a pretty good amount of character to begin with.

In light of Fridays Semi-Final showdown between Team Canada and Team USA, there's bound to be plenty of chirping and beaking and trash talking back and forth in a dressing room with 5 Americans and 23 Canadian kids. I actually saw a HUGE amount of this go on in 2002 when I was working in the MJHL with the OCN Blizzard and we had 2 American kids and the Olympics were going on in Salt Lake. I still vividly remember the atmosphere on the bus going to Winnipeg as we listened to the Women's Gold Medal game, USA vs Canada, where the Canadian ladies pulled it off in spite of the screw job the ref put on them. I also just as clearly remember being on the bus for the Men's Canada vs US gold medal game.

So, I knew that this little World Junior thing would be fun. I went down to the room yesterday mic in hand and talked to a smattering of individuals about the upcoming game tomorrow to get their thoughts and predictions along with some insight as to what's happening in the room with both sides going at it.

This is great stuff, I can tell the guys are having fun with it, and I appreciate them taking the time to have a little fun with this one.

Click to listen to Bulldogs-Canada vs USA
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The Canucks host the New York Rangers at GM Place tonight, and we've got it on THE PEAK, part of the Canucks Radio Network. We will pick up the pregame show from The TEAM 1040 kicking off at 6:30 tonight, with the puck drop and the play-by-play beginning at 7:00 with Tom and Shortie
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So how do you connect the Alberni Valley Bulldogs to the Swedish U17 team to the New York Rangers?

It's actually remarkably easy- Through Perry Elderbroom, President/Director of Operations of GOLD IN THE NET

For those that don't know,Perry is the Bulldogs Goalie Coach.

I ran into Perry yesterday in Nanaimo at the Clippers vs Sweden U17 game, as he was watching one of his Gold in the Net products who was tending net for Sweden last night. Today, he's taking that goalie to Vancouver to meet another of the goalies from his program, New York Rangers #1 man Henrik Lundqvist.

Isn't the hockey world small?

Hammer