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Its amazing the change in philosophy from USA Hockey in terms of how they select their junior team. In the old days, they would have their summer camp, and then in December simply put out a press release announcing their roster. Then they started having a selection camp in December like Canada, and now they have taken it to an extra step. One game into the tournament, they havent even named their full complement on defence. They have an offensive guy in Mike Reilly paired up with Seth Jones; an offensive guy in Shayne Gostibehere paired up with Jacob Trouba; and a real solid third pairing with Jake McCabe and Connor Murphy. But there are two guys vying for one more spot. Pat Sieloff, a big physical defenceman, and Matt Grzelcyk, who is more offensive minded, sat and watched against Germany and wont find out until Friday which way its going to go. The Americans decided they wanted to see how their team performed against Germany. The decision between the two will get made Friday, and theyll put their full complement in then. Dominant Run Of all the players on the US roster, Alex Galchenyuk is the one guy that probably wouldnt be in Ufa if the lockout was over. Hes had such a dominant month in the OHL; hes as hot as any junior age player in the world. At the beginning of the season I would have suggested he would have been a longshot to make the Montreal Canadiens, but as well as hes played in December, if the season were to start now, Galchenyuk could very well be in the Canadiens lineup. Suspension Talk The Americans will benefit from the two suspensions so far in the WJHC. Boone Jenner is obviously out for three games, and the last of three games hell miss is against Team USA. And now the Russians have lost a real good offensive player in Maxim Shalunov, who picked up a double minor late in the game against Slovakia. Shalunov received a one-game suspension: the game against the Americans. The Americans arent going to feel sorry for Canada or Russia because they lost Stefan Noesen, who was a top six forward for them, because of a 10-game suspension in the OHL. Only three of the 10 games were served before their camp, and because there were no OHL games over Christmas, he was declared ineligible. Wholesale Jerseys Paypal . Nestor and Belarussian partner Max Mirnyi defeated American Ryan Harrison and Australian Matthew Ebden 6-4, 6-4 to advance. Wholesale Jerseys Cheap . Farmar played in Israel during the NBA lockout last summer and has indicated he may return to Europe. The Hawks also received guards Anthony Morrow and DeShawn Stevenson, and forwards Jordan Williams and Johan Petro, as well as first- and second-round picks, in the deal which became official on July 11. http://pavansukhdev.org/wholesalejerseys.html . Miguel Cabrera and Jhonny Peralta homered, Doug Fister pitched seven innings of three-hit ball, and Detroit beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-2 on Friday night for its sixth straight victory.NEW YORK -- The NFL Referees Association is disputing a claim by the league that the officials threatened to take a strike vote after their contract expired. Mike Arnold, counsel for the officials, says Tuesday that claim is "patently false." "The NFLRA has never threatened to strike," Arnold said. "After repeated references by the NFL during negotiations regarding its plans to obtain replacement officials, the NFLRA briefed its members at its annual meeting on April 21, 2012. No strike vote was taken at the meeting. "In fact the NFLRAs directive to its membership was to prepare for the season and to perform each and every task assigned to them both before and after CBA expiration. This continues to be the position of the NFLRA." The collective bargaining agreement ended after the 2011 season. The sides had been meeting since October, but mediation lasted only two sessions and talks broke off Sunday. On Monday, the league said it will begin hiring and training replacement officials. The officials say that the NFL offered salary increases lower than those obtained in the 2006 agreement. "They heard about the increases that team and league employees receive, far less than the increases we proposed for the game officials, even without considering the improved offer made on Sunday," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said. "Do the officials get the same kind of raises in their other jobs as they did in 2006?" Game officials -- most of whom hold other jobs -- were offered a seven-year deal that included increases of between 5 per cent and 11 per cent in wages per year. First-year officials who made an average of $78,000 in 2011 would earn more than $165,000 by the end of the new agreement. A 10-year veteran in 2011 who made $139,000 would get more than $200,000 in 2018. Arnold also says the leaguee intends to freeze and terminate the officials pension plan, which began in 1974 and has been administered by the league since.dddddddddddd "The leagues proposal is a massive takeaway in the overall economic package at play in the negotiations," Arnold said. "Now, despite record revenues, the NFL wants to do away with the plan." Arnold said the NFLRA proposed to "grandfather" or limit the continuation of the pension plan to current officials only and that federal mediators "advised both parties ... the grandfather solution proposed by the NFLRA would normally settle the issue." "However, the NFL rejected the proposal and as recently as the June 3, 2012, session reiterated it is not interested in the grandfather concept," Arnold added. Aiello countered that the NFL offered a transition from the defined benefit plan in which the officials would retain all the benefits they currently have. "We offered to contribute $16,500 per official in 2012 and increase that amount to almost $23,000 by 2018," he said. "We showed them projections ... indicating that they would have a larger retirement benefit under our proposal than under the old defined benefit plan." Aiello said the plan being offered is the same that everyone working at the NFL office and that many of the 32 teams have. The players union supported the officials on Monday, but Denver Broncos linebacker Joe Mays says the officials plight doesnt resonate with them. "Not really," May says. "If you go out there and play the game the way its supposed to be played and control what you do, the refs dont really have too much say-so in it if youre playing the game the way its supposed to be played. We dont really pay too much attention to that. We just worry about what we can control." ' ' '