Clendening Named To USA Junior Team

In 16 games played at BU, Clendening
has one goal and eleven assists. His
lone goal came against Cornell on a
five on three power play at Madison
Square Garden.
(Photo by Matt Dresens)

Today, USA Hockey released it's 2012 World Junior Championship (WJC) Final Roster, and BU Defenseman Adam Clendening will be the only current Terrier making the trip to Alberta, host region* of the WJC. Former Terrier, Charlie Coyle also was named to the team. Coyle scored a goal in the American's 7-3 win over Sweden in an exhibition game last night.

Clendening was one of the final cuts from last year's roster and after a strong Junior Camp was selected to help lead the USA back to the gold medal. Last season, the US claimed the Bronze Medal after defeating Sweden in the third place game in Buffalo, New York. Two years ago, former Terrier Dave Warsofsky and the rest of Team USA defeated team Canada in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in the Gold Medal game. It was only the second time ever the United States has won Gold. The other was in 2004, in Helsinki, Finland.

All of Team USA's games will be televised on NHL Network. The US's first game is December, 26th against Denmark, starting at 8:00ET.

*Games are being played in both Edmonton and Calgary. Calgary being the city in which the championship game will be held.

In Other News
BU picked up a walk-on player for the second semester. Jake Moscatel will now be a member of the Boston University Hockey Team. Moscatel played the first semester on the BU Club Team and spent the '09-'10 season with the University of New England, a Division Three school in Western Mass. Prior to attending UNE, he played at the Bellmont Hill School, where he was named a two time all league selection in the Independent School League, commonly known as the ISL. After Bell Hill, Jake played with the Boston Junior Bruins of the Eastern Junior Hockey League (EJHL). In 25 games with U of NE, Moscatel had seven goals and six assists.

(Below the page break is the entire Team USA Roster)

Pos.		Name	Ht	Wt	Birthdate	Hometown	Current Team
G	1	Jack Campbell*^	6-2	182	1/9/92	Port Huron, Mich.	Soo Greyhounds (OHL)
G	35	John Gibson	6-3	200	7/14/93	Pittsburgh, Pa.	Kitchener Rangers (OHL)
G	29	Andy Iles*%	5-9	180	1/30/92	Ithaca, N.Y.	Cornell Univ.
D	5	Adam Clendening	5-11	190	10/26/92	Niagara Falls, N.Y.	Boston Univ.
D	4	Derek Forbort*	6-5	200	3/4/92	Duluth, Minn.	Univ. of North Dakota
D	12	Kevin Gravel	6-4	190	3/6/92	Kingsford, Mich.	St. Cloud State Univ.
D	28	Stephen Johns	6-4	221	4/18/92	Wampum, Pa.	Univ. of Notre Dame
D	15	Jon Merrill*	6-3	209	2/3/92	Brighton, Mich.	Univ. of Michigan
D	24	Jarred Tinordi	6-7	215	2/20/92	Millersville, Md.	London Knights (OHL)
D	8	Jacob Trouba	6-2	191	2/26/94	Rochester, Minn.	U.S. NTDP U-18 (USHL)
F	21	Josh Archibald	5-10	170	10/6/92	Brainerd, Minn.	Univ. of Nebraska Omaha
F	14	Bill Arnold	6-0	215	5/13/92	Needham, Mass.	Boston College
F	27	Nick Bjugstad*	6-4	204	7/17/92	Blaine, Minn.	Univ. of Minnesota
F	23	Connor Brickley	6-1	195	2/25/92	Everett, Mass.	Univ. of Vermont
F	3	Charlie Coyle*	6-2	207	3/2/92	East Weymouth, Ma	St. John Sea Dogs (QMJHL)
F	2	Austin Czarnik	5-8	152	12/12/92	Washington, Mich.	Miami Univ.
F	10	Emerson Etem*	6-1	197	6/16/92	Long Beach, Calif.	Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL)
F	11	J.T. Miller	6-1	195	3/14/93	East Palestine, Ohio	Plymouth Whalers (OHL)
F	20	Kyle Rau	5-8	172	10/24/92	Eden Prairie, Minn.	Univ. of Minnesota
F	22	Brandon Saad	6-2	206	10/27/92	Gibsonia, Pa.	Saginaw Spirit (OHL)
F	19	T.J. Tynan	5-8	170	2/25/92	Orland Park, Ill.	Univ. of Notre Dame
F	26	Austin Watson	6-3	195	1/13/92	Ann Arbor, Mich.	Peterborough Petes (OHL)
F	16	Jason Zucker*^	5-11	180	1/16/92	Las Vegas, Nev.	Univ. of Denver