21.   He also helped his Junior Olympic team finish ninth.

22.   He earned a spot on the junior national team that summer and gained valuable experience against European teams.

23.   He has been coaching a junior team and skating every day, but it is different than the rigors of the NHL and he knows it.

24.   He remained passionate about hockey and signed on with the Toronto Nationals, a junior team in Canada.

25.   He has taken the place of Livan Hernandez, a good friend since the two pitched together on the Cuban junior national team.

26.   He recommended that, if the NHL removes itself from the Olympics equation, that nations send their junior national teams.

27.   He returned to the Rangers during the post-season after playing for the Canadian national junior team and for a club in Hull.

28.   He will explain that one of his primary motivations for making the junior national team was simply to acquire one of the warmup suits provided to team members.

29.   He was good enough to dream, making the U.S. junior team at one point.

30.   He started last year with the Bruins, too, and played in three of eight games before being returned to his junior team.