OTHL -- Tomorrow the All-Star weekend will kick off for real when the young up and coming players face each other in the Young Stars game. The two teams are made up of players age 24 and younger, and the roster will feature 3 left-wingers, 3 right-wingers, 3 centers, 6 defenders and 2 goaltenders. Among the players picked we find Ottawa's Martin Havlat, Chicago's Tuomo Ruutu and Philadelphia's Patrice Bergeron. Rickard Wallin (STL) who leads all rookies in scoring this season, will not play as he has been picked to the All-Star game in Sunday.
In the east Pittsburgh have the most players on the roster with 3. While New Jersey and Tampa Bay are represented by 2 players each. While the Chicago Blackhawks has optaned most roster spots in the West with 3 players (Ruutu, Radulov and Leighton). Calgary, Nashville and Edmonton all got 2 players picked to the West team.
WESTERN CONFERENCE ROSTER
name pos team
Tuomo Ruutu LW CHI
Alexander Semin LW DAL
Scott Harnell LW NSH
Mike Green C CGY
Jamie Lundmark C LA
Stepehn Weiss C EDM
Ales Hemskey RW EDM
Nikolai Zherdev RW CBJ
Igor Radulov RW CHI
Alexei Semenov D CGY
John Michael Liles D COL
Nick Schultz D MIN
Paul Martin D STL
Jay Bouwmeester D STL
Dan Hamhuis D NSH
Dan Blackburn G LA
Michael Leighton G CHI
EASTERN CONFERENCE ROSTER
name pos team
Henrik Zetterberg LW TB
Martin Havlat LW OTT
Alexander Frolov LW FLO
Jason Spezza C TB
Patrice Bergeron C PHI
Antoine Vermette C NJ
Josef Balej RW NJ
Justin Williams RW CAR
Joffrey Lupul RW PIT
Steve Eminger D BUF
Barret Jackman D MTL
Joni Pitkanen D PHI
Rostislav Klesla D PIT
Shaone Morrisonn D WSH
Mike Komisarek D MTL
Marc-Andre Fleury G PIT
Kari Lehtonen G ATL