Getting To Know Your 2010 U.S. Men's Olympic Hockey Team: Zach Parise

Just like that it's Friday again. And as expected, we're examining the young men that will represent your United States of America in the 2010 Olympic Games. Get on past the leap for today's kid.

Zach Parise is a 24-year-old left-handed-shooting left winger who logs his NHL ice time in a New Jersey Devils sweater. Taken in the first round (17th overall) of the 2003 draft, Parise has the honor of having been named an alternate captain for the upcoming games in Vancouver. The Devil has demonstrated consistent improvement in point totals since entering the game, tallying a career-high 45 goals and 49 assists a season ago. Like a number of his olympic teammates, Parise is a native Minnesotan, but he spent his college years at the University of North Dakota. Parise's father played at the professional level for the Minnesota North Stars, and Parise himself was voted MVP of the U-20 International Ice Hockey Federation Junior championship. He, like several others on the roster, has a hot girlfriend.
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Getting To Know Your 2010 U.S. Men's Olympic Hockey Team: Jamie Langenbrunner

In 13 days men's hockey will get underway at the XXI Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. The purpose of this series is to familiarize readership with the skaters that are on the American roster.

Jamie Langenbrunner will turn 35 this summer. That, in comparison with the rest of the men on this roster, is really old. Langenbrunner was drafted in the second round of the 1993 NHL Draft by the Dallas Stars. He spent almost exactly half of his career with the franchise and has been a New Jersey Devil ever since. He's a right-handed-shooting right winger, who's won two Stanley Cups and been close on a handful of other occasions. When he has hoisted the greatest trophy in sports, Langenbrunner has very much looked forward to his time alone with the cup, whether it has champagne in it or not. He has 223 career goals, 367 assists, and over 13,000 minutes of ice time, and represented the United States in the 1998 Olympic Games. Langenbrunner is the perfect fit for the proverbial veteran, locker-room leader role model type, and he has always come up huge in big games. It is for those, and many other reasons, that Jamie Langenbrunner is your United States Olympic Hockey team captain.
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