Roller players in ice hockey

[alex]

I'm doing a story for a local hockey magazine on roller hockey players who have gone far in ice hockey. The story is going to focus on a select few players but we're also going to include a list on our website of roller players who are playing high level ice, I'm looking for help assembling as good of a list as possible. This is what we have so far. Feel free to comment with any other players you know who aren't included or comment on any player listed if you see anyone who doesn't belong.

We're only looking for players who played last year (2009/10) in one of the following leagues. For this list, it doesn't matter if they are lifelong roller players or just played a few times. Include the ice team they play for and, if you know it, any roller teams they were on too.


NHL
David Booth
Brad Boyes
Gilbert Brule
Alex Burrows
Jason Chimera
Robbie Earl
Sam Gagner
Nathan Gerbe
Matt Gilroy
Ales Hemsky
TJ Hensick
Matt Hunwick
Chad Kolarik
Chad Larose
Manny Legace
Jamie Lundmark
Henrik Lundqvist
TJ Oshie
David Perron
Kevin Porter
Bobby Ryan
Paul Stastny
Paul Szczechura
Justin Williams

AHL
**** Axelsson
Ben Bishop
Jonathon Blum
Jack Combs
Justin Donati
Patrick Galivan
Gabe Gauthier
Ernie Hartlieb
Ryan Hollweg
Stefan Legein
Ray Macias
Peter Mannino
Pat Maroon
Thomas McCollum
Rhett Rakhshani
Drew Schiestel
Garrett Stafford
Brett Sterling
Chris Terry
Travis Turnbull
Nigel Williams

ECHL
Danick Bouchard
Alex Bourret
Kyle Kraemer
Tim Kraus
Jeff Lerg
Brad Miller
Adam Naglich
Steven Oleksy
CJ Stretch

OHL
Alex Aleardi
JC Campagna
Robbie Czarnik
AJ Jenks
Stefan Noesen
Scott Timmins

WHL
Taylor Aronson
Cody Castro
Chris Francis
Shane Harper
Matthew Konan
Tyler Maxwell
Jon Parker
CJ Stretch

USHL
Aaron Ave
Justin Agosta
Steven Bolton
Austin Czarnik
Dakota Eveland
Rocco Grimaldi
Danny Heath
Cason Hohmann
Matt Leitner
David Makowski
Jon Merrill
Ryan Misiak
Matt White
Jason Zucker

NAHL
Alex Barron
Ryan Frost
Michael Juola
Duncan McKellar
Mike Monfredo
Nate Milam
PJ Musico
Stephen Obarzanek
JT Osborn
John Scorcia
Tyler Vanscourt

BCHL
Beau Bennett

NCAA
Nielsson Arcibal
Loren Barron
Kyle Beattie
Jon Bobb
Pat Cannone
Mike Cichy
Cory Conacher
Kevin Crane
JJ Crew
Robbie Czarnik
Spencer Heichman
Mike Hewkin
Christian Jensen
PJ Kavaya
John Kemp
Keith Kinkaid
Kyle Kraemer
Ryan Kretzer
Jason Krispel
Richard Leitner
Matt Mangene
Joe Marciano
Nick Maricic
James Mello
Sean Murphy
Max Nicastro
Kyle O'Kane
Brandon Pirri
Rhett Rakhshani
Derek Roehl
Jeff Rohrkemper
Phil Samuelsson
David Strathman
Vincent Scarsella
Bill Sweatt
Scooter Vaughan

[GoRangrHky]

Joel Ward of the Predators

http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2010/02/11/joel-ward-does-not-forget-his-roller-hockey-days/

[EagleBC]

AHL:
Matt Pope

WHL:
Garry Nunn
Joel Rogers
Kellen Tochkin

NCAA:
Derek Grant

[I_H_P]

Thomas Plekanec
Rotislav Klesla

Both play for Czech in FIRS...

[Mlrhnorthfan]

Rick dipietro
Wayne Simmonds
**** Axelsson

[DCbullets14]

theres a lot of missed players from the OHL and NCAA who played NARCh pro last year. This should add a bunch of names to that list....

http://www.narch.com/NARCh_Blogs/roller_hockey_0723093219.html

[warwick]

glen metropolit - montreal canadiens.

nj rock n rollers amongst other teams

[MBurke]

Antti Niemi played goal in IIHF a few years back - there to a Stanley Cup isn't a bad comparison right?

[growl89]

Mike Van Ryn - NHL

Jeremy Jackson - NCAA (MSU), I guess he hung them up, but he was a pretty good player, he tore up narch in 97 in Vancouver for the West Coast Wolverines I believe.

Marc Nebus - NCAA (Wayne State)/CHL , Mission Honeybaked

Karl Rachunik (sp?) - NHL, IIHF with Hemsky

Bryan Miller - NCAA (BU), AHL, ECHL, ISCA Grizzlies in 95-96

Chris Higgins - NHL

[Puckdropper1]

Here's an easy on that is no ones list. What about Lee Sweatt who is on the main page for signing with Vancouver Canucks.

[hbgragintic68]

I just have to say is john Zelko johnstown chiefs many moons ago he is old lol

[RichardGraham]

Hi Alex,

Here are a few more players to add to your list.

Players who had a stint in the NHL after a stop in Roller Hockey International (only first NHL team listed if there was more than one):

Joe Charbonneau, Vancouver Canucks
Alex Hicks, Anaheim Mighty Ducks
Mike Kennedy, Dallas Stars
Sasha Lakovic, Calgary Flames
Darren Langdon, New York Rangers
Barry Potomski, Los Angeles Kings
Harry York, St. Louis Blues

I'll have stories about players like these as well as the NHL connection to RHI in my book.