Say What?!? - August 27
"Their team had a team party, a double-kegger the night before I came in. We put them through the paces and that kid was the best kid on the ice by a million miles. So when (Joe) Thornton couldn't come in, that's how life should be is when you do good things, good things happen."
- Team Canada coach Mike Babcock on how and why they chose University of Calgary player Dylan Walchuk to stand in for Joe Thornton on Day 1 of Canada's orientation camp.