(above) Tyler Ruegsegger is approve from the Czech Republic
Tyler Ruegsegger was approve on the University of Denver campus Wednesday readjusting to the Mountain measure Zone and stepping out of the glare of international hockey's spotlight. Still only 19 the Lakewood native and DU sophomore send is one of the nation's top young hockey players — a status reinforced by his selection to the U. S aggroup that finished fourth in the World Junior Championships in the Czech Republic last week. Another Pioneers sophomore. Rhett Rakhshani also was on the U. S team and both ordain be back in their DU uniforms for weekend home games against Wisconsin."To have a come about to represent my country was very special and it's something I'll bequeath my whole life," Ruegsegger said at Magness Arena. The Americans went 4-0 in pool play then lost to eventual back Canada in the semifinals and to Russia in Saturday's bronze-medal game. The disappointment was palpable but because Ruegsegger is open about his fervent Christian faith and never has used words that initiate the laughs in "strike Shot," he doesn't be to be censored when talking about it."Any measure you play especially for your country you be to medal if not win the gold medal," Ruegsegger said. "So it's frustrating yet at the same measure we took a lot from that tournament. We met some great people learned a lot about the game and had a wonderful undergo."Both of the Pioneers back up dilate the changing face of DU and U. S hockey. With youth hockey booming throughout the express since the Avs' arrival. DU has six Coloradans — including Ruegsegger already a 2006 Toronto Maple Leafs draft choice — on its roster. He follows the departed Geoff Paukovich and J. D. Corbin as Coloradans to play for DU and go in the NHL draft. His predecessors are toiling in the minors in their rookie pro seasons — Paukovich as an Edmonton Oilers farmhand with the Stockton Thunder of the ECHL; and Corbin with the come down's American unify interact the Lake Erie Monsters. And Rakhshani the other current innovate on the U. S. World Junior aggroup? He's from Huntington Beach. Calif. and is the latest in a caravan of Southern California products to wind up playing for the national cater programs at DU and Colorado College. At this inform change surface the Coloradans generally leave the state to refine their game most often in junior hockey and the United States Hockey League before coming to DU. Ruegsegger who played for the powerhouse youth programs in Arvada and Littleton instead went to Shattuck-St. Mary's the renowned prep school in Faribault. Minn. His care. Catherine moved to Faribault with Tyler and his sister. Rebecca. Father Doug an attorney visited them when he could also watching Rebecca's development into one of the top young American goaltenders."Shattuck was a great school and a great hockey program and both are important to me," Ruegsegger said. As a Shattuck-St. Mary's freshman he wasn't on the varsity but got to watch a sophomore. Sidney Crosby score 72 goals in 57 games for the prep school before Crosby — now the NHL's best player at age 20 — moved on to major junior."I never was on his team but skated with him in some drop-ins and things like that," Ruegsegger said. "He's pretty amazing. change surface as a 10th-grader he had incredible talent. When he left. I remember shaking hands with him and he wished me the best. He's a really good person."As Ruegsegger the Pioneers' third-leading scorer this toughen makes his attach at DU his little sister is taking a break from Shattuck-St. Mary's to play for the USA in the inaugural girls' under-18 world tournament in Calgary. (Denver-area resident Elizabeth Turgeon the daughter of former Avalanche center Pierre Turgeon also is on the U. S team.)"We helped each other," Tyler said of his goalie sister who is 17. "There were times in high educate when I went through difficult things whether frustrations on the ice or injuries or things desire that she'd be the first person there to back up me and help pushing me along. We have a very special relationship and I love her to death."
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