The Green Line

Today you can “meet” the green line. Only two of these players made the trip to Finland, and all are development players. Again they are a great, hard working bunch.

At Defense, #9, Huang Lina (Whong Lee-nah). She is 20 years old and 5’5” tall. She was one of the two players on this line to make the trip to Finland. She has good hands and is tough. She is a bit slow and some times loses her focus, but she is a very funny kid. She likes to draw and is always sketching people.


At Defense, #28, Wang Nan (Wong Nahn). She is 17 and also 5’5”. She did not make the Finland trip. She is very strong, but needs to get faster. She is a very smiley kid, and always seems happy. She works very hard and I am sure will improve a lot this season.


At Center, Yu Ying (Yoo Young). She is 22 and 5’6” tall. She is an older player with good skills, but plays very slowly. She has played both Defense and offense, and did not make the trip to Finland. She likes to joke around a lot and seems like a very nice kid.


At Wing, #22, Hou Cui (Who-oh Shweee). She is 17 years old and is 5’4”. She is very small and not very strong. She was the other player on this line to make the Finland trip. Although she gets bounced around a lot on the ice, she did score two goals on the trip. She eats more than anyone on the team, but never seems to get any bigger. Every time I see her, she is eating. Once, I actually saw her make and eat a chocolate pudding sandwich, literally chocolate pudding between two slices of bread.


At Wing, Han Xu Ping (Hahn Shoo-Ping). She is also 17 years old and 5’5” tall. She is very shy, has decent skills, but is also very physically weak. I had to stop her today to get this picture. She always hides from me when I have the camera out, a very sweet and shy girl.


Tonight, Tim and I went out with the guys to play some pool. Coach Ji was the best by far, but I held my own as the only one to beat coach Ji the entire night. We went with Mr. An, Coach Li, Coach Liu, Dr. Gao, the Tall Man and Ms. Zhou. It was a fun night. We went to a high class joint, where there were attendants to rack the balls for you and hand you the bridge when you needed it.

So good night from Harbin. Tomorrow we scrimmage the boys and on Thursday, Tim and I head home to the U.S….