Our guests on the Tuesday, December 12, edition of USCHO Live! are Jim Johannson, assistant executive director of hockey operations for USA Hockey and general manager of the U.S. National Junior Team for the ninth consecutive year, and Chris Peters, NHL Draft and prospects analyst for ESPN, to preview the 2018 World Juniors Championship. The program will be available on demand beginning Tuesday, December 12, at 8 p.m. EST using the player below or listen using the Spreaker Radio app for iOS, Android or Windows phone.
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USCHO.com Atlantic Hockey columnist Dan Rubin sits in for Jim Connelly on this week’s episode.
About the hosts
Jim Connelly is a senior writer at USCHO.com and has been with the site since 1999. He is based in Boston and regularly covers Hockey East. He began with USCHO.com as the correspondent covering the MAAC, which nowadays is known as Atlantic Hockey. Each week during the season, he co-writes “Tuesday Morning Quarterback.” Jim is the winner of the 2012 Joe Concannon award. He a former color analyst for UMass-Lowell hockey’s radio network and studio analyst for NESN.
Ed Trefzger has been part of USCHO since 1999 and now serves as a senior writer and director of technology. He is the radio play-by-play voice for Rochester Institute of Technology hockey on the RIT Tigers Sports Network, and has been involved with the broadcasts as a producer, studio host, and color commentator since their inception. He is the owner and president of broadcasting company Dansville Media, and was general manager of the former Rochester, N.Y., sports radio station 97.5 The Team.
