re possible canadian wc team in article apr news columbia edu gld cunixb cc columbia edu gary l dare writes nlu xenon stanford edu nelson lu writes centers mark messier n y rangers messier was not invited due to his nagging injuries while the press made an issue of it and attempted to link it to the rangers internal political woes mike keenan repeated that to messier personally during the msg press conference it makes sense messier would probably have not declined the invitation if it were made for publicity actually messier was invited but declined due to nagging injuries keenan and messier have always gotten along keenan dumped steve yzerman from the last canada cup team even though yzerman had endured the training camp when messier who had missed essentially the entire camp recovering from injuries became available at the last moment gerald
