Mainer Gillies Wants To Be USA Goalie

19-year-old Jon Gillies is at the USA World Junior Team training camp in Minnesota, competing to be the goalie for the upcoming world tournament in Sweden. Gillies is from South Portland and the starting goalie for the Providence Friars.

Gillies and two other young goalies are among the 29 players competing for spots on the USA team. One of those goalies is Boston College freshman Thatcher Demko.

Minnesota Golden Gophers coach Don Lucia is the Team USA coach. The practices continue this week with cuts coming later in the week and then on to Sweden this weekend for exhibition games.

The World Junior Tournament begins December 26th.

By the way, UMaine doesn't play Gillies and the Providence team until the final two games of the regular season, February 28 and March 1 at Alfond Arena.

Here are some of the stats for Gillies as he tries to become the USA goalie...

Team USA Statistics

Year	Event	Result	GP	W-OTW-OTL-L	MIN	GA	GAA	SVS	SV%	SO
2013	IIHF World Junior Championship	Gold Medal	1	0-0-0-0	20	0	0	7	1.00	0
2011	Ivan Hlinka Tournament	5th Place	4	1-2-0-1	n/a	n/a	3.16	n/a	.892	n/a

Other Statistics (through Dec. 14)

Season	Team (League)	GP	W-L-OTL-T	MIN	GA	GAA	SVS	SV%	SO
2013-14	Providence College (HEA)	15	10-1-0-3	896	28	1.88	450	.941	3
2012-13	Providence College (HEA)	35	17-12-0-6	2105	73	2.08	992	.931	5
	NCAA TOTALS	50	27-13-0-9	3001	101	2.02	1442	.935	8
2011-12	Indiana Ice (USHL)	53	31-11-9-0	2967	137	2.77	1478	.915	3
2010-11	Indiana Ice (USHL)	25	15-6-2-0	1447	68	2.82	656	.906	3
	USHL TOTALS	78	46-17-11-0	4414	205	2.79	2134	.912	6

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