A familiar face said hi at media day today. Late addition to camp, Jon Landry will be with the Sound Tigers on a tryout when they open camp for real tomorrow. Also among the group will be veteran defenseman Nick Petrecki.
“They’ll give a veteran flair,” Brent Thompson said. “They’re leaders. They’ll help the young guys, hopefully, and we’ll go from there. At the end of the day, we’re going to take the best defensemen.”
Maybe the other most interesting tryout name was Eric Hartzell’s, the former Quinnipiac goalie, Hobey Baker finalist as a senior. Hartzell has an ECHL contract with Fort Wayne.
Eamon McAdam, Connor Jones and Patrick Cullity were sent down from the Islanders and were in town as well. A few players were still trickling in.
They changed plan because the ice at Webster Bank Arena will be available tomorrow: Monday’s practice won’t be open to the public. But they’ll be at Wonderland at 10 daily through Saturday, and those will be open.
Here’s the camp roster, with AHL-contract players in italics and tryouts linked to their hockeydb.com pages:
FORWARDS
Aaron Berisha
Rocco Carzo (Missouri contract)
Dan Correale (Missouri contract)
Ben Holmstrom
Josh Holmstrom
Connor Jones
Kellen Jones
Bracken Kearns
Lukas Lofquist
Kevin Morris (out of Miami (Ohio), son of former Manchester coach Mark Morris)
Darren Nowick (Missouri contract)
Shawn Pauly (Missouri contract out of UConn)
Andrew Rowe
Travis St. Denis
Kyle Schempp
Carter Verhaeghe
Josh Winquist
DEFENSEMEN
Patrick Cullity
Derik Johnson (Reading (ECHL), son of NHL coach/former D Jim Johnson)
Luke Juha
Kane Lafranchise
Jon Landry (with whom you may be familiar, played for Utica last year)
Loic Leduc
Samuel Noreau (Missouri contract, former Rangers property)
Ryan Obuchowski
Nick Petrecki (Veteran D you probably best remember from Worcester)
GOALIES
Eric Hartzell (ex-Quinnipiac goalie, Fort Wayne contract)
Eamon McAdam
Clay Witt (former Northeastern goalie)
Also under AHL contract, up with the Islanders on tryouts: F Tanner Fritz, F Colin Markison