The great “what happens when the last two guys come down” mystery is, apparently, solved: they stick together with a top prospect. Simple. In no particular order:
F: Dal Colle-Gionta-Bernier
Gaudreau-St. Denis-Bailey
Bourque-Stevens-Fritz
Johnston-C.Jones-B.Holmstrom
Turcotte (later sent to Worcester)/Eansor/Schempp/J.Holmstrom
We’d ask some things, but Brent Thompson had something better to do last night and wasn’t back yet.
Same defense (see “we’d ask”), and no McAdam (see… etc.). Who’ll wear letters? Expected tomorrow (see… well, you get it).
Yanick (we checked, at last) Turcotte’s first day of practice, officially, under contract. He was assigned this afternoon to Worcester, but still, it’s been a pretty solid month for a rookie-camp invite who was ticketed to play college hockey in Canada. “I worked really hard at camp,” he said this morning. “I had the invitation the last week of July. I was ready for anything to happen. I was glad to get the opportunity.” He felt confident he could play at this level, he said, and he thought the preseason games (in which, yeah, he made an impression) showed it.
So that leaves 15 forwards, eight defensemen, three goalies with one of them evidently banged up. One more day of practice before Binghamton (which we, sadly, will not be making. Liveblog here Saturday night). There are six games in the league tomorrow night, including Charlotte at Hartford if you feel like going and giving us a full scouting report.
Final from yesterday: USA 23, International 17. Hitters ahead of the pitchers at this point in camp.
A lovely Dave Strader tribute on last night’s Pens-Blues game.
Ex-Sound Tigers and Quinnipiac forward Jeremy Langlois signed with Hershey.
The Devils and the NWHL’s New York Riveters announced a partnership. (Fairfield’s Kiira Dosdall weighed in last night.)
Whee!
And glad to see Bluefish GM and longtime employee Paul Herrmann staying in baseball, and in Connecticut for that matter.