Camping, out: Saturday notes

Rookie camp is well underway on the Island. We’re assured there are no surreptitious contracts lurking in those unfamiliar names. Assorted tryouts for a couple of goalies and a few forwards. They’ll train for a few more days and play the Flyers kids on Wednesday, and then camp begins in earnest.

Elsewhere, Bill Ballou ran his farewell column.

Newtown’s Melissa Samoskevich was invited to USA Hockey’s national team evaluation camp.

From USCHO, the Atlantic Hockey final four is moving from Rochester to Buffalo.

Lost the tweet that sent me here, but enjoyed this story about Rolly Crump, Disney imagineer.

RIP, Richard DeVos and Burt Reynolds.

And RIP, Hall of Famer Micki Stratton, beloved in Stratford.

Michael Fornabaio