Missed the first half of the camp today darnit. But was really lucky to spend a few minutes talking to Mr. and Mrs. Turris about their trip out the Phoenix with KT. And with Panger about having KT live w/ him. The T’s are really loving the weather (lol newbies!) but of course they left a very soggy and overcast homebase so they are indulging themselves in our heat and sunshine. They encountered their first wind devils on the way here. Which was a shocker when the truck started rocking around the lane. But safe and sound they delivered our KT into the hands of his prroud ‘adoptive’ dad, Panger.
So anyway only got to see the scrimmages part of the camp, no drills or skating preps. But interesting to watch the team players shake out. Some nice chemistry developing between the guys. Lots of smiles (they are either really happy to be back on the ice or really glad to be out of the heat) lots of pointers being passed around to the new kids, its fun to watch the fist pumps and yells when they score (wish we got more of those elaborate celebrations in games).
So I apparently missed our Sjostrom, as well as Dan Cleary and DMo yesterday. Fast Freddie and the others participated in the drills and conditioning part but did not return to the ice for the scrimmaging half. But there were plenty of other lethal suspects out there:
Players I knew on sight that were participating:
Sauer
Ahnelov
Winnik
Lisin
Yandle
Jovanovski
Turris
Telly
Mclean
Doan
Jokinen
Boynton
Nash
Morris
Mueller
Spina
Boedker
Thomas
Players from other places:
Collins (sundogs)
Flynn (sundogs)
Khabibulin (blackhawks)
Heath (tricity storm)
Federico (western michigan)
Taffe (penguins)
Spiller (not sure where he’s at now…?)
Nash (hopefully lightning)
Cleary (redwings)
Sjostrom (rangers)
Every year our intrepid captain hosts a conditioning camp prior to the regular season training camp. This 2008 year is no different as Shane played host to a veritable cornacopia of players from all aspects of the game.
