A hard fought training camp is over for the 70 players who attended the Hurricanes 2010 training camp.
The weekend closed out Sunday with two games which wrapped the Canes' four team intrasquad tournament. In the first game, Team 1 hammered Team 3 by a score of 9-3. Mitch Maxwell scored twice and added one assist while Cam Braes score two goals and had two helpers. Defenceman Danial Johnston had four assists. In second game, the Championship contest had Team 2 score a close 3-2 win over Team 4. Mark reners lead the way with two goals while Jacob Berglund finished off with 3 assists in the game.
For a full wrap and summaries of the two games, see Ryan Ohashi's write-up at http://www.lethbridgehurricanes.com/.
With that said, the camp is over for this year. The Hurricanes will practice Monday and Tuesday and then head south to Kennewick, WA. to play in a pre-season tournament. The Hurricanes will carry a 32 man roster into the pre-season. Nine rookie forwards will remain with the Hurricanes during the next week of practices and pre-season play. They include, Tayler Balog, Mitch Guiel, Alex Kuvaev, Russ Maxwell, Sam McKechnie, Brady Ramsey, Michael Sofillas, and Jaimen Yakubowski. As for Defecemen, Brandyn Hulit and Adam Henry will stick around for pre-season action too. Tanner Kovacs and Dylan Tait will be the goalies.
The Hurricanes will be without the players who are heading to NHl camps. Cam Braes will head off to San Jose, Brody Sutter with Florida, and Brandon Anderson will get a lokk-see from Washington.
I pill have some post-camp comment from the coaches in the next day or so, so watch for that. All-in-all it was a good camp with some very good competition. My thoughts on camp in the days ahead.
Again, a big thanks to Ryan Ohashi for his awsome camp write-ups on the Hurricanes website!
Thanks,
Pat
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I have to agree. It was excellent to go the 'Canes website and see the recent and current news and be able to be a part of something even if we cant be at the rink. Thanks to the Canes for their updates!
ReplyDeleteWhy wouldn't we give the local Owsley kid a longer tryout? I didnt see any of the games but on the score sheet he looks really good to me! We need some offensive forwards so it wouldn't hurt, what are your thoughts Pat?
ReplyDeleteIf you were at the camp you would know there were a lot of standout offensive forwards that are already signed
ReplyDeleteYou know, it's one of those things with any training camp, especially one with 70 kids is that it's tough to whittle things down. Anonymous 3 is right in a sense that there were many outstanding forwards. I'm sure the coaching staff has had their eyes on a few players to watch and some likely turned a few heads as well. The good thing for the Hurricanes is that these players are in the system and somewhere down the line they may get a call up. The hockey club is certainly building depth. Kuvaev, Sofillas, Guiel, Ramsey, and a few others can be quite offensive, I think we saw that over the past few days.
ReplyDeleteI thought that Owsley was at the Tri City Rookie camp as well this year and then got cut from there? Not sure how he made both camps? Are you allowed to go from one WHL camp to another if you get cut?
ReplyDeleteI disagree with anonymous number 3. If those kids are offensive looking at the gamesheets guiel, and sofillas were not very offensive. I thought they were very good and skilled too at my first impression, and then I looked at the gamesheets and they are barely on there?
ReplyDeleteSomeone doesn't really wanna look at the numbers properly on sofillas and guiel if you look back on day two and three scrimmages you will see guiel had 6 points in two games and sofillas had many as well they both have extreme speed and are very offensive ,sounds like someone has a case of green eyes
ReplyDeleteDay 2 Guiel played against rookies only, where was he after that?
ReplyDeletesmallatlarge.blogspot.com says Owsley was at Tri City main camp not rookie.that makes even less sense, how do you do both?
ReplyDeleteActually bitter one guiel did show up on the score sheet in the game against the vets as well making a beautiful assist on sutters goal and creating a ton off chances probably the reason preston is taking him and not owsley on the road.
ReplyDeleteJust to let you know looking back at the score sheets I see guiel has two assists , in the vets game brody sutter-guiel and brett printz-guiel and he's a 94
ReplyDeleteI too think Guiel is better than Owsley, but the guy does have a point, Guil was 2 assists and Owsley was 3 goals and 2 assists
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting, so how does one make 2 MainCamps at this level? I would think you have to pre-register and I wouldn't think you can do that with 2 teams. Any answers?
ReplyDeleteCamps work on an invite basis, the teams send out letters to the kids they want to see in their camp. The letters are sent out about 1-2 months before the training camps start, to attend both he would have to had sent both letters back with conformation he was attending camp, but one of the camps must have started earlier than the other and finished before the other one started. It's really not all that hard to figure out.
ReplyDeleteGee thanks, guess Im not as much in the know as others.
ReplyDeleteYou guys have to remember that scrimmage score sheets do not always tell the whole story! There were a big group of goalies and other young d there. When and who you score against doesn't show up the score sheet!!
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