Rookie Camp in the Books....

The Penguins saw their rookie camp end today and are now looking forward to the start of training camp this Thursday. They released or reassigned 6 players who will not attend the main portion of camp...here is the story from http://www.pittsburghpenguins.com/

PENGUINS TRIM CAMP ROSTER BY SIX PLAYERS

The Pittsburgh Penguins trimmed their camp roster by six players, it was announced Tuesday by General Manager Ray Shero.The following players were released or re-assigned:

Forwards: Moises Gutierrez (re-assigned to Everett (WHL)), Jeff Kyrzakos (released).

Defensemen - Ryan Martinelli (re-assigned to London (OHL)), Jean-Philippe Paquet (re-assigned to Shawinigan (QMJHL)).

Goaltenders: Jean-Christophe Blanchard (re-assigned to Victoriaville (QMJHL)), Gabriel Bouthillette (released).

The Penguins will open training camp on Thursday with 50 players (28 forwards, 17 defensemen and five goaltenders) with the first on-ice practices to take place on Friday.

Here is a link to the training camp roster:

http://www.pittsburghpenguins.com/team/TCRoster91206.pdf

The team seems to be working extra hard on conditioning, something head coach Michael Therrien stressed was lacking last season. Just judging by rookie camp, the team did a lot less scrimmaging and a lot more power skating and drills. Is this a sign of things to come in training camp? I will let you know this weekend.

Upcoming:

We will have some camp updates, thoughts on this year's line combos, and could their be a surprise youngster who makes the final roster? There are more than a few candidates. The season preview will also be up soon.....