Your savory Sunday going-to-rookie-camp links:
- Twenty-four hopeful hockey players will hit the ice at Kettler Capitals Iceplex at 10:30am today to begin their quests for a spot on a roster in the Capitals’ organization. [Rookie Camp Roster, Rookie Camp Schedule]
- Make that 23 players as defenseman Zach Miskovic is still rehabilitating a knee injury he sustained in DevCamp this summer and will not be skating. He is listed as week-to-week. [@VogsCaps]
- All eyes on Swedish centerman Marcus Johansson. [Caps Insider, DC Pro Sports Report, Expressen.se]
- When we finally get to Thursday and the scrimmage, here’s a Flyers rookie scouting report. [Capitals Gains]
- Two top prospects will not be attending rookie camp because they are playing for their KHL teams. Forward Evgeny Kuznetsov scored his first goal for Tractor Chelyabinsk in the season’s second game yesterday. Defenseman Dmitri Orlov’s Metallurg Novokuznetsk will need some work. Alex Seren Rosso provides a season preview for every team (and their prospects) in the K. [Hockey’s Future]
- The NHL club isn’t the only team looking to fill out its roster. Even before camp begins, ECHL affiliate South Carolina Stingrays announced they have signed camp attendee David deKastrozza. [CSN/Popels, Stingrays head coach Cail McLean on YouTube]
- Some news and notes from Chocolatetown:
- Summer break for a pro hockey player means two weeks of vacation and then a personalized and very detailed training/conditioning regimen designed to bring that player to camp in mid-season form. [Tim Leone]
- Summer break for a pro hockey player can also mean on-ice training with a kid from around the way who just happens to be one of the two best hockey players in the world … and your team’s alleged mortal enemy. [Ibid]
- The Hershey Bears’ media empire is expanding in a big way this upcoming season. Just about the only way you won’t be able to experience Bears hockey is on your teevee, at home, on NHLNet. **ahem** [Bears]
- Just for fun, NHL11 threw in a new Bears third jersey. Might make a nice avatar, if you’re so inclined. [Rock the Red]
- Speaking of sweaters, we’ve finally reached numbers one thru nine in the great sweater countdown. [RtR]
- F-16 gets the 30 in 30 treatment… [Red Line Station]
- … Flash, too. [RLS]
- Schultz! [Peerless]
- A great look at Friday night’s “Hockey Diaries” listen. [Caps365 (video)]
- “Previewing the Southeast Division: The Island of Misfit Toys.” It’s YLM’s debut post for the Post. [Box Seats]
- Teh Twitterz have gone to Defcon 4. Damien Cox apparently wants to dance again after Uncle Ted’s latest. [Ted’s Take, @DamoSpin]
- Finally, happy 62nd birthday to Joe Lundrigan.