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Originally Posted by Camronius

Was there from 1030-1145. As mentioned Bennett/Brouwer/Ktachuk were together often and surprisingly showed chemistry already. Ktachuk I noticed is always trying to score, gave the impression he is a shoot first guy... which is great for the flames, need another shooter in the midst of many play makers. Bennett was by far the best forward on the ice, noticeable even when I wasn't tracking him. Gio was naturally the best D, wideman was actually very noticeable positively as well. Ktachuk and Gio went on a 2-0 passing drill at one point, Gio scored pretty easily and Ktachuk was smiling and hollered pretty joyously over to Gio on the play. Nothing ground breaking to share there other than it was interesting to see Ktachuk so comfortable, seemed relaxed and having fun. Speaking of scoring easy, one goalie 99% sure it was mcdonald went through a good 5 minutes of drills where he let in just about every shot, and couldn't handle any rebounds. He was terrible. Was wearing white pads with yellow and black thick lines in the centre of the pads, maybe someone else can confirm who it was. Never seen a pro goalie look so poor. Last play that really stood out for me was Janko going 1 on 1 vs Gio in the corner to battle for the puck. Battle was pretty heavy and Janko pulled out of the battle pretty cleanly with the puck and had a real good scoring opportunity. Interesting to see he has the skill to do so against a good player, albeit the sample size was as small as it can get. I noticed carrol a bunch too, I wasn't looking for him, but finding myself asking who the player was a bunch of times. He always seemed to find chances and be in the right spot, but then follow that excitement up with a gaff, miss or giveaway. Has some upside but is missing a certain NHL polish, seems like a perpetual tweener unless something changes. Only really noticed Tuolo after a play he was fooling around with the puck, really good hands, even completed one of those behind the net lacrosse style goals.

That's about all I caught, everyone else was kind of meh especially the young D.

Tkachuk