Barry Brust has the best old school looking brown pads.
EDIT - Nemisz and Byron not out there for either team. Vicki Hall said in an article that Byron has an upper body injury and will miss the first half of training camp.
Kael Mouillierat can absolutely snipe it.
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Yeah he was with the first group. Nothing much to say about him. Didn't notice him too much. He had a long discussion with Ward at the end of practice while they were picking up pucks together.
Reinhart looks to be paired with Kolanos and Mouillierat.
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Cameron is killing it right now. You can see how he scored 50 goals at one time. He, Eddy, and Nunn look good really really good out there.
Reinhart and Kolanos showing good chemistry. Reinhart is able to dish the puck through two sets of feet and two sticks and still get it to Kolanos who is scoring at will.
McCarthy and Lamb are the best d-men out there in this group.
Ward and company running a lot of 3 on 2 drills.
Ferland eying McKelvie and then the next time they were out Ferland gave McKelvie a little slash on the ankle.
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So if I had to sum up training camp today, Team Red I thought were working pretty hard... until I saw Team Black. Team Black looked like they were fighting for jobs whereas Team Red looked like they were almost guaranteed jobs. I could be seeing it wrong, but Team Black was by far the hardest working group out there.
I was most impressed by Lamb and Aliu. Aliu looked like a 10 year vet among boys out there. Nobody worked harder than him today.
Lamb was going for every hit he could. Fast, very solid defensively, and smart positionally. It's hard to believe he's a first year pro when you watch him.
My surprises today were Cameron, Mouillierat, and Nunn for Team Black. Cameron specifically outplayed Wahl. I'm pairing those two together because they're the most likely to be ECHL bound of the NHL contract players, but if Cameron keeps this up, he'll continue to impress.
There weren't really any surprises in Team Red. They all were basically what I was expecting. Sven was Sven; he doesn't catch his breath after getting bag skated, instead he plays one-on-one with Aliu. Really no surprises in this group.
I still can't get over Ferland and McKelvie's battles. They weren't beaking at eachother, but they were sure staring eachother down and hacking and slashing at eachother.
I guess we'll see how it goes tomorrow.
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Thanks for the writeup! Really encouraged by your thoughts on Aliu. It's quite clear he wants to succeed badly. Can't have enough guys like that fighting for spots.
Their practicing a lot of 2 on 2 drills right now. At the start they were practicing 2 on 0.
I think this Black group is tired because they're being constantly reminded to speed it up by the coaching staff. This is the group that worked so hard yesterday.
Edit - their now practicing 2 on 0 breakouts. Barry Brust is good. Very smart guy and uses his all the time to break up passes.
Wahl still has a deadly shot. He's looking a lot better than yesterday.
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