Opening Day Media

Starting any minute, I believe. Watch it live on YT:




e/ If you miss it, I believe it'll be uploaded in full afterwards. I'll probably give a summary as usual, too

e2/ nevermind, I thought it was just starting but they already did it

This post was edited by LuLer on Sep 18 2014 01:07pm

Okay, don't watch/listen to the video. It's over an hour of nothing. Here are a few tidbits:

Burrows
- Perfectly fine with playing on a lower line so that Vrbata can take his spot with the Sedins
- Thinks a right-hand shot works better with the Sedins

Bieksa
- All the new players came to Vancouver early and are all great guys
- Thinks team chemistry and the locker room will be excellent this year

Higgins
- The new coaching staff is "a little more receptive to what we have to say"
- Desjardins's "relationships with the players will have a more positive spin"


Henrik, Daniel, Desjardins, Benning and all the scrub players didn't say anything new/interesting

MAIN CAMP ROSTER

*McCann was sent home because of illness (mono)
*Demko will not attend due to college responsibilities
*Cassels is day-to-day
*Virtanen is there but won't be cleared for contact

Blues are camp invites
Greens are signed under PTOs
Reds already have AHL contracts, they are just there as extra bodies
The rest are main roster players and prospects that you should recognize for the most part



FORWARDS (34)
Darren Archibald
Carter Bancks
Nick Bonino
Alex Burrows
Cole Cassels
Brandon DeFazio
Derek Dorsett
Dane Fox
Alex Friesen
Brendan Gaunce
Alex Grenier
Jannik Hansen
Chris Higgins
Bo Horvat
Dustin Jeffrey
Nicklas Jensen
Zack Kassian
Ronalds Kenins
Kellan Lain
Alexandre Mallet
Shawn Matthias
Cal O’Reilly
Kyle Pettit (INJ)
Brad Richardson
Daniel Sedin
Henrik Sedin
Tom Sestito
Hunter Shinkaruk
Curtis Valk
Linden Vey
Jake Virtanen (INJ)
Radim Vrbata
J.T. Wyman
Mike Zalewski

Defencemen (21)
Peter Andersson
Alex Biega
Kevin Bieksa
Jeremie Blain
Anton Cederholm
Frank Corrado
Alexander Edler
Dan Hamhuis
Spencer Humphries
Kent Huskins
Kane LaFranchise
Even McEneny
John Negrin
Bobby Sanguinetti
Luca Sbisa
Ryan Stanton
Mackenze Stewart
Jordan Subban
Chris Tanev
Henrik Tommernes
Yannick Weber

Goalies (6)
Joe Cannata
Joacim Eriksson
Eddie Lack
Austin Lotz
Jacob Markstrom
Ryan Miller

This post was edited by LuLer on Sep 19 2014 12:36am

mono, wow



only 10 minutes in here, but they do not look very confident at all

@33min, kassian looks like a drug addict !

This post was edited by Salacious on Sep 19 2014 01:03am

The players are split into 3 teams at practice, but they've put certain lines together that give us a good idea of what we'll probably see on opening day (barring injuries).

Sedin - Sedin - Vrbata
Burrows - Bonino - Kassian
Higgins - Richardson - Hansen
Matthias - Horvat - Dorsett

I would put Matthias at 3C, move Richardson down to 4C and move Horvat to 4LW... but whatever

The top-6 was predictable but there are many combos for the bottom-6. My guess is that Vey beats out Horvat and Bo is sent back down to junior. Gaunce is the preseason dark-horse. It will also be interesting to see how Jensen does.

This post was edited by LuLer on Sep 19 2014 02:35pm

They wanted to keep horvat at centre as much as possible

Split-squad preseason games tomorrow. Both against the Sharks at 6:00PM PST, one in Vancouver and one in Stockton, California.

Lineup for game in Vancouver:
Daniel Sedin - Henrik Sedin - Radim Vrbata
Hunter Shinkaruk - Linden Vey - Alex Friesen
Mike Zalewski - Bo Horvat - Derek Dorsett
Ronald Kenins - Kellan Lain - Dane Fox

Alexander Edler - Frankie Corrado
Dan Hamhuis - Jordan Subban
Peter Andersson - Kevin Bieksa

Eddie Lack
Joe Cannata


Lineup for game in Stockton:
Alexandre Burrows - Nick Bonino - Zack Kassian
Brendan Gaunce - Cal O'Reilly - Nicklas Jensen
Tom Sestito - Dustin Jeffrey - Alexandre Grenier
Darren Archibald - Cole Cassels - Brandon DeFazio

Yannick Weber - Chris Tanev
Henrik Tommernes - Bobby Sanguinetti
Anton Cederholm - Alex Biega

Jacob Markstrom
Joacim Eriksson



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PP Units at practice:
Sedin - Sedin - Vrbata
Edler - Vey/Weber

Burrows - Bonino - Kassian
Hamhuis - Bieksa

needs more Tanev ofc



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First cuts:
D Mackenzie Stewart - assigned to Prince Albert (WHL)
D Evan McEneny - assigned to Kingston (OHL)
F Kyle Pettit - assigned to Erie (OHL)

This post was edited by LuLer on Sep 22 2014 03:00pm

I wanna watch shinky and vey whooo

That was good. I'm excited to see who makes the cut this year. At least the prospects look good shinky and subban played well (from what I saw on my shitty connection )

Is the second game being broadcast?

- Subban and Vey looked very good, Shinkaruk had some nice plays in the offensive zone, as well.
- Horvat had a strong 3rd period. Very solid, safe center.
- Veterans didn't look like they cared all too much.
- Edler took a puck or stick to the face and left the game in the 1st period, no update.



It is not being broadcast unfortunately. 2-0 Sharks as of this post.

e/ now 3-0

This post was edited by LuLer on Sep 23 2014 10:18pm