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Veleno and Kostin had a little early chemistry. Holl made a nice, strong defensive play on Ovechkin, nice to see.

I am a bit scared to see Cossa against Ovechkin tonight

Sadly:

Ya for sure I would hope he wouldn't try that in the NHL, he would get lit up at the blueline with how the defense was set up. Still nice to see his skating and stickhandling though. Kid is on fire right now:

I thought him taking the puck and making the little dish to the defenseman for the Wings to reset was a very veteran-like move. Just from what I've seen this offseason I think I have bumped Danielson above Kasper in my personal prospect rankings.

DANIELSON!!!! 1-1!! He's looked solid, nice pass by Hirose to set him up for a beautiful snap shot through the six hole

It is going to take a while for me to see 41 and not think Glendening is somehow back Wings down 0-1 of course

Looks like the Wings will be playing basically an AHL squad Nedeljkovic revenge game?

He got cleared for contact at the beginning of camp surprisingly. I read a story that he and Beggren were getting into it with Larkin and Seider in camp which I found interesting. Good to see some fire from the boys at least...

I didn't realize Chiarot isn't in camp yet, his father passed away so he's dealing with that. Hope he and his family can find some solace in each other right now.

Roster for tonight's game:

Some nice ASP context from someone on the HFBoards: 29 games last year in SHL/Champion's League ASP had a total of 2 goals and 3 assists. This year through 7 games he has 3 goals and an assist. He's stepping up against the adults, I am very encouraged by his play so far. I guess we'll need a 23-24 Prospect Thread here soon...

He's already moving up their lineup too

Nice shot for his first of the season

Second group

Early line rushes in camp: DeBrincat - Larkin - Raymond Rasmussen - Copp - Perron Fabbri - Compher - Sprong Kostin - Veleno - Fischer (Berggren) Walman - Seider Chiarot - Gostisbehere Määttä - Holl Edvinsson - Petry Husso Reimer Lyon

It felt great to make this thread I can't lie, hockey is almost back! Anisimov is an interesting invite. Hutchinson is another surprising invite with what they did in the offseason imo.

For what it is worth, Wallstedt played one game in the Wild's prospect tournament and gave up 4 goals on 25 shots for a beastly .840 save percentage this past weekend.

Can't say I've changed my feelings at all based on a summer scrimmage with players who have largely never played with each other, and who played without any sort of system or real game plan. For some players it was the first "game" they had played in a bit too. It is tough for me to put much stock in any of it. Would I like Cossa to be getting shut outs in the tournament at this point, definitely. But he's 20 years old and probably still coming to terms with his big frame and what not. It is going to take time and I'm willing to let it play out. I think the Wings made a good hedge with Augustine at least. First round goalies usually tend to start seeing time in the NHL in their D+4 season, which is next season for Cossa, so we'll see where we're at.

I can't believe the CBJ GM still has a job, what exactly has he accomplished across his ~10 year tenure and now this?

I died a little inside when Mazar said he had phones