9/20/07 Philadelphia Flyers training Camp Report
Pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neat1325/sets/72157602089
563404/
Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zp2Ni3fJAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNErUHwUCw4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPsav4zr42w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELVUQ0kBWWg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI6TzCgIS60
10 am scheduled. Jim Dowd first one on the ice came out @ 10:14 everyone
started filtering out around 10:18 or so. Niitty and Cote were the 2nd
and 3rd players on the ice.
Cote is sporting a pretty banged up black eye.
The crowd was pretty sparse. Not deserted but compared with what I had
seen Sunday not hardly anyone.
New Baby Blue Practice Jersey!!! Very nice I liked that look too.
I recognize almost everyone today with the reduced roster.
Knuble was also sporting a black eye.
As the players were skating around and warming up, they took shots at
the net and were majority high and wide.
The atmosphere on the ice seemed loose and playful.
Ok the meat of today.
Red Jersey
Upshall, Richards, Lupul
Baby Blue Jersey
Umberger, Giroux, Eager
Orange Jersey
Hartnell, Carter, Kapanen
Dark Blue Jersey
Knuble, Briere, Gagne
White
Downie, Cote, Dowd, Boulerice
D men and Goalies
Kukkonen, Hatcher, Coburn, Smith, Jones, Timonen, Guenin, Picard
Niitty, Boosh, Biron
Coaches
Murray, Mullen, Lemelin, Stevens, McIlhargey
There were quite a few drills on basics like puck handling while skating
and passing while skating.
Lots of drills on breaking out of the zone and different ways to go
through that.
Stevens even physically demonstrated how to do the one drill.
Biron and Nitty for the most part were on opposite ends. With Nitty and
Boosh switching out.
After an hour they got off and two Zambonis came on and resurfaced. I
went and peeked at the Phantoms side and came back.
Lupul had some pretty goals on Boosh.
Goal celebrations seem to be random. Mostly really pretty goals or just
odd moments.
D pairings seems to not be consistent and then it seemed to settle to
Smith and Timonen
Hatcher and Coburn
Kukkonen and Jones
Gauthier and Guenin
Picard and Lars
Briere scored on Biron and there were lots of little things going back
and forth between them that you could tell was all in fun.
The orange jersey’s show up more of players sweating through their
jerseys then the other ones does.
To finish up the official practice there was a massive skating drill
lasting 16 minutes.
The red line all put the white stripes on their sock to the back.
The ending stretch was led by Gauthier.
The rookies did pick up all the pucks.
Most of the players got off around 12:50
Then I went outside and waited for Flyers to stop and sign my jersey. My
jersey is pretty up to date I just need a couple handfuls of folks to sign.
I want to sincerely thank all the players that took the time to
stop/walk by.
That was so awesome of you to do that and it is very much appreciated.
I got Biron, Kukkonen, Coburn, Boucher, and Cote to sign for me. More
then that stopped see the pictures.
Ok that is it. Can’t wait to go back tomorrow.
