9/21/07 Flyers training camp report
First let me apologize to Mr. no number on the helmet I just learned as
I write this that you are Rory Fitzpatrick. I apologize for calling you
Nate Guenin.
Pictures
http://www.flickr.com/pho...5/sets/72157602101960908/<
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Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4OoSXi8Ls4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsJIE9a5MTQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq8DZu55B58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX8ZBadvyfo
(the skate drill where timonen got hurt but not actual footage)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUYsekYLRe8
Today was scheduled as a 10:30 practice Nitty was the first one on @ 10:15.
The first few people on today started out with shots from redline or further down and into the net.
Then back to high and wide. Then I started doing video it seemed like
there was suddenly more thought and care put into the shots.
The socks almost everyone wore the stripe to the back today Richard’s red line set the trend.
Missing today
Jeff Carter and Jim Dowd
Lines for the pictures
White
Cote, Cabana, Boulerice
Red
Lupul, Richards, Upshall
Green
Hartnell, Umberger, Kapanen
Baby Blue
Eager, Downie, Giroux
Dark Blue
Briere, Gagne, Knuble
D pairings
Timonen and Smith
Jones and Kukkonen
Lars and Fitzpatrick
Piacrd and Gauthier
The drills today seemed to be bent towards battling in the offensive
and defensive zones. These battles were often quite spirited and a
little fun mixed in.
Eager has a really relentless one about the 1st or 2nd go round on the drill was very good.
Upshall and Richards teaming up resulted in lots of offense through
grinding it out. A few D men were less then happy with the results of
those battles.
Practice today was as physical as I had seen any Flyers practice since rookie camp.
Zamboni came out and just dry scraped the ice everyone sat on the bench during this period.
Somewhere during this time Ben Eager disappeared not sure what happened to him.
The Red line of Richards, Upshall and Lupul looked so on point today.
The pace and demeanor of today’s practice was more intense and focused.
There were still fun things going on IE Biron and Richards exchange
about a little help for a puck.
Stevens and Mullen were active participants in a drill on positioning
they were acting as the D men while the D men were doing something else
at the other end of the ice.
Again to end the day was a long skating drill. Richards and Coburn were extremely fast.
Niitty took down timonen during this skating drill. McCrossin was on the bench came on to the ice to get him off.
Hatcher led the stretches.
Then of course after practice fun, again it is another season of 3 d vs. 3 O.
Today’s match up featured the ever electric Derian Hatcher and his new
partner Braydon Coburn their third was Gauthier. Knuble’s team featured
RJ Umberger and Steve Downie. Brian Boucher was the honored goalkeeper.
The D men still won again with some really nice goals.
It was a good day. I did not stay for after practice autographs 1 due
to the amount of people. At least double the 5 people that had waited
yesterday if not closer to triple.
Not sure when my next report will be right now but it will be soon I promise.
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Update carter is injured Ok my inside source says this
Jeff was in philly friday getting MRIs...something is wrong with his hip/hips and they don't know what.
