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Triton
08-30-2005, 11:18 AM
Preparations continue as the defending Western Hockey League Eastern Conference Champion Brandon Wheat Kings are scheduled to kick off their 2005 Training Camp on Wednesday at the Keystone Centre.

The curtain officially goes up on the five day camp on Wednesday night with Rookie registration, concluding Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. with the hockey club's annual Intrasquad game.

Close to seventy rookies are expected to take to the ice Thursday morning for the first of six scrimmage games to be played. Among the rookies expected to garner a lot of attention this week are blueliners Keith Aulie, Chad Erb and Derek Robinson. Aulie and Robinson were Brandon's top two picks (11th and 24th overall) in 2004 while Erb was a fifth round selection of the Wheat Kings in the 2003 WHL bantam draft.

Main camp will get underway Friday afternoon with back to back scrimmages at the Keystone Centre, scheduled for 5 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Four more games will be played on Saturday, before lineups will be posted for Sunday's Intrasquad game.

Of the players expected to attend Main Camp will be nineteen returning veterans including 18-year old right-winger Ryan Reaves and goalkeeper Tyler Plante. The WHL's Rookie of the Year last season, Plante was drafted in round two of last month's National Hockey League Entry Draft, by the Florida Panthers, while Reaves was chosen in the fifth round by the St. Louis Blues.

All Rookie and Main Camp scrimmages will be open to the public.

Brandon's first pre-season game will be Friday, September 9th in Swift Current against the Broncos. The Wheat Kings will host Moose Jaw on Sunday, September 11th at 6 p.m.

Following is a complete training camp schedule;

Wednesday, Aug. 31st - Rookie Camp Registration

Thursday, Sept. 1st - Rookie Camp Scrimmage Games scheduled for 9 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 5 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 2nd - Rookie Camp Scrimmage Games scheduled for 9 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.

Friday, Sept. 2nd - Main Camp Scrimmage Games scheduled for 5 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 3rd - Main Camp Scrimmage Games scheduled for 9 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 5:00 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 4th - Game Day Skate Team Black at 9 a.m....Game Day Skate Team White at 10 a.m.

Sunday, Sept. 4th - Wheat Kings' Annual Intrasquad Game scheduled for 2 p.m.