Smith was taken to the hospital this morning by the team as precautions to a possible mono case.
Smith, Woods, Elmer and Gardnier have been moved to main camp which is why they didn't play in the evening scrimmage. They had nothing more to prove, I left after the first 30min period of the last scrimmage as it just wasn't worth watching.
I was told #2 on white was the new Russian, he was big and a pretty good skater IMO..... I found a lot of his passes were off the mark but I'm not too worries about that as who knows how often he was on the ice back in Russia.
Was told by Lang they are going with the 3 main camp teams again with Wapple, Macauley and Fuhr as each teams goalies.
My thoughts on rookie camp.....
I thought Woods was the best all around player, he lead some great rushes, he used his teammates, he created offence every time he was on the ice.
Steel showed some flashes but he was trying to do way to much and forgot he had teammates on the ice basically every shift he was out there. Honestly I was alittle disappointed in his play. He will need to change that though once he is playing with vets as they are much faster and smarter, I'm not worried about Steel one bit though.
Elmer I thought got better after he wasn't playing with Steel, also Gardiner he is going to be the real deal he was already a top 5 forward among all the rookies.
Krushen I thought was the best Dman out there followed very closely by Pouteau then Freidrich, Bruce and Lovell. I also thought Sandstrom played well all camp too.
There were a few decent walk on guys I really liked that #21 Grey he was quick and played with an edge for a smaller guy. Not sure on his age kind of hope he is only 15yrs old and we list him after we drop Ortynski.
Also my biggest surprise in camp was Brady Third, after 2 spring camps and last years trainin camp I really thought he wasn't worth much but this years training camp he was showing a lot more then he ever has and found himself in my eyes the 5th best forward in rookie camp behind Woods, Steel, Elmer and Gardiner.
I know I was very judgemental when the Pats decided to select a goalie with out 1st rd pick but this Hollett kid is the real deal. I'm looking forward to seeing how he does in main camp against te older stronger shooters. Chapman showed a lot as well I think our goaltending is in great hands for the future. Usually our franchise has sucked at finding goalies, but with those 2 along wíh Schineder who we traded last year we have been finding goalies who can play at this level.