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The Pittsburgh Penguins will host the team’s annual prospect development camp July 15-19 at CONSOL Energy Center, it was announced today by executive vice president and general manager Jim Rutherford. The group of rookies and prospects will be in Pittsburgh taking part in on-ice practice and scrimmage sessions, undergoing medical and fitness testing and attending meetings and seminars. Among the prospects attending will be 2014 first-round draft pick Kasperi Kapanen and 2013 second-round pick, goaltender Tristan Jarry. Penguins prospects skate at 2013 Development Camp Kapanen, 17, has played in the top Finnish league the last two years, scoring 14 points (7G-7A) in 2013-14. Jarry, 19, led the Edmonton Oil Kings to the Western Hockey League (WHL) championship and to a 2014 Memorial Cup championship. Derrick Pouliot, Pittsburgh’s top pick (8th overall) in the 2012 NHL Draft, will attend camp, but won’t skate as he recovers from offseason shoulder surgery. Pouliot was named the Canadian Hockey League’s ‘Defenseman of the Year’ in ’13-14. As in past years, the scrimmage on Saturday, July 19 at CONSOL Energy Center will be free and open to the public. The scrimmage begins at 3 p.m. and includes free parking in all CONSOL Energy Center surface lots. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton head coach John Hynes and his assistant coach, Alain Nasreddine, will run the on-ice portion of camp alongside Penguins goaltender development coach Mike Buckley. Penguins assistant general managers Tom Fitzgerald and Bill Guerin will coordinate the off-ice portion of camp, with Penguins strength and conditioning coach Mike Kadar and WBS strength and conditioning coach Joe Lorincz also serving as instructors. Five players from last year’s camp – Olli Maatta, Jayson Megna, Brian Dumoulin, Philip Samuelsson and Adam Payerl – went on to play for the Penguins during the 2013-14 season, with Maatta earning the team’s rookie of the year award. A complete camp roster and schedule will be announced later this week.

Yes but I haven't made it there in years. My work schedule over the summer is crazy. I've had 18 hour shifts the past couple days. I'm "off" tomorrow but have 9 hours overtime. And probably work 18 Friday. Lol

@flyerrod The lengths I will go to just to say I was right! Lol. I'm tellin ya it started just a few games shy if the end of the season. @B21 Actually it's an old injury he got from slashing Giroux's wrists so hard! @Vanflyer They said arthroscopic and he shouldn't even miss camp let alone relevant time so nothing to be upset about. They probably were trying to see if they could avoid surgery.

The argument is Hornqvist scores 20 alone, so what would he do with Malkin? Guess we'll find out!

I think it was an ESPN review but I can't find on my phone, so it was either moved to their subscriber section or I'm confusing it with last year's CBS ratings. I'll have to add it to my list of things guys want me to search for when I get some days off. I read a few... SB nation (B+), bleacher report (C+), LWOS (B), CBS, TSN, ESPN, THN....when I was trying to learn about Kapanen. It might be this one. I can't tell on my iPhone. http://m.espn.go.com/nhl/story?storyId=11149133 My point is the ratings are so diverse for every club depending on who you read.

So the truth of it is that Sid Crosby needs wrist surgery, and was injured throughout the playoffs. It's arthroscopic so no games are expected to be missed. Wonder if that's what was wrong those last few regular season games as some of us noted?

I'd be shocked if Laviolette wanted Lecavalier... Absolutely stunned.

I know but he's probably their best center so figure when he returns half way through the season.

Its MY doing. It's MY participation in USA Hockey and all the classes / videos I have to watch. I'm the sole reason. Or at least it feels like I'm the FINANCIAL reason with what it has all cost me!

@ruxpin @Vanflyer That exact irony crossed my mind typing about it earlier of all things. I actually wondered if Laviolette WANTED that brought to the Predators. A little Cooke/Downie spirit but with a great shooter's stick. The down side will be nobody to feed him the puck in the high slot. I think Neal has his own credible talent, as a shooter, but he's not good at carrying the puck. I'd assume he'll skate with Fisher or maybe Smith, but Gaustad? Eric Nystrom? Their options are very limited in playmaking ability.

@ruxpin @nossagog I just haven't seen enough of Hornqvist to know yet. I like what I'm reading but I want to see it before deciding. Just thought we could get more for Neal, despite his discipline issues. Poor Neal though... Who will feed him the puck? His value just went down.

Amazing how diverse draft ratings can be. Seen you guys anywhere from a B+ to a D- till this one. If course I also saw the Penguins rated a D+ because of the Neal trade which has nothing to do with the draft at all.

As a guy who puts drunks in cells almost nightly, I wouldn't worry about that. Seriously, if not for disrespecting the guy he'd probably never have seen a cell. I'd be more worried about the thought that their true motives are often released when inebriated. . Lol.

I'm still no Rutherford fan. I don't like this signing. It's VERY low risk though. And I DO like the Erhoff signing. The Neal trade is slowly winning me over but that depends solely on Hornqvist. i like Comeau. So I'm in wait and see mode still...

I know! Dats jus crazy! @jammer2 Agreed!

Love it!

I'm busy as can be at work today man so try using google for the moore lawsuit and see if you can find it. I just don't have the time. As I said we spoke of it in the previous thread at length so you could always go there to see it. I think we copy/pasted directly from it at the time.

Trotz just gave a statement saying they got Orpik for his maturity, leadership, and toughness that their defense was lacking. Sounds like they're already making excuses for that contract just in case.

It took us hours to find it last time. I'm working a 17 hr shift tomorrow if I get some down time I'll try finding it again.

The end is near! We're all DOOOOOOOMED!

As I said earlier they're documented in the lawsuit and we found them the last time we did all this so they are documented. It's the validity some argued but 5 different medical Ted agreed for the most part.

I'm a Pens fan and even I didn't go there!

Actually the wino would be dead and his surviving family would be made millionaires by suing the responsible party. Seen it a few times actually. One was an ex-wife and two kids getting $15 million in a wrongful death suit over their father the drunk dying after being hit by a car.

Simple answer. If he accepted the contract offer and was either unable to play or simply put on waivers after he weakened his case for restitution significantly. Add that to his doctors saying he would not be cleared to play and the NHL's own comp insurance providers BOTH agreeing he would not be medically cleared and you have the offer for what it was... A legal ploy by the NHL to reduce liability for court. The proof of brain damage lay in the medical teams' diagnosis of long term effects post concussion damage. The hospital trauma staff and both insurer's again agreed with the findings.

Thank you... It just kinda grabbed me.