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Spent four and a half hours in the car today to get to and from the Island. Must have chosen every single wrong road. Here's how messed up it was: In both directions, the only road on which I didn't slow down? The Long Island Parking Lot Expressway.
So I missed the first session, which included Kyle Okposo. Saw him in street clothes afterward, and darn, the kid is huge; built. And Kimber Auerbach said Okposo put on a move in the shootout so good that Kimber was surprised he could even describe it, let alone Okposo do it: not doing it justice, backhand fake shot, to forehand, back to backhand and roof it. Gah. This is when you quote Charles Barkley: "An education is a wonderful thing, unless you can run and jump over houses."
Drew Fata was in that first group, too. Kimber says he's going to put him on the new Sound Tigers TV this year: "Chewin' the Fat with Fata." Drew's into it.
Wrote on Dustin Kohn, the other big prospect in that group. Yes, even without seeing him. The group I did see included Tambellini, Nokelainen, Comeau, MacDonald, Mole, Fraser. They looked fine. Tambellini's a cut above in this camp, probably everybody up front except maybe Okposo.
Also noted Masi Marjamaki and Jeremy Colliton, who skated on the side sheet, and it was their first skates since the surgeries. Didn't get to talk to Marjamaki, but he looked pretty fluid to me. Colliton looked OK, too; he's been working on the shoulder, but the upper-body strength necessarily falls off when you've got a shoulder immobilized. Still, it's a step forward. Marjamaki is hoped to be good to go for camp; Colliton might still need some re-strengthening.
Full BST house: Capuano, Bingham, Cassell, Sullo, new arrival Mike Burkhead. Howard Saffan was upstairs, but I missed him. Garth Snow and Ted Nolan were around. Daniel Lacroix and Bryan Trottier led the session I saw; Dan Flynn was still there, too.
Met Peter Ferraro in the lobby. (Fortunately, he recognized me, 'cause I was still spacy from the drive.) He had his camp after the Islanders' camp ended. He is waiting to see what the next few weeks will bring. He was very happy with his brother's season in San Antonio.
It was nice to be around hockey. It was nice to be around hockey people. It was nice to be in a rink on the hottest day of the year, especially since our air conditioning broke down Tuesday night.
Will hopefully make it down for at least one scrimmage session... and will hopefully choose better roads.
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Lunch on the road, never smart. The bill was $6.57. Had time to dig for pennies; paid $10.07. Got four singles as change. Handed back one of the singles and said she had given me too much; it was only 50 cents more. She gave me 32 cents. I blinked and said, now it's not enough; 50 cents. She gave me two quarters. I am still trying to figure that one out.
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If someone came up to me and needed to know what it meant to be a fan, I might briefly recap the 2006 baseball season, then show them this post from Greg Prince.
So I missed the first session, which included Kyle Okposo. Saw him in street clothes afterward, and darn, the kid is huge; built. And Kimber Auerbach said Okposo put on a move in the shootout so good that Kimber was surprised he could even describe it, let alone Okposo do it: not doing it justice, backhand fake shot, to forehand, back to backhand and roof it. Gah. This is when you quote Charles Barkley: "An education is a wonderful thing, unless you can run and jump over houses."
Drew Fata was in that first group, too. Kimber says he's going to put him on the new Sound Tigers TV this year: "Chewin' the Fat with Fata." Drew's into it.
Wrote on Dustin Kohn, the other big prospect in that group. Yes, even without seeing him. The group I did see included Tambellini, Nokelainen, Comeau, MacDonald, Mole, Fraser. They looked fine. Tambellini's a cut above in this camp, probably everybody up front except maybe Okposo.
Also noted Masi Marjamaki and Jeremy Colliton, who skated on the side sheet, and it was their first skates since the surgeries. Didn't get to talk to Marjamaki, but he looked pretty fluid to me. Colliton looked OK, too; he's been working on the shoulder, but the upper-body strength necessarily falls off when you've got a shoulder immobilized. Still, it's a step forward. Marjamaki is hoped to be good to go for camp; Colliton might still need some re-strengthening.
Full BST house: Capuano, Bingham, Cassell, Sullo, new arrival Mike Burkhead. Howard Saffan was upstairs, but I missed him. Garth Snow and Ted Nolan were around. Daniel Lacroix and Bryan Trottier led the session I saw; Dan Flynn was still there, too.
Met Peter Ferraro in the lobby. (Fortunately, he recognized me, 'cause I was still spacy from the drive.) He had his camp after the Islanders' camp ended. He is waiting to see what the next few weeks will bring. He was very happy with his brother's season in San Antonio.
It was nice to be around hockey. It was nice to be around hockey people. It was nice to be in a rink on the hottest day of the year, especially since our air conditioning broke down Tuesday night.
Will hopefully make it down for at least one scrimmage session... and will hopefully choose better roads.
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Lunch on the road, never smart. The bill was $6.57. Had time to dig for pennies; paid $10.07. Got four singles as change. Handed back one of the singles and said she had given me too much; it was only 50 cents more. She gave me 32 cents. I blinked and said, now it's not enough; 50 cents. She gave me two quarters. I am still trying to figure that one out.
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If someone came up to me and needed to know what it meant to be a fan, I might briefly recap the 2006 baseball season, then show them this post from Greg Prince.
posted by Fornabaio at
8:57 PM
2 Comments:
Did the Islanders qualify Regier? Hard not to notice that he wasn't on the list of guys invited to rookie camp.
By
OneTigerFan, at 10:11 PM
They did qualify him. Fata's attendance notwithstanding, the rookie camp is usually just guys on (or yet to sign) entry-level contracts.
By
Fornabaio, at 5:09 PM
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