Player Profile: Raitis Ivanans

The Montreal Canadiens invited 25 players to attend their development camp this summer, consisting of four players from the recent draft held last month, and another four players wer

The 7th day of on-ice practice and the 8th day overall. Only 2 more days until the camp comes to an end, only 2 more days left for the players to make an impression (even though management has said that this is not an evaluation camp).

Development Camp. If only those words conjured up memories of days gone by. Any memories at all. I came home with such a buzz it took about three hours for my ears to stop ringing. It was an exciting day

Day #5 of camp, tomorrow the players will finally get a break as no practice is scheduled for Wednesday, they return to the ice on Thursday.

All right, here we go again, its the day #4 development camp report. As usual the players divided into 2 groups for the 9-10 practice and then reunited as a group of 25 for the 10:30-12 practice. The drills were generally the same as previous days, but wi

Day #3 was basically the same as day #2, the 25 players were split into the same groups, and practiced skating/power-skating drills during to begin the day.

9:00AM: The first practice begins, I goto rink #3 and find only 14/25 prospects on the ice, I’m not sure where the other 11 are, but I did not see them on any other rink. The group of 14 includes all 4 goalies, Corey Locke, Mark Flood, Greg and Danny Stew

The first day of the Canadiens developed camp kicked off at 2pm sharp, the entire 25 invitees along with several coaches (and a translator for Kastsitsyn) took to the ice, the forwards wore white jerseys while the goalies and defense wore red jerseys. Tha

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