From today's Mercury:
There will be no shortage of players looking to earn a spot with the Estevan Bruins at the team’s training camp this weekend.
Head coach and general manager Keith Cassidy expects about 75 players to show up and they will be divided into four teams for scrimmages.
The main reason for the large group is so Cassidy can get a first-hand look at as many list players as possible in his first camp behind the bench.
Many of those players also attended the team’s conditioning camp last week, including one day when 30 players showed up. No goalies made it to any of the sessions though.
One of the biggest names at camp will be goaltender Derek Tendler, who was released by the Western Hockey League’s Swift Current Broncos last week.
The 1992-born netminder played 38 games for the Bruins in 2009-10. He has since spent time with the Broncos, Vancouver Giants and the Winnipeg Saints of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.
It’s believed the Broncos let Tendler go mainly because of his conditioning, but Cassidy said he will be given every chance to battle for the starter’s job alongside 20-year-old Shea Cooper.
“We’ll see what he looks like when he gets here. That’s a bit of a pet peeve of mine, if guys don’t show up in shape, but we’ll see. He apparently spent the whole summer in Swift Current, so I can’t see him being too terribly out of shape.”
A whopping 10 goaltenders will be in camp.
The most difficult decisions will likely be up front, where a strong group of ’93 forwards will battle a returning contingent of eight players for roster spots.
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