CHARLOTTE, NC—The Charlotte Checkers announced today the promotional schedule for the team’s inaugural American Hockey League season, complete with theme nights, promotions and giveaways which emphasize the entertainment value of Checkers games.
TRAINING CAMP SCHEDULE RELEASED!
09/14/2010 9:09 AM
CHARLOTTE, NC—Charlotte Checkers senior vice president of hockey business operations Derek Wilkinson along with head coach and general manager Jeff Daniels announced today the schedule for the team’s inaugural American Hockey League training camp.
The Checkers will open training camp on Monday, Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. with the first of seven on-ice sessions open to the public at Extreme Ice Center in Indian Trail, N.C.
I grew up just outside of Charlotte and went to Checkers games as a kid in the early 70's. Looking forward to seeing the forty years later version soon.
My recollections of those early games aren't all that far removed from SlapShot. Lots of brawls.
don't forget about the guys that were on AHL deals but aren't under contract for us. Jacob Micflikier was outstanding for Albany last year and I'd have to bet he'll be seeing significant time again this season. So with that said:
Zach Boychuk - Riley Nash - Jerome Samson
Chris Terry - Jon Matsumoto - Oskar Osala
Jacob Micflikier - Stefan Chaput - Jared Staal
Nic Blanchard - Nick Dodge - Matt Kennedy
Matt Pistilli and Brad Herauf as extras
Cedric McNicoll, Mike McKenzie and Matt Beca to the Blades (ECHL)
Bobby Sanguinetti - Casey Borer
Michal Jordan - Kyle Lawson
Brett Bellemore - Brian Rodney
Zach Fitzgerald as extra
Elgin Reed and Ethan Graham to the Blades.
Mike Murphy
Justin Pogge
Rob Goepfort to the Blades
After a good look at his roster for two games, Coach Daniels re-assigned five players to the Checkers’ ECHL affiliate Florida today: forwards Matt Beca, Matthew Pistilli and Mike McKenzie; and defensemen Trevor Hendrikx and Elgin Reid.
It still blows my mind that they have a training facility in Indian Trail. The only ice down there used to be the black stuff on Hwy 74.
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Indian Trail is quite the random place to hold camp.
There's a pretty nice rink there that they built recently. Two full sheets, one tiny one for various practice, bar and fitness area, two full sets of locker rooms to boot.
I've played there. It's a nice facility. The ice was crap, but that had less to do with the facility and more to do with poor event planning and confusion (state games two years ago). I'm not at all surprised they're having camp there.
Rodney is named team captain. Fitzerald and Dodge got "A"s
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Nicolas Blanchard, Zach Boychuk, Stefan Chaput, Nick Dodge, Brad Herauf, Matt Kennedy, Jon Matsumoto, Jacob Micflikier, Riley Nash, Oskar Osala, Jerome Samson, Jared Staal, Chris Terry
Their defense, goaltending (and likely offense after Samsonov is back) should get a nice boost soon (once jet lag is over) with Carson, Sangs and Pogge (and Dalpe, Bowman shortly thereafter) back in the minors.
Listening to the Checkers game right now(I don't really care at all about the NFL, so I'm skipping that). Checkers are up 3-1 after 2 and really took control of the game in the second. Sanguinetti really sounds like he is controlling the game in the offensive zone. With him and Rodney on the point, we should probably be near the top of the AHL on the man advantage. Micflikier might need to get a two-way deal from us, really playing well. The lone goal given up was pretty bad call by the refs. Murphy was tripped and the net was wide open for Mayorov.
Listening to the Checkers game right now(I don't really care at all about the NFL, so I'm skipping that). Checkers are up 3-1 after 2 and really took control of the game in the second. Sanguinetti really sounds like he is controlling the game in the offensive zone. With him and Rodney on the point, we should probably be near the top of the AHL on the man advantage. Micflikier might need to get a two-way deal from us, really playing well. The lone goal given up was pretty bad call by the refs. Murphy was tripped and the net was wide open for Mayorov.
Should have been that way last year, scratch Sanguinetti for McBain - didn't work out that way, our PP was awful.
