Hockey is upon us as the Wild prospects will take to the ice tomorrow for the Traverse City Prospects Tournament. The tourney features eight NHL Teams and their prospects. In addition to the Wild, St. Louis, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Carolina, Chicago, and the New York Rangers make up the eight participants.
The teams are broken into two divisions of 4 teams with the Wild in with Dallas, St. Louis, and Columbus. Tomorrow the Wild prospects will play St. Louis in the afternoon at 3PM, then take on Columbus Saturday at 6:30, then wrap up on Sunday afternoon versus Dallas at 2:30PM.
Tuesday will be the championship game and the 3 consolation contests featuring crossover matchups from each division with the top team in each vying for the title at 6PM on Tuesday evening.
The Wild Prospect roster looks like this:
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14 Joel Eriksson Ek 45 Dante Salituro 48 Domenic Commisso 49 Giorgio Estephan 52 Mason Shaw 54 Ivan Lodnia 57 Adam Gilmour 62 Joel Teasdale 65 Gerald Mayhew 67 Luke Kunin 73 Matt Bradley 74 Dmitry Sokolov 78 Jack Walker 81 Pavel Jenys 82 Justin Kloos
Defensemen 38 Gustav Bouramman 61 Jacob Golden 68 Kevin Davis 71 Carson Soucy 72 Brennan Menell 75 Braydyn Chizen 79 Hunter Warner 80 Artyom Minulin
Goaltenders 50 Dereck Baribeau 70 Adam Vay
A lot has been talked about with the Wild stable of prospects, combined with the fact they had no picks this year until the third round number 85 overall. Three of their seven, 2017 picks are playing including Ivan Lodnia their first selection, along with Mason Shaw and Jacob Golden.
Of course all eyes will be on Joel Eriksson Ek, Luke Kunin, Dmitry Sokolov, Carson Soucy, and Adam Vay, but the NHL is clearly a young man's game now and some of these guys are looking to open some eyes.
Hockey is here once again!!!