Forty players bound for next week’s camp
Louis Leblanc of Kirkland, the Canadiens’ first pick (18th overall) in last weekend’s entry draft, is among the 40 players attending the camp. He’s seen here with Trevor Timmins (left) and Bob Gainey.
Dave Sidaway, Gazette
From a release: The Canadiens announced today that 40 prospects will participate in the team’s annual development camp from July 6-12 at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard. It is the most players attending since the first edition of the development camp in 2001.
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The Canadiens prospects will first take to the ice on Monday, July 6, at 1:30 p.m. The development camp consists of on-ice sessions every day until July 12 with on-ice sessions on both surfaces of the complex. Off-ice conditioning sessions are also scheduled every day. An intersquad game is set for Saturday, July 11.
Twenty-four of the 40 players at camp are Canadiens draft selections, including all eight players from the 2009 NHL Entry Draft held last June at the Bell Centre. The group includes first round picks Louis Leblanc, Max Pacioretty and David Fischer, as well as prospects P.K. Subban, Olivier Fortier and Yannick Weber. Twenty-four of the 40 players also participated in the 2008 Development Camp.