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Prospects

Sanguinetti ready to realize potential with 'Canes

Tuesday, 07.19.2011 / 4:07 PM / Prospects

Brian Compton - NHL.com Deputy Managing Editor

"It's been a little bit of a roller coaster. You get the first-round tag put on you and things didn't quite work out in New York. I had two good years in the minors, but I just wasn't able to crack the lineup. I went to Carolina and had a really good camp and was able to learn a lot from the coaches there. I feel like my game kind of developed." -- Bobby Sanguinetti

Bobby Sanguinetti has been carrying around the label of being a first-round pick since the New York Rangers selected him No. 21 at the 2006 Entry Draft.

Sanguinetti played all of five NHL games for the Blueshirts before being shipped to the Carolina Hurricanes in the summer of 2009. With less than two months before the Hurricanes open training camp, Sanguinetti is determined to scratch his way into a full-time job on Carolina's blue line.

"I'm at the age now where I need to put it all together and not just be content with being good offensively or defensively," said Sanguinetti, who signed a one-year, two-way deal with the Hurricanes last Friday. "I'm just going to go out there and play my game and rely on my instincts. Obviously, I'm an offensive guy and that's what I'm always going to be, but I just need to make sure I'm good on both sides of the puck."
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Another Sutter working his way toward NHL

Tuesday, 07.19.2011 / 3:52 PM / Prospects

Greg Picker - NHL.com Staff Writer

The Sutters are arguably the most legendary family in hockey history -- and certainly the most prolific. Carolina Hurricanes prospect Brody Sutter is the most recent member to embark on a professional hockey career.

The first generation of Sutters saw six brothers -- Brian, Darryl, Duane, Brent, Rich, and Ron -- combine to play more than 4,200 NHL games from 1976 through 2001.

Brody Sutter -- son of Duane -- was a 2011 seventh-round pick of the Carolina Hurricanes, and is part of the second generation of Sutters to set his sights on a pro career. Along with cousins Brandon and Brett, he's also the third Sutter to become a part of the Hurricanes organization. This past season Brandon played his first full season in the NHL, while Brett spent most of the season playing with the Charlotte Checkers, the Hurricanes' American Hockey League affiliate. Brett has played 19 NHL games with the Calgary Flames and Hurricanes over the past three seasons.
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Placek aiming for hockey and education

Monday, 07.18.2011 / 2:55 PM / Prospects

Adam Kimelman - NHL.com Deputy Managing Editor

"I know he's going to Harvard, which is good. It's going to give him four years to get ready for the pro level, and he's not gambling it all on hockey. He's going to get a great education and he's going to become a better hockey player, a more mature hockey player. But when you got a big guy like that with good hands and good size and good skating ability, it always sticks out." -- Ian Laperriere

Parents pretty much are the same anywhere in the world. They want their children to grow up safe, comfortable and happy -- and part of reaching that goal is getting a good education.

Jiri Placek and Leaka Plackova were insistent in that regard with their son, Petr Placek, and he certainly paid attention. Petr, a seventh-round pick of the Philadelphia Flyers at last month's Entry Draft, will start at Harvard University in the fall.

"It was the first school I visited," Placek told NHL.com during the Flyers' recent prospect development camp. "It's Harvard. That's about it."

Placek grew up in Slany, Czech Republic, about 45 minutes northwest of Prague. He started in the Kladno youth hockey program, and while he did well, he had his sights set elsewhere.
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Contract signed, Larsson ready for NHL challenge

Friday, 07.15.2011 / 6:20 PM / Prospects

Mike G. Morreale - NHL.com Staff Writer

To say Swedish defenseman Adam Larsson was excited when he learned a deal had been finalized with New Jersey Devils General Manager Lou Lamoriello would be a bit of an understatement.
 
"He said it was the happiest day of his life," Larsson's Swedish agent, Claus Elefalk, told NHL.com. "He said to me, 'I've never been happier than this moment,' so he's flying right now in his mind."
 
It was Elefalk and Larsson's U.S.-based agent, J.P. Barry, who worked out the details of the three-year, entry-level contract that was finalized by Lamoriello on Thursday night and made public Friday afternoon.
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Ellis has potential to surface soon in Nashville

Friday, 07.15.2011 / 3:03 PM / Prospects

John Manasso - NHL.com Correspondent

Since the Nashville Predators joined the NHL in 1998, only three of their draft picks have earned a roster spot without having first played with the organization's American Hockey League affiliate.

David Legwand, the No. 2 selection in the 1998 Entry Draft, played one game in the expansion franchise's inaugural season. Scott Hartnell, the sixth pick in 2000, did it, but he only scored 2 goals and had 14 assists in 75 games.

And last year, backup goalie Anders Lindback made the jump without the benefit of spending time first with the Milwaukee Admirals, but he was 22 and had played in Sweden's Elite League.

Enter Ryan Ellis. The 20-year-old defenseman won the Ontario Hockey League's player of the year award in 2011, finishing with 101 points (24 goals and a Sergei Zubov-like 77 assists), which tied him for fourth in the league. The others ahead of Ellis in the points race all were forwards.
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Fans turned prospects savor week with Pens

Thursday, 07.14.2011 / 2:40 PM / Prospects

Alan Robinson - NHL.com Correspondent

"The players don't treat you like they're better than you. They're great guys and willing to help you along and help you further your own career and show you some things that made them successful. It's really nice to see." -- Rob Madore

PITTSBURGH – Like every hockey-obsessed kid who grows up in Pittsburgh -- and there are tens of thousands of them -- Rob Madore and Andrew Blazek always wanted to pull on a Penguins sweater. Not one you can buy at the team merchandise store, but the real deal.

The two college players -- Madore is a goalie at Vermont, Blazek a defenseman at Robert Morris -- are doing exactly that this week at the team's prospect development camp, which concludes Saturday afternoon with a scrimmage at Consol Energy Center that is open to the public for free. The invited but undrafted college players from suburban Pittsburgh were permitted to attend as long as they paid their own expenses.
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Nelson ready for next step on way to the Island

Thursday, 07.14.2011 / 12:36 PM / Prospects

John Kreiser - NHL.com Columnist

"Brock looks like a totally different player. That's what happens when you're that size. He's got a long way to continue at North Dakota, but he's put on some muscle, he's put it on the right way. His stride looks stronger. He looks stronger on the puck, even after only one day when I've seen him on the ice. He's making a lot of strides."
-- Jack Capuano

Brock Nelson is ready for a bigger role with the University of North Dakota this coming season. The New York Islanders hope that's a prelude to having Nelson play a significant role on Long Island.

Nelson, taken by the Islanders with the final pick of the opening round of the 2010 Entry Draft after tearing up the Minnesota high school ranks at Warroad High School, had a solid freshman year as UND made the Frozen Four. But it ended painfully -- Nelson was taken off the ice on a stretcher after going back-first into the boards during the Fighting Sioux's 2-0 semifinal loss to Michigan.

But as he showed this week during the Islanders' rookie development camp, there have been no lingering effects from the injury.
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Strome trying to enjoy his new home

Wednesday, 07.13.2011 / 4:56 PM / Prospects

Greg Picker - NHL.com Staff Writer

UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- With New York Islanders prospect camp in full swing, Ryan Strome has no time to settle onto Long Island.

Less than a month after being selected by the Islanders with the fifth pick of the Entry Draft, Strome stepped on the ice Wednesday at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum for the first time.
 
"It was cool. It could be a big part of my future, and hopefully it is," Strome said after his first on-ice session.
 
Strome and the rest of the prospects at the Islanders' development camp not only are busy on the ice this week, but will take in all sorts of activities around Long Island. After physicals Tuesday, they went fishing on Long Island Sound. On Friday, they will trek to Citi Field and take in a Mets game against the Philadelphia Phillies.
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Islanders' de Haan aiming for NHL spot

Wednesday, 07.13.2011 / 4:13 PM / Prospects

John Kreiser - NHL.com Columnist

UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- In terms of his NHL career, Calvin de Haan is a rookie trying to make the NHL for the first time. But at this week's New York Islanders development camp, he's one of the old hands.

The Isles' "other" first-round pick in the 2009 Entry Draft -- de Haan was taken 12th, 11 slots after New York grabbed John Tavares with the No. 1 pick -- is attending his third development camp this week at the Nassau Coliseum, the place he hopes to call home this fall. That makes the 20-year-old a veteran among the 18- and 19-year-olds who are getting their first look at professional hockey.

"I'm old news now," de Haan said with a laugh after Wednesday's workout at the Coliseum. "I try to be welcoming to the younger guys, kind of show them the ropes a little bit."
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Lauridsen set for next move in his hockey career

Wednesday, 07.13.2011 / 12:18 PM / Prospects

Adam Kimelman - NHL.com Deputy Managing Editor

"I'm in the gym every day and I see him in the gym every day. I know if a guy trains or a guy works out. There's a difference. There's people that train to stay in shape or there's guys who work out to get better, and Oliver is in that category." -- Ian Laperriere

With only two professional hockey games under his belt, defenseman Oliver Lauridsen is a bit of a mystery to the Philadelphia Flyers.

However, one current member of the team feels he has a pretty good idea what the big Danish-born blueliner is all about.

"I'm in the gym every day and I see him in the gym every day," Ian Laperriere told NHL.com during the team's recent prospect development camp. "I know if a guy trains or a guy works out. There's a difference. There's people that train to stay in shape or there's guys who work out to get better, and Oliver is in that category."

A 2009 seventh-round draft pick, the 6-foot-6, 220-pound Lauridsen had a chance to further impress Flyers management at the week-long camp. It was his first game action since March 22.
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