Saturday Afternoon, Thrashers -vs-New York Rangers

It is difficult not to have an amazing time at the Red Wings Prospect Tournament. Traverse City is just beginning to blush with fall colours, the tempatures are usually a temperate 60-70 degrees and the skys clear. Best yet hockey action starts at 3:00 allowing time for side trips to the town itself or local attractions including the many fine wineries on the pinsula.

Saturday after a side trip Leelanau Cellars to restock our dwindeling supply of our favorite whites and reds we arrived at Center Ice ready for some hockey action. Todays afternoon game featured Atlanta Thrashers aganist the New York Rangers. It has been years since Atlanta's farm team the Chicago Wolves faced the Bingahamton Senators, New Yorks affiliate. New York also featured prospect Alex Bourret who skated briefly for the Woles during the 06'season. We were interested to see if Bourret would be pouring it on looking to see New York or would he be sent down to gasp! Bingo!







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Back again ...From Red Wings Rookie Tournament!

Hello from beautiful cool and clear Traverse City Michigan the site of the Red Wings Rookie Tournament. This year like previous years the tournament is efficiently run by a legion of friendly,well organized volunteers. Seeing to it that eight NHL teams, press and parents are all well taken care of. For this photog it has been one of the most fun,informative and exciting weekends I can remember in a long time.This blog entry will be the first of several reporting on the sights of this intense moment in time for these NHL hopefuls.

What first strikes me is the faces, some of these young men are very nervous a few look cocky and fewer still down right arrogant. I will share with you tonight a few of the faces of the tournament that the camera managed to capture before their big moment.


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