| 28 September 2011
The Providence Bruins have announced their 25-man training camp roster, a group that will participate in two preseason games this coming weekend before the season kicks off next Friday. Among the roster are 12 returning players, as well as six players on tryout agreements - necessary due to the players still in Boston.
The P-Bruins forwards announced yesterday for preseason are Jamie Arniel, Carter Camper, Stefan Chaput, Craig Cunningham, Kirk MacDonald, Kyle MacKinnon, Adam Presizniuk, Richard Purslow, Tyler Randell, Calle Ridderwall, Yannick Riendeau, Everett Sheen, and Jamie Tardif. They were joined today by Zach Hamill and Trent Whitfield, who had to clear waivers before reassignment.
The defensemen for preseason are Andrew Bodnarchuk, Ryan Button, Marc Cantin, Colby Cohen, Marvin Degon, Nathan McIver, Zach McKelvie, Kevan Miller, and David Warsofsky. All but Cantin, Degon, and McKelvie saw at least some ice time in Providence last season.
Michael Hutchinson and invitees Jared DeMichiel and Danny Taylor will be the preseaosn goaltenders.
Also likely to join the team when Boston's preseason is over are forwards Lane MacDermid and Max Sauve - Jordan Caron, who split the season between Boston and Providence last year, has a good chance of graduating full-time to the NHL this year. Defenseman Matt Bartkowski and goaltender Anton Khudobin will find their way south to Rhode Island eventually, as well.
After last year's training camp, the players on tryout contracts primarily found themselves in the ECHL. This year's invitees hail from a slightly more varied background than usual.
Adam Presiniuk, a 24-year-old center from Calgary, Alberta, spent four years at Union College where he most recently played alongside Bruins development camp invitee Josh Jooris. He scored 12-21-33 totals in 34 games for Union of the ECAC last year, and 131 points total in his four-year career. He is a first-year pro.
Richard Purslow, a 25-year-old forward from Greenlawn, NY, and a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Omaha, was that team's third leading scorer last year, with 33 points in 39 games. Purslow, who was named to the all-academic team at UNO at the conclusion of his senior season, has already agreed to terms with the ECHL's Reading Royals, the P-Bruins' AA affiliate. He is also a first-year pro.
Everett Sheen, another 24-year-old forward from Alberta and first-year pro, signed with the Syracuse Crunch last season after finishing his senior year at Holy Cross College, but did not appear in a game for that team. Sheen set a school record at Holy Cross by appearing in every game they played over the four seasons he was at the school, and is the ninth player in school history to record over 100 points during his career. Last year, he scored 35 points in 38 games.
On defense, the lone invitee is Marvin Degon, a 28-year-old veteran of the AHL and DEL. He played three full seasons in the AHL between 2005 and 2008, after graduating from UMass Amherst. He has spent the last three seasons in Germany's DEL, where he most recently played for Ingostadt.
It's not often that you see a player from Great Britain on a North American roster but that's exactly where Danny Taylor hails from - Plymouth, England. The 25-year-old goaltender was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in 2004, and spent a number of years bouncing between the ECHL and AHL - with one NHL appearance in the 2007-2008 season. Taylor most recently played for the Hamburg Freezers of the DEL.
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