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100% you'll get here, 110% you'll stay. That's the motto that adorns the Bruins' development camp t-shirts this year, sported around the locker room by draft picks and invitees alike.
The first grueling three days of Bruins Development camp are complete. The kids are over the hump of insane workouts, swimming in pools with sweatshirts on, and the first few bouts of on-ice conditioning. Sticks have been broken (Warsofsky, yesterday), Vladimir Sobotka's number has been reassigned (Zane Gothberg, whose self-admitted guilty pleasure music is techno and Miley Cyrus...what a good kid), and chemistry has been formed and re-formed, on and off the ice.
The Seguin madness felt in Wilmington this week is overshadowing a lot of aspects of the Bruins' prospects' camp, and truly, the madness really is just that. Ristuccia was packed to the gills, fuller than it ever is even for weekend in-season practices, with fans who repeatedly chanted "SE-GUIN! SE-GUIN!" and cheered whenever the kid scored on one of the young goalies. Freshly-drafted Gothberg, who will play for the USHL's Fargo Force next season, admitted that although it's nice to make saves on the flashy, talked-up guys like Seguin and now Colborne and Caron, it moreso throws him off a little to let in goals and hear the crowd react that way.
If you dig a little deeper past the #2 draft pick and likely Bruins star, though, you'll find a general attitude around the locker room that's startlingly loose. College rivalries are shoved aside for the moment, old playoff series are forgotten, and everything is focused on the here and now.
Joe Colborne.
There's no denying that a leader is emerging, as well. Joe Colborne, the easygoing University of Denver standout who played in several P-Bruins games at the end of last season, is in his third season of development camp, having made great strides to increase his body mass between camps via Denver's rigorous practice schedule. He's also a guy the other rookies look up to - literally and figuratively. Colborne has expressed confidence in his ability to lead by example, and spent the majority of on-ice time demonstrating drills, chatting with the other players, and leading stretches, or choosing someone else to lead them.
Despite that he's a natural center, Colborne is also able to play wing, which he demonstrated following an injury to his wrist while playing in Colorado. However, it's not likely he'll see time in Boston this season, but 2011-2012 looks promising. For now he'll probably take his leadership abilities to the AHL.
"Everyone on the team was awesome to me, they're a great bunch of guys. I'm really excited to get back to training camp this year to see everyone," he said of the Providence squad. He spoke highly of the currently-injured Max Sauve, with whom he played on a line in Providence, saying that "they complimented each other really well."
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The lines at development camp today were
Florek-Colborne-Fallstrom
Knight-Seguin-Caron
Sexton-Tremblay-Randell
Cunningham-Brenner-Spooner
Of note in the scrimmages and 2-on-2/3-on-3 drills that happened were the fact that many of these players have no fear of crashing the net - and each other. Steve Kampfer and Ryan Spooner managed to accomplish both at once, taking each other out and slding right into Zane Gothberg.
Cunningham takes out Big Joe C.
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David Krejci also put in an appearance today at Ristuccia, doing some rehabilitation work on his wrist. He spoke on spending his second summer in a row rehabbing in Boston, his excitement about visiting Prague in the beginning of the season, and the current heat wave.
"They told me three months, and it's two months...I've been doing rehab for the past month, and...it's on schedule," he said. Krejci spoke about the injury, saying that after he was injured in the Flyers game, he had to sit in a trainer's room that had no TV, so he didn't even see the end of the game. He had to wait for the surgeon to leave when the game was over, and then apparently they hit traffic on the way to the hospital...he's looking forward to forgetting about it and starting the new season. He plans to be back for training camp.
Krejci is also excited to travel to Prague, saying "I haven't been home that much lately, so I'll go back in August, and then it's exciting to spend the first part of the season there." Despite being unable to spend much time in Czech this summer, Krejci is making the best of it, finding time to travel to Cape Cod and Lake Winnapasaukee, as well as taking in some Red Sox games with his parents and a friend from home, who are currently visiting him here.
"Home is home and I'd really love to be home a lot this summer, but...I like [Boston], it's awesome and the weather's been great," he added.
This weather? Great? Krejci thinks so, despite the moaning and groaning of the rest of New England.
"It's beautiful out!" he exclaimed when asked about this week's weather. "It's summer, how can you complain?"
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