Training Camp 2011 Opens For New York Rookies

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Islanders website: annouced both rookie games against Boston, Monday/Tuesday will be live streamed.

NYIFC Comments:
Vs Msg putting bringing their broadcast team to the prospects tournament and putting prospect games on live television. Nothing like having a partnership.

Islanders website: announced Saturday 9/10/11 that Brett Gallant and Benn Olson have agreed to professional tryout deals for training camp, while Art Bidlevskii has signed an amateur tryout contract. The club also announced that Kevin Poulin has been removed from injured reserve.

Islanders website: launched a site for rookie training camp which began Saturday with several daily updates.

Capuano, Strome, Niederreiter have ITV interviews.

NYIFC added this link to sidebar.

Patroit-News: Has an interview with new Sound Tigers Head Coach, Brent Thompson.

NHL.com/Countless Outlets: KHL team Lokomotiv announced Saturday the team will not participate in the Kontinental Hockey League during the 2011-12 season.

Tri-City Herald: reports a left wing named Adam Hughesman, of the Tri-City Americans is attending training camp on an invite and left Friday. WHL.com: confirmed this information.

Updated:
Islanders twitter feed: Reported camp invite, Adam Hughesman, did not clear his physical and returned to junior.

Philly Sports Daily: has former Islander draft pick, Blake Kessel in Flyers camp on an invite.

Nothing reported on Shane Sims, Brian Day or Dustin Kohn.

New York Notables

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Obviously a very tough time for all hockey fans, reflecting on so many recent tragedies that also extend to events of 9/11.

Having written that hockey continues, some great news to start. Former Islander and Sound Tigers, Head Coach, Steve Stirling has returned to the ice for the Senators after his heart attack in June here.

Islanders website: reported Josh Bailey was in New York working out and made clear he wants to be a New York Islander, and expects a new contract to happen.

NYIFC Comments:
Ultimately this comes down to what Bailey's agent advises him and if the player wants to accept the Islanders offer and his agents advice. Says something so far again another quiet negotiation out of the media for Garth Snow.

That also extends to John Tavares comments about wanting to resign here. Curious he commented on captaincy, but only he knows how question was phrased. No matter how he answers that becomes a story.

KHL Team Plane Crash

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Bloomberg News: Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, a team that is part of the 24-team Kontinental Hockey League, has a list of the players who were killed in a team airline crash, which includes former New York Islander, assistant coach, Brad McCrimmon, former players Josef Vasicek and Alexander Karpovtsev.

Islanders website: Released a statement.

NHL.com has comments from former Islander Alexei Yashin/Evgeny Nabokov.

NYIFC Comments:
Condolences to the people/families of those who lost their lives in this horrible tragedy. To the best of my knowledge, no current/former prospects of the Islander organization are on the reported list of those who perished.

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Nothing ground-breaking for this time, the good news is prospect camp opens Friday/Saturday. New York prospects play Boston's prospects at the Coliseum in eight days.

With that New York Notables.