Geese Invite Three Gamers to Coaching Camp on PTOs

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Dailyfaceoff.com‘s Frank Seravalli reported on Wednesday that the Geese have been “bringing three gamers to camp on PTOs: Mark Pysyk, Boris Katchouk, and Gustav Lindstrom.”

Geese basic supervisor Pat Verbeek isn’t any stranger to providing veteran gamers PTOs (skilled tryouts) to get a firsthand look and decide if he’d like to offer them with a contract. Essentially the most notable amongst them have been Zack Kassian and Scott Harrington in 2023. Neither earned a contract with the crew. Nathan Beaulieu was invited to Geese coaching camp in 2022 and earned a contract, taking part in 52 video games with the Geese in 2022-23.

Mark Pysyk

Pysyk (32) is a veteran right-shot defenseman and first-round choose (twenty third general in 2010) with 521 video games of NHL expertise below his belt.

Pysyk is taken into account extra of a defensive specialist together with his career-high for factors in a season set at 18, achieved within the 2019-20 season.

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He missed your entire 2022-23 season following offseason Achilles surgical procedure and performed the whole lot of the 2023-24 season within the AHL, first in eight video games on a PTO with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (Pittsburgh Penguins affiliate) earlier than signing a two-way contract with the Calgary Flames, the place he completed the 12 months taking part in 29 video games on the Wranglers (Calgary Flames affiliate).

The Geese solely have 4 right-shot defensemen on their organizational depth chart (Radko Gudas, Tristan Luneau, Drew Helleson, and Noah Warren). If Pysyk have been to earn a contract with the Geese group, he would bolster the depth of the blueline core whether or not within the AHL or NHL.

Boris Katchouk

Katchouk (26) is a depth ahead choice who has bounced round within the final two years, unable to solidify a task with a selected crew within the NHL.

Katchouk was drafted within the second spherical (forty fourth in ’16) and was finally a chunk within the deal that despatched Brandon Hagel to the Tampa Bay Lightning from the Chicago Blackhawks in change for Katchouk, Taylor Raddysh, and two first-round picks.

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He was positioned on waivers by the Blackhawks on Dec. 11, 2023, and despatched to the Rockford Ice Hogs of the AHL, the place he’d play six video games earlier than being recalled. He, once more, was positioned on waivers on March 7 and claimed a day later by the Ottawa Senators, the place he’d end out his 2023-24 marketing campaign.

The Senators didn’t decide to supply Katchouk a qualifying supply as a restricted free agent (RFA), successfully rendering him an unrestricted free agent (UFA) on July 1.

After having discovered average success within the AHL, Katchouk has struggled to carve out an impactful position for himself on the NHL stage. He is well-suited to imagine depth-forward obligations, offering impactful forechecking prowess and utilizing his 6-foot-2, 205-pound body to guard pucks and battle his method to the entrance of the web.

He is managed to notch 36 factors in 176 profession NHL video games.

The Anaheim Geese group is now aware of Lindstrom (25) after claiming him of waivers on Jan. 10 and him taking part in out the rest of the 2023-24 season on the Geese roster.

Lindstrom was a second-round choose (thirty eighth in ’17) of the Detroit Red Wings and was traded to the Montreal Canadiens on Aug. 15, 2023, together with a conditional fourth-round choose in change for defenseman Jeff Petry.

Lindstrom solely performed 14 video games for the Habs and 4 for the Laval Rocket of the AHL earlier than he was ultimately claimed by the Geese.

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Lindstrom suited up with the Geese 32 occasions to finish 2023-24, tallying six assists. He supplied reliable defensive prowess, displaying correct hole management, a disruptive stick, and unfaltering high quality positioning.

As an RFA, the Geese didn’t supply him a qualifying supply earlier than July 1 and he turned a UFA.

Ducks veteran defenseman Cam Fowler lately appeared in experiences the place he and the Geese have been “engaged on what his future may seem like,” so inviting a defenseman with Lindstrom’s familiarity may present a essential insurance coverage coverage ought to a commerce happen.

Lindstrom has tallied 35 factors in 174 profession NHL video games and averaged 15:34 TOI.

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