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OHL coaching camps are ongoing and preseason is simply across the nook. Every single day there’s extra information relating to groups including or subtracting gamers from their rosters. Bookmark The Hockey News OHL website to remain up to date on all information and coaching camp roster bulletins.
Throughout our coaching camp collection on the location, we are going to analyze the import gamers, overage gamers (2004-born), first-year draft-eligible gamers to keep watch over, and every workforce’s illustration from their 2024 draft class, in addition to another storylines.
At present we’re trying on the London Knights’ coaching camp roster. The PDF hyperlink to their roster could be discovered here.
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London has cut up their coaching camp into 4 groups — Staff Inexperienced, Gold, Black, and White. After the Labour Day weekend, the camp will probably be sliced all the way down to solely two groups.
Denver Barkey (sickness), Easton Cowan, Ruslan Gazizov, and Kasper Halttunen will be part of the workforce after NHL camps, however look ahead to Cowan and Halttunen as two gamers who’re going to push to make the soar to the NHL this yr.
NOTE: Lately signed import Russian forward, Gleb Semenov, just isn’t listed on the workforce’s coaching camp roster.
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Overage Gamers
London has 5 2004-born gamers on their preliminary roster. A kind of gamers is Ruslan Gazizov, who we consider’s standing with the workforce is questionable because of the import rule, — can solely have two import gamers in your roster — and seeing because it appears like he will probably be attending an NHL camp.
The opposite 4 gamers are forwards Landon Sim and Jacob Julien, defenseman Alec Leonard, and goaltender Owen Willmore.
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Michael Simpson has moved on to play for the Belleville Senators in the AHL, opening up the number-one function in London for Willmore to grab. Can he successfully exchange Simpson is the query.
The Winnipeg Jets maintain Julien’s signing rights for another season, which is why we see him again with the workforce for an overage yr. If the Jets signed him, it could imply that he would not be eligible to return to the OHL. Not signing him but permits the workforce to maintain a contract spot open.
Alternatively, as a result of Landon Sim was drafted in 2022 — Julien was drafted in 2023 — by the St. Louis Blues, he sadly didn’t obtain a contract from them and is a free agent. St. Louis has voiced they actually like him as a participant however do not need to decide to a contract spot on him fairly but.
Lastly, we’ve got right-shot defenseman Alec Leonard. The Toronto, Ontario native was a excessive choose (2nd spherical, twenty seventh general) by the Niagara IceDogs in 2020 and is eight video games away from hitting the 200-game mark in his OHL profession. Nonetheless, his full-time spot on the workforce just isn’t assured with Sim, Julien, and Willmore almost certainly taking on the three OA game-day roster spots on most nights.
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Import Gamers
This is the place issues get attention-grabbing for the Knights. They at the moment have 4 imports — Ruslan Gazizov, Kasper Halttunen, Jesse Nurmi, and Gleb Semenov.
Now, just one — Jesse Nurmi — is listed on their coaching camp roster. However, let’s assume that Halttunen would not make San Jose‘s opening evening roster, Gazizov returns, and Semenov comes over from Russia. The workforce might want to commerce two of them.
They signed Nurmi and Semenov this low season and would assume that Mark and Dale Hunter would need to have them of their lineup. One thing has to present right here on the import entrance for London earlier than the beginning of the season.
NHL-Affiliated Prospects
London clearly is called a manufacturing unit floor for build up future NHL stars, and so they lead the OHL with NHL-drafted prospects.
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Within the potential lineup for the Knights within the 2024-25 season, there are a complete of 9 NHL-affiliated prospects. It is necessary to notice that Landon Sim just isn’t included on this rely.
F, Easton Cowan – Toronto Maple Leafs (2023 1st spherical, twenty eighth general)
F, Sam O’Reilly – Edmonton Oilers (2024 1st spherical, thirty second general)
F, Kasper Halttunen – San Jose Sharks (2023 2nd spherical, thirty sixth general)
F, Denver Barkey – Philadelphia Flyers (2023 third spherical, ninety fifth general)
F, Jacob Julien – Winnipeg Jets (2023 fifth spherical, 146th general)
F, William Nicholl – Edmonton Oilers (2024 seventh spherical, 196th general)
D, Sam Dickinson – San Jose Sharks (2024 1st spherical, eleventh general)
D, Oliver Bonk – Philadelphia Flyers (2023 1st spherical, twenty second general)
D, Jared Woolley – Los Angeles Kings (2024 sixth spherical, 164th general)
Related: Sam O’Reilly Drafted 32nd Overall by Edmonton; A Two-way, Power Forward in the Making
NHL Draft-Eligible Prospects
For the final two years, the Knights have had a first-year NHL draft-eligible prospect come up and shine in his OHL rookie season. Who’s it going to be this yr?
Preserve an eye fixed out for 5-foot-9 ahead Brendan Gerber. The 2023 sixth-rounder performed two video games for the Knights final season and spent the yr within the GOJHL the place he produced 27 targets and 53 factors in 48 video games, and was voted to the league’s All-Rookie Staff.
London’s 2023 seventh-rounder, Cohen Bidgood, is one other identify to be careful for. Final season within the GOJHL, he recorded 60 factors and 116 penalty minutes in 76 mixed common season and playoff video games cut up between the Chatham Maroons and St. Marys Lincolns. He went to the Sutherland Cup Finals with the Lincolns, however his workforce misplaced to Listowel Cyclones.
Goaltender Alexei Medvedev has a chance to seize ahold of the backup function to Owen Willmore and will put his identify on NHL scouts’ radar.
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And defensemen Henry Brzustewicz and Noah Jenken had a style of what the OHL is like, incomes Championship rings as a member of the workforce’s playoff run. Brzustewicz was keen to maneuver up and play ahead for components of the season and within the playoffs for the workforce as a consequence of their backend being extremely sturdy and deep.
2024 OHL Draft Class
Listed below are the gamers from London’s 2024 draft class who will probably be attending their first OHL coaching camp:
C, Logan Hawery – 1st spherical, twentieth general
LHD, Caleb Mitchell – 2nd spherical, thirty ninth general
C, Max Mews – third spherical, fifty fifth general
LW, Jaxon Cowl – 4th spherical, sixty fourth general
C, Jackson Halloran – fifth spherical, 98th general
C, Matthew Airhart – fifth spherical, 102nd general
RHD, Jackson Taylor – sixth spherical, 122nd general
C, Eddie Hickson – seventh spherical, 142nd general
LHD, Cody Wooden – eighth spherical, 162nd general
G, Seth Ronan – ninth spherical, 182nd general
C, Seth Coomber – tenth spherical, 192nd general
LHD, William Janicek – 14th spherical, 282nd general
RW, Logan Jackson – fifteenth spherical, 302nd general
Fifth-rounder Jacob Monks, eleventh-rounder Anthony Thomas-Maroon, and twelfth-rounder Sebastian Gatto are the one three members from the 2024 class not listed on London’s coaching camp roster.
The Knights’ two picks within the U18 OHL Precedence Choice — Kyle Henneberry and Jake Start — are attending camp.
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