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Anaheim Ducks rookie camp started on Thursday, Sept. 12 and the prospects performed their first “Rookie Faceoff” recreation in opposition to the prospects from the Colorado Avalanche on Friday, Sept. 13.
Takeaways from the Ducks 4-3 Victory over the Colorado Avalanche in Rookie Faceoff
Together with the on-ice debut of the workforce’s brand-new white street jerseys and uniforms, the teaching workers awarded captaincies among the many rookie workforce to 3 of their most extremely touted prospects.
Defenseman Tristan Luneau was assigned the “C” because the workforce’s captain with defenseman Tyson Hinds and ahead Cutter Gauthier every carrying an “A” on their jerseys.
“They’re guys who’ve been to rookie camps earlier than,” Geese Rookie Faceoff head coach Matt McIlvane mentioned after the Geese 4-3 victory over the Avalanche. “They’re guys who we really feel can step into our locker room and supply some management. They’re guys who can present a peaceful instance after which go carry out. I assumed all of them did. They offered the management we thought that they’d.”
Tristan Luneau (20) has battled his justifiable share of adversity in his younger hockey profession up to now. As soon as the primary total decide within the QMJHL draft, he underwent knee surgical procedure throughout his junior profession taking part in for Gatineau Olympiques, doubtless costing him important NHL draft inventory earlier than he was ultimately chosen within the second spherical (53rd total in 2022) by the Anaheim Geese.
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He made the Geese opening evening roster in 2023-24 with a calculated improvement plan that was to see him despatched to Sweden with Staff Canada for the 2024 World Junior Championship as a (or the) key piece on their blueline. His knee turned contaminated in transit and he was shut down for the rest of the season.
Luneau checked in for Geese rookie camp weighing 215 kilos, up 24 kilos from the workforce’s 2023 rookie camp. His exhausting work to return again stronger is paying off up to now as his skating is extra explosive than ever and he is imposing his will bodily within the Rookie Faceoff.
Tyson Hinds (21) is within the midst of his fourth rookie camp following his AHL rookie season in 2023-24 which noticed him play all 71 of the San Diego Gulls video games, scoring ten factors.
Hinds was chosen within the third spherical (76th in ’21) by the Anaheim Geese, who valued his motor and defensive prowess within the exhausting areas of the ice.
“It’s my fourth rookie camp. A whole lot of guys are new right here or youthful, so that they’re nervous,” Hinds mentioned of his choice as a captain within the event. “I’m simply making an attempt to maintain them cool and never nervous. Telling them to play exhausting, play good, have enjoyable, and good things goes to occur. Attempting to present that mentality to the youthful guys.”
Cutter Gauthier (20) is the one member of the Geese rookie camp totally anticipated to make the workforce’s NHL opening evening lineup.
Ducks’ Gauthier Speaks at NHLPA Rookie Showcase
The 2024 Hobey Baker finalist is one among three gamers on the Geese rookie camp with NHL expertise (Tristan Luneau and Sam Colangelo), taking part in one recreation on the finish of the 2023-24 season for the Geese.
He was chosen close to the highest of the draft (fifth in ’22) by the Philadelphia Flyers and was traded to Anaheim in change for Jamie Drysdale and a 2025 second-round decide shortly after his gold medal efficiency on the 2024 World Junior Championship, the place he additionally wore an “A” on his chest.
After one recreation within the Rookie Faceoff, Gauthier at the moment leads the event in factors after notching a objective and an help in opposition to the Avalanche and is tied for the lead in photographs on objective with 5.
The Geese prospects will play their subsequent recreation on Sunday in opposition to 2024 first-overall decide Macklin Celebrini and the prospects from the San Jose Sharks, broadly thought-about a top-three prospect pool within the NHL.
