The Pittsburgh Penguins are back on the ice for training camp and 4 exhibition games before the season opens in early October. Last night the Pens beat Buffalo and played in Detroit tonight with several former Wilkes-Barre-Scranton guys on the ice. Some of those guys that played on last year’s Baby Pens team have a shot to make the Pittsburgh roster. The Penguins coach likes what he has seen so far from the young guys.
Dan Muse, Pittsburgh Coach,” It’s, you know, that’s a big part of training camp is seeing guys, you know, again, a lot of different situations between the practices that they’ve gone through and now the exhibition games and the scrimmages. And so, there’s an evaluation that’s going on in terms of us, you know, figuring out our roster here, but there’s also an evaluation that’s going on to see, you know, it’s a long season.
And, you know, you saw it last year. You see it across the league. You see it every team. There’s going to be movement. And so you know when that happens there’s an impression that can be made in training camp as a starting point for players to show this is what I can do for them to raise their hand and say, this is how I can impact the game.
And that’s what we’re looking for. And it’s not, you know, going in there and trying to be somebody else like that never works like they have to. They have to show what they do, what they bring and how they can help this team, help this organization win hockey games. “
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins will start their training camp Friday.