Young Players Added for Calgary

The Calgary Flames prospects will also be heading to Penticton, BC to play in the tournament that is being hosted by the Canucks. Their current roster is already pretty deep with signed players, so other than Mikael Backlund, who should have a spot on the regular roster already, I would imagine that most of these guys will also be playing for training camp spots and hopefully long looks at that.

Forwards	Defense	Goalies
Jarome Iginla	Ian White	Miikka Kiprusoff
Rene Bourque	Marc Giordano	Henrik Karlsson
Matt Stajan	Jay Bouwmeester
Olli Jokinen	Robyn Regehr
Niklas Hagman	Steve Staios
Daymond Langkow	Adam Pardy
Alex Tanguay	Cory Sarich
Curtis Glencross
Ales Kotalik
David Moss
Craig Conroy
Tim Jackman
Raitis Ivanans
John Armstrong	Chris Breen	Leland Irving
Mikael Backlund	T.J. Brodie	Matt Keetley
Carter Bancks	Matt Clarke	Cam Lanigan
Spencer Bennett	Joey Leach
Lance Bouma	Josh Meyers
Bryan Cameron	John Negrin
Hugo Carpentier	Giffen Nyren
Michael Ferland	Keith Seabrook
Ryley Grantham
Patrick Holland
Ryan Howse
Logan MacMillan
Greg Nemisz
Gaelan Patterson
Max Reinhart
Jon Rheault
Mitch Wahl

The prospects group for the Flames is on the slow road to recovery after a number of years without solid talent in their system.

I am expecting Backlund to excel in this rookie tournament, as he has had plenty of experience playing with the big boys and he'll likely get better with more game action like this. Otherwise, I'm looking forward to reading about Logan MacMillan and Greg Nemisz up front, John Negrin and Keith Seabrook on the blueline and Leland Irving in net.  Of course, I'm expecting a few more names to hit the main camp on the 17th, but these are the guys that I can see excelling in this tournament and earning some longer looks. 

Really, this is just advanced scouting for pool drafts down the road, certainly not this year... unless you're still counting Backlund.