Young Guns Strut Their Stuff at Montreal Canadiens’ Training Camp
September 22nd, 2010 by Kamal Panesar Leave a reply »Montreal, QC—With the Montreal Canadiens 2011 training camp in full swing, the Habs young prospects are slowly starting to make their mark.
While the Habs have done a good job of restocking their cupboards over the last few years and boast a variety of good young players—Alexander Avtsin, Jarred Tinordi, Max Pacioretty, and Ben Maxwell—there are three individuals who seem to be grabbing most of the headlines so far at camp: Aaron Palushaj, Lars Eller, and Louis Leblanc.
Eller Makes His Mark
Leblanc and Palushaj seem to be destined to play in juniors and the AHL this season, respectively, but Eller seems all but a lock to make the team out of camp.
Jacques Martin yesterday lauded over Eller's speed, skill, and on-ice vision and rewarded the youngster's hard work by giving him a tryout on a line with Scott Gomez and Brian Gionta.
The ancillary benefit of that trio is that it will surely serve notice to Benoit Pouliot and Andrei Kostitsyn that their hold on their positions in the top six are tenuous, at best.
If either of these players cannot produce the way they are expected to, Martin will surely switc ...
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