Snip Snip: Former Caps Edition

The Vancouver Canucks have placed Matt Pettinger on waivers. Also not making an NHL club out of camp? Brian Willsie. Good luck, gents.

Rookie And Training Camp Rosters Released

Posted here, and cut and pasted from The Patriot News below.

Rookie Camp Roster:

Forwards: Jay Beagle, Francois Bouchard, Joel Broda, Stefan Dellarovere, Michael Dubuc, Anton Gustafsson, Dmitry Kugryshev, Maxime Lacroix, Brett Leffler, Travis Morin, Oskar Osala, Mathieu Perreault, Steve Pinizzotto, Justin Taylor

Defensemen: Karl Alzner, John Carlson, Sean Collins, Viktor Dovgan, Josh Godfrey, Patrick McNeill, Eric Mestery, Keith Seabrook, Craig Switzer

Goalies: Braden Holtby, Michal Neuvirth, Simeon Varlamov

Training Camp Roster:

Forwards: Keith Aucoin, Nicklas Backstrom, Chris Bourque, Matt Bradley, Donald Brashear, Chris Clark, Sergei Fedorov, Eric Fehr, Tomas Fleischmann, Alexandre Giroux, Andrew Gordon, Boyd Gordon, Andrew Joudrey, Viktor Kozlov, Brooks Laich, Quintin Laing, Tom Maxwell, Graham Mink, Michael Nylander, Alex Ovechkin, Darren Reid, Alexander Semin, Dave Steckel, Kyle Wilson

Defensemen: Greg Amadio, Dean Arsene, Jakub Cutta, John Erskine, Mike Green, Brian Helmer, Milan Jurcina, Sami Lepisto, Grant McNeill, Shaone Morrisonn, Sasha Pokulok, Brian Pothier, Tom Poti, Jeff Schultz, Tyler Sloan

Goalies: Brent Johnson, Daren Machesney, Jose Theodore

Opening Night Roster Set

The Caps' opening night roster (though perhaps not the lineup) is set now that Steve Eminger has been place on the IR.

In other opening night news, I thought I'd provide a public service and see if we can't bring some Caps fans together for the game. If you're in the Richmond area, for example, Rink Reader "maruk" is looking to get a crowd of Caps fans together to watch the game at Buffalo Wild Wings at Virginia Center Commons. And, of course, if you're local, Ventnor Sports Cafe is always a great place for pucks.

Where else are you all drinking, err, watching the game? Let us know in the comments and we'll see if we can't do a little drinking buddy matchmaking.

Training Camp Roster Announced

From the Caps:

"A total of 68 players will be on the ice at Kettler Capitals Iceplex in the upcoming weeks for the 2007 Washington Capitals rookie camp and training camp, vice president and general manager George McPhee announced today.
"Thirty rookies will participate in rookie camp, which begins this Saturday, Sept. 8, and runs through Wednesday, Sept. 12, when the rookies travel to Philadelphia to scrimmage the Flyers’ rookies.

"Training camp begins Friday, Sept. 14 when 38 veterans – 24 of whom saw action for the Capitals last season – will join selected rookies to get ready for the upcoming 2007-08 NHL season. In between practices and off-ice workout sessions, the Capitals will play seven preseason games before camp wraps up with the Caps Care Golf Tournament on Monday, Oct. 1.

"The public is welcome to attend every practice, free of charge, beginning Saturday, Sept. 8."

The full rosters for the rookie and full camps can be found here (note that some rookies will be hanging around for the full camp, but are only listed under the rookie camp roster).