Day 5 of on ice sessions at camp saw a lot of the same from the previous days with drills and exercises on agility. Today was not unlike other days where certain players stood out because of their on ice training and agility, while others stood out for other reasons..(like falling all over the ice?)
As camp continues, the players are starting to lose some of the rust and drills are really opening up and your starting to see lots of drills that include odd man rushes and defence paired up against offence. The players who I was able to observe more today were Klefbom, Simpson, Gernat and Marincin. Bigos, Rieder, Hamilton, Fedun, Roy and of course Nail Yakupov.
Here was the tweets I was able to send out LIVE from Millennium Place in Sherwood Park....
Day 5 Oilers development Camp:
Guys hit ice for
Drill is skating forward then backward swinging stick under legs , crowd laughing hysterically at nail and others
Watching d-men working through drills right now
Incredible sticks by both
3 on 2 full ice breakouts drills being done now
Shooters standing around goalies taking shots.
Another great play by
Well, that was the last day of drills and exercises for the on ice sessions ....next up? 3 on 3 tourney, Monday 2012.
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