In actual hockey news, the Calgary Flames opened the on-ice portion of their 2017-18 training camp earlier today. The 68 players in camp were split neatly into three groups and had roughly hour-long sessions where Glen Gulutzan and his staff put them through the paces.
Here are the main takeaways from the first day.
A mixture of lines
As a result of all the arena hubbub, we don’t have a complete picture of lines for all three groups right now. (Sorry.) But we do have a pretty decent idea regarding most of the big pieces in the Flames organization line-wise.