If you prefer slapshots and saucer-passes to saddles and spurs, you’ll want to dust off a warm jacket and head over to WinSport Markin MacPhail Centre this week for the Calgary Flames’ annual development camp.
The invite list for the summer get-together includes 20 forwards, 18 defencemen and four netminders, from highly-touted prospects to a bunch of undrafted free agents that are still shooting to make a name for themselves.
Here are five guys we’ll be watching closely …
Jon Gillies
Goalie, Providence College
Third-round pick of Flames in 2012 NHL Draft
This is Gillies’ fourth trip to development camp in Calgary, but there’s a big difference — this time, he won’t be headed back to school afterward.