Folks, we’ve got to wait for a few weeks for training camps to open for hockey here in North America. Junior hockey begins their camps in mid-August, followed by college and then pro camps. But over in Europe, three Calgary Flames prospects have begun camps (with a fourth to follow soon after).
Ilya Nikolayev
Calgary’s third round pick back in 2019, Nikolayev bounced around between Russia’s minor-pro VHL and their junior MHL last season. He was merely fine offensively in 2020-21, but seemed to get lost in the shuffle at both levels as the season went on.