The Arizona Coyotes have been arguably the busiest team in their preseason preparation process, in large part thanks to the team’s trip to Australia to play exhibition contests against the Los Angeles Kings. The team signed a collection of players to PTO’s yesterday, and today they have confirmed their 2023 training camp roster. Per the announcement, the players traveling to Australia are:
Forwards: Nick Bjugstad, Travis Boyd, Michael Carcone, Logan Cooley, Lawson Crouse, Dylan Guenther, Barrett Hayton, Alex Kerfoot, Clayton Keller, Matias Maccelli, Jack McBain, Liam O’Brien, Nick Schmaltz, Jason Zucker
Defensemen: Josh Brown, Travis Dermott, Matt Dumba, Sean Durzi, J.J. Moser, Victor Soderstrom, Troy Stecher, Juuso Valimaki
Goaltenders: Connor Ingram, Andrew Oke, Karel Vejmelka
The rest of the team’s 74-man training camp roster will remain in the United States to play the rest of the Coyotes’ slate of preseason contests.
- The Pittsburgh Penguins have announced a slew of new hires today, adding people to positions in their equipment, high performance, and player development departments. Some of the new hires have prior experience working with Penguins president of hockey operations and GM Kyle Dubas, including new director of goaltending Jon Elkin. These hires continue the process of re-shaping the Penguins under relatively new owners Fenway Sports Group and Dubas, who FSG hired earlier this offseason.
- Hockey Hall of Famer Mark Recchi will be inducted into the Philadelphia Flyers team hall of fame, the Flyers announced today. Recchi will be honored in a pre-game ceremony before the Flyers’ January 27th contest against the Boston Bruins, another team Recchi played for. Recchi played parts of 10 seasons in Philadelphia, racking up 602 games played, 232 goals, and 627 points. Recchi had the most productive season of his career in Philadelphia when he scored 123 points in 1992-93.