Away we go...

3:08 Dennis Persson is the first to the gate. For his prize, he gets to watch the 'boni roll around six times... 3:16 The rest of the team has joined Persson in the bench area. The sheet is clean, yet the arena waits. Maybe they're waiting for Michael Buffer to do the formal intros. 3:22 Cunney says let's go...

Waiting for Ruffmen

2:50 After some calistenics behind the near-side goal, it looks like the troops should be hitting the ice in the next fifteen minutes or so... 2:54 The place is filling up quickly with parents and their kids...I wonder if people will be yelling "SHOOT!!!" like they do from the 300's during the regular season... 2:55 We have a George Babcock sighting...Nathan Gerbe and Chris Butler are hanging out in gym clothes on the bench. Maybe they won immunity or something, but it doesn't appear they're in a rush to get their gear on. Per the handout: Team Blue Gerbe-Zagrapan-Gogulla Kennedy-Hunter-Allard Van Guilder-Schutz-Orpik Vatri-Scarsella-Lagace Sekera-Myers MacKenzie-Card Southorn-Persson Gragnani-Generous Dennis Eidsness Team Gold Tropp-Byron-Stafford Ennis-Cepis-Whitmore Adam-Irwin-Kaleta Brennan-Crawford Butler-Weber Schiestel-Kostka Funk-Biega Enroth Eno

Heading up to Dwyer

SabresProspects will be cruising up to Niagara shortly for the day's practice session. We'll try to squeeze in some live entries, barring full cooperation from our trusty Q9C.

Five invitees added to Development Camp roster

As practice sessions are set to get underway at the Sabres Development Camp, the team has added five names to the roster as camp invitees: Josh Vatri, RW (Kingston/OHL) Jacob Cepis, C (Bowling Green) Brady Irwin, C (Vermont) Mark Van Guilder, LW (Notre Dame) The list is rounded out by local talent, RW Vincent Scarsella of Canisius (Lackawanna). Mike Card has been added to the list after being omitted from the initial roster release, while unsigned Benjamin Breault is not in camp and is officially done with Buffalo.