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Camp Notes: 9/24 --
D'Arcy McGrath

Goaltending is the most important position on a hockey roster in today's NHL.

If your stopper is consistently getting bested by his opponent you don't have much of a chance, especially if budget concerns and failed rebuilding leaves you with a popgun offence.

Last year the Flames received adequate if unspectacular goaltending from Roman Turek and Jamie McLennan.

Both were far from the worst offenders in the team's failed attempt to end six year's of playoff futility, and put the team back on path to better times.

However, no matter how you look it ... they didn't get it done.

This year everything in Calgary is new.

New style of training camp under a new general manager, new head coach and new supporting staff.

This newness has also spread to the methodology of player selection, as many long considered lock spots are up for grabs, or at least to a greater degree than in past seasons.

One of the key battle spots is in goal where four goalies battle it out for two spots.

Roman Turek is the man - that much hasn't changed. His 4 million plus contract all but guarantees him the playing time and accompanying pressure of the starter's role.

Beyond that it's very much up in the air however.

In the past, a look at the contract situation of the contestants would have gone a long way to determine jobs come November.

Jamie McLennan is on a one way deal that pays him $650,000 to stop pucks whether he does that in Calgary, Lowell or Las Vegas.

The other two 'tenders in the mix; Brent Krahn and Dany Sabourin, have two-way deals and the escalation of over $300,000 should they make the jump.

This may not matter this season however, as Darryl Sutter on numerous occasions has refuted the contract as the principal player in the final call for Turek's backup position.

With that we take a look at the performance of each goaltender ....

Stacking the Pads

Min

Shots

Goals

Avg

Sv%

McLennan

30.30

12

1

1.97

0.917

Sabourin

59.30

28

3

3.03

0.893

Krahn

50.00

12

1

1.20

0.917













Turek

39.45

14

0

0.00

1.000

Team

179.45

66

5

1.67

0.924

The Flames have past the half way point of their preseason schedule completing four of their seven games with a record of 2-0-1.

Dany Sabourin has logged the most minutes with a full games worth of action, while posting a 3.03 goals against average and a 0.893 save percentage.

The resurrected Brent Krahn has been a player at this year's training camp, and he too has seen the ice twice for a total of 50 minutes of action. He has a sparkling 1.20 goals against average and a 0.917 save percentage, though he has only faced 12 shots.

The incumbent, Jamie McLennan, has only suited up once thus far for a total of 30.5 minutes, posting a 1.97 goals against average and a save percentage of 0.917.

Odds on Favourite

It's clear from the statistics to date that Jamie McLennan has done little to "lose" his job in this year's camp. At least to this point.

Sabourin has inferior stats in his time in the nets, and Brent Krahn hasn't seen enough rubber to make his impressive numbers register on the impact meter.

With only three games left to play, and a need to get the starter, Roman Turek up to snuff for the regular season, there may be very little opportunity left for the two kids to mount a charge and steal a job.

Fans love change. They love it when a top prospect or unheralded upstart comes in and makes waves.

Don't count on it this year.

Camp Information
Location:
Pengrowth Saddledome

555 Saddledome Rise SE
Calgary, AB T2P-3B9
Canada

Opens:
Thursday September 11th, 2003
Training Camp Discussion on the
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Pre-Season Schedule
9/18 - EDMONTON (7:00)
9/20 - EDMONTON (7:00)
9/23 - VANCOUVER (7:00)
9/25 - MINNESOTA (7:00)
9/27 - @ Vancouver (7:00)
10/2 - @ Edmonton (7:00)
10/4 - @ Edmonton (6:00)
Cut Counter (23 roster spots)
Players Remaining Cuts Remaining
34 11
Camp Roster

Alphabetic

Numeric

Bellemare - 48

1 - Turek

Bembridge - 55

2 - Commodore

Betts - 15

3 - Gauthier

Clark - 17

4 - Leopold

Commodore - 2

5 - Montador

Conroy - 22

7 - Kobasew

Cunning - 53

10 - Lowry

Davidson - 41

11 - Yelle

Dome - 38

12 - Iginla

Donally - 51

15 - Betts

Donovan - 16

16 - Donovan

Engelland - 36

17 - Clark

Evans - 43

19 - Saprykin

Ewasko - 58

21 - Ference

Ference - 21

22 - Conroy

Gauthier - 3

23 - Gelinas

Gelinas - 23

24 - Wallin

Green - 26

25 - Sonnenberg

Harvey - 52

26 - Green

Iginla - 12

27 - Reinprecht

Johnson - 54

28 - Regehr

Kobasew - 7

30 - Parley

Krahn - 35

32 - Lydman

Leopold - 4

33 - McLennan

Lombardi - 49

33 - Oliwa

Lowry - 10

35 - Krahn

Lydman - 32

36 - Engelland

Lynch - 68

37 - McAmmond

McAmmond - 37

38 - Dome

McLennan - 33

41 - Davidson

Montador - 5

42 - Phaneuf

Morgan - 46

43 - Evans

Oliwa - 33

44 - Warrener

Parley - 30

45 - Rozakov

Phaneuf - 42

46 - Morgan

Ramholt - 47

47 - Ramholt

Regehr - 28

48 - Bellemare

Reinprecht - 27

49 - Lombardi

Rozakov - 45

50 - Sabourin

Sabourin - 50

51 - Donally

Saprykin - 19

52 - Harvey

Sonnenberg - 25

53 - Cunning

Tardif - 56

54 - Johnson

Turek - 1

55 - Bembridge

Wallin - 24

56 - Tardif

Warrener - 44

58 - Ewasko

Yelle - 11

68 - Lynch

= in camp = cut
Full Schedule

Date

Who

Event

Time (MST)

Location

Sept. 9

Golf Reception

5:00 PM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Sept. 10

Golf Tournament

7:30 AM

Heritage Pointe

Golf Banquet

4:00 PM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Sept. 11

Fitness Testing*

7:00 AM

*not open to public

Sept. 12

Team 'A'

Stretch

9:30 AM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Practice

10:00 AM

Team 'B'

Stretch

11:30 AM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Practice

12:00 PM

Sept. 13

Team 'B'

Stretch

9:30 AM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Practice

10:00 AM

Team 'A'

Stretch

11:30 AM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Practice

12:00 PM

Sept. 14

Team 'A'

Stretch

9:30 AM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Practice

10:00 AM

Team 'B'

Stretch

11:30 AM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Practice

12:00 PM

Sept. 15

Team 'B'

Stretch

8:30 AM

SAIT

Practice

9:00 AM

Team 'A'

Stretch

10:30 AM

SAIT

Practice

11:00 AM

Sept. 16

Team B and A

Stretch

10:30 AM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Inter-Squad Scrimmage

11:00 AM

Sept. 17

Team B and A

Stretch

10:30 AM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Inter-Squad Scrimmage

11:00 AM

Sept. 18

Flames vs. Edmonton

7:00 PM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Sept. 20

Coaching Day in Alberta

TBA

Pengrowth Saddledome

Flames vs. Edmonton

7:00 PM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Sept. 23

Flames vs. Vancouver

7:00 PM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Sept. 25

Flames vs. Minnesota

7:00 PM

Pengrowth Saddledome

Sept. 27

Flames at Vancouver

8:00 PM

GM Place

Oct. 2

Flames at Edmonton

7:00 PM

Skyreach Centre

Oct. 4

Flames at Edmonton

6:00 PM

Skyreach Centre

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