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Rookie tournament recaps: Tuesday, September 14th

Here’s your morning recap on what went down in the NHL rookie tournaments across North America last night. Things will be wrapping up soon because real NHL training camp opens up this weekend for everyone and for some of these guys it’s their last chance to make a first impression on their teams.

Traverse City Prospects Tournament - Traverse City, Michigan

Tampa Bay 3 - Dallas 1

Tampa’s James Wright and Carter Ashton continued to impress in Traverse City as both had goals while Wright added an assist as well in leading Tampa to victory. Marc-Olivier Vachon also had a goal and an assist for Tampa. Dustin Tokarski stopped 35 shots for the Lightning while Team USA hero Jack Campbell saved 28.

Minnesota 5 - NY Rangers 4

Former Miami University standout Jarod Palmer had two goals to help lead the Wild over the Rangers rookies. The Rangers issues came with not being able to stay out of the box as the Wild scored three times on the power play. Jay Fehr and Joel Broda each had a goal and an assist for Minnesota.

Carolina 8 - Columbus 1

It’s been a tough rookie tournament for the Blue Jackets and an 8-1 thrashing by Carolina is the icing on the cake for them. Matt Kennedy and Jeff Skinner were the big points winners on the day, each netting five. Kennedy had two goals and three assists while Skinner had a goal and four helpers to help make his outstanding tournament look gaudier. Jason Missiaen was the unfortunate goalie who had to eat eight goals against, but it doesn’t look like the defense helped much as he still made 42 saves.

Detroit 2 - St. Louis 1

Tomas Tatar continues to impress everyone in Traverse City as he scored the third-period game-winner for Detroit to put the Red Wings into the gold medal game of the Traverse City Tournament. Petr Mrazek stopped 27 shots for Detroit. Alex Pietrangelo had St. Louis’ lone goal as he continues to do well in the tournament. Jake Allen made 28 saves for St. Louis in the loss. Detroit will play Minnesota in the gold medal game tonight.

Young Stars Tournament - Penticton, BC

Edmonton 5 - Calgary 3

Alex Plante scored two goals for the Oilers and former University of North Dakota standout Chris Vande Velde added one as well as the Oilers took out Calgary in the Battle of Alberta in Penticton. Keith Seabrook, Greg Nemisz, and John Negrin scored for Calgary. Edmonton’s Tyler Bunz (headline writers salivating at the chance he can make the NHL someday) stopped 34 in the win for the Oilers. None of Taylor Hall, Magnus Paajarvi, and Jordan Eberle played in this game for Edmonton, but they will play tonight against San Jose.

London Prospects Tournament - London, ON

Chicago 9 - Pittsburgh 5

In what turned out to be a mess of a game for the Penguins in goal, the Blackhawks were able to put on an offensive showcase. Mattias Modig gave up seven goals in 18 shots to start the game and the Pens could never get out from behind the eight ball all game long. Igor Makarov, Kyle Beach and Jeremy Morin all had big games for Chicago. Get used to those names Hawks fans, you could see them in Chicago sooner than you think. The Pens close out the tournament with a 2-1 record, meanwhile Chicago finishes 1-2.

Ottawa 3 - Toronto 2

The Senators were able to take out their rivals from Toronto thanks to the efforts of Mike Hoffman’s two goals. Erik Condra added the third for the Sens. Meanwhile, Jerry D’Amigo got on the board for the Leafs in the loss. Hoffman, as it turns out, is the big star of the tournament for Ottawa coming away from the tournament showing that the Sens may have gotten a steal in the fifth round in the 2009 draft. Ottawa finishes the tourney with a 2-1 record, while the Leafs fell to 1-2.