News Clips 7-20-17
News Clips 7-20-17 FROM LA KINGS INSIDER: Tuesday, September 12, and 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 13. July 19, 2017 But between September 9-12 at Solar 4 America Ice By: Jon Rosen at San Jose, the Sharks’ practice facility, San Jose, Odds And Ends: Olympics, Prospect Arizona, Anaheim and Colorado will gather for a Tournaments, Simpsons four-team prospect round robin tournament in which each team will play three games. In a report published Wednesday by the CBC, NHL teams learned this week that AHL players on two- It will be interesting to see if the Kings ultimately way NHL contracts will be allowed to participate in join such tournaments in the future. Los Angeles the 2018 Winter Olympics. previously participated in the Pacific Division Shootout, a four-team rookie tournament held Via Tim Wharnsby: between 2003 and 2006. That 2006 tournament featured a variety of names one would expect, such In a memo sent to the 31 NHL teams this as Anze Kopitar, Trevor Lewis, Jonathan Bernier, week, the league outlined AHL players can Bud Holloway and, um, Yutaka Fukufuji. be loaned to national teams for the 2018 Olympic Games. But these players only can The book-ending 2003 and 2006 tournaments were be made available between Feb. 5-26, 2018. held in El Segundo, while the 2004 and 2005 events The Winter Olympics men’s hockey were held in Anaheim and San Jose. Though former tournament begins on Feb. 9 and concludes GM Dave Taylor saw the value in the tournaments’ with the gold-medal final on Feb.
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