Day 3 of Camp complete, Agree to Try-Out with Russian

The first weekend of Cyclones training camp came to a close today at Northland Ice Center. After yesterday's off-ice training cancelled due to rain, today's practice featured a lot of skating with a very high intensity. Coach Skalde opened practice with give and go's and defensive zone drills. " With a shorter ice session, we wanted to keep the tempo up. Today the drills were intended to do that, but as fatigue was setting in passes got off and routes got shorter, but I thought overall we had a good day." Said, Skalde.

Practice wore on and things got a little more complicated for the players. They worked on timing drills and if the passes weren't crisp it led to some collisions. Besides a few minor run-in's the players were able to move through the drills without a hitch.

Forward, Adam Bartholomay who has impressed throughout the weekend of camp seems to be improving day by day. “I think we’re all getting back to the groove of things.  I definitely feel more comfortable,” said Bartholomay.  “Everything seems to be coming together as the weekend progresses.  I am just going keep doing what I do and try to feel out the other guys to see how they play and hopefully we’ll continue to come together as a team.”


The Cyclones also agreed to a deal with Russian forward, Ruben Begunts. Ruben played 7 games in the KHL last season with CSKA-Moscow and also played 16 games in the Russian MHL tallying 5 goals and 3 assists for 8 points in those 23 games with 39 Penalty Minutes.

                                                                  RUBEN BEGUNTS