10 days from today, up in Buffalo, New York,

a collection of the Penguins' top young players will take on a collection of the Bruins' top young players in the annual prospect challenge,

and that will represent the formal,

kind of sort of pseudo-quazzi opening of real live hockey.

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I'd love to be able to tell you when training camp opens, but that's not been made known

by the team in general.

The Prospects Challenge, which takes up six days, and also, by the way, involves the devils, the blue jackets, and the sabers, gets followed up by a couple days off, and then the start of actual training camp up in Cranberry. That of course is when things get really real.

First Dan Mews citing on the ice with his team.

First alignments, first strategies.

First time to talk with Sidney Crosby, Yvgeny Malkin, Chris LaTang

about their respective futures.

First time to wonder how shocked Eric Carlson might be to be back.

First opportunity to ask the same of Brian Rust and Ricard Raquel,

even though I've been telling you all along,

Kyle Dubas had no intention to trade either of those.

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