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Locals crack NHL training camps
By Tom Annelin
Monday, August 31, 2009

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The New Jersey Devils have re-signed Thunder Bay native Trevor Kell to skate for their American Hockey League affiliate in Lowell, Mass., for the upcoming season.
Kell, 23, has split his first two years in the professional ranks with Lowell and the Trenton Devils of the ECHL.
The 2004 NHL draft selection of the Chicago Blackhawks has seen action in 137 games as a pro, amassing 94 points on 39 goals and 55 assists in the Devils organization to date.
Kell is also coming off a career year in Trenton where he established personal single season highs in goals, assists and points.
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NICE CATCH: The newly minted Toledo Walleye of the ECHL have landed Malcolm MacMillan as their first catch.
The Thunder Bay product was announced as the first-year club‘s first-ever player signing this past week as pro hockey returns to Toledo after many years of operating as the Storm.
After a one-year stint overseas with the Belfast Giants of the English Elite Hockey League, the 27-year-old centre returns to North America to begin his seventh pro season.
His career numbers show him skating in 385 games, scoring 53 times, setting up 132 others for 185 points. The rugged forward also has 991 penalty minutes.
Prior to Toledo, MacMillan has the opportunity to crack the line-up of Grand Rapids of the AHL having been invited to attend that club‘s training camp.
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ROOKIE ROSTERS: National Hockey League clubs are starting to announce rosters of their respective rookie camps that will be getting underway in the coming weeks with local talent are on the lists.
The Anaheim Ducks have Bobby Bolt on their camp roster as he looks to make the jump from the ECHL this season. On the Anaheim agenda is a three-game set against the San Jose Sharks rookies, Sept. 7-9.
In that series he‘ll go up against Emo‘s Luke Judson, who was invited to take part in the San Jose scrimmages following the NHL entry draft.
Judson has been gearing up by lighting it up early in the Belleville Bulls OHL inter-squad games, scoring six goals.
Also heading to camp soon will be Lakehead product Robert Bortuzzo.
The six-foot-four defenceman was inked to a three-level entry level contract by the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins in May and is expected to be part of the Pens rookie roster that will compete in a four-team tournament in Kitchener, Ont., Sept.7-10.
Bortuzzo won‘t be unfamiliar with the surroundings in that tournament as the Penguins third-round draft choice played his junior hockey in that city.
Boston, Toronto and Ottawa also have prospects competing in Kitchener.
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OUA BOUND: Thunder Bay‘s David Fitzpatrick is moving on to skate in the OUA this season after wrapping up his junior career.
Fitzpatrick will attend and play hockey at Queen‘s University.
He is coming off three years in the Alberta Jr. Hockey League with the Canmore Eagles where he served as the club‘s captain this past season.
The 21-year-old forward surpassed the century mark in points during his tenure in Canmore registering 106 points in 176 career games with the Eagles.
Local fans will have to wait to get a glimpse of Fitzpatrick on Fort William Gardens as the Golden Gaels are not on the Lakehead Thunderwolves‘ regular season schedule this season.
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Tom Annelin‘s column appears Mondays in The Chronicle-Journal. You can contact Tom at tommyhockey@tbaytel.net.
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