Boston Bruins: 34-man roster confirmed for Development Camp

The Boston Bruins have confirmed the roster, ahead of Development Camp commencing later today at their training rink, the Warrior Ice Arena.

Obviously, headlining the Boston Bruins Development Camp is this year’s first round pick (30th overall), John Beecher. Joining him will be all of the other members of this year’s draft class, except Russian defenseman Roman Bychkov.

Boston Bruins fans will also get to have another good look at Jack Studnicka, Jakob Lauko, 6’5″ Czech goalie, Dan Vladar and the 2018 second-round pick, Axel Andersson.

We’re talking Development Camp here, so there’s every chance that at best we’ll see these guys suiting up in the AHL with the Providence Bruins next season, but it’s always a great chance to see exactly what the Boston Bruins have in terms of prospects in the pipeline.

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The camp is scheduled to be held from Wednesday, 26th June to Friday, 28th June; by no means is this a week-long training camp or anything of the sort, but rather a chance for the prospects to get together and get some coaching as Boston Bruins. That, and it’s also a great chance of the team to take a bet on some un-drafted or unsigned options that they invite alongside the guys whose signing rights they own.

All up, this year’s roster, per the official Boston Bruins website is made up as follows:

"The Development Camp roster features 34 players, including 21 forwards, 8 defensemen and 5 goaltenders. The roster includes 19 players within the Bruins organization and 15 players who will attend on an invite basis.The roster also includes players from six different countries: United States (20), Canada (5), Sweden (4), Czech Republic (3), Finland (1), Russia (1).(NHL.com)"

The Development Camp also gives the Boston Bruins a chance to engage their young players in a variety of community outreach programs; giving them an early taste of this is vital if they’re to adapt to the expectations placed upon professional hockey players these days.

"The Development Camp participants will also partake in three community events on Thursday, June 27. A group of prospects will visit Franciscan Children’s Hospital at 2:30 p.m., while another group visits Woburn Public Library for a Bruins Summer Reading Kickoff at 3 p.m. The final group of prospects will remain at Warrior Ice Arena to assist with a Northeast Passage Sled Hockey Clinic at 2:30 p.m. (NHL.com)"

Engaging them with children’s hospitals, reading activities and sled hockey is a suitably diverse and sensible introduction to exactly the sort of outreach the Boston Bruins do at a higher level.

Given there’s no hockey now (unless you’re managing to find streams of the Australian or New Zealand leagues on weekends), the Development Camp offers one of the few chances to see hockey in North America until the teams return for training camp.

With any luck some of these youngsters have impressed enough to also be attending that camp too!