The Bruins informal skates took a much more Black and Goldfeel on Thursday as the team transported their practice setting to their normalpractice home, Ristuccia Arena. Nathan Horton, Daniel Paille, Aaron Johnson andRich Peverley all joined their teammates on the ice and had something muchcloser to a full practice with the Bs front office and coaching staff lookingon from the crows nest over the ice.
As reported by his agent Paul Krepelka, Horton has beenskating for weeks and is healthy and ready to go when the season begins on Jan.19 for the Bruins.
Burlington native and NHLfree agent Jay Pandolfo was skating with the Bs players and former Northeastern University and ECHLgoaltender Adam Geragosian continued to help out the team while they wait for AntonKhudobin to return from Kazakhstan.Khudobin, David Krejci and OHL superstar defenseman Dougie Hamilton are theonly players still missing from practice, and the Niagara IceDogs defensemanisnt expected to join them until actual training camp begins.
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The lines should look like this when the week-long trainingcamp begins augmented by the call-ups from the Providence Bruins:
Lucic-Krejci-Horton
Marchand-Bergeron-Seguin
Bourque-Kelly-Peverley
Paille-Campbell-Thorton
MacDermid-Spooner-Tardif
Chara-Hamilton
Seidenberg-Boychuk
Ference-McQuaidJohnson
Bartkowski-Warsofsky
Rask
Khudobin