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Moose Release 2006 Training Camp Roster

September 22, 2006 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Manitoba Moose News Release


Today the Manitoba Moose announced their current roster for the 2006 training camp which gets underway on Sunday, September 24th with medicals and physicals beginning at noon at the MTS Centre.

The current training camp roster includes a total of 10 returning players from the 2005-06 season, including the likes of Alexander Bolduc, Jason Jaffray, Mike Keane, Adam Keefe, and Nathan Smith up front with James DeMone and Maxime Fortunus on the blueline. The roster does not currently include any players still with the Vancouver Canucks and their training camp.

The current training camp roster also features 15 new players who have a total of close to 1500 games of American Hockey League experience at some point in their career. Players such as Justin Mapletoft (Bridgeport), David Masse (Bridgeport), Patrick Yetman (Hartford), Tyler Beechey (Toronto), or defencemen Dustin Wood (Syracuse), Nick Kuiper (Norfolk), and Phil Cole (Philedelphia) could be new, yet experienced faces in the Moose line-up this year, along with goaltender Mike Ayers (Syracuse).

The Moose will also currently welcome eight Manitobans to camp, including a pair of University of Manitoba Bisons in forward Warren McCutcheon who hails from Carmen, MB and defenceman Rob Smith who is a Steinbach, MB native. Other players in camp from Manitoba include veteran Mike Keane, along with newcomers Cole, Steve Crampton, Tyler Mosienko, Reagan Rome, and Travis Wight.

The Moose will begin on-ice sessions on Monday, September 25th at River Heights Arena. On Tuesday, September 26th, training camp will shift back to the MTS Centre and remain there until Thursday, September 28th. Each day will consist of two different groups practicing in two different on-ice sessions in the morning beginning at 9:00 a.m.. Both sides will then participate in intra-squad games each day at 2:00 p.m. at either the MTS Centre or River Heights Arena.

This season, the Moose will face the Lakehead University Thunderwolves in a pair of prospect games in Thunder Bay, ON on Friday, September 29th and Saturday, September 30th at the Fort Williams Garden. Both games will begin at 6:30 p.m. CST. The Thunderwolves finished last season ranked third in the nation in CIS Men's Hockey and advanced to the National Championship game in Edmonton, AB. However, they were defeated 3-2 in the final by the University of Alberta Golden Bears.

Following the exhibition games, the Moose will then resume daily practices until the season opener on Wednesday, October 4th at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

Current 2006 Training Camp Roster

FORWARDS S Ht Wt Born Place 96-97 Team 2005-06 Statistics YR

NO. NAME HT WT Shot BORN BIRTHPLACE 2005-06 TEAM (LG) GP G A PTS PIM PR

18 Beechey, Tyler 5'11 180 Left 06/05/81 Edmonton, AB Toronto (AHL) 47 13 18 31 27 5

49 Bolduc, Alexandre (C) 6'2 200 Right 06/25/85 Montreal, PQ Bakersfield (ECHL)

Manitoba (AHL) 24

29 10

3 6

7 16

10 56

35 2

44 Contois, Andrew 6'1 186 Left 10/11/81 Marquette, MI Northern Michigan (NCAA)

Idaho (ECHL) 37

6 16

1 15

6 31

7 36

0 R

57 Craig, Matt (C) 6'0 195 Left 03/17/82 London, ON Utah (ECHL)

Manitoba (AHL) 59

6 27

1 27

1 54

2 40

2 2

46 Crampton, Steve (RW) 6'2 192 Right 04/12/82 Winnipeg, MB Las Vegas (ECHL)

Lowell (AHL)

Norfolk (AHL) 54

2

7 20

0

2 29

0

2 49

0

4 140

4

9 5

40 Gajic, Milan (RW) 6'0 180 Right 06/01/81 Burnaby, BC Providence (AHL)

Gwinnett (ECHL) 17

41 0

25 1

33 1

58 10

14 2

15 Jaffray, Jason (LW) 6'1 205 Left 06/30/81 Olds, AB Manitoba (AHL) 73 12 35 47 58 5

12 Keane, Mike (RW) 5'10 185 Right 05/29/67 Winnipeg, MB Manitoba (AHL) 69 3 11 14 66 18

20 Keefe, Adam (RW) 5'10 195 Right 04/26/84 Kingston, ON Manitoba (AHL)

Toledo (ECHL) 31

28 3

11 2

10 5

21 158

174 2

50 Kinasewich, Ryan (LW) 6'2 202 Left 08/20/83 St. Albert, AB Utah (ECHL) 60 39 46 85 48 3

54 Lloyd, Darryl (C) 5'10 195 Left 02/10/84 Pickering, ON Youngstown (CHL)

Cleveland (AHL) 62

5 17

0 26

1 43

1 201

6 3

16 Mapletoft, Justin (C) 6'1 202 Left 01/11/81 Lloydminster, SK Jokerit (FNL)

Soderatje (SEL) 18

31 1

14 3

7 4

21 8

34 6

32 Masse, David (LW) 6'0 175 Left 12/02/82 Montreal, PQ Bridgeport (AHL) 71 17 14 31 51 4

47 McCutcheon, Warren (C) 6'4 200 Left 08/6/82 Carmen, MB U of Manitoba (CIS) 41 27 33 60 115 R

28 Mosienko, Tyler (C) 5'8 175 Left 03/21/84 Winnipeg, MB Greenville (ECHL) 72 13 34 47 87 2

**19 Smith, Nathan (C) 6'2 190 Left 02/09/82 Strathcona, AB Manitoba (AHL)

Vancouver (NHL) 20

1 5

0 4

0 9

0 57

0 5

52 Wrigley, David 6'0 200 Left 06/1/80 Washago, ON Muskegon (UHL) 76 42 42 84 89 2

29 Yetman, Patrick (RW) 5'10 172 Right 11/17/80 St. John's, NF Kaufbeuren (2.Gbun) 42 42 26 68 16 6

DEFENCEMEN YR

NO. NAME HT WT Shot BORN BIRTHPLACE 2005-06 TEAM (LG) GP G A PTS PIM PR

56 Cole, Phil 6'4 205 Left 10/06/82 Winnipeg, MB Philadelphia (AHL)

Augusta (ECHL) 10

48 0

1 0

11 0

12 20

91 5

42 DeMone, James 6'6 230 Left 07/01/82 St. Albert, AB Manitoba (AHL)

Columbia (ECHL) 55

10 1

0 8

1 9

1 121

8 3

27 Fortunus, Maxime 6'1 190 Right 07/28/83 La Prairie, PQ Manitoba (AHL) 76 3 10 13 36 4

55 Fritshaw, Luke 6'4 208 Left 07/04/84 Tisdale, SK Long Beach (ECHL) 59 2 7 9 103 2

**45 Heshka, Shaun 6'1 195 Right 07/30/85 Melleville, SK Everett (WHL) 66 10 49 59 91 R

26 Kelly, Matt 6'2 195 Right 03/23/85 Tottenham, ON Belleville (OHL)

Manitoba (AHL) 63

3 12

0 25

1 37

1 61

0 R

5 Kuiper, Nick 6'2 210 Right 02/12/82 Montreal, PQ Norfolk (AHL) 70 2 7 9 104 3

24 Naumenko, Nick 5'11 185 Right 07/07/74 Chicago, IL Chicago (AHL) 39 1 16 17 29 11

4 Rome, Reagan 6'2 211 Left 12/29/81 Nesbitt, MB Reading (ECHL)

Manchester (AHL) 49

13 6

0 24

4 30

4 77

23 5

53 Smith, Rob 6'2 220 Right 03/11/83 Steinbach, MB U of Manitoba (CIS) 37 6 15 21 92 R

51 Wight, Travis 5'10 180 Left 07/04/82 Fannystelle, MB U of Maine (NCAA) 41 2 9 11 24 R

23 Wood, Dustin 6'1 208 Left 05/21/81 Scarborough, ON Houston (AHL)

Syracuse (AHL) 64

14 1

0 6

3 7

3 48

14 5

GOALTENDERS YR

NO. NAME HT WT Catches BORN BIRTHPLACE 2005-06 TEAM (LG) GP W L SO AVG PR

31 Ayers, Mike 5'11 185 Left 01/16/80 Hingham, MA Dayton (ECHL)

Syracuse (AHL) 25

23 8

12 16

9 0

0 3.43

2.66 3

35 Bridges, Bryan 5'11 170 Left 12/27/85 Victoria, BC Seattle (WHL) 42 24 16 3 2.59 R

30 Centomo, Sebastien 6'1 196 Left 3/26/81 Laval, PQ Oklahoma City (CHL)

Manitoba (AHL) 18

12 9

5 8

5 2

2 3.01

2.64 6

** - Under Contract to the Vancouver Canucks



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