Dallas Stars Among Eight Teams to Compete at Prospect Tournament

For those who can't wait for hockey season, now is your chance. But it will cost you air-fare to Traverse City, Michigan. Hopefully those going already know considering the camps dates are Sept. 13-17, and I'm afraid I will not be in attendance. For those who are in the Traverse City area, look no further than the Center Ice Arena to get your fix of talented rookies and top prospect hockey.

Besides the Dallas Stars, teams attending include the Tampa Bay Lightning, St. Louis Blues, Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Atlanta Thrashers, Minnesota Wild, and Columbus Blue Jackets. The rosters combined have a lot of exciting players worth checking out.

The Stars will be taking a 22-man roster, 12 of which were selected by the club via the NHL Entry Draft. Some Stars prospects who are on the roster include Fabian Brunnstrom, James Neal, Perttu Lindgren, Raymond Sawada, Ivan Vishnevskiy and Tyler Beskorowany, the Stars’ first pick in the 2008 Draft. Below is the complete roster and schedule as found on the Stars website.

The Stars Prospects coaching staff will include the Idaho Steelheads' (Dallas' ECHL affiliate) head coach Derek Laxdal and Stars' assistant coach, and former player Stu Barnes. Co-GM's Brett Hull and Les Jackson are also expected to be in attendance along with Stars head coach Dave Tippet and the rest of the scouting staff.

Dallas’ schedule for the Traverse City tournament is as follows (** all times are Central **):

Image, Roster and Schedule: Courtesy of DallasStars.com

STARS TRAVERSE CITY TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Satuday, September 13
Practice	9:30 am (David's Rink)
Stars vs. St. Louis Blues	6:00 pm (David's Rink)
Sunday, September 14
Practice	9:30 am (David's Rink)
Stars vs. Columbus Blue Jackets	5:00 pm (David's Rink)
Monday, September 15
Practice	10:30 a.m. (David’s Rink)
Tuesday, September 16
Practice	9:30 am (Citizens Rink)
Stars vs. Minnesota Wild	5:30 p.m. (David’s Rink)
Wednesday, September 24
7th Place Game	1 p.m. (David’s Rink)
5th Place Game	1:30 p.m. (Citizens Rink)
3rd Place Game	5 p.m. (David’s Rink)
Championship Game	5:30 p.m. (Citizens Rink)

DallasStars.com will have daily coverage of the Stars’ participation in the Traverse City tournament, and the NHL Network will offer two tape-delayed broadcasts of Stars’ tournament games (vs. St. Louis, 9 p.m. CT on Saturday, Sept. 13; and vs. Columbus, 9 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14). In addition, NHL Network will show the third-place game (7 p.m. CT) and championship game (9 p.m. CT) on Thursday, Sept. 18.

DALLAS ROSTER
Forwards
NO.	PLAYER	HT	WT	D.O.B.	BIRTHPLACE
20	Jamie Benn	6-2	185	7/18/89	Victoria, BC
96	Fabian Brunnstrom	6-1	203	2/6/85	Jonstorp, Sweden
11	Aaron Gagnon	5-11	189	4/24/86	Armstrong, BC
52	Luke Gazdic	6-3	210	6/25/89	Toronto, ON
32	Sergei Korostin	5-11	180	7/5/89	Prokopievski, Russia
15	Perttu Lindgren	6-0	183	8/26/87	Tampere, Finland
18	James Neal	6-2	185	9/3/87	Whitby, ON
51	Michael Neal	6-2	188	4/3/89	Whitby, ON
12	Raymond Sawada	6-2	205	2/19/85	Richmond, BC
57	Colton Sceviour	5-11	201	4/20/89	Red Deer, AB
34	Tyler Shelast	6-1	202	12/26/84	Kelowna, BC
42	Matt Tassone	6-0	200	9/28/89	Edmonton, AB
46	Pierre-Alexandre Vandall	5-10	170	11/16/89	St. Louis-de-France, QC
Defensemen
NO.	PLAYER	HT	WT	D.O.B.	BIRTHPLACE
65	Wes Cunningham	5-11	180	3/19/87	Dresden, ON
54	Marc-Andre Dorion	5-11	180	3/30/87	Montreal, QC
24	Trevor Ludwig	6-1	210	5/24/85	Rhinelander, WI
45	Guillaume Monast	6-2	205	5/12/88	Longeuil, QC
36	Matt Stephenson	6-2	204	3/3/84	Midland, ON
55	Ivan Vishnevskiy	6-0	180	2/18/88	Barnaul, Russia
70	Adam Welch	6-3	209	10/4/83	Hastings, MN
Goaltenders
NO.	PLAYER	HT	WT	D.O.B.	BIRTHPLACE
1	Tyler Beskorowany	6-4	203	4/28/90	Sudbury, ON
33	Matt Climie	6-3	185	2/11/83	Leduc, AB