NHL Morning Papers (Thursday Edition): Making Team USA, Mike Comrie still sitting on free agent market and Brent Peterson’s battle
“The maximum number I can come up with, the guys that I’d say are locks – solid guys that I would say have a job – is only 14. And we’re going to take 23 guys. So my message to the players is, tryouts start Oct. 1,” said Brian Burke about the chances of certain players cracking the Team USA roster for the 2010 Olympics.
Staying in the Central Division, Jamie Samuelsen writes in the Detroit Free Press that he hopes the Todd Bertuzzi signing doesn’t cost some of the younger Wings their ice-time.