Canucks farm team opens camp Friday

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Posted September 25, 2012 5:22 pm.

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CHICAGO, IL (NEWS1130) – While the future of the Canucks season is still in doubt, the Canucks’ Chicago Wolves farm team begins training camp in Chicago this Friday.

Canucks coach Alain Vigneault and other team staff will be attending the Wolves’ camp.

“Pretty well the whole management will be in for our training camp and you know they have training staff coming in. It’s a nice feeling that they actually take a vested interest in what they have in the farm system,” says Wolves general manager Wendell Young, who adds that Vigneault will be coming in for a few of their games.

Young says Chicago will have 49 players in camp, and it is the most competitive that he has seen in a long time. The Wolves will also have a person familiar to Canucks fans helping out. Former Canucks goaltender Dan Cloutier has been hired to assist with all the goalies in the Canucks’ minor league system.

Since his retirement, Cloutier, 36 who played the majority of his ten-year NHL career with Vancouver has served as an assistant coach with the Corpus Christi IceRays of the Central Hockey League and was also a goaltending coach for the Barrie Colts of the OHL.

The Wolves open the 2012 American Hockey League season at home against the Rockford Ice Hogs on Saturday October 13th.

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