ITHACA, N.Y. — Fourteen players with ties to the Cornell men's hockey program participated in development camps with National Hockey League clubs over the last two-plus weeks.
Cornell had the second-highest total of players at development camps for an ECAC Hockey program, having 14 past, present, and future Big Red players suiting up for 10 different NHL clubs. Harvard had the highest representation of any ECAC Hockey program with 16.
Of the 28 players on the Big Red's roster for the upcoming 2023-24 campaign, 10 took to the ice with NHL clubs, including five with previous playing experience with Cornell.
Rising senior forwards
Gabriel Seger (Montréal) and
Kyle Penney (Philadelphia) were free-agent invitees to their respective teams. Rising junior defenseman
Hank Kempf joined the N.Y. Rangers, who selected the blueliner in the seventh round of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.
Fellow rising senior
Tim Rego was also a free-agent invitee to New Jersey's camp and was accompanied by rising junior forward
Ondrej Psenicka.
Half of the Big Red's incoming freshman class took to the ice with teams that drafted them over the previous two NHL Entry Drafts. The first-year players who participated in development camps included forwards
Jonathan Castagna (Arizona),
Luke Devlin (Pittsburgh), and
Ryan Walsh (Boston). Defensemen
George Fegaras (Dallas) and
Hoyt Stanley (Ottawa) also logged time at their team's development camps.
Former Big Red players who also partook in training sessions included recently graduated forward
Matt Stienburg and defenseman
Sam Malinski, who teamed up at Colorado's development camp from July 3-5.
Dallas, who held camp from July 1-4, had the most Big Red connections of any NHL club as Fegaras was joined by former Cornell forwards
Ben Berard and Justin Ertel.
| Cornellians at 2023 NHL Development Camps |
