ITHACA, N.Y. — Fourteen current, former, and future Cornell men's hockey players will take to the ice over the next two weeks at various NHL development camps.
Eleven members of the Big Red roster for the upcoming 2024-25 season will participate in NHL development camps, while two alumni and one future Big Red player will don NHL sweaters and focus on on-ice and off-ice training with their respective franchises.
Boston and Winnipeg each have a pair of active Cornell players at their development camps as forwards
Dalton Bancroft and
Ryan Walsh will don the spoked 'B' sweater in Boston. Bancroft was a non-roster invitee and Walsh was a sixth-round pick by the Bruins in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft. Forward
Kyle Penney and defenseman
Ben Robertson were non-roster invitees to Winnipeg's development camp.
Defenseman
Hank Kempf returned to development camp with the New York Rangers, who selected the blueliner in the seventh round of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. Other drafted Big Red players attending development camps that own their NHL rights include forwards
Jonathan Castagna (Utah) and
Luke Devlin (Pittsburgh), and defensemen
George Fegaras (Dallas) and
Hoyt Stanley (Ottawa).
Goaltender
Remington Keopple (Seattle) and incoming freshman forward
Parker Murray (Los Angeles) were non-roster invitees to their team's camps.
Connor Arsenault, a forward from Rothesay, New Brunswick, scheduled to join the Big Red in 2025-26, will partake in camp with Montréal. Arsenault is coming off a 74-point campaign (41 goals, 33 assists) in 65 games across the Prep Hockey Conference (PHC) and U18 AAA leagues with St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario, where he served as team captain.
Among former Cornell players, the Big Red's leading scorer from this past season,
Gabriel Seger '24, will attend Detroit's development camp after signing a one-year contract with the Red Wings' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, Grand Rapids Griffins, on June 11.
Jack Malone '23, who spent his postgraduate season this past season with Boston College, will attend development camp with the New Jersey Devils. Following his appearance in the championship game of the 2024 NCAA Division I Men's Hockey Championship, Malone signed an amateur tryout (ATO) with the AHL's Utica Comets that included inking a one-year contract with the organization for the upcoming 2024-25 season.
