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2012-13 training camp roster announced

The 2012-13 Lake Erie Monsters training coster breaks down like this:

• 36 total players
• 18 of whom played with the Monsters at some point last season
• Of those, Patrick Bordeleau has been here the longest; 2012-13 will be his fourth season with the Monsters
• Six of those 18 spent time in the NHL with the Avalanche (Connolly, van der Gulik, Barrie, Olver, Malone, Elliott)
• Newcomer Bill Thomas played for the Florida Panthers
• Six of the players at training camp were in college last season (Stollery – Marimack; MacQueen – Bimidji; Gens – Fairbanks; Carey – Boston College; Millan – Boston University; Patterson – Minnesota; – the first four of whom played for the Monsters at the end of last season when they finished their collegiate schedule)
• Four players spent last season competing overseas (Gale – Denmark; Pock – Sweden; Smyth – Italy; Aittokallio – Finland)
• Four players spent last season with other AHL teams (G. Walker – WBS; Lerg – WBS; Thomas – SA; Sullivan – WOR/SA);
• Five players were in the lower minor leagues last season (Lafranchise – Alaska/ECHL; Goers – Las Vegas/ECHL; Wilson – Allen/CHL; Strong – Kalamazoo/ECHL; Tassone – Ontario/ECHL)
• Six players were in juniors last season (Agozzino – Niagra/OHL; Pickard – Seattle/WHL; Sgarbossa – Sudbury/OHL; Beaupre – Val D’Or/QMJHL; Heard – Plymouth/OHL; Lauridsen – Green Bay/USHL)
• 26 Canadian-born players; seven US-born; one Denmark (Lauridsen); one Finland (Aittokallio); one Austria (Pock)

2012-13 Lake Erie Monsters Training Camp Roster:

Forwards:

#7 AJ Gale
#10 Jamie MacQueen
#11 Andrew Agozzino
#14 David van der Gulik
#16 Geoff Walker
#17 Ben Wilson
#18 Mike Connolly
#20 Bryan Lerg
#23 Dean Strong
#26 Matt Tassone
#27 Brad Smyth
#28 Paul Carey
#29 Bill Thomas
#38 Joey Hishon
#40 Mark Olver
#42 Brad Malone
#43 Michael Sgarbossa
#45 Luke Walker
#48 Mitchell Heard
#58 Patrick Bordeleau

Defensemen:

#2 Joel Couinard
#4 Kane Lafranchise
#3 Karl Stollery
#8 Barry Goers
#12 Aaron Gens
#22 Thomas Pock
#24 Cameron Gaunce
#37 Sean Sullivan
#41 Tyson Barrie
#46 Stefan Elliott
#47 Gabriel Beaupre
#51 Markus Lauridsen
 
Goalies:

#30 Sami Aittokallio
#31 Calvin Pickard
#32 Kieran Millan
#34 Kent Patterson

-- Lake Erie Monsters Press Release --