The St. Louis Blues were in for a few surprises at the 3rd day of their 2015 Prospects Camp, held at the St. Louis Mills’ Ice Zone.

Again the event drew in large numbers of fans and this time many children came to support their favorite team. Martin Brodeur, Al Macinnis, and even Head Coach Ken Hitchcock signed autographs for fans.

During this practice Team Tkachuk, also known as Team Yellow, started passing and skating drills followed by 1 on 1 drills and 2 on 1 drills. From these drills fans got to watch players such as Ivan Barbashev and MacKenzie MacEachern show off there quick skating ability and stick handling. Barbashev had many chances to show off his moves during the 1 on 1, though most did not end the way he wanted because he was so well defended.

For the defensemen such as Jordan Schmaltz and Colten Parayko, they really got to show how impressive there defensive awareness is and how well they can keep players from getting shots off.

Team Macinnis had the practice off for today, so only a few of them were actually on the ice during practice, mostly helping the goalies practice movement and reaction saves on the far side of the ice.

The scrimmage today started out with a very steady even strength effort from both teams. Ville Husso and Luke Opilka for the first ten minutes kept the game scoreless with some really great saves. after the first goalie change the scoring opened up.

Photo By: Kasten Riedle

First Austin Poganski opened up the scoring with a breakaway backhand goal for Team Tkachuk. After that Team Macinnis scored to tie it up going into the 2nd period of the scrimmage. From here on out, it was a goal extravaganza.

Robby Fabbri scored on a 3 on 3 tick-tack-toe play and Justin Selman fakes a snap shot and slides a backhand in between the goalies legs. You can check out Robby Fabbri’s goal here.

Team Tkachuk ties the game back up to 3 a piece and then they surrendered 3 more goals to Team Macinnis. After this Team Tkachuk was only able to get one more on the board before the end of the game.

A lot of chemistry was seen between several players, especially Jaedon Descheneau and Fabbri. They feed off each others’ moves and it really created a hassle for Team Tkachuk. Watch Descheneau’s goal here.

From the past two days at the Prospects Camp, I can say without a doubt, the prospects we have in our system right now are the right caliber to make it into professional hockey. Expect to see these names in the future try to break onto the St. Louis Blues.