Official Training Camp Roster, 2009

Training camp rosters have all kinds of value for fans. Today's gives us clues about the team we'll be watching (young up front, and small!) in the next 9 months (or longer) and we can check off in our own minds the "sure things" and "the maybe's" along with the "yeah, right" groups.As time marches on, we can look back on these rosters and see the young men who attended camp when no one knew them, when the town belonged to older men, a time when they had no past to build on.There are no Esa Tikkanen's, no Bill Ranford's, no Anson Carter's. This is a young roster bent on having young forwards get most of the at-bats, and not only are there no well known veterans like Tikkanen to ease the load there aren't many Toby Petersen's to offer insurance should these kids fall flat again.It's going to be an interesting winter.GoaliesNikolai Khabibulin, 36: A .919SP last season and he's averaged 50 games per season in the las...