Now you’re just nit-picking

There was a time not so long ago — 2008! — when the Frontenacs would not have a training camp roster posted on August 22nd. Still, and we hate to be a bother (well, not Ding, he gets off on being a bother the way Eric Clapton got off on ’57 Chevys and screaming guitars), but we noticed:

It’s OK. E-R-I-K Gudbranson is only the Frontenacs’ best defenceman and a likely first round choice in the NHL draft next year. It’s not so important that the name be spelled correctly in an official team release.

In terms of bush-league screwups, the team’s front office is already in midseason form.

• Remember when there was much hue and cry over acquiring Peterborough Petes captain Zach Harnden for a third-round draft choice? Harnden is not on the training camp roster. Harnden is reported as coming, though. Maybe Harnden has a “Brett Favre clause” in his contract and doesn’t have to go to camp.
• This is actual news: Corbin Crawford and Zack Fenwick, who were regulars on defence last season, do not appear. This is consistent with talk throughout the summer that they would leave rather than attempt to come back as overagers (and true to form, the Frontenacs will have 4 overagers in camp and all of them are forwards).
• The same goes for 19-year-old forward Stephen Francella. He and Fenwick are apparently headed to the University of Toronto.
• Goalie Nathan Perry is “Nathan Pery.” It’s OK, he’s only a hometown kid whose name has been in the paper for years.
• Rookie Matthew Wintjes is now “Mathew Winthes.”

Anyway, we’re really looking forward to the season. Honest.

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