For the first time in four months the Calgary Flames took to the practice ice on Monday as they began Phase 3 of the NHL’s Return to Play protocol. As you can imagine, it was a little weird.
Here’s a roundup of news and developments from Day 1 of camp.
#Flames lines at their first practice look like:
Quine-Monahan-Lindholm
Tkachuk-Backlund-Rieder
Ruzicka-Ryan-Czarnik
Froese-Gawdin-PhillipsD-men are Giordano, Mackey, Brodie, Valimaki, Forbort, Stone, Yelesin, Gustafsson, Kylington
Rittich, Gillies, Zagidulin in net.
— Pat Steinberg (@Fan960Steinberg) July 13, 2020
Power play units, per Pat:
- PP1: Tkachuk, Quine-Monahan-Lindholm, Gustafsson
- PP2: Ruzicka, Gawdin-Backlund-Phillips, Giordano
(Speculation: Quine appears to be a Gaudreau placeholder; Ruzicka appears to be a Lucic placeholder; Gawdin and Phillips appear to be placeholders for Dube and Mangiapane, respectively.