After much speculation, the Calgary Flames made nine cuts to their main training camp roster this morning.
Headed to the Stockton Heat of the American Hockey League are goalie Jon Gillies, defensemen Ryan Culkin and Oliver Kylington, and forwards Matt Frattin, Mark Jankowski, Morgan Klimchuk and Emile Poirier. Cut outright are professional try-out blueliners Colby Robak and Mikhail Grigoriev.
After the moves, the Flames are down to 32 players on their camp roster: 3 goalies, 11 defenders and 18 forwards.
WHO'S GONE?
Let's break this down by position.
In goal: Gillies gets cut (but David Rittich remains), presumably because the Flames want Gillies to play a ton in the AHL and it makes some sense to get him down on the farm and ready for action now rather than later.