Edmonton Oilers camp is weeks away. I’ve always loved training camps. The attachment goes back to when I was a kid, as brothers and cousins attended junior camps, sometimes making the grade, sometimes not.
I would sit in the stands, transfixed, infatuated with the process, filling countless pages of loose leaf with what I thought would be the club’s opening day roster. Eventually, I would be on the ice in the same situations…but that’s another column.
Decades have past, and I’ve since been paid to cover NHL training camps, but my fascination with “camp” has not lessened.