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The New York Islanders will end their 2010 rookie camp with two games against the Boston Bruins rookies on September 15 and 16 in Boston.

Forwards:
Casey Cizikas
Justin DiBenedetto
Robin Figren

Kirill Kabanov

Nino Niederreiter

Alex O’Neil
Kirill Petrov

Rhett Rakhshani

Tony Romano

Justin Taylor
David Toews
David Ullstrom

Defensemen:
Calvin de Haan

Tony DeHart
Travis Hamonic

Mark Katic
Anton Klementyev

Corey Syvret

Goaltenders:
Mikko Koskinen
Kevin Poulin

Kirill Kabanov taken 65th overall by the New York Islanders:

Bob McKenzie/TSN surveyed 10 NHL scouts to come up with the following list:

Top two are both playing for Windsor this year – Taylor Hall and Cam Fowler (Fowler got the top D vote from 9 of the 10!):

At 3, they stayed in the OHL with Tyler Seguin, then at 4 – Kirill Kabanov (earlier blog gallery) and 5 – Brett Connolly:

At 6 – John McFarland

At 7 – Brandon Gormley and at 8 – Erik Gudbranson

At 9 – Vladimir Tarasenko

And at 10 – Mikael Granlund

Also mentioned in the article were Jack Campbell

and Evgeny Kuznetsov

Heavy on the OHL – wonder where those 10 scout?

New York Times blog has an entry on Kirill Kabanov’s contract issues in Russia (found via Gregg Drinnan’s mention).  It isn’t quite clear whether he had a signed contract complete with escape clause with Spartak  that was traded to Salavat who wants him to sign a new one or not.  What happened in the pre-KHL days when European NHL players decided they wanted to go home to play – did their clubs have to pay the NHL team compensation?  I don’t remember ever hearing that, but that doesn’t mean much :-).   Seems as though the compensation for training like I believe is paid to major junior teams & others makes sense, but not until age 28.