Patrick Holland at Calgary Flames Development Camp

How lucky am I that I just happen to be in Calgary with the boy while Flames development camp is going on?  Very.  Team Hamazz headed downtown to the Saddledome today to take in some drills.  Seating was only in the 200 level, so kinda far away, but my camera rules, so here's some pics of Patrick:

We saw some pretty routine drills (I guess, I haven't been to many any practices before).  Then the coaches brought out a dasher board thing, about 3, 4 feet long, put it in front of the goalie (would make being a goalie much easier) then guys shot puck off dasher, guy then got rebound, shot it over dasher to go up high on the goalie.  It was cool.  Here's Wazz's video of it, complete with my analysis that "I've never seen it before so it's unusual".

At the other end of the rink, they set up two nets along the goal line, below the faceoff circles, then 4 defensemen, 8 forwards, and the 2 goalies scrimmaging.  Mini-scrimmage.  I don't know what exactly it was, except fascinating.  Here's video Wazz got of Patrick doing this scrimmage thing, it seems like he's not doing much because play was in front of the other goalie.