ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The St. Louis Blues announced the schedule for their 2024-2025 Training Camp Thursday, with camp set to begin on Sept. 19.
62 players will attend this year's training camp, which will be held at the Centene Community Ice Center. The players will be divided into three groups and there will be multiple practice sessions daily.
All practices at Centene Community Ice Center will be free and open to the public.
On Thursday, Sept. 19 and Friday, Sept. 20, the first practices of the day will take place at 10 a.m. and the final practice will take place at noon.
On Saturday, Sept. 21 and Sunday, Sept. 22, ahead of preseason games against the Dallas Stars and Utah Hockey Team, the team will hold a game group practice at 9:30 a.m., while the non-playing groups will practice at 10:45 a.m.
This year's camp will mark Drew Bannister's first as the team's head coach after he took over behind the bench last December, replacing Stanley Cup winning head coach Craig Berube.
The camp will have plenty of new faces for the Blues from on the forwards side. Alexander Texier, Radek Faksa, Mathieu Joseph, and Dylan Holloway will look to make impressions serving in bottom six roles potentially, while on defensive side, Ryan Suter and Philip Broberg will look to fill the absence of Torey Krug on the left side. Krug will miss all of 2024-2025 as he will require surgery to address pre-arthritic changes in his left ankle.
There will also be plenty of prospects who will look to make lasting impressions. Among the talented prospects who will participate in training camp include forwards Zach Dean, Dalibor Dvorsky, Zachary Bolduc, and defenseman Adam Jiricek.