Lightning announce 2013 training camp schedule and roster

It's official. The 2013-14 season is getting underway with training camp starting on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. It will include those playing in the rookie tournament in Coral Springs this weekend, plus 38 other players.

From the Lightning:

Of those players invited to camp and not participating in Coral Springs, there are 20 forwards, 14 defensemen and four goaltenders.  All of those players but three, Even Rankin, Drew Olson and Geoff Walker, spent at least some time in the Lightning system last season.  The 62 players will be broken into three practice groups.

Players will begin medical and physical testing at 8 a.m. on September 11.  Players will be available to the media once they have completed their testing and other obligations.  They will hit the ice for the first time on Thursday, September 12 and Friday, September 13 with the following schedule (subject to change):

GROUP THOMAS

• 9 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. - Practice

GROUP BOWNESS

• 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Practice
• 11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. - Flood
• 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Practice

GROUP GWOZDECKY

• 1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Practice
• 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Flood
• 2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Practice

If you want to attend, however, you'll have to do it on Thursday, as the Friday practice is closed. However, practices in Estero from Sept. 23 through Sept 28, surrounding the preseason game against the Florida Panthers, are open.

And here's the roster:

FORWARDS

DEFENSEMAN

GOALTENDERS

Left off that roster is Ben Bishop's mask, which will (hopefully) be making it's long, long, loooong awaited debut.

And the practice groups:

GROUP THOMAS

Brassard, Eric 
Brassart, Brady 
Dotchin, Jake 
Gauthier, Danick 
Gudlevskis, Kristers 
Ikonen, Henri 
Landry, Charles 
Langelier-Parent, Maxime
Milan, Dan
Neilson, Eric
Nielsen, Carl
Olson, Drew
Paradis, Philippe
Rankin, Evan
Welychka, Brett
Witkowski, Luke

GROUP BOWNESS

Aulie, Keith
Bjujus, Dylan
Connolly, Brett
Cote, Jean-Phillipe
Desjardins, Cedric
Drouin, Jonathan
Erne, Adam
Hedman, Victor
Johnson, Tyler
Labrie, Pierre-Cedric
Lindback, Anders
Malone, Ryan
Mormina, Joey
Namestnikov, Vladislav 
Panik, Richard
Richard, Tanner
Salo, Sami
St. Louis, Marty
Stamkos, Steven
Sustr, Andrej
Taormina, Matt
Walker, Geoff

GROUP GWOZDECKY

Angelidis, Mike 
Barberio, Mark 
Bishop, Ben 
Brewer, Eric 
Brown, JT 
Carle, Matt 
Crombeen, BJ 
Filppula, Valtteri 
Gudas, Radko 
Helenius, Riku 
Killorn, Alex 
Koekkoek, Slater
Korobov, Dmitry
Kucherov, Nikita
Nesterov, Nikita
Palat, Ondrej
Paquette, Cedric
Purcell, Teddy
Pyatt, Tom
Sergeev, Artem
Thompson, Nate
Tyrell, Dana

Again, those players in the rookie camp and tournament will also be involved. You can find that roster here. The Lightning rookies have completed their first game this afternoon, playing the Boston Bruins rookies to a 5-5 tie and tying the obligatory shootout as well. [Let's hear it: Oh goody, a tie *and* a shootout. It's the worst of both worlds.]