Thursday Morning Fly By: Ron Hextall days until Flyers hockey starts

*Rookie camp starts tomorrow! Here are five guys that ASF thinks you should be watching. (Flyers.com) And here’s Meltzer previewing all of the rookies and defensemen that will be there: (Hockeybuzz)

*After a painfully drawn-out period of revealing parts of their jerseys, the Sabres revealed their new third jerseys and they sure are something. (SBN)

*Brian Burke was seen in Calgary last night and there’s a press conference this morning, where it will apparently be announced he’s taking on an executive role with the Flames. (The Score)

*Japers’ Rink ranks the top 10 centers in the Metropolitan Division. Feel free to be outraged at the horrible injustice that is Claude Giroux being ranked fifth: (Japers’)

*Lou Lamoriello has nice things to say about Jaromir Jagr’s rear end. Not sure I need to say much more than that. (Puck Daddy)

*The Preds send out an email in which they misspelled their team’s name. Everyone thought it was hilarious. They’re now embracing it. (CBS)

*And On The Forecheck is selling LET’S GO PERDS shirts, which is just wonderful. (OtF)

*Average save percentages, by year, since the full-season lockout: (Copper ‘n’ Blue)

*Finally, Josh Harding is wearing new pads in practice and it appears his plan is to blind the other team’s shooters with them. (Star-Tribune)

So how many days will it be until the opener tomorrow?

Orest Kindrachuk days 34
Brian Propp days 224
Ken Linseman days 27
Erik Gustafsson days 83
Danny Syvret days 101

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