Carolina Hurricane Announces 2025 Training Camp Lineup – Hockey Writer – Carolina Hurricane
The wait is over; NHL training camp is here. What’s more, the 2025 Carolina Hurricane Training Camp is officially underway as the team begins testing and meetings on Wednesday, September 17. In addition, after waiting for several months, the ice event began on Thursday, September 18. On Wednesday afternoon, the Hurricanes announced their training camp roster and players will start training camp. Hurricane entered the camp with 48 players (22 skaters and 3 goalkeepers, C1, 20 skaters and 3 goalkeepers). That is, as the training camp officially begins, what are the initial gains of looking at the group?
Training camp is here
At first glance, the main group (C1) is primarily the main NHL roster, as well as new members of Olivier Kylington, Gavin Bayreuther, Cayden Primeau and Mike Reilly. Additionally, it seems that Tyson Jost will start training camp with Group 2 (C2) after some think he will start with the main group. While Thursday is the first day of the ice event, anything can change during the October 9 game against the New Jersey Devils. C1 starts on ice starting at 9am East and then C2 is performed at 11am Invisalign Arena (Note: All practices at Invisalign are open to the public).
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It will be the first time fans have seen Nikolaj Ehlers and K’andre Miller on the ice in the Hurricane as they were acquired in the first week of free agents. They were the biggest offseason acquisition and now fans and media have caught a glimpse of them on the Hurricane jerseys, finally waiting for the team since July. This is also the first time Alexander Nikishin has traveled through the NHL training camp after arriving in North America after his last season in Russia. One thing to focus on is who to pair with. Could it be Jacques Slaven? Maybe it was Jalen Chatfield? This is an early storyline to watch the young Russian defender.
One of the other storylines that Hurricane will do in the center of Line 2 is what Hurricane will do. As of now, Jesperi Kotkanemi appears to be on site to create initial views for the hurricane. Will others get some representation at the camp? There is a chance, but don’t be surprised if Kotkaniemi gets 2C for most of the time as a team. Logan Stankoven can get some reps in the 2C, and Logan Stankoven played center in his NHL career when he traded with the Hurricanes on March 7, either way.
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The Hurricane did start camping on C1 with Pyotr Kochetkov and Frederik Andersen. They secured his trade in a July 1 signing deal with the Montreal Canadiens, earning a seventh-round draft pick in 2026. It is believed that Primeau will be the third goalkeeper of the Hurricane in the depth map to start the upcoming season. After 22 wins last season with the Laval Rockets of the American Hockey League, it makes sense to have him learn the most meaningful goalkeeper tandem with the main group. Primeau will pass 55 in the hurricane, and his father Keith is the number of his father Keith before being traded to the Philadelphia flyer. The guy who was traded for Primeau was Rod Brind’amour, the head coach of Cayden’s first Hurricane camp. Complete circle.
There are many other storylines and players to pay attention to in Hurricane Training Camp. But at least the camp has finally arrived, and now we have only a few days to go, as the hurricane takes place at the Tampa Bay Lightning at the Lenovo Center on Monday, September 22 at 7 p.m. From the 21-day start of the 2025-26 season, we feel like hockey is officially back, even if it is in training camp and preseason status. There are activities on the ice, and as the day goes by, the storyline begins to gradually increase. Then, without us knowing it, as the team will fight the playoffs in 82 games, then the second season starts to fight for the Stanley Cup.
