Hawks open camp with 63

The Chicago Blackhawks officially began preparing to defend its 2014-15 Stanley Cup with the opening of its 2015-16 Training Camp at University of Notre Dame at on Friday, Sept. 18.

After physicals, players were divided into one of three teams for scrimmaging over the weekend at both the Lefty Smith Rink and Olympic Rink on the UND campus

Teams, identified simply as Team A, Team B and Team C practiced and scrimmaged with a weekend schedule that saw each team get into action four times.

The team was scheduled to move to the United Center on Monday (Sept. 21) with the start of its annual Training Camp Festival.

Listed below is an alphabetical of players invited to start the Hawks Camp, by position

Forwards

Aretem Anisimov; Kyle Baun; Bryan Bickell; Radovan Bondra; Daniel Ciampini; Marko Dano; Andrew Desjardins; Chris DeSousa; Jake Dowell; Ryan Garbutt; Ryan Haggerty; Ryan Hartman; Vincent Hinostroza; Marian Hossa; Patrick Kane; Tanner Kero; Graham Knott; Tomas Kopecky; Marcus Kruger; Pierre-Cedric Labrie; Mike Liambas; Brandon Mashinter; Hayden McCool; Mark McNeil; Jeremy Morin; Daniel Paille; Artemi Panarin; Roy Radke; Dennis Rasmussen; Garret Ross; Andrew Shaw; Teuvo Teravainen; Viktor Tikhonov; Jonathan Toews; Corey Tropp; Dane Walters.

Defense

Mathieu Brisebois; Kyle Cumiskey; Trevor Daley; Dillon Fournier; Kirill Gotovets; Erik Gustafsson; Jan Hejda; Niklas Hjalmarson; Sam Jardine; Duncan Keith; Nick Mattson; Ville Pokka; Dennis Robertson; Michal Rozsival; David Rundblad; Cameron Schilling; Brent Seabrook; Viktor Svedberg; Nolan Valleau; Trevor Van Riemsdyk; Lubomir Visnovsky.

Goaltenders

Mac Carruth; Corey Crawford; Scott Darling; Brandon Hope; Michael Leighton; Mark Visentin.