The best young prospects in the Tampa Bay Lightning organization will give it all they’ve got over the next week to work their way into a roster spot.
Town of Tonawanda native Kevin Quick will be right there with them.
Quick, who was taken by the Lightning in the third round (78th overall) of the 2006 NHL draft, is among the more than two-dozen NHL hopefuls invited to participate in Tampa Bay’s Young Guns Camp, which began Thursday and continues through Wednesday.
Other prospects participating in the Young Guns Camp include Dustin Tokarski, the goaltender for Team Canada’s 2009 World Junior Championship winning team, and Tampa Bay’s top draft picks, defenseman Victor Hedman and right wing Carter Ashton.
A 6-foot-tall playmaking defenseman, Quick spent much of the 2008-2009 season with the American Hockey League’s Norfolk Admirals.
He made his NHL debut in January, when the Lightning recalled him from Norfolk on an emergency basis. Quick played in six games — four in January and two more in April — with Tampa Bay, recording one assist.
Quick has competed in the Lightning’s rookie camp before, including for the first time when he was 18 and star-struck about the whole experience.
“Now that he’s 21, it’s different. His goal is to go down there and make the team,” Quick’s dad, also named Kevin, said Thursday.
Quick and the other prospects will compete in a scrimmage and super skills competition before fans Saturday at the St. Pete’s Times Forum, the first time the team is holding such an event.
“We haven’t hosted a camp like this before, but we relish the opportunity to get our best young prospects, including this year’s top picks, in front of our fans,” Brad Lott, the team’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, said in a statement.
Quick played two years at St. Joe’s Collegiate Institute in Kenmore before finishing his high school career with the prestigious Salisbury School in Connecticut.
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Town of Tonawanda native Kevin Quick is currently a defenseman for the AHL's Norfolk Admirals. He played four games earlier this season for the Tampa Bay Lightning.ROBERT TWINE/(Click for larger image)
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