EPISODES

Episode 1 – 1 hour

Close to 250 hockey players from all over the country descended on the New England Sport Center in Marlboro. Each of them had one thing in common – a love of hockey. Each had one goal in mind – a chance to be invited to Boston Bruins Training Camp in September of 2006. Only three – one forward, one defenseman and one goalie – would be chosen. Brad Park, Terry O’Reilly and Gerry Cheevers put each of them through a grueling battery of basic hockey skills, shooting, skating and stickhandling. The players were rated based on time and accuracy. After weeks of testing, the top scoring 18 forwards, 12 defensemen and 6 goalies were chosen. They would attend a weeklong camp of grueling scrimmages and team on team competition. At the end of the week the top three would emerge.
Arriving at camp the players are separated into two teams, the white, to be coached by Brad Park and black, to be coached by Terry O’Reilly. The first Day of competition featured a net relay race where members of each team, two at a time, would push the net the length of the ice, until all teammates had gone. The white team won a mile.
In the stands, Gerry Cheevers, Wayne Cashman and Bob Sweeney rated the individual players. The scrimmage began and the players came right of the gate flying down the ice piling up shots and hitting everything in sight. Excellent goaltending by kept the score 1-0 for the black team until the final seconds when Jon Hedberg skated around the entire black team and managed to squeeze a knuckleball through goalie, John McKersie’s pads. The game ended in a 1-1 tie with the white team picking up 8 valuable team points and the black just three for the day. After the judges conferred the scores were posted. Forward Adam Campana , Defenseman Jamie Carroll and Goalie Mark Palatino, all from the white team were the top point getters. It became obvious to all the players that to emerge in the final three you would have to be a team player.