Princeton Tigers to Attend Eight NHL Development Camps

Six members of the Princeton hockey program will participate in National Hockey League Development Camps. Rising sophomore Jackson Cressey will be at the Vancouver Canucks camp July 3-7, rising junior Josh Teves will be at the Calgary Flames camp starting on July 3 and rising sophomore and recent graduate Colton Phinney will be at the Winnipeg Jets camp June 26-30.

Pulling double duty are rising senior Eric Robinson who will be at the Anaheim Ducks camp on July 1-4 and then the Boston Bruins camp July 6-9 and rising junior Max Véronneau who is attending both the Calgary Flames camp and the inaugural Las Vegas Golden Knights June 27-1.

The Tigers will attend more NHL Development Camps this summer than any other team in ECAC Hockey. (Clarkson 7, Cornell 6, Yale 5, Quinnipiac 4, Brown 4, Rensselaer 4, Harvard 3, Union 3, St. Lawrence 2, Colgate 1).

The camps feature young talent within the organization's system, the team's newest draft picks and other non-roster camp invites. Development camps typically include on-ice team practices, group and position skills sessions as well as off-ice testing, strength training and other activities, and often culminate with team scrimmages.

Robinson, who will be a co-captain for the Tigers in 2017-18, totaled 21 points on 13 goals and eight assists this past season. He led the team in shots on goal and had an eight-point stretch in six games beginning with a goal at No. 10 Harvard on Nov. 11. Twice the NCAA awarded his play as he garnered the #4 play of the week on Dec. 20 and had the nation's #1 play on March 6 when he scoring in the final second of regulation in a do-or-die ECAC playoff game with Colgate, that spurred the Tigers to win the series and reach the quarterfinals for the first time since 2008-09.

Playing on the Tigers' top line Véronneau earned second-team All-ECAC and Ivy League honors in 2016-17. He was second on the team in scoring with 35 points in 33 games, recording a point in 21 of 33 games. He was the Hockey Commissioners Association National Player of the Month in December, earned two NCAA Stars of the Week (first on Dec. 13, second on Dec. 6), and NCAA second-best play of the week on March 6 with his overtime game-winner in Game 2 of the first-round series with Colgate.

A finalist for the league's Rookie of the Year, Cressey led the Princeton freshmen in scoring with 33 points in 34 games. He net seven goals and had a team-high 26 assists, contributing 16 power-play points and winning 54.5 percent of his face offs. He was the ECAC's Rookie of the Month in December and January.

Teves, a first-team All-Ivy League selection, led the Princeton defense in scoring with 25 points on four goals and 21 assists this past season. He recorded 51 blocks, the second most on the team.

A member of the ECAC All-Rookie team and an all-Ivy League selection, Kuffner has been the Tigers' leading scorer in each of the last two seasons. In 2016-17 he scored 36 points in 34 games on a team-high 19 goals and 17 assists. He took 116 shots on goal, blocked 13 shots, took just a single penalty and had 11 power-play points.

Phinney graduated from Princeton with his name at the top of a number of statistical categories. He is the program's all-time leader in saves with 3,440 and has played more minutes and in more games than any other goalie in Princeton history. This year he made 30+ saves in 18 saves and was a four-time ECAC Goalie of the Week. He set a record for saves in a single season in 2016-17 when he earned second-team All-ECAC honors with 1,058, and had the second-most this past season with 990. His career save percentage of .912 is the third best in Princeton history.

Princeton finished the 2016-17 season with a 15-16-3 overall record and was seventh in the ECAC standings. The Tigers won their first playoff series since 2009, to advance to the quarterfinals. The Tigers were one of the most improved teams in the country this season: after starting 0-6-1, the Tigers then went 7-2-1 in their turnaround season that saw them grab home ice for the playoffs for the first time since 2012. The squad nearly doubled its offensive output from 2015-16 to 2016-17, scoring 43 more goals (103-60).

The program will announce its 2017-18 schedule tomorrow, Wednesday, June 28.

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