Saturday . . .

D Zak Stebner of the Kamloops Blazers has accepted a training camp invitation from the Dallas Stars. Stebner, 19, is one of five Blazers ticketed for NHL camps so far. . . . RW Tyler Shattock (St. Louis Blues) and F Jimmy Bubnick (Atlanta Thrashers) were selected during the NHL’s 2009 draft, while D Giffen Nyren (Minnesota Wild) and C C.J. Stretch (San Jose Sharks) will attend camps on free-agent tryouts.
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Bruce Hamilton, the general manager of the Kelowna Rockets, told me Saturday that D Kyle Verdino will be brought into Kelowna in a couple of weeks so that the team’s medical staff can give him a going over. Verdino was involved in a car accident last week that resulted in him receiving, according to Hamilton, more than 300 stitches in his head. . . . Hamilton said Verdino realizes that he is a very lucky young man because it could have been a whole lot worse. . . . “Our trainer talked to him at length (Saturday),” Hamilton said. “He was a lot better (Saturday) than a few days ago. (He still is ) very sore all over.”
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For all you fans of Jon (Nasty) Mirasty out there, some news from Lindsay Kramer, who follows the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch for the Syracuse Post-Standard:
Three days into free agency, Syracuse enforcer Jon Mirasty said on Friday that he's already received better contract offers than anything Columbus has given him so far. He wouldn't say from whom, though.
"I've been talking to a few teams, yeah," he said. "I'm going to take my time. Hopefully, they (Columbus) can come up with some kind of deal. If not, there's other teams."