"When the Stanley Cup playoffs began in April, Tyler Seguin was a healthy scratch. By the time the finals rolled around, not only did the injury to Nathan Horton have the rookie in the lineup, but Seguin had earned enough of Claude Julien's trust that the coach rolled him out for a regular shift in the third period of Game 7.

Is Seguin ready to take another leap forward? Only time will tell, but he's certainly put in the work to make that happen. Seguin may have had his fun like everyone else in the offseason, but the 19-year-old also put in a couple of months of workouts, which included some time at the BioSteel training camp with a group of NHL players, before arriving at B's camp.

He's put on about 10 pounds, up to about 195, and through three days of training camp Julien has already seen the dividends.

"He's been very good. I've noticed him and I think you guys certainly have as well," Julien said yesterday after the expanded squad's workout at the Garden. "He seems a lot stronger, he seems a lot more confident from what I've seen. In the first three days, his skill level is really showing because of the way he's competing with that confidence."