Senators announce 54-man training camp roster

by Peter Raaymakers on Sep 11, 2009 1:10 PM EDT

The Ottawa Senators announced the roster of 54 invited players (EDIT: But there are only 53 players listed... weird... )for their NHL training camp today. Those players invited include 23 Senators draft picks, 13 players acquired as free agents, eight via trade, seven on try-out contracts and three on AHL-only deals. There are six goalies, 16 defencemen, and 32 forwards. Eighteen members of the rookie squad were also invited--including standout goaltender Robin Lehner and 2008 first-round draft choice Erik Karlsson--and 2009 first-round draft choice Jared Cowen is also expected to attend.

And, of course, Dany Heatley has an invitation, and barring any trade is also expected to be there.

Read more to see the whole roster...

Stealing an idea from Pension Plan Puppets, I'll cross out names as players are cut.

Forwards		Defencemen		Goaltenders
Daniel Alfredsson	Casey Lee	Paul Baier	Brian Lee	Mike Brodeur
Jason Bailey	Matt Lowry	Drew Bannister	Chris Phillips	Andy Chiodo
Cody Bass	Milan Michalek	Chris Campoli	Alexandre Picard	Brian Elliott
Matt Carkner	Chris Neil	Jared Cowen	Mat Robinson	Chris Holt
Jonathan Cheechoo	James O'Brien	Erik Karlsson	Craig Schira	Pascal Leclaire
Erik Condra	Brett Parnham	Geoff Kinrade	Derek Smith	Robin Lehner
Keegan Dansereau	Peter Regin	Filip Kuba	Anton Volchenkov
Kaspars Daugavins	Jarkko Ruutu	Tomas Kudelka	Kyle Wharton
Shean Donovan	Christoph Schubert
Mike Fisher	Ryan Shannon
Nick Foligno	Zack Smith
Denis Hamel	Jason Spezza
Joshua Hennessy	Martin St. Pierre
Mike Hoffman	Brandon Svendsen
Ryan Keller	Jesse Winchester
Chris Kelly	Jeremy Yablonski
Alex Kovalev	Ilya Zubov