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The London Knights will begin training camp Thursday without their leading scorer.
Denver Barkey will be sidelined up to three weeks with an undisclosed illness. The 19-year-old Flyers prospect is expected to miss at least London’s first two exhibition games but no decision has been made yet on his ability to participate in Philadelphia’s NHL camp set to start on Sept. 18.
The star forward was part of Canada’s world junior summer team roster along with fellow Knights Easton Cowan, Oliver Bonk and Sam Dickinson earlier this month in Plymouth, Mich. He scored 35 goals and 102 points in 64 games in his third season with the Knights in 2023-24 and was a late world junior cut.
Barkey isn’t the only member of the OHL champion Knights who will miss this week’s action. Kasper Halttunen (Sharks), Cowan (Maple Leafs) and Ruslan Gazizov (Ducks) are preparing for their NHL rookie and training camps and the Knights say they will join the team after those camps are completed.
Russian import centre Gleb Semenov has signed with the Knights, but has yet to arrive in London. He is waiting for a visa that will allow him to travel to Canada.
On the hockey operations side, Thomas Black left the club to become the video coach for the American league’s Belleville Senators – the affiliate of the Ottawa Senators. He had been the Knights video coach and assistant goaltending coach.
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