Starting Monday, about 40 NHL, college and top high school players will be skating every weekday for the next three weeks at the Rec Center in St. Louis Park. The pre-training camp conditioning camp is put on by the player representation agency, Octagon.

Times are subject to change, but right now, the daily weekday skates will be from 10:30 a.m.-noon.

A number of Wild players have already started skating there — Brent Burns, Derek Boogaard — as well as several other NHLers. Last year, some players that were there off the top of my head included Marian Gaborik, Nik Backstrom, Danny Irmen, Nick Schultz, Wes Walz, Mark Parrish, Paul Martin, Keith Ballard, Thomas Vanek, Mark Hartigan, Ryan Malone, Bret Hedican and many others.

Shjon Podein and Chris McAlpine will be running the sessions.

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