Training camp storylines: Taylor Beck wants to be Nashville’s Shane Doan

The Nashville Predators sent four players back to their junior teams in the Canadian Hockey League and released two other players from their amateur tryout agreements.

This year’s first round draft pick, Austin Watson, has been sent back to the Peterborough Petes of the OHL. Another 2010 pick, Taylor Aronson has been sent back to the Portland Winterhawks of the WHL. Aronson has been recovering from an offseason shoulder surgery and as a result didn’t have an opportunity to make a name for himself at camp. Michael Latta and Charles-Olivier Roussel, both 2009 draft picks, have been sent to their junior teams, the Guelph Storm and the Montreal Junior Hockey Club. Jamie Doornbosch and Cameron Wind were the players released from tryout agreements. Doornbosch is only 20 and technically can still play one more year of junior for the Peterborough Petes.

That leaves 12 players who had attended the Predators Rookie Camp remaining at the main training camp. Included among the rookies still vying for a roster spot include local prospect and Hobey Baker Award winner Black Geoffrion, Ryan Ellis, the Predators first round draft pick in 2009, Nashville’s 2007 first round pick, Jonathon Blum, Mike Santorelli’s brother Mark, and Taylor Beck, the third round pick of the Predators in 2009.