Gogolev invited to Red Wings development camp

After being snubbed in the NHL draft over the weekend in Dallas, despite scoring 30 goals last season for the Peterborough Petes, Pavel Gogolev has landed a free agent invitation to the Detroit

Red Wings development camp. Gogolev had been ranked by NHL Central Scouting as the 79th best North American skating prospect heading into the draft, but instead looked on while only his teammates were drafted, Semyon Der-Arguchintsev to the Toronto Maple Leafs in the third round and defenceman Declan Chisholm to the Winnipeg Jets in the fifth round.

Six Petes are taking part in NHL development camps this week, along with two Petes prospects. Development camps offer new and returning draftees, as well as free agents, a taste of NHL-level hockey and players an opportunity to showcase themselves in hopes of receiving an invitation to the teams’ main camps in September.

Der-Arguchintsev went to the Maple Leafs camp which started Monday, while Chisholm went to the Jets camp which also started Monday.

Gogolev will be joined by Petes defenceman Cole Fraser, who was picked in the fifth round

131st overall of the 2017 NHL draft, at the Red Wings development camp which begins Tuesday and runs until Saturday. Petes goalie Dylan Wells, who was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers in the fourth round, 123rd overall, in the 2016 NHL draft, joined the Oilers development camp running from Monday to Thursday.

Petes prospects Matt Cairns (Edmonton, 2016) and Logan Hutsko, who was selected in the third round 89th overall by the Florida Panthers on Saturday, will also attend their respective teams’ camps this week.