By Matthew Gourlie /

On the door of the locker rooms in the Moose Jaw Civic Centre is a list of rules expected of the players attending Moose Jaw Warriors training camp.
It covers everything from when to arrive at the rink to how they must wear a hat.
The Warriors will likely have a lot of the same faces from last season, but there’s a new attitude surrounding the club.
The Warriors have 21 players eligible to return from last year’s team and the biggest off-season change came off of the ice. General manager Chad Lang was fired and replaced by Jeff Truitt who is the club’s director of hockey operations.
“I think that from my standpoint, you can always get better,” Truitt said when asked about his first impression of the team he has inherited. “You have to continue to get better, the skill can get better, our reads can get better. But there is enough skill here.
“Our scouting staff deserves an awful lot of credit for bringing in the calibre of players that they have brought to this camp. It’s a credit to them for making our jobs very difficult.”
The Warriors kept 37 players after a four-day preliminary camp before heading into their six-game pre-season schedule.
Truitt was happy with the tone that was set at the start of camp and wants to see it continue day in and day out during the season.
“I thought the intensity and the pace and the overall work ethic was there and it’s a great start for us,” Truitt said.
“Now we’re expecting everyone to improve because you can’t go level, you have to keep pushing every day and be prepared every day. It doesn’t matter whether it’s now or during the season.”
Truitt comes to Moose Jaw with a winning pedigree. He went to three straight Memorial Cups with Kelowna — two as an assistant under Marc Habscheid and once as the head coach. Truitt won a WHL title as a head coach and has a Memorial Cup title to his credit as an assistant.
He most recently the head coach of the American Hockey League’s Springfield Indians.
He is charged with the task of turning around the Warriors after they finishing last in the WHL with a 19-50-1-2 record. The team dedicated itself to a youth movement and finished the season without a 20 year old. The only players who didn’t return were Slovak Martin Filo who was due to be an over-ager and tough guy Brian Sommers who has decided to become a firefighter.
Despite all of the eligible returnees, the veterans were being pushed for their roster spots.
Rookie Czech imports Antonin Honejsek and Jakub Herman both had a strong camp. Goalie Brandon Glover and forward Joey Kornelsen each had a taste of the league as 15-year-olds and were looking to crack the roster.
In addition, 17-year-old defenceman Kendall McFaull was pushing hard for a spot. McFaull’s physical style of play earned him a trip to the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge last winter — one of four Warriors prospects to attend the tournament in Port Alberni, B.C.