A minor league note to pass along here …
Goaltender Jean-Philippe Levasseur was re-assigned to the Laredo Bucks of the Central Hockey League.
Levasseur had played half of one preseason game with Bakersfield of the East Coast Hockey League.
Justin Pogge and Timo Pielmeier are the two remaining goalies with the Condors.
The Ducks assigned left wing Matt Beleskey, right wing Dan Sexton and goaltender Timo Pielmeier to San Antonio of the American Hockey League on Sunday.
The Ducks are down to 33 players in training camp. They must be down to 23 by the season opener Oct.3.
Fifteen rookies have been invited to Ducks training camp.
Forwards Matthew Beleskey, Josh Brittain, Nicolas Deschamps, Peter Holland, Maxime Macenauer, Logan MacMillan, Matt McCue, Brandon McMillan, MacGregor Sharp and Dan Sexton will participate along with defenseman Matt Clark, Mark Mitera and Stefan Warg.
Goaltenders Marco Cousineau and Timo Pielmeier are also invitees.Â
Alain Chainey didn’t sugar coat the performance of the Ducks’ rookies in Tuesday’s 5-0 loss to San Jose. 
Chainey, assistant director of amateur scouting, said the group was out of sync and looked tired.
“They’re young guys,” Chainey said by phone Wednesday before the team concluded rookie camp with the last of three games against San Jose’s rookies.
“It’s a big-time wake up call for them.”
Chainey, director of amateur scouting Martin Madden and the organization’s coaches will take away some positives, though.
The camp is intended for Ducks’ prospects to make an impression on coaches and management and get their feet wet in the organization’s system and philosophy.
General manager Bob Murray and David McNab, senior vice president of hockey operations, have watched some of the camp and will evaluate where to place players.
Some will be invited to the main camp that starts Sunday at Anaheim Ice. Most others will be sent back to their junior teams or placed in the minors.
At least one Duck is playing deep into the postseason.
Well, okay, it will be a few years before Nick Bonino pulls on a Ducks jersey. But the highly regarded Ducks prospect has Boston University poised for a deep playoff run.
Bonino had a goal and an assist last Sunday as the top-ranked Terriers advanced to the Hockey East semifinals. BU will play Boston College on Friday at TD Banknorth Garden.
Bonino is a 6-foot-1, 190-pound sophomore forward. He became property of the Ducks in the trade with San Jose that also gave the Ducks goaltending prospect Timo Pielmeier for Travis Moen and Kent Huskins.
Bonino has 16 goals and 28 assists and is a team-leading plus-24 in 38 games.
At a cost that included center Samuel Pahlsson, left wing Travis Moen and defensemen Steve Montador and Kent Huskins, each of whom stands to become an unrestricted free agent July 1, the Ducks landed potential top-six forward Erik Christensen from the Atlanta Thrashers, checking-type center Petteri Nokelainen from the Boston Bruins, “heart-and-soul” defenseman James Wisniewski from the Chicago Blackhawks and two promising prospects from the San Jose Sharks.
With the subtraction of Pahlsson, Moen and Huskins, as well as left wing Chris Kunitz, who went to the Pittsburgh Penguins last week in a trade for skilled defenseman Ryan Whitney, 14 players from the 2007 Stanley Cup champion Ducks are no longer in the organization. Twelve remain.
“Over the last few years, while chasing another Cup, we’ve let assets get away and gotten nothing for them,” Murray said. “We had to stop that. We’ve let enough assets go.”
The Ducks have confirmed that left wing Travis Moen and defenseman Kent Huskins have been traded to San Jose for forward Nick Bonino, goaltender Timo Pielmeier and a conditional draft pick in the 2009 draft.
The Samuel Pahlsson-to-Chicago trade and deal to acquire center Erik Christensen from Atlanta for prospect Eric O’ Dell have yet to be confirmed.
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