Chirps from Center Ice

Busy day news-wise in the AHL for late July. In no particular order:

• The Rochester Americans have a new head coach.
• Darren Haydar looks like he is headed back to Chicago.
• The Oklahoma City Barons introduced their new mascot.
• Look for something big from the WBS Penguins within the next few days.*
• There is a big pow-wow coming up in Hershey August 6 hosted by Bears PBP John Walton and Tim Leone from The Patriot News. Confirmed guests include Binghamton’s PBP guy Grady Whittenburg and Adirondack’s Owen Newkirk.**
• The Binghamton Senators signed goaltender Barry Brust. Nice write-up from someone who has seen him play in Houston.
• Bissonnette was told by his agent to shut down his Twitter page.

*- The Pens stated that it was a player signing AND a big announcement. Speculate amongst yourselves on who you think the player could be. The player signing came ahead of the “big announcement” so this tells me that it could be an available player from this list (towards the bottom). The “big announcement” could be the Pens home opener date, which has not yet been announced. I personally don’t think it will be a “Winter Classic” type of announcement. That type of an announcement is leaked well before the press conference. Not only that, but in order to have a game you need two teams, right? I have seen nothing from any other AHL team reagrding a “big” announcement.

**- Pens PBP Scott Stuccio needs to be at this event in order for me to take half day at work and drive to Hershey to live tweet this for y’all. Walton assures me that he has reached out to Stoosh, and they are still hammering things out.

Don’t forget to vote in the Brett Sterling poll. Also, I am planning my visit to the Coal Street Complex either tomorrow or Thursday.