Chirps from Center Ice

We are just outside of 24 hours of the puck dropping in Wilkes-Barre for the 2010-2011 AHL season. (Happy 75th, league!)

Couple links to get to today. See, if you follow me on Twitter, you get all these things as they happen.

• Another AHL beat writer has decided to follow me. Welcome Tim McManus, covering the Adirondack beat in Glens Falls.
• A bunch of teams announced Captains today. Not WBS. We’ll rotate some Alternates for a couple weeks, then name one probably by November. If you are new WBS fan, this is the modus operandi.
• Bombulie reported that Drew Fata and Bryan Lerg signed PTOs today. Brad Thiessen will start the season in net v. Hershey. He also has projected lineup / lines for tomorrows home opener.
• Check out Jonathan’s Penguins Season Preview. JB, if you lurk my blog, first thank you. Second I am bringing questions for you Monday for the booster club meeting. Get ready.
• Tim Leone tweeted that Sheldon Souray is in Titletown, practicing, but will not play v. WBS tomorrow night.
• How fast can you name the 30 teams in the league?*
• The AHL and Professional Hockey Players Association ratified a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. If there is a lockout above us, we keep playing.
• WBS posted its rosters today.
• Up Interstate 81, Joy Lindsay tweeted that Ryan Keller is the Captain of the Binghamton Senators. On the other end of I-81, the aforementioned Tim Leone tweeted that Andrew Joudrey is the new captain of The Champs.
• I’m starting to despise the Charlotte Checkers, as TSN’s Bob McKenzie tweeted that Justin Pogge and Brett Carson are on waivers.
• I found a blog that covers the Charlotte Checkers. It looks like it is team run, but look to your left. Or if you are too lazy, just click here.
• The AHL did a nice team-by-team capsule rundown.

Since I have the AHL Live All-Access Pass, I’m going to get a look at San Antonio / Chicago, start the night with Abbotsford / Grand Rapids and maybe a bit of Binghamton / Adirondack.

Tomorrow morning I’ll post what to expect on the Gameday posts I have brewing for 80 games this year. Check me out then. Later.

* – I missed Lake Erie and Milwaukee.