It’s been a while since I have done an AHL Roundup blog post so it’s high time I get one out. More on the title of this blog post in a minute.
The AHL announced it’s 2011 Hall of Fame Class today. Two players, a pioneer and a coach. One of the players has ties to and in Hershey. These men will be enshrined during the All-Star festivities in Chocolatetown in January.
More on the AHL, President David Andrews was honored last night with the Lester Patrick Award. Nice video here.
Beat writers are my heroes. The league has them all listed over on their Twitter page here. You’ll notice I don’t follow the list and the reason for that is because I follow every single person on that list individually.
I am going to pitch an idea to the league on Twitter to create a “fan” list, with the main focus truly being on amassing a list of fans, which represent at least each team once. It’d be nice to see what other fans in other cities such as Rockford, Grand Rapids, Chicago and Norfolk have to think about their team and league in general.
The Pittsburgh Penguins announced today what their Winter Classic jerseys, err, sweaters will look like. I personally like them. I know there is a good majority of fans and media who do not. To each his own.
To no ones surprise, Rochester Americans beat writer Kevin Oklobzijia reported today that the Florida Panthers have notified the Amerks they will not be renewing their affiliation agreement past this year. I find this interesting because all the other teams have dance partners and Rochester is one of the AHL’s most tenured teams. This means they need a new parent and Florida needs a new place to put their prospects meaning either a new team in a new city or an existing team in an existing AHL city currently affiliated with a different team. I don’t see the AHL going back to 29 teams, but I can’t say for 100% certain that this just won’t happen. We’ll see, I suppose.
Onto the etiology of this blog title. I mentioned yesterday that if Brett Sterling played in any of the weekend games I would eat my shoe. Well, I better stay hungry because Bombulie reported that he practiced today and might play Saturday in Hershey. I guess the only thing left is to decide if I want fries with my shoe I will be eating. Maybe even, shoestring?
Phantoms tomorrow. In the meantime, I am going to work on my jokes.
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I like the idea of the fan list as well. You would definitely have a volunteer from the OKC Barons end from me. 🙂
As for the Pens WC jerseys, count me in as another who likes them For the haters, can’t please all the people all the time. I’m glad it’s something somewhat different, yet a tribute to times of the past. I can’t stand the Caps jerseys…same crap I looked at – and hated – as a kid. BOR-ING.
Could Rochester be positioning themselves for a return to a Buffalo affiliation, perhaps? Interesting to see what moves Florida makes from here.