Chirps from Center Ice

Happy Halloween to all of you from the staff at Chirps from Center Ice! (me)

Let’s get to some Sunday Reading…

• The win last night got top billing over at the AHL’s Saturday roundup. Debate amongst yourselves whether getting press from Abbotsford to Worcester and every place in between is good for this team. I want to say that I sense a swagger about the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins almost to a level that Hershey had last year. Now some may say that Hershey wasn’t at 100% last night, but I say would it have mattered? Teams will be gunning for Wilkes-Barre for sure, and I say bring it.
• Late late last night, Bombulie dropped his postgame wrap at his blog. I nearly jumped out of my bed for joy when I saw what he wrote. Go ahead and read it. It’s also in print.
• No one likes a sore loser. Dave Eminian covers the Peoria Rivermen and he had a story about how after losing 3-1 to the Oklahoma City Barons last night the team locked themselves in their locker room for 40 minutes. Thing is, they were wearing special breast cancer awareness jerseys and there was an on-ice auction to be had afterwards. Classless. Just classless. The Rivermen sit currently 12th in AHL attendance.  We’ll see if that changes.
• The Carolina Hurricans recalled Jonathan Matsumoto from Charlotte and assigned Drayson Bowman and Zac Dalpe. I remember Bowman and Dalpe and what they did to us first round when the River Rats were still around.

Loyal reader Dylan Harrison corrected me in my postgame wrap from last night that Pittsburgh already had 7 defensemen, not 8. (Letang, Goligoski, Lovejoy, Engelland, Orpik, Martin and Michalek) – so there hypothetically isn’t a chance once Michalek gets healthy that we’ll ever see Derek Engelland or Ben Lovejoy around here unless Pittsburgh decides to only skate with 6 D. My bad.

That’s all for today. I’m off to watch NASCAR at Talledega. Probably the last NASCAR race I will watch from start to finish this year.