Chirps from Center Ice

Few things today:

• Chris Conner recalled to Pittsburgh. Depth move only as the flu bug is going around. May play tonight but multiple reports I have seen on Twitter today list him as the extra forward. Very possbily may be up only for insurance purposes and then sent down tomorrow, as Pittsburgh doesn’t play again until Friday.
• Semyon Varlamov was sent to Hershey today. The blog On Frozen Blog tells me it’s for conditioning purposes. Varlamov will probably see action this weekend in net for Hershey.
• Mike McKenna (@MikeMcKenna56) deleted his Twitter sometime today. The bigger news for him was that he was recalled from Albany today to parent New Jersey. In the wake of the Dan Ellis fiasco, it’s probably a smart move.

You’ll find analysis on the Conner promotion from Jonathan Bombulie here. You will find Tim Leone’s blog entry here. If you have no idea what I was talking about regarding Dan Ellis, here is the story.

My take on Conner: WBS is deep. We don’t have a single player in the top anything in anything. Keven Veilleux, Geoff Walker and Bryan Lerg are all adequate replacements. Let Pittsburgh have him. Maybe he shakes things up like Bombulie said in his blog entry. He will be back. It’s just a matter of when.