Chirps from Center Ice

Couple of things to get to / recap so let’s get started:

• Joey Haddad was indeed recalled from Wheeling to Wilkes-Barre / Scranton. Stick tap to Eric P at the Wilkes-Blog for pointing me in the direction of the AHL Transactions page. I tweeted it earlier.
• Bridgeport Sound Tigers head coach Jack Capuano was named head coach of the New York Islanders today. Further reading regarding this subject can be found at Mike Fornabaio’s blog. Mr. Fornabaio covers the Sound Tigers beat.
• Jussi Rynnas was named AHL Player of the Week today. Surprising, in light of the 6 assist performance last night by Hershey’s Mathieu Perreault in the Bears’ 8-3 victory over the Binghamton Senators last night.
• The AHL suspended pest Louis Robitaille one game for his actions over the weekend. He will miss tomorrow’s game v. the Penguins. 

Back to Haddad, Bombulie had some thoughts today regarding the current state of affairs and health of the Penguins. To summarize, Chris Connor is still in Pittsburgh, Nick Johnson is hurt and will not play tomorrow at Albany and Brett Sterling is a definite maybe (which means he won’t play) so the Haddad call up was made. Bryan Lerg looked OK in Worcester Saturday in my opinion. The kicker in all of this was this exchange between Bombulie and Coach John Hynes today: 

Q: Thiessen is coming off a 38-save shutout. You have four games this week. Is he going to get three of them or are you going to stick with two and two?

A: It’s a good question. I’ve debated that around the last couple days, but I think I’m not sure yet. 

It’s basically answering the question without answering the question. Unheard of in real life. For you married men I offer the following: 

Wife: Did you take the trash out like I asked?

You: You know, it’s an interesting question. I have kicked the idea around since you first asked me, and I will get back to you. 

Where does that land you? Competing with Fido for sleeping space in the family doghouse for sure. 

Where am I going with this? I have no idea, especially since I am not married. Regardless, here is what I think happens. John Curry gets the start tomorrow vs. the hapless Devils. If he plays great, it will go Thiessen / Curry / Thiessen this weekend for Norfolk / Hershey / Binghamton. If not, I think it’ll be Thiessen / Thiessen / Curry.