Chirps from Center Ice

Pittsburgh announced another round of cuts this morning. If you don’t feel like linking through, the players are as follows with the ones in bold required to clear waivers: Ryan Craig, Colin McDonald, Eric Tangradi, Nick Johnson, Brad Thiessen and Scott Munroe. Scott Harrington was returned to his junior team, he is too young for the AHL.

Bombulie has reactions over at the Insider.

My thought is that since Tangradi isn’t exposed to waivers he’d need to set the world on fire to stick. I think he may be a step behind his development and getting concussed last year didn’t help. He was an AHL All-Star last season. He’ll need another big year like the one he had last year (18-15-33 in 42 games) and I see no reason why he won’t. The alternative is that he is moved at the trade deadline, which is a real possibility.

Good news for guys like Joe Vitale and Richard Park I guess. Two men for one job and the loser is WBS’ gain. Still could, hypothetically, get both. Wouldn’t that be special?

Two more things…

-> Tim Wallace is on waivers from the New York Islanders. If not claimed, he’ll be giving locker room quotes to Mike Fornabiao.

-> Regarding Mr. Fornabaio, whose blogging style this blog is modeled after, he provided a breakdown of the new and revised rules in the AHL this year. Excellent breakdown if you are into the technical side of the game like I am.

Tonight’s 7 p.m. preseason game vs. Adirondack in Saratoga Springs won’t be on the radio. Make sure you follow @MCSaratogian and @PSPhantoms if you have a Twitter account. I’ll be retweeting these guys all night.

Finally, the AHL Previews start tomorrow with the North Division here on the blog. Maybe later I will blog the schedule and thank a few people who helped me build them.

Let’s Go Pens!