Chirps from Center Ice

Pittsburgh announced today that Eric Tangradi was reassigned to Wilkes-Barre / Scranton.

Color me shocked for a few reasons: 1) Roster freeze in effect, I didn’t think teams were allowed to send guys down. 2) Surely Tangradi would have gotten a better look than what he did in his current recall, which wasn’t much. I get having to earn the right and all to play in the National Hockey League, but it doesn’t seem like he’s even being given the chance to step on the ice. Last night’s game vs. Chicago he was a scratch.

Seth Rorabaugh or @emptynetters on Twitter tweeted this afternoon:

I saw some responses to his tweet on this and the feeling I have had all along regarding Tangradi is slowly growing on others and that limb I have been on has some added weight on it. What’s the feeling?

Trade bait.

I hope I am wrong.

Elsewhere, look for me on Twitter later later with a recap of the Bears / Crunch tilt from Hershey tonight at 7.* If the Bears win, they have outright number one in the division going into the Christmas break.

Let’s Go Pens!

* – actually probably a Scott Stuccio, Tim Leone or Hershey Bears retweet on the final score. May do all three, may do one, may do none. Depends on conciseness / creativity.