Chirps from Center Ice

Alex Picard and Jason Williams were reassigned today by Pittsburgh. With Deryk Engelland back from his suspension and Wilkes-Barre in dire need of a defenseman, the Picard reassignment was to be expected.

Bombulie had the Friday practice update. Carl Sneep, Boris Valabik and Joey Mormina will be unavailable for tomorrow’s game against Bridgeport, all due to injury.

Jonathan also mentioned Simon Despres who is still up with Pittsburgh and speculated as to whether or not it is for good. My blog friends at Faceoff Factor had an interesting read which supplements the Bombulie discussion.

My take? I think Simon is an NHL player. Selfishly, I want him back here. But that said, he is an NHL player in my mind.

Here’s a great read from the guys from PA Puck on Wheelchair Hockey. When you get up to walk away from your computer later, count your blessings.

Bridgeport in town tomorrow for a 5:05 start but not before they take on Norfolk again in Hampton Roads this evening. I’ll be keeping an eye on this on AHL Live and will probably have a retweet of a final score later on. Hershey is idle, so any points the Admirals get tonight would put them in sole possession of second place in the Division.

For a non-divisional game, I am actually really looking forward to it. You see, the inspiration for me to get into blogging, Michael Fornabaio, will be there tomorrow. He’s covered the Sound Tigers beat like a snuggie since their inception and even covered the now defunct Beast of New Haven before that. It’s going to be fun getting a chance to meet him finally.

Gameday will be up here Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m.

Let’s Go Pens!

* – if you follow me on Twitter, you’ll notice that I have started using the semicolon more often. Admittedly, I’ve never used the semicolon ever in anything. So if you see any questionable use of the semicolon from me, please let me know. Punctuation rocks!