Chirps from Center Ice

Terrible news within the organization. Nailers beat writer Shawn Rine dropped a bombshell on Twitter last night stating that the Wheeling Nailers are on the selling block. Nothing confirmed at this point, but all signs point to this being the last season in Wheeling. Here is his story from The Intelligencer today.

Bombulie had his take here.

I could not imagine the day that would come in which I learned that the Penguins were defecting from Wilkes-Barre. The old truth is though it is part of being a minor league fan and really happens all the time. It’s sad really.

Elsewhere, since there hasn’t been a blog update since Monday, the following caught my eye:

–> The fan blog Admirals Roundtable caught up with AHL Commissioner David Andrews. When you ask me what I strive for in blogging, the Ads Roundtable is it. They are the gold standard for blogs from the fan perspective.

–> The AHL reached an agreement with ESPN America to broadcast AHL games overseas. Kinda cool, if you want to keep up with your favorite AHL team from Germany.

–> In ex-WBS Penguin news, Dan Henningson signed a PTO with the Binghamton Senators and Joey Haddad was released from his PTO with Bridgeport and reassigned to his ECHL club, Gwinnett.

–> Here is an interesting read regarding the Fort Wayne Komets from the Central Hockey League. The possibility exists that Fort Wayne who is second in minor league hockey attendance only to the Hershey Bears and others in that league could defect from the CHL and move into the ECHL. I, for one, would love to see a 30/30/30 NHL/AHL/ECHL affiliation grouping.

–> Finally, the Pens tweeted this afternoon that Saturday’s game vs. Syracuse is sold out. Good times.

Let’s Go Pens!