Couple of things worth mentioning…
–> Matt Rust, Philip Samuelsson and Cody Wild are back from their Wheeling assignments. Ryan Schnell was re-assigned.
–> Bombulie had a Carl Sneep update. We may see him this weekend. Also, looks like Patrick Killeen will be on the hill against Adirondack.
–> Former Penguin Chris Minard is the AHL’s Player of the Month.
–> Get used to more of Norfolk’s Cory Conacher.
–> An interesting quip from Eric P from the Pensblog.
I played radio with Bob Howard from the Power Play Post Show today. His podcast with yours truly will be up later tonight. I will retweet him on the Twitter side and run a link here later.
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I don’t think not winning the Calder Cup has anything to do with a drop in attendance. Look at the numbers, Binghamton won the Cup last year and there attendance is down from last season. Hershey is the exception in the AHL. People in NEPA just don’t buy into minor league teams, as sad as that is.
I disagree with that to some extent. While I agree that week day games are poorly attended no matter how successful a team is, if they win a Calder Cup here it will bring back those fans who used to sell the place out year back.
Only way to find out is to win it all.