Chirps from Center Ice

A couple of leftover things from the past few days:

–> Goaltender Brad Fogal was released from his PTO.

–> Dustin Tokarski is on recall to parent Tampa Bay as Mathieu Garon is injured. I don’t think that a large majority of Norfolk’s success lies in goal, so we will see what Tokarski’s absence does to / for Norfolk.

–> It looks more and more that Norfolk and Syracuse will swap parent teams.

–> Bombulie checked in with a Thursday update. Bryan Lerg and Geoff Walker did not practice today before the team bussed to Providence. Jonathan did some math with Lerg, Walker and Eric Tangradi (still on recall to Pittsburgh) absence and what that means to the offensively challenged Penguins right now.

I tweeted prior to the St. John’s game that in order to beat St. John’s that secondary scoring was prerequisite. Matt Rust and Simon Despres scored the lone WBS goals that night. Despres perhaps has a tick more offensive upside than Rust, so take that for what it’s worth.

I will be chasing the team this weekend and will be in person for all three games. I leave for Providence Friday morning.

Gameday will be here on the blog at 3 p.m. as always.

Let’s Go Pens!