Chirps from Center Ice

I just have a few things to blog about as they have been boiling in the blog kettle for a couple of days now. Here you go:

–> Jonathan Bombulie has some blog competition. No, not me, I don’t consider myself competition. Tom Venesky from The Times-Leader. Here’s the link. I have also added Twitter-less Tom to the blogroll to the left.

–> The confusion over the long term status of Nick Petersen is no more. He was placed on $125 unconditional waivers Tuesday, and cleared Wednesday. His days in a Penguins jersey are over. I’m not going to speculate here as to what happened to Petersen’s demise, because simply I don’t know.

–> The aforementioned Bombulie has been doing work regarding rookie Q & A blog updates. Here’s Joe Morrow, Dominik Uher, Jayson Megna and Tom Kuhnhackl.

–> Pittsburgh signed Derrick Pouliot and Olli Maata to entry-level contracts today.

–> I mentioned last week the new Penguins video board that will debut at Mohegan Sun Arena this October. The Penguins posted pictures. Here they are:

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(Photo credit: @WBSPenguins twitter feed)

–> The Arena itself is expanding by 20,000 square feet. It’ll be a two year phase-in adding dining options.

–> Tim Leone from the Harrisburg Patriot-News ran a Q & A feature of his own recently. His interviewee should be a familiar voice to Penguins fans.

31 days to the Penguins first regular season game in Binghamton, NY. The AHL Previews are coming together nicely as well. Stay tuned to the blog, Twitter and Facebook for more information as to when those will be rolled out!