Chirps from Center Ice

Wilkes-Barre announced a training camp roster today:

Forwards – Beau Bennett, Cody Chupp, Philippe Dupuis, Benn Ferriero, Brian Gibbons, Riley Holzapfel, Tom Kuhnhackl, Denver Manderson, Jayson Megna, Michael Neal, Adam Payerl, Warren Peters, Zach Sill, Trevor Smith, Eric Tangradi, Paul Thompson, Dominik Uher, Keven Veilleux and Scott Zurevinski

Defensemen – Robert Bortuzzo, Simon Despres, Brian Dumoulin, Alex Grant, Reid McNeill, Joey Mormina, Joe Morrow, Dylan Reese, Philip Samuelsson, Carl Sneep and Brian Strait

Goaltenders – Patrick Killeen, Brad Thiessen and Jeff Zatkoff

No names really jump off the page as a “who is that again?” name except for maybe Michael Neal, brother of Pittsburgh winger James. He’s 23, 6’2, left handed winger who played junior in Belleville and was a 5th round draft pick of Dallas in 2007. He bounced to and from AHL Texas and ECHL Idaho, where he spent most of last season where he was 7-18-25 and a -15 in 63 games.

With the lockout going on, he’ll probably be an afterthought by October 21, if not sooner.

Elsewhere, the Penguins tweeted a photo of what the new scoreboard looks like in action. Looks nice.

AHL announces the rules changes for 2012-2013. Here’s the rulebook. Here’s Bridgeport Sound Tigers beat writer Michael Fornabaio’s breakdown of the rule changes from last year.

Camp gets started tomorrow. Season is finally here!