Chirps from Center Ice

Took an early lunch from the office today and made it up to Coal Street for the back end of the first day of training camp. Practice is a whole different animal for me, because I will openly admit to having no idea what I am watching. I suppose with time, I would get the hang of it.

Anyway, I have a bunch of pictures and things to share today, so after the jump if you will please…

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Let’s get to the news of the day first.

–> Wheeling re-signed their leading scorer Chris Barton today. Barton moonlighted briefly with Wilkes-Barre last season. My Offseason Moves list has been updated accordingly.

–> John Curry, yes, that John Curry of 103 regular season wins in a Wilkes-Barre / Scranton sweater is back stateside with the Houston Aeros in training camp.

–> Another name is in camp with the Aeros which is familiar with Penguins fans and that is Nick Petersen. Here’s the link to their roster.

–> While at training camp today, I asked broadcaster Tom Grace if all four preseason games would be heard on the radio. He told me all but this Wednesday’s game in Rochester would be. The Sports Centre at MCC does not have an ISDN line, therefore no radio broadcast. I am not planning to go to Rochester for the game, so I am hoping that Mike O’Brien is and will be tweeting the action from there.

–> Here’s Bombulie’s blog recap from today and a quote from Eric Tangradi which I found interesting regarding the strength of the Penguins lineup:

“We’re going to be scary good. If we can put all the pieces together, Hynsie’s an unbelievable coach. If we can just listen to his plan, I’m sure he knows what will help us succeed. It’s going to be something special.”

Special indeed.

Alright. Onto the really bad pictures:

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This is Keven Veilleux working with Bill Guerin. From my untrained eyes, Keven did not appear to be showing any ill effects after last years season ending knee injury.

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Disco Dan Bylsma

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The Penguins took more professionally done photos on their Facebook page.

I scribbled down numbers on my iPhone while I was there. Consider these unofficial and an incomplete list, I think:

1 Thiessen
2 Zatkoff
3 Killeen
4 Sneep
6 Morrow
7 Strait
8 Dumoulin
9 Gibbons
10 Thompson
11 Sill
12 Megna
13 Chupp
14 Kuhnhackl
16 Bennett
18 Uher
19 Dupuis
20 Grant
21 Ferriero
22 McNeill
23 Peters
24 Reese
25 Tangradi
26 Holzapfel
28 Payerl
29 Zurvenski
36 Mormina
42 Neal
43-Peters
44 Veilleux
46 Manderson
47 Despres
55 Samuelsson

Probably won’t make it up to anymore practices this weekend, but I’ll be retweeting anything of interest that pops up.