Chirps from Center Ice

Today the Penguins announced the assignments of the following players to the Wheeling Nailers:

Forwards:

Cody Chupp, Tom Kuhnhackl, Adam Payerl, Dominik Uher, Scott Zurevinski

Defensemen:

Reid McNeill

Goaltender:

Patrick Killeen

Michael Neal was released from his tryout.

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The current roster stands as follows:

Forwards: Beau Bennett, Philippe Dupuis, Benn Ferriero, Brian Gibbons, Riley Holzapfel, Steve MacIntyre, Denver Manderson, Jayson Megna, Warren Peters, Zach Sill, Trevor Smith, Eric Tangradi, Paul Thompson, Keven Veilleux.

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

Goaltenders: Brad Thiessen, Jeff Zatkoff

Manderson hurtsomething upper body-wise in last night’s preseason finale. As soon as he’s healthy he’ll go down. Could be as soon as Friday. Two more have to get moved. I’ll go out on a limb and say Samuelsson and Megna. Whoever it is, going to be extremely tough to move.

Outside of this, the AHL Previews have begun. Scroll down, or use the dropdown menu box to check out the South and Midwest Divisions. North Division debuts tomorrow at noon.