Chirps from Center Ice

This tweet from TSN’s Bob McKenzie sums up the days news nicely:

If you draft well, gives you currency to make trades, like PIT’s Morrow for Morrow. PIT could move Joe M because they have so many young D.

— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) March 24, 2013

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The Penguins traded Joe Morrow for Brenden Morrow today. Joe will go to Dallas, practice with the team and get acclimated. He may end up in the AHL, playing with ex-WBS D-man Carl Sneep in Austin, Texas for the Texas Stars.

From a Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins fan perspective, a move like this for a rental player in Brenden Morrow seems questionable at best especially when you have a team in Pittsburgh which has won eleven in a row. Why fix what isn’t broken?

I would surmise that the immediate impact for Wilkes-Barre will be Cody Wild sliding into the lineup more frequently on the defensive side and Trevor Smith getting sent down very soon, if not immediately. There’s also talk that if all bodies heal in Pittsburgh they are one over the roster limit. Could that mean a return of Beau Bennett or Simon Despres? We will see.

While I am thoroughly disappointed to see Morrow go, you have to remember that this is a business and Pittsburgh is in the running for a Stanley Cup. The pipeline of D-men for Pittsburgh is plentiful, so the Pens are fine in the department. But the immediate impact of a loss like this may be felt for a while.