Chirps from Center Ice

Haven’t blogged in a while. But I have been busy! Thursday is our offseason blog day, so here goes…

I have been keeping my fingers spry and have freelanced for Bob Howard and the Power Play Post Show’s website during these Calder Cup Finals. In case you haven’t heard who is leading the series, please click here for the Game 1 recap, here for the Game 2 recap and here for the Game 3 recap.

Have you read them all? Hope so, because I don’t want to ruin the rest of the entry for you.

Grand Rapids can put it away Friday night. They seriously don’t make mistakes. Syracuse is good. Really good. But they look lost vs. a Griffins team that just runs them around and finally out for the past three games.

Nothing much doing on Coal Street, although congrats to Teddy Richards for his recent promotion to Pittsburgh.

The parent club extended Dan Bylsma and crew for two more years. With the Penguins getting swept and only scoring two goals in the series, debate amongst yourselves on whether this was a good move or not.

Big day for the Vancouver Canucks as their AHL franchise was apparently approved by the AHL Board of Governors today from reports all over the Twittersphere this afternoon. They will set up shop in Utica, NY next season and ensure another season of 30 AHL teams for 30 NHL teams.

Unless news breaks between now and next Thursday, expect the next blog update then.