Chirps from Center Ice

News out of Coal Street today was that Jayson Megna was called up to Pittsburgh and Dustin Stevenson was sent down to Wheeling.

The Megna news really isn’t surprising. Megna to date has been night and day better from last year.

Jonathan had an update today that would lead me to believe that there is going to be a rotation of call-ups between what we have seen already in Chris Conner and Harry Zolnierczyk going up and being sent back, Megna the latest to go up and guys like Zach Sill and Brian Gibbons, who are worthy enough right now to go up. I can certainly see that being the case going forward for as long as James Neal and Beau Bennett are banged up for Pittsburgh.

For Stevenson, it’s a numbers game. Kris Letting is ready to come back for the Penguins, Olli Maatta is staying with the team and Simon Despres is in Wilkes-Barre. It’s an overabundance of blue liners right now so instead of sitting watching, Stevenson will go to Wheeling and play meaningful minutes.

Short of earth shattering news, Gameday for tomorrow’s tilt in Binghamton will be here Friday on the blog at 3 p.m. I will be making the trek up to the Southern Tier. The Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena went through a renovation this summer so it will be nice to see the updates.

EDIT: I hate when they do this. Literally one second after I hit “Publish” on my post, I saw that Coal Street announced a 10 game home TV schedule. The dates are:

Norfolk on 10/26
Hershey on 11/16
Utica on 12/14
Syracuse on 12/21
Manchester on 1/4
Hartford on 1/11
Providence on 2/22
Norfolk on 3/15
Utica on 3/22
Binghamton on 4/12

The immediate takeaway from this is the fact that the Pens don’t play Hershey that much at home on Saturdays, in fact, the 11/16 game will be the only time this year that the Pens and Bears play at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza.