Chirps from Center Ice

A fan blog about the AHL's Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins

The Pick is In

Leave a comment Posted by on June 27, 2014

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From the great Jesse Marshall, who does a tremendous job ranking these guys I’ve never heard of…

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kapanen

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Here are other tweets on the kid….

https://twitter.com/IanAltenbaugh/status/482696359724597249

https://twitter.com/IanAltenbaugh/status/482697573799833600

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So we will see what develops with this kid. I am always skeptical of kids coming in to play against men at the AHL level. I’m even more skeptical of European players coming over to play in the AHL. Janne Pesonen anyone?

Oh, one more thing. James Neal was traded to Nashville for Patric Hornqvist and Nick Spaling. Hornqvist and Spaling were two forwards that played in the NHL last year. So no initial impact on Wilkes-Barre initially. If anything, it’s two roster spaces filled in Pittsburgh meaning that a bubble guy would get bumped back to Wilkes-Barre. A net gain for WBS as we sit here in late June, but we are three months away from action so way too early to tell.

I’ll be back at some point this weekend wrapping up Pittsburgh’s haul here on the blog late Saturday or Sunday.

Pittsburgh

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