Chirps from Center Ice

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

Bobbleheads, Reinforcements and Relocations

2 Comments Posted by on January 8, 2015

It’s cold out. Hope you are staying warm. One snowflake falls and creates snow, snow creates a snowball and a snowball rolls down the hill and starts an avalanche. Kind of like blogging. Individually, me writing about Bobby Farnham coming back into town or a Tux bobblehead isn’t warranted for a single blog post. But a conglomeration of the above? Let’s blog…

Coal Street announced three bobbleheads they are giving away later this season on Wednesday. They are….

Jayson Megna (available February 21)

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Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (available March 14)

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tux bobble

Tux! (available April 4)

 

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Photos courtesy of the Pens Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, top to bottom.

Scott Harrington and Bobby Farnham were sent back from Pittsburgh over the last two days. In a corresponding move, Coal Street sent Patrick McGrath, Zack Torquato and Clark Seymour back to Wheeling.

Norfolk is probably going away next season. This report out of Virginia states that the team may be sold to Anaheim as the AHL Westward Expansion continues. Oklahoma City won’t be back next season, probably heading to Bakersfield, home of the ECHL Condors. Anaheim’s AHL affiliate could potentially end up in San Diego. There are rumors that Manchester (LA Kings affiliate) may end up in Ontario (LA Kings ECHL affiliate) and Worcester (San Jose affiliate) may be going away too.

Be thankful you have a team here in Wilkes-Barre that gives away bobbleheads. Come to a game if you haven’t yet. This team is in first place, there are ticket deals. They care about you and the teams success on the ice. What are you going to do, go outside?

Gameday setup for the rematch vs. Norfolk hits the blog Friday at 3.

Let’s Go Pens!

Pittsburgh, The AHL, WBS, Wheeling

2 responses to “Bobbleheads, Reinforcements and Relocations”

  1. joe's avatarjoe January 8, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    It’s sad to go and see such few fans at the games, this town is really not a good sports town and I hate to say it. There really is no reason that 6-7k people can’t get out less than 50 times over a season to support such a great organization and a great thing that brought so much life to a dump literally!

  2. nafsnep's avatarnafsnep January 8, 2015 at 8:55 pm

    I have always wanted to write about the topic. But it would involve legwork, and would be long form. It would probably need some research too. Perhaps in the summertime maybe when news is light.