Chirps from Center Ice

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

Monthly Archives: November 2015

GAMEDAY: vs. St. John’s 11/4

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Home Game: 5

AHL Game: 132

Who: St. John’s IceCaps

Where: Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza

When: 7:05 p.m.

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Last Game: Last Friday at home against Hartford, the Penguins won 4-1. Scott Wilson had a pair of goals and was named the first star of the game. For St. John’s, they played in Hershey on Halloween Saturday and lost 4-2. St. John’s had a 2-0 lead on the Bears before conceding four straight goals.

Record: For WBS: 7-1-0-0 (14 pts., 1st place Atlantic Division) — For STJ: 6-3-1-1 (14 pts., 2nd place North Division)

Why you should care: The IceCaps come in as a strong team that look like an even matchup against the Penguins. This should be a good midweek contest.

Referee(s): Evgeny Romasko / Kendrick Nicholson

Linesmen: Tom DellaFranco / Jud Ritter

Twitter: @wbspenguins / @WBSGameDay // @IceCapsAHL

Facebook: /WilkesBarreScrantonPenguins // /stjohnsicecaps

Instagram: wbspenguins / stjohnsicecaps

Beat Writers: @CVSethLakso / @TLTomVenesky // @telyrobinshort / @telybrendan

Broadcasters: For WBS: Mike O’Brien @MikeOBrienWBS / For STJ: Brian Rodgers

Fan Bloggers: @nafsnep / @CharlesMDart

Radio: For WBS: WILK Newsradio / For St. John’s: Listen Live

Television: AHL Live

Promotion(s): None

Other Game to Watch: The only other game going on is Utica hosting Hartford. The other two games on the docket today were kids day games.

Next Five Games: STJ 11/6, HER 11/13, RCH 11/14, @ HFD 11/15, @ BNG 11/20

AHL Power Rankings: Week 4

Week 4 of the Chirps from Center Ice AHL Power Rankings have rolled in and teams are up and down on the elevator while others remain where they are.

There are surprise teams, great teams and teams that a month into the season, we still can’t get a handle on.

There is a team at the top that gave last week’s team at the top all they could handle and beat them, twice in their building.

There is a team at the bottom who we are waiting, and waiting, and waiting on to get good and haven’t yet. Maybe they just aren’t as good as we thought?

Anyway, I don’t want to spoil it all for you, so pop through the jump if you didn’t link in direct to see the order of teams.

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