I saw the transaction as I was just finishing up listening to the New York Mets get smoked by the Washington Nationals on a lazy July 4 early afternoon.
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Being it was a lazy National Holiday, there wasn’t an immediate press release from Pittsburgh or Wilkes-Barre until now, some week later.
Czuczman, a defender, was fifth overall on a bad Manitoba Moose team and led the blue liners in points with 32, a breakout season for the product of Lake Superior State University. I had him ranked #67 on my AHL Big Board.
Hit play on this next tweet for some highlights the Moose put together on him in May.
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You may remember him playing for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers two seasons ago.
Oh, and you pronounce it “Churchman.” How do I know this? A deep rooted Twitter search back to February 2015….
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His twitter feed made me chuckle too: @GoToCzucz
So now you know.
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