Chirps from Center Ice

Well, as official as can be.

League announced Thursday their 2021 Preseason Schedule. Coal Street never followed through with an official release because the cat was out of the bag when the teams announced the regular season schedules back in July. If you have the Penguins app on your phone, you should see the two home dates. There is also a road date. They are:

• Lehigh Valley @ Wilkes-Barre (Wednesday, October 6)
• Hershey @ Wilkes-Barre (Friday, October 8)
• Wilkes-Barre @ Lehigh Valley (Saturday, October 9)

Each start is at 7:05.

I have a few things in the cooker for you this upcoming season. I’ll have a preview of the season with looks at opponents probably the week of October 11 and I’m shaking up the way I do the pre-game setups. Gone are individual Gameday setups and here to play (at least in the short term) are weekend previews. I drafted a few mock ones up the other day and really liked how they flowed. They offer more substance I think too vs. the usual, “here is the opponent, the time it starts and the record.” You’ll probably have to wait for that as we get closer to the start of the season in about three weeks.

Anyway, so that’s what’s going on. Talk to you in a few weeks.