Chirps from Center Ice

At some point during the day today, the ever popular Paul Bissonnette deleted his Twitter account.

I can only assume if you are reading this, that you followed @PaulBizNasty on Twitter. I did. Your friends did. NHL insiders did. Other players did. Everyone who loved hockey did.

Problem is, unlike his NHL / AHL counterparts on Twitter. The “Biz Nasty” was different. Way different. He:

• often misspelled words
• gave money to bums
• made fun of people
• made fun of other peoples cars
• made fun of players
• used swear words

Bissonnette made NHL league minimum last year playing last year for the Phoenix Coyotes. Puts him in the neighborhood of $500,000. If you followed his career, you know his story. You know he basically worked his way from nothing to where he is today. If you know the type of player he is, he is a scrapper, a fighter, a stand up guy. I had the oppurtunity to meet and speak with Paul while he was in Wilkes-Barre / Scranton in 2008-09. One of the most genuinely nicest, most honest people you will meet. Certainly in the top five of my favorite hockey players of all time.

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Why I am doing this:

There are a ton of hockey blogs out there. There are hundreds of Pittsburgh Penguin blogs out there. There are not too many AHL blogs out there and even fewer dedicated directly to the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins. By starting this, I want to create a place where all WBS fans can come and get 100% WBS, all the time.

What to expect:

Occasional updates from me on hot topic issues which directly affect WBS, or the AHL in general. I am going to try and keep the bashing to a minimum and I am not going to use swear words here. I am never going to use the term “baby” to describe the WBS Penguins. More on that in another blog post soon.