Chirps from Center Ice

The Penguins announced today their Black Aces squad from Wheeling, West Virginia. Chris Barton, Cody Chupp, Andrew Hotham, Patrick Killeen, Peter Merth and Ryan Schnell are your group.

Here’s Bombulie’s Thursday update. Check out the opening paragraphs. Hopefully it’s a case of live and learn this go around.

Elsewhere in the division and kind of a big deal, Emerson Etem was assigned by Anaheim to Syracuse today. Etem scored SIXTY goals in the Western Hockey League for the Medicine Hat Tigers. Crunch beat writer Lindsay Kramer has more if you want to click on.

I’ve learned over the years not to make a big deal out of kids from juniors joining an AHL squad this late in the year and being a lifesaver, but sixty goals isn’t anything to sneeze at. Syracuse looks like it’s in the dance this year, we’ll see how Etem fairs playing against men this Spring.

Finally, it’s down to the Bears or Whale for the five seed. The Sound Tigers are out of it because if they get one more point they win their division and slot in at the three seed.

Gameday for tomorrows tilt vs. Binghamton here Friday afternoon at 3 p.m.

In yesterday’s Postgame wrap, I erroneously miscalculated the Penguins magic number as 9, it is 8. Astute reader Rob corrected my folly and gave me the correct algorithm for my clarity.

See, that’s one thing about me. I am absolutely terrible, just awful, at mathematics. But I could string together a pretty good sentence which sounds downright collegiate. Let’s try the first paragraph again in terms which don’t require an English degree:

Yesterday, I thought the Penguins magic number was 9. Rob left a comment in my postgame recap and corrected me. It’s actually 8.

Anyway, beyond that, Philip Samuelsson was recalled by Wilkes-Barre from Wheeling. Carl Sneep from yesterday was actually listed as “day to day” with an upper body injury, but you could see when he took warmups he was sporting a black eye from his fight the night prior with Worcester’s Matt Pelech. Couple that with Joey Mormina’s illness, the Samuelsson recall makes sense.

Finally, the Lightning made it official that they signed G Sebastian Caron, who apparently has or had the nickname “Salmon.” This will most likely bump G Dustin Tokarski back to Norfolk. The Admirals most certainly don’t need the help, but how does that saying go? Rich get richer? Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em?

Let’s Go Pens!

Couple of things worth mentioning…

–> Matt Rust, Philip Samuelsson and Cody Wild are back from their Wheeling assignments. Ryan Schnell was re-assigned.

–> Bombulie had a Carl Sneep update. We may see him this weekend. Also, looks like Patrick Killeen will be on the hill against Adirondack.

–> Former Penguin Chris Minard is the AHL’s Player of the Month.

–> Get used to more of Norfolk’s Cory Conacher.

–> An interesting quip from Eric P from the Pensblog.

I played radio with Bob Howard from the Power Play Post Show today. His podcast with yours truly will be up later tonight. I will retweet him on the Twitter side and run a link here later.