Welcome back to Part Two of the East Division Bloggers summit with bloggers from around the AHL’s East Division. To get you caught up, Part One is here. After the jump, you will find the final block of questions from the summit.

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With the finish line of the season within sight, another season of AHL hockey is nearly behind us. With the competitiveness of the teams comprised of the AHL East Division, I decided to bring on bloggers from each of the teams in the division for a little bit of a summit, if you will, on the teams strengths and weaknesses, and what to expect going forward. Going north to south in the division, let me introduce the panel.

The Syracuse Crunch are represented by Alex, who runs the blog Chairman How’s Glorious Army. You can follow her on Twitter @Allovimo.

The Binghamton Senators are represented by Don Rieber, Jr., who writes for examiner.com and is credentialed by the B-Sens. You can check his work out here, and follow him on Twitter, @BSensExaminer

You know who represents the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, so let’s just move on.

The Hershey Bears are represented by Matt Trust, who writes for the blog Sweetest Hockey on Earth. You can follow the blog on Twitter @SweetestHockey and Matt at @Matt_Trust

The Norfolk Admirals are represented by Shawn Dulin, who writes about the Admirals for Anaheim Calling, part of the SB Nation network of blogs. You can follow Shawn @ShawnDulin

Now that you know who’s on the panel, here’s the discussion points. I asked five variations of questions. For Syracuse / Binghamton, the number one reason why they will win / won’t win the East Division this year. For Wilkes-Barre / Hershey / Norfolk, why they will or won’t make playoffs this year.

I then asked who they would least like to see in playoffs, trade deadline questions and had each complete a sentence.

There was so much information that each person gave I had to break it up into a two-day read for the blog because I didn’t want a long epistle. Plus, I haven’t had a ton of stuff to blog about in weeks, so it’s a nice way to have fresh content in the beginning of the week. Part Two will run tomorrow at the same time.

Here we go, as soon as you jump through. The “a” categories are for Syracuse and Binghamton, and the “b” questions are for Wilkes-Barre, Hershey and Norfolk.

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We have reached the point of the season where the Penguins low conference seeding bears keeping an eye on the AHL scoreboard. Here’s a look at the five games played today which impact the Penguins playoff seeding / chances.

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Recap: Patrick McNeill a goal and an assist, newcomer Chay Genoway two assists and a +3 as the Hershey Bears roll the Worcester Sharks 4-1 in Massachusetts.

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Recap: The Binghamton Senators laid an egg this afternoon in the Connecticut capital getting destroyed 6-1 by the Whale. Marc Chevrie gave up all six goals.

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Recap: The Bridgeport Sound Tigers keep thier faint playoff hopes alive, by defeating the Albany Devils 4-2. Jordan Hill scored two goals for the Sound Tigers and Rick DiPietro (yes, that Rick DiPietro) stopped 19 of 21, including a penalty shot.

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Recap: The Portland Pirates lost to the Adirondack Phantoms today 4-2. The Pirates have lost two straight.

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Recap: St. John’s beats Manchester 4-3 today, keeping the Monarchs out of the playoff discussion come Monday morning.

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Here is a snapshot of your conference standings. If the playoffs started today, the teams listed in italics would not qualify.

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The Penguins enter a crucial next ten days with contests against Binghamton Wednesday, Providence on Friday, at Binghamton Saturday and at Norfolk next Tuesday. There is little margin for error.

I’ll have a two-day East Division bloggers summit kicking off Monday at noon. Lots of great content from bloggers from around the division. You will want to check that out.