Please welcome the Iowa Pork Chops. Oh, just “Chops”? Sorry. New Web site. Motto suggestion: “Two minutes for slashing.”
Jay Leach is up on the New Jersey roster; nice pickup. Atlanta has signed Junior Lessard, Grant Stevenson and former Husky Mike Hoffman.
In addition to the Ray Emery exile, Steve Zipay caught that Bryce Lampman is off to Khabarovsk.
This is pretty neat: The Phantoms are running “Language Lessons” on their Web site, beginning with Oskars Bartulis’ Latvian. Among the words and phrases included: “hockey,” “goal,” “what time is it,” and more useful stuff like “May I have a cheesesteak with onions,” “I would like to order a cold beer,” and “that was a bad call.” Nice idea.
Get well, Bob Sheppard.