First day in town: Monday notes

Edit: The Islanders announced this afternoon that they’ve sent defenseman Kevin Czuczman to Bridgeport.

And lo, there were line combinations and numbers and all kinds of players on the ice at the Land of Wonder.

26 Halmo-22 Quine-21 Mouillierat
16 Zolnierczyk-28 Sundstrom-49 Collberg
23 Persson-12 Stretch-17 Gillies
44 Gallant-11 Langkow-7 Vaughan
36 Rowe/63 Sutter/14 Courtnall/41 Shattock

4 Pelech-10 Mayfield
27 Ness-2 Graham
3 Pedan/15 Leduc/5 Nemec

Seven D obviously led to some rotating during drills (and the occasional — particularly when they were split into two groups and two lefties ended up on the three-man group — unusual-around-here fun of a righty on the left side).

33 Leggio
60 Poulin
31 Simpson

A few numbers changed. Both 60 and 63 would be first-timers.

So Bridgeport stands at 26 men while awaiting the last few from the New York Islanders. (Nobody on waivers up there, so it’s IR and the loan of the waiver-exempt to reach 23, unless there’s some kind of deal.) Once things shake out, Brent Thompson said, he’d like to be somewhere in the 23-24 neighborhood by Saturday’s opener. He said he has been happy with the tryouts and the guys on AHL deals, too; he made a point to credit the hard work of that four-man line.

Captain announcement still TBA.

Among the ex-files: Hershey sent Joey Diamond to South Carolina. Steve Oleksy is on waivers; a little different situation for the Islanders than the last time he was on.

Orioles-Royals, it hit me last night as Kansas City was somehow bombarding Anaheim to put that ALDS away, has got to be the most old-school-feeling ALCS that’s never actually happened before. I kind of lean toward Cardinals-Reds as the NL version. I’d be happy with a Baltimore-San Francisco World Series, just because the Browns/Orioles are the only original AL franchise that the New York/San Francisco Giants haven’t faced in the Series. The Giants would be the first NL team to complete the set. (The Yankees have played the “Original 8” National League teams at least twice each.)

And RIP, Paul Revere.

Michael Fornabaio