Today is the AHL trade/reassignment deadline at 3 p.m.
Brett Gallant and Ryan Pulock weren’t on the ice today.
Those facts have nothing to do with each other; Gallant and Pulock are both sick, Brent Thompson reports. But those were the two things I most wanted to mention in this post, and accidentally putting them next to each other made me laugh. So figured I’d pass it along.
All other hands on deck, with Mike Halmo again, like last week, practicing in a top-six spot. We’ll see if he’s OK to go for Wednesday.
Didn’t sound like Bridgeport was expecting to make a move today, though we’ve seen things happen late in the process in past years. And doesn’t appear anything has gone down around the league today with just over an hour to go.
The league is reviewing Colton Gillies’ hit from Saturday night on Bryan Lerg, but Bridgeport was insistent it was clean shoulder-to-chest, not even a knee. Ref Evgeny Romasko, meanwhile, who made the call, tonight makes his NHL debut.
Elsewhere, some obscure rookie named Matt Murray is the AHL player of the week, and I’m not sure they took his last two minutes into account. David Leggio’s first game for Portland, back in Hershey, went pretty well.
And Sacred Heart, off its first playoff-series win in five years, will be off to Buffalo to face Shane Conacher, Chris Rumble and Canisius in the Atlantic Hockey quarterfinals over the weekend.