Soundin' Off

You may have seen this report on Monday that several Swedish teams have interest in Robin Figren. Asked him about the report this morning. “I heard,” Figren said. “I’ve got nothing really to say about it. I’ve got one and a half months here, and I’m going to put everything I’ve got into this and see where it takes me next year. I know there’s interest in me, and I’m really happy about it. But that’s all I can say. I’m going to put everything I have here.”

So has he made a decision to go back home, or would he stay here? “I told my agent, I told everybody, I really don’t want to think about it,” that he’s focused on playing his best through the last quarter of the season here.

So there’s that.

As noted in the chat, Anton Klementyev is officially now out for the year. He had surgery on a fractured fibula, which he suffered breaking up that rush late in the win over Manchester. And also as noted in the chat, a bunch of guys had the day off this morning. A few stepped off early. (One per drill for a while, actually.) There’s a lot of time until they play again.

Edit: About 5 today they Sound Tigers announced they’ve released Jason Pitton.

–Jon Sim is down but didn’t make the trip to Norfolk. Just a little banged up, is the word.
–Rhett Rakhshani up and concussed.
–Brady Leisenring returns, as was foretold to us Wednesday after the snow stopped falling.
–And today, popping up on the ECHL transactions: Jason Pitton, back to Bridgeport. He’ll be joining the team in Norfolk. (Make it four.)

Dustin Kohn and Rob Hisey made the trip. Also on the ride: Andy Hilbert. He’s making progress, apparently, and he and the team seem to figure it’ll be good to have him around.

Just noticed that Saturday is the Admirals’ Pink Rink Night. And unlike some teams, who maybe use pink tape or put a pink ribbon on the sweaters, Norfolk makes pink ice. If all goes well, it’ll look more like it did in that link than it did in this link.

The current AHL All-Star TV listings.

New AHL award, tying in with a new sponsorship: Performance of the Month. Alex Giroux got the win for his 600th point.

Wednesday night, Adrian Dater said it looked as if Greg Mauldin’s “15 minutes are up.” Thursday, Mauldin went on waivers.

Neat bit from Springfield about a group keeping the city’s hockey heritage alive.

We’re obviously not in Norfolk. Stop by Friday and Saturday for a liveblog.