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San Jose Sharks:
Good: Benn Ferriero scored another goal & assist in the Shark’s 3-2 loss (previously scored only regulation goal in a 2-1 SO loss) – Head coach on Ferriero – “…every night, he’s doing something that we like. There’s some players that we kind of penciled into certain positions,” the coach continued. “This guy’s nipping at their butts right now. I think it’s great competition. There’s some that have to pick it up.”  Maybe he should bite them on the ass instead and put them on IR and out of his way :-).
Sad, not Bad: Nick Petrecki was among those sent to Worcester today. It’s probably better for him in the long run so can’t say it is bad.

Nashville:
@#$%^: Francis Bouillon added – currently on a tryout (confirmed w/ Preds’ official twitterer), but contract agreed to assuming he makes the team. Nothing against Bouillon – but that puts him in Jonathon Blum’s way.

Chicago:
@#$%&!!!!!!: Despite him helping to break my heart in 2006, can’t help but love that Stinkin’ Badger. Sorry to hear Adam Burish is out for 6 months with torn ACL.

Cincinnati Cyclones (hey, I needed to come up with another positive bit of news):
Good: Chris Mueller – who helped break my heart in 2007 – has signed per MSU_Hockey on Twitter.

Re: Twitter – I don’t remember if I mentioned this before, but I do post on Twitter when I post here, so if you’d like an alert to new content, feel free to “follow me“.

Another blog post prompted by a list style article – another from The Hockey News on kids the writer can’t wait to see in the NHL.

1. Jonas Gustavsson (Toronto Maple Leafs)
2. Alexander Burmistrov (2010)
 

3. Carter Ashton (Tampa Bay)
4. Dmitri Kulikov (Florida)

5. Ryan O’Reilly (Colorado)

and for the rest see the article.

Matt Trevor did a great Q&A with freshman Chris Brown for the Wolverines website – re: Canadian roommate “..He’ll say “eh” and I’ll say “y’all” …”

Brown wasn’t the only player moving his gear between rinks in Ann Arbor – two other members of the US National Team Development Program’s U-18 team are also freshmen at the University of Michigan this year – Kevin Lynch
 

and AJ Treais

Normally I wouldn’t be that interested in the fortunes of a major midget team in Burnaby, British Columbia, but I’m now a fan of the Northwest Giants who have added Kaleigh Fratkin at D. Fratkin,17, is a member of Canada’s U18 Women’s team and according to Burnaby Now, she is the first female to play in the full-contact AAA major midget league in BC (not sure who/how many may have done so elsewhere).  The coach told the Burnaby Now – “…”I decided to take her. She’s an exceptionally good hockey player. I evaluated her as a hockey player and not as a female,” said Giants head coach Jon Calvano. “She was given the green light to try out and my job as coach is to pick the best team, and she was one of the best defencemen to come to camp.” …”

Good luck with the Giants, not so much with Canada ;-).

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Joey Gasparini has re-joined the University of Vermont Catamounts as Assistant Coach – official announcement

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Adam Proteau’s Hockey News blog today highlights Juraj Mikus and Juraj Mikus :-).  They were actually both members of Team Slovakia at the 2007 World Juniors although I only seem to have shot the Los Angeles Kings/Manchester Monarchs Mikus:

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Proteau’s piece also mentioned the expansion of the Toronto Maple Leaf’s scouting team and checking the announcement – that expansion includes Dave Starman.  My feelings re: the Toronto Maple Leafs make me hesitant to consider this a good thing, but I’ll say good luck to Dave – may he recommend great talent and may the GM ignore :-).

The Boston Bruins made more cuts on Sunday including:

Goaltenders Matt Dalton:

and Adam Courchaine who were both sent to the Providence Bruins (AHL)

and Jason Lawrence was released from his tryout:

 
The Sharks released six players – all sent to Worcester – including John McCarthy:

Nick Petrecki remains in San Jose.

Other:

Tomas Tatar was signed by the Detroit Red Wings who will now decide whether he plays for the Plymouth Whalers (OHL) or Grand Rapids (AHL) as the NHL contract releases him from his Slovakian Team.