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24Oct

Carson McMillan(27) Houston Aeros

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Minnesota Wild’s 2007 7th round draft pick (#200 overall) wing Carson McMillan(27) gets the honor of being on the list of five as one of the first players suspended in the 2011/2012 AHL season for an illegal hit to the head. He’ll sit four games.

He’s a pretty sizable presence at 6’1″ 200 lbs. and has always put up above average pims each season.

Strange little fact about his pro career, in one of his 4 NHL games played last year, he scored a goal on his very first shot on net. That’s got to be worth something.

23Oct

Benn Ferriero(21) San Jose Sharks

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Phoenix Coyotes‘ 2006 7th round draft pick (#196 overall) center Benn Ferriero(21) never played a game for the team, but instead was signed by San Jose Sharks as a free agent in 2009 and has played in 59 NHL contests registering 8 goals and 7 assists.

His most recent might have been one of the sweetest in his 3-year pro career (getting a goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs on his birthday probably ranks up there too) but last weekend he got the game-winner at the TD Garden vs. the Bruins.

In this rink the Boston native played many a Beanpot game in throughout his 4-year Boston College Eagles’ hockey days.

 

22Oct

John Moore (7)

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2nd year 2009 Columbus Blue Jackets 1st round draft pick (#21 overall) defenseman John Moore(7) receives his first NHL call-up of the young season.

He played in just 2 games with the team last year registering no points.

In 5 games with Springfield Falcons this season he’s already notched a goal and an assist.

Through his rookie year, he played 73 games (5 goals, 19 assists) but was a horrible -27 plus/minus.

To say he’s still growing into his game pretty much tells the whole story.

At 6’3″ 202 lbs. it’s just a matter of time before he becomes a full-time blue liner in the show.

22Oct

Manny Legace(30) Springfield Falcons

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18-year veteran goaltender started the 2011/2012 season on a training camp tryout invite from Vancouver Canucks. They released him in mid-September and from there he signed a pto with San Antonio Rampage, which lasted through one game of the AHL season.

His playing career has come full circle as he signed another pto. This time with the team he started his pro career with, Springfield Falcons. On Friday night, he appeared in his first game with the team since 1997.

Just how long this renewed relationship will last is tough to say but I would expect it to be a short return visit. In the 3-0 loss vs. WBS Penguins he looked to be in the zone and shaky sometimes on the same play.

At 38 years old and having backstopped 365 NHL games, won a Stanley Cup with Detroit Red Wings in 2002 and played in 6 different leagues (4 North American, 2 oversesas) it may be time for him to hang up the goalie skates.

21Oct

Nathan Moon(34) Worcester Sharks

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Rookie center Nathan Moon(34) was originally drafted by Pittsburgh Penguins in the 4th round of the 2008 draft (#120 overall) but never signed with them.

After his junior career concluded last year, he went on to join Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs (r.i.p.) of the Central Hockey League and won the Ray Miron President’s Cup with the team in its last season of existence. Nice way to go out.

In the San Jose system, he signed an AHL contract to play with their affiliate, Worcester Sharks for his first season. In two games he’s got an assist. It was first reported that he would play in the ECHL with Cincinnati Cyclones but training camp was so good he got bumped up.

 

 

21Oct

Ryan Garlock(22) Springfield Falcons

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Chicago Blackhawks‘ 2004 2nd round draft pick (#45 overall) center Ryan Garlock(22) signed a pto to start the season out of camp with Springfield Falcons and 5 games into the season and 5 assists later, he’s up it to an spc for 2011/2012.

He might be starting the argument that there was a good reason Chicago picked him so high but he never played in their system. At age 25, he’s already a veteran of just under 200 games played. Columbus could be watching.

For the last couple of seasons he’s been with Hartford Wolf Pack / Connecticut Whale.

19Oct

Marco Scandella(6) Minnesota Wild

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Minnesota Wild 2008 2nd round pick (#55 overall) defenseman, Marco Scandella(6) finds himself right in the mix on the NHL team in his 2nd year in the system. And in the first five games played, he picked up his first NHL goal.

He played 20 games with the team last season collecting a couple of assists but doesn’t exactly have the best +/- numbers.

In the AHL Calder Cup Playoffs, he played 20 games for the Houston Aeros registering 2 goals and 6 assists before falling to Binghamton Senators in the Finals.

18Oct

Harri Sateri (35)

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San Jose Sharks‘ rookie netminder Harri Sateri(35) got some unexpected time riding pine and playing in practices with the NHL team that drafted him in the 4th round of 2008 (#106 overall).

Late last season he joined their AHL affiliate Worcester Sharks and although he didn’t post the best stats, his play was mostly very impressive.

San Jose just reassigned him to Stockton Thunder of the ECHL. I think that’s mostly to keep him close, just in case.. .

10/19 Sateri gets reassigned to Worcester. Must mean the two starting goalies for San Jose are injury-free (for now).