With tonight's OT winner by Jim O'Brien, the Binghamton Senators have clinched a spot in the Calder Cup playoffs. The team should get significant reinforcements when the NHL season ends and could be a dangerous team come playoff time.
Binghamton has missed the playoffs the last five seasons. Congratulations go out to the team, Coach Kurt Kleinendorst and his staff and the dedicated hockey fans down in Binghamton.
But they appear to have some injuries... namely Corey Locke. Don't know the status of some of these... but let's hope they can get him back.
Add Butler, Greening, Condra, Z Smith -- they could go long way.
Let's hope they get the cross-over.. if they move to 4th in their division they play Wilkes-Barrie -- the AHL league leader.
Wilkes-Barre is the league leader but Bingo's been a bit of a challenge for them - I think they've won the season series against Wilkes-Barre, or at the very least split it, so I'm pretty confident that we can go far. A full lineup devoid of injury could look something like this:
Greening-Locke-Butler
Condra-O'Brien-Keller
Daugavins-Z.Smith-Wick
Dziurzynski-Bass-Potulny
(Hoffman, Grant, Cowick)
Hale-Benoit
D.Smith-Wiercioch
Schira-Kinrade
(Gryba, Borowiecki)
Brust-Lehner
That's ridiculous depth - consider that Potulny has 21G and is on the 4th line, and they have maybe 10 forwards who can play top six at the AHL level. Schira is out with injury so we may see Gryba and Wiercioch on the final pairing, which should be a much more reliable pairing now with more pro experience. Lines are based off of early season lines.
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I thought Gryba was done for the season with a high-ankle sprain.
Schira is also injured -- can't remember what the injury was.
Corey Locke has a shoulder injury.
Are any of these guys going to be back in time for the first round of the playoffs? That's the question.
ha.
Maybe Yost won't be blogging here after all
Still working on it. Hoping he has a change of heart but have some ideas ready to go if he doesn't.
Have you considered making an overture to this Eklund guy? I hear he is very credible with deep contacts.
According to Joy Lindsay (BSens blogger extraordinaire) , Gryba is still not in any condition to play, but Schira is skating and practicing. Schira should be good to go by the time the playoffs roll around. Locke will be rested until playoff time, they list him as day to day.