The Arizona Coyotes swapped forwards with their AHL affiliate on Friday morning, according to GM John Chayka.
Laurent Dauphin is making his way to the Tucson Roadrunners while Christian Fischer will take his place on the NHL roster. Fischer has 16 goals and 32 points in 31 games in the AHL, which puts him first in goals and second in points on the Roadrunners. The 32nd-overall pick in the 2015 draft has been named to the AHL All-Star Classic. Meanwhile Dauphin has three points in 24 games with the big club.
The Coyotes have lost four games in a row, and are currently in 29th with a 13-26-6 record.
- The floundering Boston Bruins will publicly address their coaching situation tomorrow, according to Bruins reporter Jimmy Murphy. Murphy quotes “numerous sources” as saying the team will speak regardless of the outcome of tonight’s game versus the Chicago Blackhawks. The Bruins have 52 points, which has them third in the Atlantic Division as of today, but they have played five more games than the teams above and below them. They have four wins in their past 10 games. Murphy tweets that the team’s management has “created a PR mess” by not publicly addressing the situation. This is Claude Julien’s 10th season as head coach of the Bruins.
- Adam Vingan of the Tennessean tweeted an interesting fact, via Elias Sports. When Ryan Ellis scored twice against Calgary on Thursday night, he lost out on a Predators’ team record. Ellis had the most goals (35 before last night) in his Predators career without having a multi-goal game. That record now belongs to former Predator Dan Hamhuis, who had 32 goals during his six seasons with Nashville.
Don’t fire julien. Sweeney/chirelli and Neely have traded away and gave out max contracts with no trade clauses. So if we didn’t trade seguin and boychuck for nothing we would be much better. If we didn’t give out no trade clauses to chara, Lucic, etc we would be better
Really Boston? What a total numbskull move. Not sure how much autonomy Neely has, but if this is his show and his doing…not good. If you are going to announce something DO IT, don’t announce you are going to announce, that is like bush league. Real smart thing to do when they are already playing like crap, take their minds off the game even more.