Ducks eyeing AHL team in Syracuse?
From the Syracuse Post-Standard:
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that the Blue Jackets are close to finalizing a deal to move their affiliate from Syracuse to Springfield next season.
That would put the Crunch in line to pick up a new farm team, and the most frequent names I'm hearing are the Rangers and Anaheim, with perhaps Tampa Bay also in the mix.
Anaheim does not have an affiliate this season. I talked to Ducks assistant GM Dave McNab on Wednesday afternoon, and he said no decision has yet been made for next season.
I asked him if he had been talking to Crunch owner Howard Dolgon about a deal.
"You talk to lots of people,'' he said. "We're still trying to figure out what we're going to do.The American League is a funny league. There's things that bounce around quite a bit. We'll look at that, if it's a possibility. We've got to get something.''
About J.P.
J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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