AHL Goalie News — Wednesday, Dec. 2

Features

• The Rockford Ice Hogs have signed veteran goalie Dan Cloutier to a PTO. (Rockford Ice Hogs)
• Chris Holt lost the numbers game in the Senators organization this season and has spent the first quarter in ECHL Elmira. With Pascal Leclaire‘s injury, Holt’s up with Binghamton, got a shutout in his first start, and wants to stay in the A. (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
• And here’s a look at what the effect of losing Mike Brodeur from Binghamton for an extended period might be. (Sharp on the Sens)
• Texas Stars goalie Brent Krahn was named AHL Goaltender of the Month for November. Incidentally, he’s out with an injury and Stars fifth string, Richard Bachman is up with the team from ECHL Idaho. (StarsBlog)
• The AHL All-Star ballot is out and MLive.com has their picks for the Grand Rapids Griffins, including goalie Daniel Larsson.
• Islanders long-injured goalie Rick DiPietro is ramping up to return between the pipes and will start off playing for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on Friday night. (Greenwich Time)
• Everybody loves a good goalie fight. The story here is that Amerks goalie Tyler Plante was injured earlier in the season by these same Binghamton Senators running his crease. They were doing it again and he had enough:

• If you dig the video, here’s a number of videos of Hershey’s Jason Bacashihua in a recent game. You scouting types should like this. (Stack the Pads)
• He’s 20 but still has a baby face. Dustin Tokarski got carded recently for being out unescorted after the curfew set for the under-18 crowd in a Norfolk, VA mall. (Hampton Roads)
• Chet Pickard has a good grip on the top job in Milwaukee, but it didn’t happen overnight like it might seem. (Admirals Short Shifts)

Transactions

• Rochester’s is out both their regular goalies for a few days. Plante might have come back a little too soon on his healing knee, so he’s out and Chris Beckford-Tseu was called up Monday to replace him. And at the same time, due to Tomas Vokoun‘s injury, Alexander Salak has been called up to the Florida Panthers.