Out of left field comment-
Is this the least amount of AHL call ups we've had in a few years? I feel like the past 3-4 years it has been an ongoing revolving door where you could check the GDT and see who was called up and sent down every day. We've had like what, 3? Excluding guys who were sent down days or weeks prior.
I understand why it's different this year and the reasons for it, but I would love if someone had the numbers on previous years and see where we were at this point with call ups. It really felt a couple of the years that the entire Albany teams was called up at one point or another.
It's a great sign and a bad sign, we have guys that are constantly battling to stay up and beyond that to the point that its not even a thought to send them down, but at the other end, there really isn't anyone outside of JQ that people are/were screaming for to be called up. Blandisi would have been one of those guys for a lot of people. But we have prospects in different leagues so I'm not worried for the long run, but it was nice having a real(kinda) competitive AHL team to grab guys from and be excited about at any point.