I’ll call it surprising news out of Nashville today.  Ryan Ellis has been re-assigned to the Admirals.

Maybe he just loves the Dropkick Murphys THAT much…

With the Hal Gill trade, that bumped everyone down the depth charts a bit.  I kind of expected to see Jack Hillen sent down.

But with this 3-in-3, maybe the coaches just want him to get some meaningful playing time this weekend.  Maybe it’s another one of those spend-the-weekend-in-Milwaukee-and-we’ll-see-you-on-Monday assignments.  Maybe they didn’t want to put Hillen through waivers and risk losing him.

It’s kind of a different tone from me on Ellis….Yeah, I’ve softened up a bit.  Happy he was having some success in Nashville, and we’ll enjoy our time with him this go-around.