Letang's For the Memory

Kris Letang will return to his junior team after Saturday's Flyers game - maybe sooner. His name is not on the current flight list for the West Coast trip to LA, SJ and Anaheim. Today's recall of Noah Welch clinches the deal. This arrangement is the right thing to do. He has played a solid minus-3 for a d-man, but he's only 18! When Letang returns he'll be bigger and stronger. He needs to play enough so that he dominates, an opportunity that he would not get in the NHL.

We'll go back to being one of three teams without a right-handed shooting defenseman.

So, what about Jordan Staal? Shero says he's still not sure. Neither is the travel coordinator.

Staal's name is on the Los Angeles charter flight list, just in case.