Blues Sign Mike Johnson

I don’t doubt that Mike Johnson has value, to the Blue or any other club… but I’ll have to be convinced that his physical game and his lunchpail mentality outweigh Cajanek’s greater scoring and set-up ability.

B.

Cajanek may have more point over the last few years, but can you remember even one that was meaningful?

I was shocked to realize he had 48 points last year.

Quiet is as quiet does.

It seemed Cajanek played his best hockey of the year after he was scratched from the lineup and then demoted to third or fourth line minutes. In that instance, his play is pretty good mainly because you don’t expect much from him and he wasn’t playing against the other team’s better defenders.

For the Blues to be successful, they have to flourish in a physical conference. Petr wilted when the hitting picked up.

So is this the thread i which we’ll be “live-blogging” tonight, or is that yet to be started up?

I just bumped Brad’s post at STL Today to try and stir a few lazy stumps over this way, so it might be a good idea to get the Live Blog post up and moving…

I, unfortunately, won’t be particupating this evening, seeing as how I’ve got to get up at three o’clock in the @#$%ing morning for work… I’m going to bed in about a half-hour.

I do want to say, however, that it’s damn gratifying to me as a follower of the developmental side of the game, to see fully one-quarter of the Blues’ Opening Night 23-man roster be composed of players in legitimate “prospect” status.

That’s going to be my focus for the first paper, next Wednesday.

BTW, one prospect-related note… Viktor Alexandrov (Blues’ 3rd pick, 83rd overall in 2004) is leading the Russian Super League in scoring currently, with 8-8-16 totals and a plus-10 in eight games.

I would really like to see the Blues make a push to get him, and Nikita Nikitin, over here next year. I wasn’t sure they’d be able to entice Lemtyugov over, and they did, so maybe the Russian kids are becoming more open to the idea of playing here…

B.

One more thing… Boss, it’d be swell if there was a way to edit comments after you’ve posted them. The typos can be embarrassing.

Some special effects (at minimum… boldface underline, italic) would be nice, too.

Grrr… Alexandrov has played 12 games, and has 16 points. Still damn impressive for a 21-year-old in what’s arguably the second-best (no worse thn third-best) league in the world.

Being able to edit these comments would really be nice…