I Hear Peoria Calling…Toivonen To Rivermen.

hannu got screwed by his teammates. now he has to refind the confidence in himself. sucks, really sucks but it’s necessary. i hope he can find the faith in himself because this kids a lot better than some numbers show.

maybe they should send hinote down so he can learn to score a bit more?

hell i really want to see linglet. but if there’s fear i say take a chance on either jeff freisen or jason allison. both have their ups and downs. freisen’s in a hell of a scoring drought but has had productive seasons, still remains fast as hell, in a tenacious forechecker, seems to turn it on towards the end of the season and especially in the playoffs.

if they chose to go the allison route, you get a slow player that has produced about a modest point per game. a power play specialist that could play on the third line. it could be the spark on the pp that the blues need. both players are hungry to play in the nhl. so if jd doesn’t want to give some a cup of coffee that’s what i suggest.

G, Loved this line:

“In disappointing news, Schwarz does not have ears painted on his helmet.”

Good on ya Bud.

“In disappointing news, Schwarz does not have ears painted on his helmet.”

So where does Schwarz have ears painted?

Ears hasn’t been the same since his team walked out on him in Colorado and they let him get bombed and then brought him back in the game to get bombed again. I suspect part of it is rust, because he still looked quick in Columbus, but he didn’t play angles well, he was way back in the net, and he was scrambling and overreacting, leaving corner holes along the ice. When he’s playing under control, he goes down in that butterfly and his long legs go from post to post.

I would have expected him to stop at least 2 of the Columbus goals (Nash 1, Pussy-I mean, Zherdev-4). More frequent work will help knock off the rust, and maybe the defense will show up when he’s in net down there. This is not a bad thing, but fragile confidence makes for bad goalies. He’s still young, and if Boston hadn’t been looking for the next Gerry Cheevers right now, he would have spent more time in the minors and not expected to be a starting NHL goaltender.

What do MLB relievers, NFL cornerbacks, and NHL Goalies have in common?

A short memory is a job requirement.

“In disappointing news, Schwarz does not have ears painted on his helmet.”

No, but he has balls painted on his chin.

On the other hand… we get to start making Spaceballs jokes again.

“I see your Schwarz is as big as mine.”

im making no joke with the punchline schwarzenagger…

isn’t it true that the best goaltenders are talkers on the ice? like they yell out to the defensemen so they know where the other teams players are when their backs are turned and stuff like that

perhaps Toivonen doesn’t do that and his team can’t play as well?

good pt dook

"isn’t it true that the best goaltenders are talkers on the ice? like they yell out to the defensemen so they know where the other teams players are when their backs are turned and stuff like that

perhaps Toivonen doesn’t do that and his team can’t play as well?"

Ears is more of a listener.