yeah, I’ll lay on the panic button. this probably means we’ll ve seeing a line of McClement, Janssen, and Koci

This would be an ideal time to give a kid like Lemtyugov a look-see at the NHL level.

The beef has always been that Lemtyugov needs to play on a top line; being called up just to play in the fourth line isn’t going to do him, or the Blues, any good. Well, with Oshie out, the Blues have a top line space to fill, so why not?

Failing that, if The Green Goblin just can’t see his way clear to playing a 22-year-old, then the alternative is to give Steve Regier a shot. He’s got the size (6’4, 195) and the experience (24 years old, four successful season in the AHL, 18 NHL games played) to get a shot, and he’s been Peoria’s best player most nights.

That’s why guys like Lemtyugov are drafted, and why younger guys like Regier are signed as free agents. Give one or both of them a shot; what could it hurt at this point?

B.

well, once again andy murray showed us a team that could work at the start of the HIS season followed by a lot of failing. Third straight time. this year, to date, the failing happened fast and furious during a home stand the blues should have wanted 5 wins out of.

while this injury crud and the rebuilding stuff might give him a free ride, it won’t with the fans. the blues start to convince the fans they will lose 1-0, 5-2 or somewhere in between, with the spending cuts consumers are already doing, means something has to give.

is murray going to be a lame duck if he doesnt get the team winning almost immediately again? while the shanny situation is a possible short term carrot, i can’t see spending money to lose money. and no way does the “its all due to injury and youth wait till next year” go over big with potential ticket buyers who haven’t even bought their thanksgiving stuffing yet.

the one change the organization did make, mason, seems to have failed e. while i will allow that practice i saw him sucking hard on before the surgery was likely tainted. his play hasn’t been, one decent performace that still generated a lost sandwhiched between two ugly piles of manure isn’t going to help mason get playing time if there is a health plan b somewhere in the organization.

i didn’t see the last game, just heard it, and read about it, but apparently mason’s positioning on the wraparound was off, and he was beaten glove hand (still!) on a shot that one would hope a starting net minder would at least touch, if not control.

what has this to do with oshie? well with ej out and tj out for a while. the “joy” of watching the young uns isn’t much of a joy. one of the remaining young uns belongs in juniors, one is constantly in murray’s dog house, several are not looking at being top line guys (like backes). I’m not going to the game to watch polak develop!

or watch stempniak flounder around tring to find a game

or watch chris mason warm up much less actually get game time.

we were promised effort. we started with effort and wins. now we are getting nothing?

yea it is panic button time. not on the season. not on some of the rookies. it is panic button time on attendence. and the blues had their finger on the button before any of this even happened. yea i know there have been sell outs, but there is also spaming contacts, 50% off deals (already!) 25% off deals for buying gas, etc.

i love their billboards. i pass two. paul “the vertern” kariya and Brad “"the scorer” boyes

I’m waiting to find the Lee “the disappearing” Stempniak, and Chris “the Lalime wannabee” Mason, I suspect the Eric Brewer one says the captain, but in a few games someone will fix it, officially or with some spray paint, to read “the Minus”

woooo

No panic just yet, but i’m hoping that this means that we get to see Porter again.

No panic just yet, but i’m hoping that this means that we get to see Porter again.

I couldn’t agree more. I thought Porter was doing a better job than Stastny when he got sent back down to Peoria. I also have to think that if Stastny wasn’t susceptible to waivers, that it would be Porter up, and Stastny down. And damn it how did Stastny’s fucking name keep lining up like that. Detroit conspiracy. Fuck Detroit.

Cool, the formatting for the text box and the actual post are different. I guess it wasn’t a Detroit conspiracy. Eh, fuck em anyway.

Oshie will be back soon and when he returns he is going to light up, far as rookies go!!!!!!