FSN Broadcasts Janssenpalooza ‘08

play david jansen’s harry o tv series on the scoreboard during stoppages

have a “maim an innocent creature” night where if you maim something you get in free.

instead of the great american smoke out, have the great american jannsen out where you can get people “suspended” and they have to pay money to charity to get “unsuspended”

new intermission on-ice game— “elbow the elderly!”

There was a guy a couple rows in front of me who would stand partway up and yell “fight!” every time Cammy got within 2 feet of anybody. So I think there are plenty of people who have already bought into it.

“Cammy” needs a better nickname too.

There was a point last year when I was sure that the Blues were trying to put together an all “-man” team (Jackman, Backman, Wideman, etc.) but now I’m pretty sure they’re going for all-Johnson (and “Janssen” is about as close as you can get)

"He’s a fun guy," Blues coach Andy Murray said.

(David Perron immediately starts translating his favorite knock-knock jokes into English to try out in practice today)

Not a difference maker? I beg to differ. He had some good hits (didn’t make a difference there, oh wait, it got Stempniak popped). I assume that Andy Murray didn’t give the guy the green light to go. He was also never out of position from what I saw (still not a difference maker I agree).

There will come a game where he grabs somone and pounds them. The place will go nuts and the goals follow. MARK MY WORDS. That is a difference maker to me.

After the Coyotes scored their 2nd goal last night was a perfect time to send Mayers, Janssen and King out with Walker and Jackman on the back line. The time is right now to show teams they will not come to STL and push anyone around.

oh i agree with am. cos when the blues do that they signal to everyone, that the blues suck, and their ongoing concern will be to make it hard to play in saavis.

next up, they will start educating fans on what hockey is.

then they will follow that with introducing a thrid jersey to make some money as the team lags.. hey wait a sec!!!

CT Rules.

we already have Backes knocking the shit out of opponents, and King beating the shit out of them, and we don’t have many goals as a result.

True but there is a different side to him. He is not a “heavy wieght” and with King the excitement just isn’t there like this dude. Same with Backes. You just don’t expect action like you do with Janssen. He brings a “character” type of feel and he’s animated. The other teams will go crazy and it will erupt. Just watch.

wasn’t cammy the nickname of certain guy who scored alot for LA little sister’s nickname—granato of the tony type?

okay. he might be an upgrade over king, hinote. i know he can’t score but he’s got decent speed and he pisses the other players off which takes the heat off of backes a bit.

wait that sort of sounded like someone defending ryan johnson. oh so now everyone sort of knows how i feel.

but having some players who love the organization might be something that can catch fire as in pride in the jersey in the locker room. all we have to do now is remove some of the cancerous pieces in the locker room like keith ‘i can’t catch a pass, still trying a move i’ve been using for twenty years with limited success, perron you’re already better than i ever was’ tkachoke. and i think brewer. now that jackman’s staying with i call for him to be renamed captain.

but a fun line next year after dumping the useless kinger, hinote, rj might be cam ’i’m everywhere’janssen, chris porter and jay mcclement. and that’d be your fourth line. sitting in the press box will be walt ‘the whiner’ tkachoke and i don’t know at the moment but it won;t be perron next year and walker’s destined to go back to the ahl where he belongs.

anybody see how easy it is to skate around walker? i love defensemen like that b/c i play foreward. give me space so i can make you look stupid. now any average nhl player who has more skill than me going against walker looks like malkin, toews or crosby just straight clowning a guy.

ah well one of tuesday trivia answers, butanyway
what is wrong with the blues?

their oldest tenured player is well know: mayers

second was :salvy

the instant he got traded it became :backman

the second he got traded it was (and is)… drum roll………. walker

The brainwashing has captured the broadcast booth and now JD is targeting the fans.

Cam Janssen for Bryce Salvador? Only in the bizarro world.

This has been a pretty long discussion, but it doesn’t seem like Salvador was in the team’s long-term plan, so getting Janssen until 2010 is better than nothing if they had just let Salvador walk at season’s end.

The team has obviously invested quite a bit into Jackman, and the $3.6M that he settled for probably won’t prove to be grossly different from what Salvador will earn in free-agency. Add McKee as a stay-at-home type, Brewer as a moderate offensive threat, and EJ as their primary threat, and I think that it adds up to the team making room for another threat from the blue line. I like Salvador quite a bit, but unless the Blues could have moved McKee at the deadline (wherever that rumor came from?), there just doesn’t seem to be room for him on the team according to what they’re apparently projecting.

As far as Janssen’s real use past Peoria, I’m not sure that the Blues need another 4th liner or not, but, like I said, it’s better than nothing. As long as he’s not standing in-between Perron or Oshie and playing time, I would like to see him rotate through the 4th line as at least a semi-regular.

On Tuesday and Thursday, you could sit down at the game and count on one hand the number of players who looked like they gave a shit. On Thursday, Jannsen was one of those players. That’s enough for me for now.

This is from Bernie’s article on stltoday.com

— Paul Kariya has scored two even-strength goals in the last 28 games. He has plenty of chances, but isn’t finishing. Kariya is wonderfully talented. But he’s like the NFL receiver who doesn’t want to go over the middle. He’s like an NBA player who wants to hang at the 3-point line. Hockey isn’t always an open-space competition; one must venture into the lion’s den to get a share of goals.

— Brad Boyes has three goals in the last 16 games after scoring 29 goals in the first 49. And Lee Stempniak has one even-strength goal in the last 24 games. The Blues have too many skilled players who are coming up empty.

I guess my question is… Are these problems scoring goals a symptom of a bad system or just flat out those individuals not living up to their expectations?
I do think Murray is a good coach and deserves to be here, but at what point does the lack of production rest on his shoulders and not the players?

Chris — I think it’s a system/coaching problem (just my gut feeling). “Gotta stick to our system/be a team player” becomes more important than “do what you’re best at”.

If players always have “other stuff” they’re thinking about (“I think I’ve been out here about 20 seconds… probably need to get off the ice soon”, “I’m in pretty deep — am I going to be able to backcheck after this shot?”, etc.) then they’re not letting their skill/instincts take over.