Blues Call Up Lars Eller
Stand by for a new stream of Lars Eller/Lars Ulrich jokes: as Jeremy Rutherford reported this afternoon and our own Dr Frankenweed posted in the FanPosts, the Blues have re-called center Lars Eller from Peoria. The first round pick from the 2007 draft is expected to make his NHL debut tomorrow against the Calgary Flames.
On the strength of eight assists, Eller has posted 11 points in 11 AHL games with Peoria. He is a slick, playmaking center with good ice vision.
While it hurts to see Andy McDonald out of the lineup after mashing his face into the boards on Saturday night, it is good to see that management is going to replace a skill player with a skill player rather than trying to force a grinder into a scoring spot on the top two lines. In the recent past the move might have been to push Silent Jay McClement or another checking-line guy up to fill the gap on a scoring line. Persoanlly, McClement is doing such a great Selke-like job as the third-line anchor, it'd be a mistake to take him out of that role.
Finally, it seems, the Blues have enough skilled young talent, and management has enough confidence in them, that we'll see them injected into skill-line jobs when the opportunity presents itself.
The Blues have struggled at home this year and no one, not even the staff or players, seem to know what's wrong. Here's hoping that some fresh blood on one of the top lines is a key to a new attitude. The return of T.J. Oshie and carlo Colaiacovo tomorrow couldn't hurt, either.
With a full season of experience in the Swedish Elite League playing against that country's best competition (12 goals and 17 assists in 48 games) as well as performing well against AHL talent, it seems likely that Eller will be able to play a skill game in the NHL, the only question is whether that begins tomorrow or if he ends up back in Peoria to develop more once McDonald returns.
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Look how far he's come!
About a year and a half ago, he hardly knew any English
http://www.stlouisgametime.com/2008/5/13/693806/you-have-one-new-text-mess
No beer and no TV make Homer...something something.
by Poor College Student on Nov 4, 2009 11:35 PM CST reply actions
Do we even have a name for him yet?
Marmaduke?
Let's go Blues!!!
by Milo. on Nov 5, 2009 6:20 AM CST via mobile reply actions
You left the word, “Great” out of your thinking.
Let's go Blues!!!
by Milo. on Nov 5, 2009 1:52 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
He looks about 10 in that photo
Nope, closer to 8. OMG he’s a baby.
He is definitely not a Marmaduke.
How about Sweetie Pie? Cutie Patootie? Baby Cakes?
junland
needs a call up. he is ripping it up down there, is “nhl ready” according to all major sources. and he is due a big fat raise at the end of the season. like to see what he has before then. and yea i know, there is no place to play him at all.
maybe we need to rudy poeschek someone to the wing?
A strong anvil fears no hammer
by Childhood Trauma on Nov 5, 2009 9:19 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
Eller to Ulrich...
I’m going to take it one step further with the word recognition and just call him Skeet. Who’s with me?!
I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.
Fuck Marmaduke.
Skeet it is!
Let's go Blues!!!
by Milo. on Nov 5, 2009 1:47 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
… and just to skip three degrees ahead, I’ll add, “who was next door neighbors with Kevin Bacon”.
Let's go Blues!!!
by Milo. on Nov 5, 2009 1:51 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
You, sir.
You are a winner of the Internets.
One day, David Backes and Albert Pujols will combine forces to become the most awesome piece of violent force known to man.
Even looks a bit like a 'Skeet.'
(His mother, looking out across the barren fields of Denmark) “Laaarrrsss! Ho, Laaars! Now where is that little Skeet at now? He makes me fret so…”
I haven’t felt this sense of accomplishment since I came up with (and created a backstory to) Backes’ immortal history, first appearing to the Greeks as Bacchus.
I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.

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