St. Louis Blues 2010 Regular Season Thread

[Popeye_Card]

The good news: Polak and (probably) Jello back tonight.

The bad news: Sobotka and D'ago still represent two of our better scoring threats right now. FMBFL.

[MrCrowesGarden]

http://www.insidestl.com/insideSTLcom/R ... Audio.aspx

Segment 5 with Kelly Chase. I have a hard time disagreeing with him.

[longhornbaseball]

Oshie skated!!! They say he won't be evaluated until February, though.

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/p ... 78c22.html

[MrCrowesGarden]

I'm not sure how much he has left in the tank, but the Blues have signed Marek Svatos to a two-way contract. He still has to clear waivers, which means he can't play until Friday, but I don't blame them for giving it a shot. He hasn't been a dynamic scorer for a while, but he at least has shown a scorer's touch before.

[longhornbaseball]

Oshie targeting late January return for the Blues

The link also talks about McDonald and Perron...nothing different.

The Blues were hoping that T.J. Oshie would be playing in the NHL All-Star game this season, but after suffering a broken left ankle on Nov. 10, that was out of the question.

The club announced in November that Oshie would be out at least three months following surgery and that he would be re-evaluated in February.

Well, Oshie's recovery is going faster than expected, and though he won't be playing in the All-Star game, the plan now is to have him back in a Blues uniform around the time of the All-Star game, which is Jan. 30.

"T.J. Oshie is doing very well ... obviously he's been out skating the last week or so and he's progressing real well," Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said this morning. "We're shooting for around the All-Star game, which is the end of January. That's a little bit ahead of schedule.

"I think three months was going to Feb. 10, so he's pushed it a hair ahead of that. That's a target date. That's not a date set in stone. That's something with his work ethic and his healing, we're confident that somewhere around the All-Star is a realistic goal for us."

Oshie began skating last week and has been on the ice about five times.

"It feels good out there ... I've been ripping around pretty good," Oshie said. "Obviously my (left) leg is not as strong as it was before, but things are going well. I'm doing what I can, and when things get too intense, I pull back a little bit."

Oshie said he wasn't surprised to hear that his return had been pushed up from February.

"The doctors told me a time frame of when I could put 100 percent weight (on the leg)," he said. "I kept telling them it feels better, but they still took it slow and I think it paid off. Now it's feeling great and a little earlier than expected."

[longhornbaseball]

Cam Janssen's not a good hockey player but he's got the heart of a lion.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Cam Janssen's not a good hockey player but he's got the heart of a lion.

He's kind of like a poor man's Kelly Chase.

[longhornbaseball]

I really like Sobotka. He's only a year older than Perron and Berglund and 6 months younger than Oshie. What was Boston thinking? He's been a great pickup.

[longhornbaseball]

It should be 5-0 or maybe 5-1. Complete domination by the Note so far. Losing this one would suck.

[st.lewis11]

I really like Sobotka. He's only a year older than Perron and Berglund and 6 months younger than Oshie. What was Boston thinking? He's been a great pickup.

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