Colaiacovo Sits

The Blues played their first game since Saturday on Wednesday and Carlo Colaiacovo did in fact miss the game with an upper body injury, which he suffered taking the hit from Steve Ott in Saturday's game. Colaiacovo's status isn't very severe, only out on a day-to-day basis, while Ott was actually suspended for two games for the low-bridge hit that he put on him.

On a few other teams, Colaiacovo may be considered a top four defenseman, but on St. Louis, as they are getting their depth back to normal, he figures in a little lower on the depth chart and his numbers show. In the first nine games played, Colaiacovo only registered one goal and two assists.

This season, Colaiacovo was selected in the Draft by Dale B., hoping for some similar roster implications in St. Louis, like they had last season. If there were some similarities drawn between last season and this one, it would mean that Colaiacovo would have been getting more minutes on the ice and a bit more scoring responsibilities, but the return of Erik Johnson saw the end of that pretty quickly.

The defender is also available on the Sheet in Box 11, but he was not taken at all in the box, being passed over for guys like Jay Bouwmeester and Brian Rafalski.