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Rivermen Report – Trudel To Rivermen HOF
In the history of the Peoria Rivermen, we have seen many great players come up through the teams ranks. Many have gone on to have great NHL careers, while some find better luck in the European leagues. One of these players, who only played three seasons with the Rivermen, finds himself headed to the Rivermen...
Rivermen Report: Monday Night FYIs From Twitter
From the Twitter account of Peoria Journal Star beat writer, Dave Eminian, aka @icetimecleve… Rivermen have released CHL Quad City goaltender David McKee. Jake Allen due back in Peo practice tomorrow. — Dave Eminian (@icetimecleve) January 3, 2012 One more: Peo D-man Maury Edwards out of Peo hospital (undisclosed illness) & down to ECHL Cincy....
Blues News: Grachev Assigned to Peoria
Yes, I was wrong. I honestly expected the Blues to carry 23 players for a while since they had at the start of the season. I should not forget the needs of Peoria. I am ashamed Rivermen fans. A thousand apologies. Today the St. Louis based crew was reduced by one. St. Louis Blues Executive...
Rivermen Report – What the Sterling call up means for the Blues
As per multiple sources it looks like the Blues have a need for the #2 scorer in the AHL and Brett Sterling is called up to STL. What does this mean for the Blues? Sterling is a world class scoring talent. Currently #2 in the AHL. Consistently he is among the AHL leaders in scoring. He plays...
Rivermen Report: What the Ian Cole call up means for the Blues
I am going to tell you Ian Cole is playing well with the Rivermen. You, being the ever dutiful fan, are going to go to the internets and look up his stats for the season. You’re going to see this: GP 13 – Goals 0 – Assists 3 – Points 3 – +/- (-5) –...
Rivermen Report: The new Rivermen RadioActive show premieres tonight.
Rivermen broadcaster Brendan Burke, beat writer Dave Eminian, and assistant coach are doing a monthly interactive radio show… and it premieres tonight! 7:00pm and available online streaming it promises to use Facebook and Twitter to take questions from the fans and discuss them on-air. I thought it might be nice if the BNZ crowd wanted...
Rivermen Report: The Two Week Edition
I am very, very bad. Naughty blogger, shirking his duties in the face of real life things. Shouldn’t I know better? I should. So here is the two week long version of what happened in Peoria. Since this is the two week version we’re going to skip the day-by-day recap and just hit what is...
Rivermen Report: The Week That Was October 10th – 16th
Hello again BNZ crew! It was an interesting week over here in Peoria. As such, it showed a glaring hole in my plans for Rivermen coverage here on BNZ. So, I am going to add player moves to and from ECHL Alaska and the Blues as updates here. I’ll give you some insight as to...
Rivermen Report: The Week That Was 10/3 to 10/9
Hi there BNZ crew, thanks for stopping by to check in on the Rivermen. This is the first of what I am hoping to be a regular weekly installment that keeps you caught up on the very basics of what is happening here in Peoria. MONDAY: It was a Monday like any other. The Rivermen...
Hi. I’m the new guy.
At the beginning of this introductory post I would like to again thank the fine people here at Blue Note Zone for allowing me to help them out in bringing you information about the Peoria Rivermen (or as I hear some people call them, the “baby Blues”). I also want to be clear, I am...


