Cheechoo gets one more likelihood in St. Louis

As reported by Blues writer Andy Strickland, St. Louis is taking an endeavor around the 30-year-old winger acquiring signed him up to a one-year, two-way contract on Tuesday evening, possibly hoping to catch a good Lightning with a bottle. Strickland reports Cheechoo's contract likely pay him $600,000 if he plays inside NHL, and $225,000 if he plays throughout the minors.

Throughout his breakout 2005 overall performance, Cheechoo spent an excessive amount of time within a line with Joe Thornton -- the perfect playmaking centers in this era -- who the Sharks acquired early in the summer season. Cheechoo scored 49 of his 56 ambitions during the 57 games following that trade, immediately after which continued to gain a quite respectable 37 below season. Since that time, nonetheless, this has been a gentle and consistent decline in general in any statistical category. Just check out raw numbers: soon after scoring 56 ambitions in 82 games through the 2005 season he's been able to score just 77 targets from the following 272 games.

During his most recent stint inside the NHL he scored just 5 targets in 61 games making use of Ottawa Senators after he was acquired within a trade that sent Dany Heatley to San Jose.

He spent last season playing with the Worcest Sharks for the AHL and scored 18 ambitions in 55 games.

Within the 2005 season goal-scoring reached a degree people hadn't seen usually in the clutch-and-grab era before function stoppage, with league averaging six.10 goals per game. The leading goal-scorer that season: Jonathan Cheechoo about the San Jose Sharks which has a career-high 56, making them just about the just 91 distinct players in NHL background attain the 50-goal plateau.

When called he'll forever sign up for that club, but he has in no way compare to repeating these numbers but is unlikely to ever achieve this once again.