AHL Goalie News — Thursday, Sept. 17

Features

• Blues prospect Ben Bishop will start the season in Peoria and looks forward to working with Ed Belfour, whom the Blues have hired to work with their minor league goaltenders. Props to the Blues for making sure their farm team goalies get the attention they need. Doesn’t happen everywhere. (STLToday.com)

• Rookies Thomas McCollum and Jordan Pearce are battling for the #2 spot in Grand Rapids this season. Daniel Larsson is expected to fill the #1 role. (MLive.com)

• Mike Brodeur is back (this time for the Binghamton Senators) after back surgery and other setbacks threatened to derail his career. (Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin)

• Similarly, after blowing out his hip and having surgery to repair a torn labrum, Jordan Parise hopes his path to the NHL (currently in the Penguins organization) is clear for travel again. (Times Leader)

• Drew MacIntyre feels ready to bounce to the NHL after several successful years in the minors, but will go willingly to Chicago if sent down by the Trashers, who are overflowing with goalies at camp. (Atlanta Journal Constitution)

• Chet Pickard and Jeremy Smith are battling for the #2 spot in Milwaukee in the Predators organization. (Nashville City Paper)

Blogs

• Be sure you’re subscribed to Brad Thiessen‘s blog, In the Crease with Thiess. It’s fun reading about his journey from college goalie to pro goalie for the Penguins organization. No better place to get the story than the horse’s mouth.

• Also to add to your Google Reader is Derek Meluzio‘s Stack the Pads blog, which covers Hershey Bears and, by extension, Washington Capitals, goalies (just goalies!) Excellent resource on that organization’s intriguing goaltending situation.

• Syracuse Crunch beat writer Lindsay Kramer asks and answers his own question, “Is having two good young goalies better than one?” His answer is a qualified “yes.” (Crunch Hockey)

• Faceoff Factor profiles likely Wilkes-Barre Scranton #1 goalie John Curry. (Faceoff Factor)