This week has been a week that Jaden Schwartz will never forget. The former first round pick in 2010 was signed by the St. Louis Blues out of Colorado College and made his debut in a Blues uniform last night against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Prior to the game, he was on the receiving end of a rookie initiation when he was to lead the team onto the ice for the practice skate. One problem: he was the only one out there, as his teammates stayed back in the tunnel for about 40 seconds before joining him on the ice for the practice skate. As for his debut, he scored his first NHL goal to put the Blues up 2-0. That goal would be the game winner, as the Blues would win 3-1. In the wake of Sven Baertschi being sent back to the Portland Winterhawks, as he was an emergency call-up for the Flames, Schwartz is the rookie of the moment, and given the travails he has experienced prior to taking the ice as a Blue (his older sister Mandi succumbed to cancer last year), his story is one that will bear watching in the coming years.
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