The St. Louis Blues recalled former Maine goalie Ben Bishop on Monday and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports today that the 6-foot-7 goalie could make his NHL debut Saturday against the Florida Panthers.

Originally, St. Louis planned for Bishop to spend this season with it's AHL team in Peoria, Ill., but was called up after Blues backup Chris Mason underwent an emergency appendectomy last week, and after Marek Schwarz was assigned to Peoria.

Here's what Blues starting goalie Manny Legace had to say to the P-D about Bishop:

Legace said that considering Bishop is from St. Louis, it would be ideal for him to start a game on the road. But the Blues don't have that option with their next five games at home.

"Coming home, playing in front of your home crowd, it's tough," Legace said. "It's going to be a little extra pressure, but he's going to have to get used to it. He's going to be playing about 20 years here. I know that for a fact."

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The USA Today/USA Hockey and USCHO polls have a new No. 1 this week - Colorado College.

The Tigers (4-0) displaced Boston College; the Eagles lost 4-3 to Northeastern on Saturday and are third behind CC and Denver in the USCHO.com top 20 poll and fourth behind Colorado College, Denver and New Hampshire in the USA Today/USA Hockey top 15 poll.

Maine (1-1) received seven votes in the USCHO.com poll.

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