Let's Go Blues

So it's safe say you guys think Calgary Flame Brian Elliott will outplay St. Louis Blue Jake Allen. I hope you fellas stick around the forum this season. :facepalm: This is the definition of a non-sequitur. My point is broader: this club is going nowhere with Armstrong at the helm. Every season his...

The Blues almost pulled off Taylor Hall for Shattenkirk but it fell through because Shattenkirk reportedly wouldn't sign an extension there. You wouldn't have taken Hall on this team? You're leaving out the sequel: plan B was apparently to sign Perron. :shock: Nah, come on-there was no plan B. Just...

Unless we trade him for a great asset that also happens to be a left wing... So are we considering Fabbri as locked into the wing he played last season? He was a center at every level up that point. If he's flexible at all, I don't get the fixation on LWs, specifically, going on recently. Especiall...

I can understand a disagreement over it but it's disingenuous to say that one doesn't get why this trade upsets people. While Oakland has covered the ground pretty well I do want to say this precisely in response to the whole "don't want to lose one for nothing next seasoni" line: we lost one of the...

I've said it before-with our home grown players I think Armstrong tends to expect to get them at a discount that may or may not apply. Just give him what the market demands and get it overwith. The team already sat on the sidelines during free agency to accommodate this. Get it the (Frank) done.

While I fully supported Elliott being the number 1 last year (how could anybody not support that?), I've always liked Allen better longterm, especially with him being 6 years younger. Who would you have started in that final game of the Sharks series? If Allen, why? If Elliott, why would you decide...

I think they decided that they weren't going to extend Elliott and wanted Allen to take over as the number 1. Yeah, buy the question is why they would extend Allen and not Elliott. That's exactly what I don't understand. Goalies have relatively long careers and frankly Allen has proven nothing at t...

Wonder if it's Army or Schwartz? Wrong question to ask. Only one person in that negotiation represents the interests of the Blues-Doug Armstrong. Schwartz's people represent Schwartz and his best interests. As a Blues fan, it's Armstrong who you evaluate. Schwartz may well be asking too much. It's ...

At work now, but I am going to pull up points/game, goals/game, assists/game stuff, so instead of looking at entire season's as a single unit, actually see what a player's value is per game. Steen's overall numbers "per game" are pretty darn consistent 2013-14: 68 games, 33-29-62; .49gpg; .91ppg 20...

I don't know enough about him to have a strong opinion about the pick. Giving up a 3rd round pick to move up 2 slots to take what many people are calling a reach is extremely peculiar though. We don't know the behind-the-scenes stuff, but that's a hard one to understand. Agreed. He seems to have up...

Many scouts love him but some people on this forum found some rather scathing scouting reports on the kid. But you're exactly right, he's a long term project Yeah, but those are related. The Blues traded up (not significantly but still) to get him and he's apparently enough of a project to be consi...

Steen (from 33 to 24 to 17) Yeah, this. Steen has a great all-around game but I don't have the deep love for him most Blues fans seem to...he had one great season, got paid and his been ok since then. I won't be surprised if Sobotka has very comparable production next season despite Steen being ete...

gaijin wrote:Is it time to bring this :dietootoo: back? I wasn't sure if we still had it.

It went away? My hate for Tootoo didn't...

Tage Thompson. While some question his +/- at UConn Huh. Hadn't read that. What I do keep reading references to is his 1 and only even-strength goal last season. Everyone seems to think he's a long-term project though. Needs to fill out and improve his skating. But everything I'm seeing about yeste...

Plans for the future have destroyed our chance at winning the Cup at the present. This club seems eternally concerned with the next draft, developing the next kid, anticipating the cap two seasons down the road, etc., etc. All well & good but meanwhile there seems to be no commensurate plan for win...

ComradeT wrote:Schwartz filed for arbitration.

Army's killing it this summer.

You are leaving out the part that Ells asked the Blues to trade him if he wasn't going to be #1. Sorry for the delay-was away without access to internet. The #1 part here is key. Elliott only asked to be traded because he wasn't going to be the #1. I'd really like it explained how Elliott, who had ...

I am finding the brave face that many Blues fans are putting on regarding Perron pretty hilarious. This certainly isn't the shit that was being said about him as he went out the door, when many claimed that yeah, pretty much even-up for Pajaarvi (who was already a failed prospect). :roll: Anyone els...

I understand the sentiment for Pietrangelo-tenured, skilled, on the ice a lot. He's had the A...but...I've never seen what I felt was real leadership from him. He strikes me as not exactly liking the limelight. He'd be a good choice but I'm going with Tarasenko-this has to be his team going forward....

What kind of team just won the Stanley Cup? Regardless of size, Penguins still have guys who can & do hit. Hornqvist had 169 hits, Kunitz 264-hell even Crosby and Hagelin chipped in 90 and 84, respectively. Those four had 73 more hits last season than the entire top 9 of the Blues as projected (amo...