Let's Go Blues

Physical I should have said. Lehtera isn't and has been a disappointment. Stastny... same Tarasenko is Tarasenko Bergy sucks Jaskin sucks Schwartz and Fabbri are little guys Oh, and then there's Perron.. Now that's fair. Backes & Brouwer's 450-ish combined hits are more than the rest of the Blues t...

There are so many people freaking out about the Blues losing Backes and Brouwer on social media, but I'm not seeing anyone saying they'd be willing to put up a combined 10 mil for both of these guys for 9 combined seasons spanning age ranges of 32-37 and 34-38. Agreed. As is often the case, people ...

Blues will now pay $5.5M for goalies next season who will in all likelihood be less effective than this season and who, combined, have exactly 8 playoff starts between them. I don't get this, I really don't. True but Jake Allen's experience with Minnesota I think will be invaluable moving forward. ...

Steen the only big forward in the top 6? Do you mean as in literally, physically, big? Stastny: 6'0", 205lbs Lehtera: 6'2", 210 Tarasenko: 6'0", 219 Personally I'm of the opinion that if Perron is a 2nd-line winger we've got some bigger problems. His numbers the last couple years are 3rd-line level...

Blues will now pay $5.5M for goalies next season who will in all likelihood be less effective than this season and who, combined, have exactly 8 playoff starts between them.

I don't get this, I really don't.

Anyone who thinks Montreal got the better end of that deal is living in the hockey past. In pretty much every meaningful metric, Subban is better. Among Dmen, only Karlsson has a more positive effect on creating offensive chances. Also, Montreal's top pairing will now be Weber and Markov. They're go...

I don't see how they're any worse than Miami. Exactly-Miami, where there were empty seats during playoff games of a team whose qualification was a miracle and hadn't seen the post-season in years and has only seen it 3 times in the last 18 years. The long story short is that the NHL would not have ...

I'm curious what Lou is gonna do in Toronto with his goaltending situation. He just gave up two rather high picks to land Frederick Andersen. There's no way he would surrender those types of assets without every intention of making him the starter. Or so I would think. Bernier is on the block now? ...

glen a richter wrote:Gentlemen, we're getting off track here. Let's not forget that a city which will not support an NHL team is getting an NHL team again.

Right. Let me get out my other soapbox...

Anyway, fixed that bolded part for you.

They had to get that Bickell contract off their books. Had to. If that meant moving a young guy to get it done then that's just what had to happen. True, and that's my point. To have to move such a potentially useful player for one year of mid-to-large cap hit ($4M) doesn't strike me as ideal or to...

St Louis politics have been ridiculous when it comes to the NFL basically from 1984 onwards. It's almost always been about what the city can get out of the team vice doing what is necessary to keep a team in the first place. And that's not on ESPN either. Eh? The Cardinals were allowed to move, in ...

And Stan didn't start lobbying for the LA move until the summer of 2014. Honestly, you don't know what you're talking about. He clearly planned to move the team from the day he bought it. That became more clear as time went on but his campaign to neglect the team so as to alienate fans so as to fac...

2003/4 was right in the heart of my down period for video games. Never played this version. Not sure what he means specifically about some things but I have found scoring, specifically, to be too easy in some recent versions of NHL. That, however, is really a matter of taking advantage of a few glit...

Don't get the point to re-signing Jaskin given his usage but if Ott goes, fine. The deal Ward (.907sv% last 4 seasons) got will make Brian Elliott (.919 over same period) happy as it looks to pretty much guarantee him a market at something like $5M per. Shocked they moved Teravainen. But that maybe ...

Off-topic: What recent success for the Jags are you referring to? I was clearly making a relative point. I know that, by and large, the Jaguars have been horrible. But maybe you're not aware the Rams were, in fact, over a decade A HISTORICALLY BAD TEAM. Jacksonville made the playoffs in 2005 and 20...

Alright then. Chicago sends Bryan Bickell (and his $4M cap hit) and Teuvo Teravainen to Carolina for a 2nd in 2016 (50th overall, from the Rangers) and a 3rd in 2017. Francis did some good business essentially turning Staal & next year's third rounder into Teravainen, a 2nd and a decent prospect. Th...

Hahaha I love the salt. This truly is a miserable bunch. :plusplus: OK, it's Blues fans here. So yeah, a miserable bunch. But I have to say that unlike a lot of things this franchise has done that I don't agree with, the sting here isn't wearing off. Because... Either Stillman is dumb or blind to n...

STL should have gotten the Jaguars franchise when they expanded...we were robbed at that time. Very true and related to the topic at hand. I'm beyond tired of explaining to people who buy the media narrative that the NFL has serially screwed St. Louis. The Cardinals left because they didn't want to...

It didn't benefit the city of Quebec at all though - what it really showed is that the overall #1 pick had absolutely no desire to play in that location. Seriously? Reason deductively much? What it showed-I'm guessing you're too young to recall it given your mischaracterization-is that Lindros was ...

I'm okay with it - just happy that Quebec is not getting it - at least for now. Keep it in the USA. :?: Yeah, I wasn't so sure about that comment either. I'd have zero issues with a deserving market in Canada getting a team. I'd love to see Quebec get a franchise. I'd probably rather Quebec get a t...