Stewart files for arbitration

Discuss the St. Louis Blues, the NHL, or anything hockey. (Formerly the Blues News Forum)

Moderator: LGB Mods

User avatar
dmiles2186
Hockey God
Hockey God
Posts: 7288
Joined: Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:29 am
Location: Selling Air Bombays--for kids who want to coach

Re: Stewart files for arbitration

Post by dmiles2186 »

glen a richter wrote:
cardsfan04 wrote:
flyingnote38 wrote:reminds me of a Yogi Berra-ism

a tad more than I thought he would get, but this was before David Clarkson got $7 million per in perpetuity

if a 1 year deal is a "prove it" and a multi year deal is a commitment, what is a 2 year deal?
A commitment?

Seriously though, I think it's exactly how it looks, somewhere in between prove yourself and a total commitment. 4 mil is about what I expected. If he gives 100%, 100% of the time, it'll be a bargain. If he's like last season, it'll be an ok deal. If he's like the season before last, aye dios mio.
If he gives 100%, 100% of the time, I'll be wondering which alien species abducted him and what they did with the real Chris Stewart.
Chris Stewart gave 100% for a good chunk of last season...and then just went completely quiet. That's the thing with him and I don't understand it. I remember in several games early on, he was skating with a purpose, up and down the ice, every shift. And then much like his M.O., he started taking shifts off, his goal scoring went quiet, and yet he still led our team in scoring. My fear is that one of the last times we gave out a 4 mil a year contract to a streaky forward (Boyes), it didn't go so well. Luckily, this is only a 2 year deal compared to a 4 year deal like we did to Boyes.

I've said it time and again, the Blues are one of the smarter teams in the league in terms of contracts, at least since Army took over. This seems to be a prove it plus one deal. They believe in Stewart's skill, but also acknowledge his shortcomings. If he plays this contract out to the highest of his ability, then he is going to get PAID (and probably not by the Blues). I mean, friggin' David Clarkson landed a 7 mil per deal and his numbers are actually worse than Stew's. If he continues to be streaky, then the Blues might be able to trade him in the second year of the deal.
Image

2015-2016 LGB Sponsor of Not Ott, because he is a booger-eating dumb dumb

User avatar
WaukeeBlues
Hockey God
Hockey God
Posts: 6163
Joined: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:00 pm
Location: Phi Alpha

Re: Stewart files for arbitration

Post by WaukeeBlues »

dmiles2186 wrote:
glen a richter wrote:
cardsfan04 wrote:
flyingnote38 wrote:reminds me of a Yogi Berra-ism

a tad more than I thought he would get, but this was before David Clarkson got $7 million per in perpetuity

if a 1 year deal is a "prove it" and a multi year deal is a commitment, what is a 2 year deal?
A commitment?

Seriously though, I think it's exactly how it looks, somewhere in between prove yourself and a total commitment. 4 mil is about what I expected. If he gives 100%, 100% of the time, it'll be a bargain. If he's like last season, it'll be an ok deal. If he's like the season before last, aye dios mio.
If he gives 100%, 100% of the time, I'll be wondering which alien species abducted him and what they did with the real Chris Stewart.
Chris Stewart gave 100% for a good chunk of last season...and then just went completely quiet. That's the thing with him and I don't understand it. I remember in several games early on, he was skating with a purpose, up and down the ice, every shift. And then much like his M.O., he started taking shifts off, his goal scoring went quiet, and yet he still led our team in scoring. My fear is that one of the last times we gave out a 4 mil a year contract to a streaky forward (Boyes), it didn't go so well. Luckily, this is only a 2 year deal compared to a 4 year deal like we did to Boyes.

I've said it time and again, the Blues are one of the smarter teams in the league in terms of contracts, at least since Army took over. This seems to be a prove it plus one deal. They believe in Stewart's skill, but also acknowledge his shortcomings. If he plays this contract out to the highest of his ability, then he is going to get PAID (and probably not by the Blues). I mean, friggin' David Clarkson landed a 7 mil per deal and his numbers are actually worse than Stew's. If he continues to be streaky, then the Blues might be able to trade him in the second year of the deal.
And probably for a pretty high draft pick too (I'd imagine at least a second rounder). We need more of those. I don't want our prospect pipeline to dry up like it did in the 00's when we traded our first round pick every single franking season.
Official 2021-2022 LGB Sponsor of Torey Krug
Official 2021 LGB Sponsor of Brayden Schenn
Official 2018-2019 LGB Sponsor of Jaden Schwartz
2018 LGB Playoff Challenge Champ
Official 2017-2018 LGB Sponsor of Vladimir Tarasenko
Official 2016-2017 LGB Sponsor of Scottie Upshall
Official 2015-2016 LGB Sponsor of Kevin Shattenkirk

flyingnote38
1st Line Sniper
1st Line Sniper
Posts: 738
Joined: Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:25 pm

Re: Stewart files for arbitration

Post by flyingnote38 »

per cap geek, Stewart is a UFA at the end of this deal.

So if Stewie ratchets up his game, we get 2 years before he gets Clarkson money from someone (Flyers will likely have cap space again by then)

if he remains the Stewart we've seen to date (outside of mop up time that season post-trade)

seems to me lhat the word to describe this deal is "tradeable"
2016-7 sponsor of Jaden Schwartz
2017-8 sponsor of Tage Thompson
2018-9 sponsor of Ryan O'Reilly
2019-20 sponsor of old time hockey
2020-21 sponsor of Jaden Schwartz
2021-22 sponsor of Pavel Buchnevich
2022-23 sponsor of Brayden Schenn
2023-24 sponsor of Justin Faulk

User avatar
big d note
LGB Booster - Yellow
LGB Booster - Yellow
Posts: 4634
Joined: Thu Feb 20, 2003 10:33 pm
Location: SMP's Posse

Re: Stewart files for arbitration

Post by big d note »

dmiles2186 wrote:[tweet][/tweet]
Crap, he's getting married? Players always seem to tank right after they tie the knot. At least it's only a 2-year deal.
Official Sponsor of Ray Barile
[Dooger] 9:10 am: That David [Backes] is a cool dude.
RIP Pavol Demitra - I hope you are "so hoppy" wherever you are now

Post Reply