cprice12 wrote:I'd bet money that Armstrong will make moves to improve the offense in the offseason. He has to.
no point in further hashing the other stuff from your post; just a case of difference of opinion.
as for Army fixing the offense.
I thought he understood that offense was the big need last offseason. He made a strong run at fixing that without subtracting much from the core. He offered a ton of money (that I didn't think we had available to spend) to Lecavaler and then Filpula. When those didn't work out, he signed Roy as plan 'C'. In order to make things work cap wise, Perron had to go with Tarasenko sliding into his roster spot. Beyond that, he merely added the usual 'suspects' of veteran fillers with Morrow being the best of this year's bunch.
Then.......I think he got fooled by a career half season by Steen into thinking offense was no longer a weak spot.
The Roy signing clearly underwhelmed (look no further than the "#RoyWatch on STLG: "#Roywatch was started when fellow Brit, Grant Sales, was disappointed in the Roy pickup and, in a show of displeasure, predicted 36 points for him. Putting his money where his mouth is, Grant pledged £1 for every point over 36 scored by Roy in the regular season. Charities were nominated on Facebook and a number of Blues fans decided to join in with this – some agreed with Grant’s prediction for Derek Roy and others disagreed." Roy put up 37 points. Embarassed STLGers decided to donate a $ for every point Roy scored rather than merely send $1).
So if Roy was the "solution" and he wasn't working out, to my thinking that still left us with a hole at second line center, especially with Berglund having ananti-Steen year and the rest of our centers not named Backes being much more suited to third and fourth line roles than scoring line roles. The big move on offense in season was to deal Stewart and replace him with Ott who I compared to Lapierre and basically feel that I owe Lapierre and apology for that.
So. Hopefully Armstrong doesn't get distracted or lose focus and does something to fix the offense. I think he will. I think he better. And I think if we are having this conversation again a year from now......... well you get the idea.