GDT: Blues vs Canadiens 7pm- Who Is Robert Thomas?

The Note · Jan 30, 2018

IVAN BARBASHEV	PAUL STASTNY	VLADIMIR TARASENKO
JADEN SCHWARTZ	BRAYDEN SCHENN	ALEX STEEN
VLADIMIR SOBOTKA	PATRIK BERGLUND	TAGE THOMPSON
SCOTTIE UPSHALL	KYLE BRODZIAK	DMITRIJ JASKIN

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JOEL EDMUNDSON	ALEX PIETRANGELO
JAY BOUWMEESTER	COLTON PARAYKO
VINCE DUNN	ROBERT BORTUZZO

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MAX PACIORETTY	PAUL BYRON	CHARLES HUDON
ARTTURI LEHKONEN	TOMAS PLEKANEC	BRENDAN GALLAGHER
ALEX GALCHENYUK	JONATHAN DROUIN	NICOLAS DESLAURIERS
JACOB DE LA ROSE	BYRON FROESE	LOGAN SHAW

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KARL ALZNER	JEFF PETRY
JORDIE BENN	JAKUB JERABEK
VICTOR METE	DAVID SCHLEMKO

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Of course it is 90's night at the Scottrade Center tonight, so let's take a second to honor one of the best things to come from the 90's...Robert Thomas. Thomas is a lesser talked about, lesser sought after prospect outside of the Gateway to the West. For any Montreal fans dropping by: Welcome! Since you're here, take a second to learn about this Blues pick you may have never even heard of before. Robert Thomas currently has 22 goals and 56 points in his D+1 season in the OHL as a very good two-way center. His 22 goals in 35 games already bests his 16 goals all of last season. He was recently traded from London to Hamilton for picks as far out as 2022! Now I know you all up there in Montreal are pretty deprived of good centers so you're probably thinking "Should we include him in every proposal we make for say, Max Paciorrety?" And the answer is yes absolutely you should.

Here he is on draft day when literally any team could have taken him.

And here is for Team Canada at the WJC, which I guess some of you Habs faithful may have caught. Hopefully this is as close as he and fellow Blues prospect Jordan Kyrou ever get to wearing red for a Canadian team. I hope you've enjoyed this quick profile of Robert Thomas! I look forward to seeing if this generates any dormant interest in Thomas, who we should note, we'd sure like to hang on to as Blues fans.

Vincenzo Arelliti · Jan 30, 2018

I for one, am now completely convinced that the solution to what ails us is to trade Roberto Tomato to the Montaluego Habituants for their Patches McGee.

I've given it some careful thought, and read through the pages, and I think there's a good argument to make the move.

And, didja here? Mac Bourgeoisie was at the game the other night and saw young Roberto Tomato! It's a done deal as far as I'm concerned.

It will be sad losing Roberto Tomato, whose accolades already include being big, speaking Frank, and losing to Jordan the Kyrou in their last game, but I think Patches McGee will be well worth it to our decrepit and aging team for their last playoff push. It's a matter of time before the Blooed get sent off to become the Nordiqkues anyway, so might as well get one last good one in.

elkranio · Jan 30, 2018

Can this Robert Thomas get us a bottom 6 LW?

Vincenzo Arelliti · Jan 30, 2018

elkranio said:
Can this Robert Thomas get us a bottom 6 LW?

Roberto Tomato can't play hackey.

We'll have to add our 2018 1st.

The Note · Jan 30, 2018

In all seriousness Montreal’s defense without Weber is shockingly bad. I’m still surprised Montreal has declined as rapidly as they have. They seemed to be in a good spot a couple years ago. Just a series of missteps.

bluesfan94 · Jan 30, 2018

Does this Robert Thomas speak French?

Sadly both of those names have French pronunciations but they are spelled the same way so this joke wasn't as effective as if I could have made it Róbert Tomás or something to that effect.

MortiestOfMortys · Jan 30, 2018

bluesfan94 said:
Does this Robert Thomas speak French?

Sadly both of those names have French pronunciations but they are spelled the same way so this joke wasn't as effective as if I could have made it Róbert Tomás or something to that effect.

Row-bear Toe-mah

Alklha · Jan 30, 2018

The Note said:
In all seriousness Montreal’s defense without Weber is shockingly bad. I’m still surprised Montreal has declined as rapidly as they have. They seemed to be in a good spot a couple years ago. Just a series of missteps.

Were they in a good spot?

Otter wasn't wrong when he said their entire defensive system was Price.

Trading a defensive prospect like Sergachev for Drouin was insane though. Unless you know he is going to be a centre, you don't trade a defenseman with that kind of upside... wingers are just too easy to add elsewhere.

bluesfan94 said:
Does this Robert Thomas speak French?

Sadly both of those names have French pronunciations but they are spelled the same way so this joke wasn't as effective as if I could have made it Róbert Tomás or something to that effect.

Some Montreal fans seem to think so.

67Blues · Jan 30, 2018

If Thomas doesn't make the NHL, which is probably likely, at least he can fall back on his musical gig

TheBluePenguin · Jan 30, 2018

ahhh man my post was removed ... I thought it was funny

The Note · Jan 30, 2018

Alklha said:
Were they in a good spot?

Otter wasn't wrong when he said their entire defensive system was Price.

Trading a defensive prospect like Sergachev for Drouin was insane though. Unless you know he is going to be a centre, you don't trade a defenseman with that kind of upside... wingers are just too easy to add elsewhere.

I mean Price-Subban-Patches isn’t bad as a core of a team. That’s a top 3 goalie, top 10 D-man, and a 30+ goal guy. Then they had Gallagher, Galchenyuk (for all his warts he’s still a useful player) coming up. They didn’t have everything in place but they were in a much better spot at least. Trading Subban for Weber was a wtf trade the moment it happened. Letting Markov leave for nothing given their defense is odd. Whereas now they’re in “blow it up territory.”

Bobby Orrtuzzo · Jan 30, 2018

Can we motion to make Thomas' official nickname "Roberto Tomato"?

bleedblue1223 · Jan 30, 2018

Alklha said:
Were they in a good spot?

Otter wasn't wrong when he said their entire defensive system was Price.

Trading a defensive prospect like Sergachev for Drouin was insane though. Unless you know he is going to be a centre, you don't trade a defenseman with that kind of upside... wingers are just too easy to add elsewhere.

Yeah, Montreal was never really that good overall. Price masked a lot of their issues. They had a top heavy defensive core, but the others guys weren't very good. They've had a few good forwards, but never a truly high-end forward to carry the load and over-rated guys like Galchenyuk.

Alklha · Jan 30, 2018

The Note said:
I mean Price-Subban-Patches isn’t bad as a core of a team. That’s a top 3 goalie, top 10 D-man, and a 30+ goal guy. Then they had Gallagher, Galchenyuk (for all his warts he’s still a useful player) coming up. They didn’t have everything in place but they were in a much better spot at least. Trading Subban for Weber was a wtf trade the moment it happened. Letting Markov leave for nothing given their defense is odd. Whereas now they’re in “blow it up territory.”

Look back and compare them to our team... worse centre depth(!!), worse wingers, worse defense and better goalie. Hardly a great group of prospects. Subban is a #1D, but I would describe him as 10-20 in range.

They were in that rough spot of being good enough to be competing for the playoffs, but not going to do anything when they got there and not getting the assets to build.

Most teams have a few very good players, but there wasn't much behind that.

Captain Creampuff · Jan 30, 2018

Love me some Robert Thomas.

The Note · Jan 30, 2018

Alklha said:
Look back and compare them to our team... worse centre depth(!!), worse wingers, worse defense and better goalie. Hardly a great group of prospects. Subban is a #1D, but I would describe him as 10-20 in range.

They were in that rough spot of being good enough to be competing for the playoffs, but not going to do anything when they got there and not getting the assets to build.

Most teams have a few very good players, but there wasn't much behind that.

Yeah they certainly had a lot of holes. I guess my thing is they exacerbated with a couple immediately awful deals where they could have just done a much easier, much less painful rebuild than they’re looking at now. And would’ve had at least Price and Subban on the other side of it, and more than likely Patches as well.

At the end of the day for all the hand wringing that was going on here in December, we should be thankful we’ve got the team and prospects we do.

67Blues · Jan 30, 2018

It really highlights how a couple of bad deals can really decimate a team for quite a few years and force a rebuild. I will compliment Armstrong on the fact that he never has taken it to that level. He's had a couple of questionable signings/extensions, but beyond that, he's run a pretty stable ship. Except for a couple of really bad years, the Blues as an organization have avoided a complete 3-5 year rebuild phase of really poor hockey.

Em etah Eh · Jan 30, 2018

It's (almost) 3PM (I'm lurking on HFHabs) I must be lonely...

Vincenzo Arelliti · Jan 30, 2018

Oh god. I vaguely remember posting the above. I took a nap and am feeling much better now. Oh god.

KirkOut · Jan 30, 2018

Robert Thomas was great on that Santana song but let’s be reality he’s no Gregg Rolie

BangarangxRufio · Jan 30, 2018

CROSS POST FROM TRADE FORUM
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SOOOOOOO a buddy of mine just blew my mind...something i never thought of with this :habs

talk going on.... What if Thomas is part of a trade, but not for Patches, or Gallagher, or Galchenyuk...what if Army is going for his OG Man-Crush-Monday...Drouin. 100% okay with Thomas for Drouin! IDK just a fun thought to a scary conversation.

KirkOut · Jan 30, 2018

If there’s one guy they shouldn’t trade I would think it’d be JD...

BangarangxRufio · Jan 30, 2018

KirkOut said:
If there’s one guy they shouldn’t trade I would think it’d be JD...

Oh I 100% agree, it still gets me gitty thinking about it though. Army isn't going to ship off the 1 future player we have for a 2018 cup run...He isnt that stupid, but what if he is building a package for a player he has wanted for a while for the player(s) they are wanting. They WANT/NEED/CRAAAAAVE Thomas so I would go for the biggest/best return possible return and make them say no. Why not!? you are not calling them!

67Blues · Jan 30, 2018

KirkOut said:
Robert Thomas was great on that Santana song but let’s be reality he’s no Gregg Rolie

Abraxas is one of my all time favorite albums. I remember when I got it from my Columbia House records subscription back in the day and how shocked my mother was at the album cover.

67Blues · Jan 30, 2018

BangarangxRufio said:
Oh I 100% agree, it still gets me gitty thinking about it though. Army isn't going to ship off the 1 future player we have for a 2018 cup run...He isnt that stupid, but what if he is building a package for a player he has wanted for a while for the player(s) they are wanting. They WANT/NEED/CRAAAAAVE Thomas so I would go for the biggest/best return possible return and make them say no. Why not!? you are not calling them!

What kills me is how people poo-poo Thomas as just a prospect, may not pan out, etc, yet every proposal from teams include him.

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