Blues Discussion Thread 2018-2019 - Part VII

[Dbrownss]

Superstar is more of a media tag imo. A prominent name that all fans know. Its "that guy" on a team.

 

[Klank Loves You]

How long before Bill Armstrong takes a GM job?

 

[Ranksu]

How long before Bill Armstrong takes a GM job?

If that will diminished his scouting job and it success I rather have some other doing GM job then Bill. I view Army has done A+ in GM job recent years signings and acquiring for areas what were weak.

I also think coming off-season (this summer) we'll see Allen case problem solved if not then we could discuss has Army failed in some way with Allen. Allen is only thing what remembers me his mistakes about too hesitate signings or failured trades.

 

[David Dennison]

How long before Bill Armstrong takes a GM job?

Probably a while, it seems like most GMs are either part of the old boys club or younger analytics types. It also seems like there are a lot of qualified people out there chasing only a few jobs.

And don't underestimate the Peter Principle, taking a guy away from what he does well (scouting) into a position where you are in charge of everything. Im not saying he does or doesn't have the capacity to be a GM, but hiring him as GM because he was a good scout doesn't make any sense because he will be doing mostly non-scouting things as GM.

Look at Jarmo (who even had GM experience in Finlandia), he has done alright in Columbus, but they aren't succeeding because of their drafts and he has made his fair share of questionable trades/signings.

 

[Brian39]

I hope the Blues can keep Bill in his current role for a long time. I think it is worth pointing out that the Blues promoted him to Assistant GM last summer (along with him retaining the title of Director of Amateur Scouting). Hopefully that came with a substantial raise. One advantage to that promotion is that there is essentially only one promotion available after that: General Manager. The unwritten rule in the NHL is that you give other teams permission to talk to your front office employees if they are interviewing for a position that would be seen as a direct promotion. Before this promotion, the expected professional courtesy would have been for the Blues to let him interview with other teams for jobs like Assistant GM or Director of Hockey Operations. Now, the expected professional courtesy would only be to let teams talk to him for their GM job.

I would expect that most teams would like to see him work as the Assistant GM for a few years before he is a serious candidate to become their GM.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

I hope the Blues can keep Bill in his current role for a long time. I think it is worth pointing out that the Blues promoted him to Assistant GM last summer (along with him retaining the title of Director of Amateur Scouting). Hopefully that came with a substantial raise. One advantage to that promotion is that there is essentially only one promotion available after that: General Manager. The unwritten rule in the NHL is that you give other teams permission to talk to your front office employees if they are interviewing for a position that would be seen as a direct promotion. Before this promotion, the expected professional courtesy would have been for the Blues to let him interview with other teams for jobs like Assistant GM or Director of Hockey Operations. Now, the expected professional courtesy would only be to let teams talk to him for their GM job.

I would expect that most teams would like to see him work as the Assistant GM for a few years before he is a serious candidate to become their GM.

Was Jarmo an assistant GM? I don’t recall that. I know he wanted a GM job and that’s why he went to Europe for a bit.

 

[Brian39]

Was Jarmo an assistant GM? I don’t recall that. I know he wanted a GM job and that’s why he went to Europe for a bit.

He was. He had the exact same dual title that B Armstrong currently has.

 

[Renard]

I saw something calling into question Binnington's political correctness, based on some old tweets.

What I remember about him is having Will Smith's image on his helmet, and praising Smith as cool in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air series. This was several year ago. That is embracing diversity, if you ask me.

 

[HighNote]

Apparently the home team has to make the GDT for the Playoffs board. I guess it's a good thing we don't have home ice advantage, potentially less GDTs we have to make for the main boards. Perhaps this can be our theme for game 3:

Or we can just copy and paste an old theme to save time and effort. I'd hate for one of us to have to come up with something original and then make a whole GDT with it. I'm tired just thinking about it.

 

[MissouriMook]

Apparently the home team has to make the GDT for the Playoffs board. I guess it's a good thing we don't have home ice advantage, potentially less GDTs we have to make for the main boards. Perhaps this can be our theme for game 3:

Or we can just copy and paste an old theme to save time and effort. I'd hate for one of us to have to come up with something original and then make a whole GDT with it. I'm tired just thinking about it.

Could we do half ass and half goat? Asking for a friend.

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

Could we do half ass and half goat? Asking for a friend.

 

[Klank Loves You]

How much trouble would we be in if we did a half-ass GDT? Was it 2 years ago where they went with the other team's GDT because we didnt make one?

 

[Xerloris]

Any chance our GDT on Sunday for the mainboards will involve burkas?

 

[TK 421]

Any chance our GDT on Sunday for the mainboards will involve burkas?

Lol oh I'm sure that would go over swimmingly.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

How much trouble would we be in if we did a half-ass GDT? Was it 2 years ago where they went with the other team's GDT because we didnt make one?

Yes. We tried to do our usual half-assed one, and the mods refused it and used the opponents GDT which was....traditional. It felt kind of like a slap in the face, since that was kind of our forum tradition they were crapping on. But I doubt it would be received any better now.

Can we do one themed on the movie Airplane? There are lots of great .gifs we could use.

 

[AjaxManifesto]

Everything is working except special teams...FIX IT

 

[MortiestOfMortys]

Everything is working except special teams...FIX IT

Keep an eye out for Paul McFarland this offseason. Just got fired from Florida in the house cleaning for coach Q, but he had that dumpster fire of a roster in the top 5 PP% in the league for most of the season. OHL pedigree, which we like. Coached with Daniel Tkazcuk, which we adore. He’d make a fine assistant coach here.

Unfortunately, it is what it is this season. We’re a middling power play squad. I don’t think there’s any fixing that can be done at this point, especially not now that we’re in the playoffs. There isn’t any new systems instruction happening right now for anybody.

 

[EastonBlues22]

How much trouble would we be in if we did a half-ass GDT? Was it 2 years ago where they went with the other team's GDT because we didnt make one?

The standing rule of thumb is that it has to be an actual GDT, or the other team's gets used.

That standard goes back beyond the point when our own half-assed GDT inside joke came about.

 

[EastonBlues22]

Yes. We tried to do our usual half-assed one, and the mods refused it and used the opponents GDT which was....traditional. It felt kind of like a slap in the face, since that was kind of our forum tradition they were crapping on. But I doubt it would be received any better now.

Can we do one themed on the movie Airplane? There are lots of great .gifs we could use.

I really wanted to put together a Game of Thrones one, but I don't think I'm going to have the time.

GOT's final season premiers 4/14, Blues are playing the "White Walkers," etc. It all sets up too perfectly not to use it.

 

[brokeu91]

I really wanted to put together a Game of Thrones one, but I don't think I'm going to have the time.

GOT's final season premiers 4/14, Blues are playing the "White Walkers," etc. It all sets up too perfectly not to use it.

If I had any photoshop skills at all, I would assist you with that. But instead I'll just rely on the good people of our forum to create the thread.

 

[Zamadoo]

I really wanted to put together a Game of Thrones one, but I don't think I'm going to have the time.

GOT's final season premiers 4/14, Blues are playing the "White Walkers," etc. It all sets up too perfectly not to use it.

Ya the 8pm Premier time is really cramping my style with the Blues starting at 6:30. My wife laughed when I said we could just wait until after the game to watch it around 9....

 

[The Note]

I can try and get a GDT together if no one else wants to. It won't be GOT themed but I'm happy to do something.

 

[Klank Loves You]

I’m curious about that first sentence, why’s that?

Without going into details, basically the writers ran out of book material. They had to tie up a million loose ends really fast so the show could end. That said, the directors for this last season have some amazing episodes under their belt. A really good s8 could make me recommend GoT again.

 

[OSA]

Without going into details, basically the writers ran out of book material. They had to tie up a million loose ends really fast so the show could end. That said, the directors for this last season have some amazing episodes under their belt. A really good s8 could make me recommend GoT again.

Episode 1 sucked lol

 

[Klank Loves You]

Episode 1 sucked lol

What was with the cheesy dragon date??

We got yelled at for GoT discussion. Try to keep spoilers in the OT thread.