GDT: Blues @ Trashville

[Xerloris]

Weird, one timers score a lot lately.

 

[Eldon Reid]

We remember how to score on the PP. If only we did that earlier.

 

[Hrkac Circus]

Kyrou scores to make it a 1 goal game.

 

[Robb_K]

Kyrou!!! The Blues keep it close! Now get the tying goal!!!

 

[Hrkac Circus]

Nope.
Well, any sentence that includes the words “Blues” and “playoffs” needs to include the phrase “mathematically eliminated” from here on. Anything else is nonsense.

 

[Eldon Reid]

WHY THE @#$@#% DO YOU PULL GOALIE BEFORE YOU HAVE CONTROL OF IT??????

Plenty of time. !@##@ing stupid

 

[Ted Hoffman]

 

[Robb_K]

And like The Blues of the last 2 years, they give it right back!

 

[DoubleK81]

the f*** was that?

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Lol what in the hell was that

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Don't worry, folks. It's only 3 more years of Faulk, and it's only at yearly salaries of $4.75M, $4.5M and $4.5M. Not like we'll be paying him $7.9M like we are this year to make those kinds of mistakes, when he does them in the next 3 years it won't be so bad because of his cheaper salary.

 

[BlueKnight]

Fire Armstrong

 

[Eldon Reid]

That end is on Bannister.

You don't pull goalie down 1 with 2+ minutes downuntil you get control in offensive zone. This showed you exactly why you don't.

!@#@$ing stupid.

 

[WeWentBlues]

Fire Armstrong

He has ruined this team 100% with just about every move he's made since the Blues won the cup.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

He has ruined this team 100% with just about every move he's made since the Blues won the cup.

Look, if he got us into this mess surely he knows how to get us out .... right? Let's give him 2, 3, ... 4 ..... 5 ....... 6 years. Maybe a few more.

As long as he's got an actuary table, everything will be fine.

 

[Blueston]

Time to go full on tank We do this right should still get to 12-14 range. Should be able to get real nice forward there. i don't think there are any d who i would want to pick at that spot.

 

[Majorityof1]

Time to go full on tank We do this right should still get to 12-14 range. Should be able to get real nice forward there. i don't think there are any d who i would want to pick at that spot.

Too late for that. We told you all throughout the season, we'd regret winning those close games we didn't remotely deserve.

 

[Blueston]

Too late for that. We told you all throughout the season, we'd regret winning those close games we didn't remotely deserve.

i don't regret it. we got our young guys in games that mattered, we reestablished culture of competing on nightly basis (no team does it every night), neighbours became top 6 guy, thomas a legit 1c, both goalies had great years, kessel looks like he might stick, saad reestablished himself, and it all happened while we were battling for playoff spot. we fell short, because we don't have enough good players, but i think we got real benefit. and to me the development of our guys is more important than moving up a handful of additional spots in the draft.

 

[Majorityof1]

i don't regret it. we got our young guys in games that mattered, we reestablished culture of competing on nightly basis (no team does it every night), neighbours became top 6 guy, thomas a legit 1c, both goalies had great years, kessel looks like he might stick, saad reestablished himself, and it all happened while we were battling for playoff spot. we fell short, because we don't have enough good players, but i think we got real benefit. and to me the development of our guys is more important than moving up a handful of additional spots in the draft.

No we didn't. We established a culture of letting our goalies bail us out on a nightly basis. We have won the xGF% battle in 22 of our 76 games.

 

[Blueston]

No we didn't. We established a culture of letting our goalies bail us out on a nightly basis. We have won the xGF% battle in 22 of our 76 games.

that is bc we lack talent and our coach doesn't seem very strong strategically to compensate. i generally liked the comptete, thought it was much more consistent after the coaching change.

 

[Majorityof1]

that is bc we lack talent and our coach doesn't seem very strong strategically to compensate. i generally liked the comptete, thought it was much more consistent after the coaching change.

And that lack of talent is why we need a high draft pick. We need more elite, or at least near-elite, players. Learning to compete doesn't matter if you don't have the talent to compete. We can learn to compete another year. We need to get high-end talent in and the easiest way to do it is through high draft picks.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. There is nothing we could have done to tank outside of sabotaging the team, and that is not something I advocate. I just wish we would have lost more games that we should have lost.

 

[AjaxManifesto]

Naw

5-3 Preds

Book it

Almost nailed it.

6-3

 

[LetsGoBooze]

Man i really wish we woulda lost 3-4 more of those close games this year. Not expecting miracles, but 6-8 pts less and we move up 5-6 spots. Big bummers.

 

[Blueston]

And that lack of talent is why we need a high draft pick. We need more elite, or at least near-elite, players. Learning to compete doesn't matter if you don't have the talent to compete. We can learn to compete another year. We need to get high-end talent in and the easiest way to do it is through high draft picks.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. There is nothing we could have done to tank outside of sabotaging the team, and that is not something I advocate. I just wish we would have lost more games that we should have lost.

yes, we need high-end talent. and if we aren't gonna pick top 5 it's huge crapshoot, but we were never gonna tank bad enough to pick that high. i like our scouting team and the results they seem to be getting last few years. and i don't see huge difference between picking 8-16 this year.

 

[Stlblue50]

That end is on Bannister.

You don't pull goalie down 1 with 2+ minutes downuntil you get control in offensive zone. This showed you exactly why you don't.

!@#@$ing stupid.

Bannister must have a huge parley on the Blues giving up the most empty net goals in the past 10 years, the Blues being the first team to average 10 seconds or less of empty net play before each goal is scored, and having the Blues for the least amount of goals scored while their goalie is pulled.

He must have panicked when the Blues scored that 6 on 4 PP/Empty net goal, so he decided to leave Binner out at the next faceoff then told Faulk to “do your thing buddy” while giving him a thumbs up.