Confirmed with Link: Faulk to the Blues for Edmundson, Bokk

[Navin R Slavin]

Tommy Gleasmunson ftw

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

Hey Red!

HEY!!!!!!

Missed you guys! I must admit, I kind of "go to sleep" during offseason, but I'm soooo excited to watch our boys play again this year! Can't wait to be posting more regularly with you all!

(Disclaimer: My Yankees are in the playoffs lol-- so I'll be around a little less during the first stretch of games). Hope you are well!

 

[Svechhammer]

Just checked out the trade board and I'm seeing Blues fans speculating they'll trade Faulk this year because of the RHD glut they have....

Well that honeymoon didn't last long

 

[Lempo]

 

[Stubu]

A Winning Team needs a mix of skill, speed and toughness.
Joel Edmundson is appreciated by his team-mates.

This doesn't help if this isn't the main forum after this trade.

 

[spockBokk]

Prob would be more of the same after the first WSH game if Kase had been traded for Faulk:



Guy can’t catch a break...

 

[Tryamw]

Faulk didn't pass like that for us. 2nd St. Louis goal

 

[SlavinAway]

Faulk didn't pass like that for us. 2nd St. Louis goal

I literally said WTF out loud when he did that.

 

[AD Skinner]

Y'all beat me to it. Next he'll be shooting smart wristers alongside clappers instead of only using one type of shot for weeks at a time

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Where did the narrative that he couldn't move the puck on the PP come from anyway? Faulk shot a lot, but that was what he was expected to do when the PP was built on a 3 man game above the circles. A point shot is inefficient, absolutely, but so is an Aho one-timer and Teravainen corralling the puck and shooting from distance.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

That's why he was worth Bokk and Edmundson (essentially Edmundson and a 1st rounder in terms of value) in a sign-and-trade. That contract is risky, yes, but Doug Armstrong is no dumbass. People forget sometimes, but Faulk was and is a great player. The Canes made a great trade not because Faulk isn't good, but because it was cut-throat and cutting-edge asset management. Rarely do teams have the balls to trade pending UFAs while a team is in contention.

 

[WreckingCrew]

And then Faulk just had his patented bomb wide of the net out of play on the PP lol

 

[Anton Babchuk]

Where did the narrative that he couldn't move the puck on the PP come from anyway? Faulk shot a lot, but that was what he was expected to do when the PP was built on a 3 man game above the circles. A point shot is inefficient, absolutely, but so is an Aho one-timer and Teravainen corralling the puck and shooting from distance.

because his passing was telegraphed like 98% of the time. he could complete a pass but everyone knew what he was doing well before he did it, and subsquently the pkers knew whose shooting lane to get in front of. he would also almost never one-touch a pass, which was maddening.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Faulk with primary pp assist in his first game.

Checkmate, haters.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

because his passing was telegraphed like 98% of the time. he could complete a pass but everyone knew what he was doing well before he did it, and subsquently the pkers knew whose shooting lane to get in front of. he would also almost never one-touch a pass, which was maddening.

It’s hard not be predictable when you have a pass first LHS to your left. If Faulk is passing and a shot develops quickly off that pass, it’s going to Aho at the right half-wall. Where Faulk needed to be better, imo, was the quick wrist shot through traffic in lieu of looking for the pass to his left or right.

That set-up is just no good. No one-timer to the left and a weak one to the right. Why’s it so hard for this team to find a RHS forward that can one-time the puck from the left half wall?

 

[bleedgreen]

At this point I’d take a righty that could just make a decent pass and justify being out there on the pp. Not having even a righty passing option on the left side is painful. Necas needs to play the whole two minutes.

 

[Anton Babchuk]

At this point I’d take a righty that could just make a decent pass and justify being out there on the pp. Not having even a righty passing option on the left side is painful. Necas needs to play the whole two minutes.

unfortunately it looks like he'll be playing the right side for some reason :/

 

[bleedgreen]

unfortunately it looks like he'll be playing the right side for some reason :/

On the pp? That would be dumb.

 

[Anton Babchuk]

On the pp? That would be dumb.

that's what happened in preseason

 

[bleedgreen]

that's what happened in preseason

I feel like we’re more qualified to create the pp lineup than the team is at this point. Everything else, we can trust them for now - but I think it’s time we start taking this in our own hands. At least Waddell ruined Rod’s pp1 by trading Faulk.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

It’s hard not be predictable when you have a pass first LHS to your left. If Faulk is passing and a shot develops quickly off that pass, it’s going to Aho at the right half-wall. Where Faulk needed to be better, imo, was the quick wrist shot through traffic in lieu of looking for the pass to his left or right.

That set-up is just no good. No one-timer to the left and a weak one to the right. Why’s it so hard for this team to find a RHS forward that can one-time the puck from the left half wall?

Because we keep arguing that Gauthier is the better pure goal scorer

 

[NotOpie]

Because we keep arguing that Gauthier is the better pure goal scorer

Arguing? I'm already laid out in the Bojangles parking lot with a chipped tooth and black eye that I gave myself. One of me clearly lost...

 

[raynman]

Arguing? I'm already laid out in the Bojangles parking lot with a chipped tooth and black eye that I gave myself. One of me clearly lost...

Was it the Chris terry you or the Gauthier you?

 

[Wolfpuck]

Are we really going to be doing this every time Faulk scores a point this season (and beyond)?

Yes. Yes we are.

 

[Stickpucker]

Are we really going to be doing this every time Faulk scores a point this season (and beyond)?

Yes. Yes we are.

PPG Faulker INC