St. Louis and San Jose Watch (1st round picks)

[toomuchsauce]

2-0 loss at home to the Kings. Man if that 1st pick was unprotected the dreams we could dream!

That's a brutal loss for St. Louis, wow

 

[La Cosa Nostra]

The top 10 protection is optional correct? As in if the Blues finish with pick 9 or 10 they may choose to just give up the pick this year?

A lot likelier the Blues finish bottom 10 then make the playoffs. As us Sabre fans have learned the last 6 years you can definitely play yourself out of a playoff spot by Thanksgiving. And even if they do by some miracle make the playoffs they are getting destroyed in round 1.

So pretty much a lock for a top 18 pick this year or an unprotected 2020 1st next year....absolutely amazing.

 

[Ace]

Well we did send them a sleeper agent.

 

[Gabrielor]

Eventually, St Louis will have to fire a coach, or make a big move, and they'll get traction from it.

Hopefully it'll be too late to fix the playoff hope, but just enough that they finish close.

 

[Snippit]

I'm gonna start cheering for STL wins from now on.

I want an 11-20 pick in this draft. This draft is deep and I don't want to wait an entire year.

STL could also easily re-tool and push hard next year. They have the lineup to do it.

 

[Snippit]

Well we did send them a sleeper agent.

I'm hoping this is a joke but sadly I feel like it isn't.

 

[toomuchsauce]

I'm hoping this is a joke but sadly I feel like it isn't.

pretty clearly a joke, what are you talking about?

 

[Ace]

They play Nashville next. Alone in 30th having just lost to the only team behind them. It’s getting ugly fast.

 

[Djp]

They play Nashville next. Alone in 30th having just lost to the only team behind them. It’s getting ugly fast.

They are only 4 points out of being 12-15 place and they have games in hand.

 

[wnysupport]

.....and Yeo fired, lol

 

[Ace]

They are only 4 points out of being 12-15 place and they have games in hand.

Give them 40 games in hand. They’ll lose most of them. They lost to the Kings with one of those precious games in hand.

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

.....and Yeo fired, lol

 

[Zip15]

I'm shocked Yeo made it this long. I see Berube gets the interim tag. Now we hope they don't hire Q, who could probably get them turned around pretty good.

 

[Moskau]

f***ing Cal Petersen twists the knife again.

 

[WeDislikeEich]

So, with them naming Berube the interim HC, does that mean no Q for them this season?

You would think that if Q was going to take over this season, he would have been named HC when Yeo was fired, no?

I am trying to think of an NHL team that named a interim HC for a short period in season while doing a coaching search. You would think at this point they’d wait till the offseason.

Plus, would they meet Q’s salary demands? I believe they are somewhat of a budget team, aren’t they?

 

[Aavvaa]

So, with them naming Berube the interim HC, does that mean no Q for them this season?

You would think that if Q was going to take over this season, he would have been named HC when Yeo was fired, no?

I am trying to think of an NHL team that named a interim HC for a short period in season while doing a coaching search. You would think at this point they’d wait till the offseason.

Plus, would they meet Q’s salary demands? I believe they are somewhat of a budget team, aren’t they?

I don't see why Q would even want to coach right now.

Just enjoy time off and go back in the summer and have teams line up for him. At least that's what I'd do.

EDIT: Haha I think he was tail gaiting at Soldier field yesterday, seems like he's doing just that.

 

[Sabre the Win]

they are pretty much a goalie away.

 

[Sabre the Win]

they are pretty much a goalie away from being contenders

 

[JThorne]

As soon as Quennville takes another job, he loses the 6.5m paycheck he's getting from the Blackhawks. He's also being paid next year as well.

 

[Reddawg]

As soon as Quennville takes another job, he loses the 6.5m paycheck he's getting from the Blackhawks. He's also being paid next year as well.

I don’t think that’s accurate...being bought out of a job isn’t like getting divorced and receiving alimony.

 

[1972]

So, with them naming Berube the interim HC, does that mean no Q for them this season?

You would think that if Q was going to take over this season, he would have been named HC when Yeo was fired, no?

I am trying to think of an NHL team that named a interim HC for a short period in season while doing a coaching search. You would think at this point they’d wait till the offseason.

Plus, would they meet Q’s salary demands? I believe they are somewhat of a budget team, aren’t they?

Why on earth would a guy with as many options as he has settle for the Blues?

 

[Zip15]

Why on earth would a guy with as many options as he has settle for the Blues?

The Blues are a pretty attractive job. There's still a lot of good pieces, both in terms of young vets (Tarasenko, ROR, Schwartz, Schenn, Fabbri, Petro, Parayko), and youngsters (Thomas, Kyrou, Dunn). They've been killed by poor goaltending and bad coaching. Q fixes the latter.

I'd much rather have that job than LA or Anaheim.

 

[Ace]

.....and Yeo fired, lol

...

Didn’t they know about the games in hand?

 

[sabrebuild]

As soon as Quennville takes another job, he loses the 6.5m paycheck he's getting from the Blackhawks. He's also being paid next year as well.

Pretty sure he still gets his 6.5 if he starts coaching. The only change would be that Chicago would only be on the hook for the difference in salary, if his new team gave a lesser salary than what Qhad for this year.

 

[Jim Bob]

I'm shocked Yeo made it this long. I see Berube gets the interim tag. Now we hope they don't hire Q, who could probably get them turned around pretty good.

I won't mind Q going back there.

I'd rather get their pick in 2019 than 2020.