Ritchie Valens
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Raanta likely out the rest of the season for the Yotes. That is a massive, massive loss for them.
He had some pretty strong seasons in Buffalo too. He was 1st in scoring once and 2nd twice in his 3 years there.
I don't know, it's just odd to me to see a team with that much talent struggle so mightily.
They lost Stastny, Berglund and Brodziak and added O'Reilly, Perron and Bozak. All three of them should be seen as upgrades on the guys they replaced, yet the Blues are way worse this year than last?
I feel like it's either the coach (but they already fired Yeo and there's been virtually no improvement) or there's a locker room issue. Could be that all of those guys they lost were important locker room guys and they added two guys with questionable reputations in O'Reilly and Perron.
Calgary is going to kill us tomorrow.
Arizona joins LA in the Lose for Hughes race & Vancouver will bottom out too making it a high chance Hughes lands with a Pacific team at least until Arizona moves to the central.Raanta likely out the rest of the season for the Yotes. That is a massive, massive loss for them.
two words, Jake Allen
the guy just is not a starting goaltender, the sooner the blues realize that n get a number 1 goalie, the sooner they rebound
He's obviously part of the problem, but he's been with the Blues for years now and they've still been able to do well with him in net in the past. I think their problems are way larger than goaltending.
As an example, goaltending isn't stopping the Blues from scoring goals, yet they have scored the 4th least goals in the entire league. Meanwhile they're 10th worst in GA, but still ahead of current playoff teams Anaheim, Montreal, San Jose and Columbus.
And they've only let in 6 more goals than Tampa (and if you go back 2 days in time, they had better GA) who has the most points in the league and 4 more than Washington who are 1st in the Metro.
Also, looking at last year, they were 8th worst in GF, but 6th best in GA. And that was with Jake Allen only having a .906 svs%. So there has to be some deeper root cause of the problem than just him, and my best guess is a dysfunctional locker room.
"Hockey", aka "Mostly Goalie"
Guy has been kind of garbage for them this year. They'll at least get a good look at Hill now and be able to figure out if they need to bring back Kuemper(who could be good trade bait)Raanta likely out the rest of the season for the Yotes. That is a massive, massive loss for them.
This is definitely petty of me, but anyone else happy the Devils are sucking it up so we don't have to hear anymore "1 fOr 1" Hall talk from fans of other teams?
Also Eberle has 6-7-13 in 28 gp..... Chiasson almost has as many goals as he does points... .
You'd think in a contract year he'd find a way to out produce FillpulaYou'd think in the stereotypically more free flowing East, he'd blossom. Maybe that hit by Johnson ages ago really neutered him
Hopefully it's one guy pissed off at someone else for being lazy. Not two guys that are trying to get benched/suspended by the teamVideo: Blues teammates fight during practice
I'm press sure Bortuzzo gave Sanford a concussion there. Clocked him good on the jaw.
We're talking about how no one cared about practice back in 14/15 on our team. I guess the other extreme is guys giving eachother brain damage in practice.
STL Practice with a scrap of the year candidate. Well not quite, but they were throwing some bombs