Scrantonicity 2
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- Mar 7, 2016
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Man, are we doing this again this year? Team x looks bad....
It's far to early to make any judgement calls.
Since when is Maroon a 3rd/4th liner? You got a great deal for him.
Blues will be fine, its early.
WRONG. They want on and on about their team being so great this year and they made all the smart changes and this year will be different and blah blah blahPretty sure many Blues fans were hesitant if they had made too many changes but meh, what do I know
The 'look forward' is the next 76~ games
Dude, seriously, did Tom Stillman run over your dog? Your overt hate for a team that isn't even a division rival is, well, disturbing.WRONG. They want on and on about their team being so great this year and they made all the smart changes and this year will be different and blah blah blah
I Knew theyd suck, and they suck, but still early to know the level of the awful hockey they will display all year
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Ron Howard: “He wrote a novel.”
It's frustrating. Jake Allen is a anchor.
We're clueless. How someone hasn't been fired is ridiculous.
I think it is time for the St. Louis Blues to forgive about Ryan Miller trade and acquire the last asset needed for this team to be a serious contender.
Two problems to solve:goaltending and coaching. Both are a mess.A different look to this team that has been hyped up during the off-season. It’s been a rough start so far....are we worried about them as a team moving forward?
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Blues are the ultimate paper tiger of the NHL. Every year I put on a little bet on them to win the cup because they pay such good odds, and every year they disappoint. Looking at their roster player for player should match almost every team in the West.
Two problems to solve:goaltending and coaching. Both are a mess.
on paper great center depth. What isn't on paper is the fact that they one of the slowest group of centers in the league. Teams are getting faster and faster now and it seems to be the most important skill to acquire.
That is why I am talking about two problems. I never understood what's so great about Yeo. His teams always have trouble scoring to some extent. When he can ride a hot goaltender and/or defence it accounts for some success team-wise. His playoff resume seems to always read "lost to the eventual Champion/SCF" so he gets a free pass.As bad as goaltending has been, they've been averaging less than 3 goals a game.
It would have cost them their 2014 first round pick if they resigned himCome on, it was an abridged version. At least I didn't get into the minutia of what made the Blues a 'contender' or why their window was the length that it was.
Pretty spot on post. For the record though, even Bishop says he never would have developed as well as he did if he had stayed in STL or Ottawa. Sometimes with goalies they need to be bounced around to round out their coaching/experience to finally get good. Still as someone else already stated, the Blues are ******ed if they are not calling Columbus DAILY to ask about Bobrovsky.
See the sad thing is, the Ryan Miller trade was a great move that failed for 3 reasons.
1. Too late in the season - bringing a lifelong Eastern Conference goalie to the West at the deadline meant there was no time for him to adjust before the playoffs. Years later look how well he's playing for Anaheim. If the Blues had made that deal around mid February, I think it would have worked out better.
2. The Blues are/were a terrible overrated team. They stagnated, as all teams did under Hitchcock, in the postseason. I was at some of those games. I watched them rollover and leave Miller out to dry. They spent those games penned in their own zone and gave him no offensive support. They would have needed prime-aged Hasek to get past the 1st round that year.
3. STL fans/media are as stupid as the management. They blamed everything on Miller when even the GM said that he was at best a "5-10%" improvement over Halak. Yet the fans/media acted like he was supposed to get a shutout every game, and rode him when he didn't. So instead of resigning him and keeping a great goalie in town for an extra couple years where he'd be able to adjust to the Western Conference play style, they lost him for nothing and now have Joke Allen in net while Miller is the best backup in the league and helping the Ducks (who on paper should be a bubble team at best) stay #1 in the Western Conference. (Seriously, Gibson and Miller are ****ing magicians last year/this year.) I know its still early, and they'll come down, but its hard to see them miss the playoffs whereas unless the Blues can pull off a mid season trade for Bobrovsky (hah!) it's hard to see them making the postseason.
Surprised we haven’t had a visit from that one canucks fan who has an abnormally large hatred for the Blues.
It would have cost them their 2014 first round pick if they resigned him
Yea and look at what a boon Robby Fabbri has been to their offense. Totally compensates for a lack of goaltending.