2022-2023 Blues Multi-Purpose Thread
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By the end of 2023, not the seasons end.
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Linkens Mastery
Conductor of the TankTown Express
Can't sell an item if no ones willing to buy it. Right now, no one is going to be willing to buy.
Snubbed4Vezina
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Contending teams simply don't have the cap space to make those types of deals right now, an issue exacerbated by the flat cap. Things will start heating up in mid-January.
PocketNines
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They may realize they're sellers long before they can make a move. It sounds like people think trade value of the UFAs is plunging with every game, which it is not. They aren't going to move any contracts with term. It'll be guys they can sell at the deadline and they should have good assets to sell between ROR, Tarasenko, Barbashev, Mikkola, Acciari and Greiss. But they're not going to make a move just to vent feelings.
Agreed. Way too much salary to address for the recipient teams. These are deadline deals.
Brockon
Cautiously optimistic realist when caffeinated.
Agreed.
This team will be brutally painful to watch if they let the FAs walk for nothing. I'm not sold on a ROR extension ageing particularly a la Bergeron either. I'm thinking he'd be the next Steen - overpaid for a depth leadership role, unable to live up to fan expectations. He'd be the new Cam Ranford before the end of the 2nd year of said hypothetical extension, taking constant flak for his mistakes.
Send the man out a St Louis legend, don't keep him here til he's old and toothless.
Seen it mentioned in passing a couple places apparently we took mactavish off pk duties And gave them to van ryn. I was dubious when we hired mact but has been even worse than I expected. Monty exit was huge loss. hopefully Mact is one and done.
Linkens Mastery
Conductor of the TankTown Express
MacTavish is a joke.
BadgersandBlues
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Yea, the difference b/t Montgomery and McTavish has been night and day. Montgomery is a really good coach, Dallas was a crazy good team under him, he did great here as an assistant, and now Boston is kicking ass. The dude wins no matter where he goes - I'm glad that he could wrestle and defeat his demons and allow his talent to shine.
Speaking of special teams - can we please stop putting Tarasenko on his strong side on the PP? The PP is so obvious and stagnant when he's on that side. Our PP flourished the day we put Perron on that point and told Tarasenko to suck it up - we need to do the same thing again. Kyrou or Thomas needs to be on the PP1 off-side, with Schenn or Tarasenko on the other.
Goal
Saad
ROR
Thomas Schenn
Krug
This should be the PP1 and the PP2 should swap Thomas for Kyrou, Schenn for Tarasenko, Krug for Faulk, ROR for Buch, and Saad for Barby. The PP should run through the top with our D man having two one-time options and then get the puck to Thomas or Kyrou and let them try and set up either one of the good shooting left handed options that have one-timers available.
Seems pretty simple, but oh well.
Speaking of special teams - can we please stop putting Tarasenko on his strong side on the PP? The PP is so obvious and stagnant when he's on that side. Our PP flourished the day we put Perron on that point and told Tarasenko to suck it up - we need to do the same thing again. Kyrou or Thomas needs to be on the PP1 off-side, with Schenn or Tarasenko on the other.
Goal
Saad
ROR
Thomas Schenn
Krug
This should be the PP1 and the PP2 should swap Thomas for Kyrou, Schenn for Tarasenko, Krug for Faulk, ROR for Buch, and Saad for Barby. The PP should run through the top with our D man having two one-time options and then get the puck to Thomas or Kyrou and let them try and set up either one of the good shooting left handed options that have one-timers available.
Seems pretty simple, but oh well.
We need people to practice one timers on the PP. Like whats the point of a PP QB like Krug if you're not going to shoot the mother f***er when he dishes it?
Linkens Mastery
Conductor of the TankTown Express
Agreed with this. So many prime chances for one timers getting passed up. Also need to stop putting Tarasenko on the left wall.
AjaxManifesto
Pro sports is becoming predictable and boring
PocketNines
Cutter's Way
That one action is worse than anything Binnington has ever done.
PocketNines
Cutter's Way
There's nothing they can or really should do for the moment. Guys the Blues could sell include ROR & Tarasenko who both scored tonight, Acciari is having a good start, Mikkola will be valued like Jacob Middleton, Barbashev is a depth middle sixer with Cup experience for a team that wants to bolster itself. Greiss is a super well known quantity. Those guys will still be valuable even if they are mired in a crappy situation. They could reasonably add two 1sts, two 2ds, maybe two 3ds depending on how Greiss is playing.
But, we are going to have to wait until early March to get those picks and for the next 35-36 games these are the guys we are going to see.
Right now the Blues .440 is the 7th overall pick near .438 Ottawa (#6) and .442 Philadelphia (#8) after their win tonight.
But, we are going to have to wait until early March to get those picks and for the next 35-36 games these are the guys we are going to see.
Right now the Blues .440 is the 7th overall pick near .438 Ottawa (#6) and .442 Philadelphia (#8) after their win tonight.
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Hrkac Circus
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Posters would be calling for him to be savagely beaten and predicting it’s only a matter of time before his antics get someone killed.
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I do kind of wonder if Army accepts a close to bottom 5 finish or if Berube wouldn't be able to survive that.
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