2024-2025 Blues Multi-Purpose Thread.

[ScratchCatFever]

I don't get to check the board very often these days, so if someone has already brought this up and it's been discussed to a point, I apologize in advance. But does anybody else see a lite version of Backes in Holloway with superior skating and softer hands? Even right down to his personality. Just seems like a guy you can't help but like and loves the fellowship of the game as much as the game itself.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

I'll give you the timing. On the revenue side though, that didn't effect hockey ops. The team continued to spend. Sucks for them, and I hope they've recouped those losses because it's a great ownership group. But lost revenue does not appear to have affected the on-ice product.

It did hit at a time we were rolling. But it's been years. I don't think Boston is still complaining about it and they were rolling more than we were. Besides, e en conceding it that's one piece of bad luck not a series of things.

The year after winning the Cup, the team anticipated the highest revenue. They'd have full arenas, sell more merchandise, etc. And anticipated home playoff revenue. Most every Cup winner makes a lot of money the season following. The Blues ownership definitely took an unlucky ill-timed hit on their revenue due to Covid, more than the average for clubs around the league.

I'm not arguing whatever the original poster premise was about a string of bad luck. You could argue Bouwmeester's event was miraculously GOOD luck. If he'd been in an ICU, I don't think he would have had closer access to a defibrillator. It was literally probably the most ready availability he could have had, and its easy to conjure up myriad circumstances where he just would have died before any help could arrive.

I don't get to check the board very often these days, so if someone has already brought this up and it's been discussed to a point, I apologize in advance. But does anybody else see a lite version of Backes in Holloway with superior skating and softer hands? Even right down to his personality. Just seems like a guy you can't help but like and loves the fellowship of the game as much as the game itself.

I don't know how big of roles Holloway and Broberg end up filling for this club over the next 5 years, but I find that both guys are the type of personality I want on my team. Having some young talent with a little bit of swagger and in the rise up to establishing their place in this league, guys like that are easy to root for.

 

[Reality Czech]

The year after winning the Cup, the team anticipated the highest revenue. They'd have full arenas, sell more merchandise, etc. And anticipated home playoff revenue. Most every Cup winner makes a lot of money the season following. The Blues ownership definitely took an unlucky ill-timed hit on their revenue due to Covid, more than the average for clubs around the league.

I'm not arguing whatever the original poster premise was about a string of bad luck. You could argue Bouwmeester's event was miraculously GOOD luck. If he'd been in an ICU, I don't think he would have had closer access to a defibrillator. It was literally probably the most ready availability he could have had, and its easy to conjure up myriad circumstances where he just would have died before any help could arrive.


I don't know how big of roles Holloway and Broberg end up filling for this club over the next 5 years, but I find that both guys are the type of personality I want on my team. Having some young talent with a little bit of swagger and in the rise up to establishing their place in this league, guys like that are easy to root for.

Good points. Covid basically put a screeching halt to the best run in team history, both from an on-ice and financial perspective. The team looked primed to repeat before covid hit and the world lost their collective minds Ah what could have been...

 

[bleedblue1223]

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[SirPaste]

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Shuffling chairs on the Titanic. But seriously though I am glad Buch and Kyrou are back together and Buch is back on the wing.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

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Is Leddy still not skating?

 

[joe galiba]

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I kind of like that 2nd line, a lot of speed and size running into the opponents with a good chunk of skill mixed in
in a perfect world it would be a heck of a 3rd line

 

[stl76]

I really hope there is a plan in place for developing Bolduc that we are just not privy to.

 

[PocketNines]

Bolduc lacks the offensive skills and talent required to be a producer at this level. I just never understood this pick.

 

[Dr Robot]

I was expecting more out of Texier than i was Holloway this season. Tex hasn’t been especially exciting. Bolduc hasn’t looked impressive but he’s only 21, I can accept a weaker performance at that age. Neighbor is only a year older so he still has room to grow but i was still hoping to see his game round out more. In general our whole team is not producing very well. A slow start isn’t the end of the world but I’d still like to see better stat lines.

 

[shpongle falls]

Bolduc still hasn’t played enough to make any definitive conclusion on him yet, still a long way to go.

 

[Frenzy31]

Saad hasn't done much more than Bolduc IMO.

 

[BlueDream]

I really hope there is a plan in place for developing Bolduc that we are just not privy to.

I don’t know what you guys are expecting. They are playing him and developing him just like they’ve done with any other young player. He occasionally sits out a game, which I don’t think is harmful.

I’m really not sure what “plan” needs to be laid out here.

 

[joe galiba]

I think Bolduc is here to start the season and get a number of games under his belt and to take what he learned back to the AHL and dominate, and injuries have kept him here for now