2024-2025 Blues Multi-Purpose Thread.

[TheOrganist]

Pretty dumb signing to begin with as most of us said at the time...good riddance.

 

[sfvega]

Yeah, could have just not bothered with him at all this year. But better late than never.

 

[Majorityof1]

Pretty dumb signing to begin with as most of us said at the time...good riddance.

Eh, it's a completely buriable contract. We are able to send him down with zero cap cost. We actually needed him. With Saad, Texier, Joseph and Thomas all missing time at various points. He's better than our call up options at the time.

I don't get the vitriol about a $1m 13th-15th forward when healthy. I get it from @Memento standpoint, re: his personal history. But from a pure hockey management view, what he brings vs what he costs, its in line with expectations. I don't think you can make an argument that not signing him would have materially affected our season for the better.

 

[CaliforniaBlues310]

To add onto what @Majorityof1 said, he was signed before we got deals done with Holloway, Texier, Joseph, and Faksa as well.

On July 1st, we needed bottom six depth. His contract for what he brings isn’t bad either.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

To add onto what @Majorityof1 said, he was signed before we got deals done with Holloway, Texier, Joseph, and Faksa as well.

Exactly. There was no opportunity cost. He literally didn't prevent us from acquiring better players.

 

[bleedblue1223]

And even in the long-run, I doubt his cash salary prevented Army from doing something else.

 

[BlueMed]

If Thomas is ready I'm very very very worried he was rushed

I don't think anyone really needs to be. When a player is injured, there is a process where the team physician re-evaluates the player and clears him to play again. Often times, the initial timeline is very conservative so players do come back sooner, but they have to pass certain tests before they can be allowed to return to full activity.

 

[TheOrganist]

Eh, it's a completely buriable contract. We are able to send him down with zero cap cost. We actually needed him. With Saad, Texier, Joseph and Thomas all missing time at various points. He's better than our call up options at the time.

I don't get the vitriol about a $1m 13th-15th forward when healthy. I get it from @Memento standpoint, re: his personal history. But from a pure hockey management view, what he brings vs what he costs, its in line with expectations. I don't think you can make an argument that not signing him would have materially affected our season for the better.

Vitriol? Nothing about this season would rise to the level of vitriol. He's a useless player who brings nothing of substance to a hockey team but vitriol? No.

 

[Frenzy31]

GMs don't set the lineups, but they can certainly try a force a coach's hand into playing certain players more. I do wonder if that was part of Army's rationale here other than, you know, Kapanen not being a very good hockey player.

Armstrong will try to work for deals that help players - Fabbri comes to mind. Kap wasn't getting any playing time and that really isn't good for a guy on a 1 year contract. There was no market for him via trade, and the Blues wouldn't have wanted to add an asset to help him move - so. Waiver makes sense.

If he isn't claim, he plays in the AHL and hopefully is able to add some scoring to the Tbirds.