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2024-2025 Blues Multi-Purpose Thread.

Beninnola said:
Bannister took over last year and then the team outperformed, almost made the playoffs.

Then the guy started the season with Buchnevich as a center, half a blue line, then lost Broberg and Thomas, then was fired.

I was happy when we signed Monty. I think he’s a good coach.

It’s disingenuous to then take this heater were on and say bannister sucks while restricting the aggregate stat you’re using’s sample size to the “obviously going to be bad” part of bannisters career.i think our outperformance is depth chart driven. We have leverage almost every night. I don’t like the stat comparison argument where it’s bannister had this stat and now it’s this stat so therefore bannister sucks and its all because of Monty. I think Monty can be good and that previous argument not true.

It’s irritating to me and I’m not drew bannister nor related. I’m fighting for a dude who isn’t getting a fair look. That’s where I’m at.

I don’t want him over Monty. I dont want him as our coach. I don’t think he deserves to be shit on. He was doing fine and then opportunity occurred and that’s that. This is the point I wanted to make and I’m sorry I devolved it to the other stuff. Monty gets credit from me. It’s not 70%. We’re on a heater. If you look at any teams stats while they’re on a winning streak: they’re going to be among the best in the league. What if we also used stats from before 4 nations when he was our coach and we were below .500? Of course these things take time, but so did acquiring players and players becoming healthy. It’s more likely to me the players being acquired and becoming healthy is why we’re winning, but also includes positive contribution from a good coach.

Here’s my compromise:

I’ll compare bannisters takeover to end of srason to Monty’s takeover to end of season. After this season can see how much better Monty’s run was - things like goals per 60 and other rate metrics will be interesting, far more interesting than an aggregating metric. I can get behind that better than I can get behind the current framing, and it would include a large amount of similar games for both guys.
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The team last year sucked and the goalies carried them. Was Bannister in net?
 
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BlueMed said:


Robert Thomas is an elite center in this league, but do Blues fans recognize that?
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I would say absolutely yes, since we’ve been banging the drum online about how good he is for awhile now.

The league is finally starting to recognize that too. He’s became the new Backstrom/Barkov in the fact that they were always looked at as the “most underrated 1C in the league” until they became properly rated.
 
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BlueMed said:


Robert Thomas is an elite center in this league, but do Blues fans recognize that?
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This Blues fan does.
He's been a PPG center for 4 years now and has really grown into an exceptional defensive player.
As crazy as this sounds, he has a shot at hitting 500 career points next year as a 26 year old(granted, he'd need an incredible year to do it). He should easily eclipse 1000 before he hangs them up.
 
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jura said:
* since Feb. 1 :popcorn:
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He has been since 2021.

Quantitatively: Thomas ranks 6th in assists and 11th in points per game amongst centers. His face-off percentage has gradually uptrended and sits at a respectable 54.8% this season.

Qualitatively: His speed and edgework are exceptional and his seam passes are pinpoint. He also has a pretty accurate shot, which is still slightly underutilized, and he is defensively responsible. There are really no marked deficiencies in his skillset.
 
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