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Snubbed4Vezina · Friday at 1:49 PM

Folks, we may have the save of the year in the first period of the first game. Jacob Markstrom!

https://x.com/i/web/status/1842260520285462994

Memento · Friday at 1:50 PM

Both Swayman and Binnington are headcases.

Give me a cheap Hofer and Zherenko/Ellis tandem any day. In my opinion, Hofer's earned a starting spot.

Snubbed4Vezina · Friday at 1:51 PM

Memento said:
Both Swayman and Binnington are headcases.

Give me a cheap Hofer and Zherenko/Ellis tandem any day. In my opinion, Hofer's earned a starting spot.

This is crazy. Hofer might be ready but who knows if he could handle a starter's workload. Zherenko and Ellis definitely are not.

Thankfully we have a veteran, Stanley Cup winning goaltender who had a phenomenal season last year so we don't have to find out.

BlueOil · Friday at 2:05 PM

i still find it nuts this is all over a (very good) tandem goalie who's never put in a full starter's work load

is he even gonna keep the cage enough to be the starter this season and ever be worth all of this drama?

Linkens Mastery · Friday at 2:15 PM

Snubbed4Vezina said:
Folks, we may have the save of the year in the first period of the first game. Jacob Markstrom!

https://x.com/i/web/status/1842260520285462994

Jeezus that is nice

Xerloris · Friday at 2:45 PM

Memento said:
Both Swayman and Binnington are headcases.

Give me a cheap Hofer and Zherenko/Ellis tandem any day. In my opinion, Hofer's earned a starting spot.

Give it a year or two and Hofer will do something for you hate him for.

ChicagoBlues · Friday at 2:54 PM

Snubbed4Vezina said:
Folks, we may have the save of the year in the first period of the first game. Jacob Markstrom!

https://x.com/i/web/status/1842260520285462994

Love that announcer. Reaching back with the racket. lol

Memento · Friday at 4:44 PM

Xerloris said:
Give it a year or two and Hofer will do something for you hate him for.

I doubt it very much, but thank you for your concern.

BlueOil · Friday at 11:50 PM

https://x.com/i/web/status/1842019380231631326

Reality Czech · 2024-10-05T04:31:39-0400

Snubbed4Vezina said:
This is crazy. Hofer might be ready but who knows if he could handle a starter's workload. Zherenko and Ellis definitely are not.

Thankfully we have a veteran, Stanley Cup winning goaltender who had a phenomenal season last year so we don't have to find out.

Crazy to see so many Blues fans dislike the goalie who brought us the Cup but here we are. Despite his "antics" on the ice, he seems like a pretty levelheaded, humble guy off the ice and I've heard many praise him as a teammate. I'd much rather have Binner at $6 million than Swayman at $8 million or more. He's a proud Blue and will likely retire holding quite a few franchise goalie records.

Majorityof1 · 2024-10-05T11:10:59-0400

Reality Czech said:
Crazy to see so many Blues fans dislike the goalie who brought us the Cup but here we are. Despite his "antics" on the ice, he seems like a pretty levelheaded, humble guy off the ice and I've heard many praise him as a teammate. I'd much rather have Binner at $6 million than Swayman at $8 million or more. He's a proud Blue and will likely retire holding quite a few franchise goalie records.

Except for those racist tweets from when he was younger as well. Maybe he was young and dumb, but they were not a good look either. That on top of his on-ice antics, he's an easy guy to dislike.

And this is rich coming from the guy who routinely trashes the captain that brought us a cup.

stl76 · 2024-10-05T12:55:06-0400

Snubbed4Vezina said:
This is crazy. Hofer might be ready but who knows if he could handle a starter's workload. Zherenko and Ellis definitely are not.

Thankfully we have a veteran, Stanley Cup winning goaltender who had a phenomenal season last year so we don't have to find out.

Agreed. Sorry but running a Hofer + Zherenko/Ellis tandem is frankly a ridiculous idea IMO. Great way to potentially damage the development of all 3 goalies in the system.

ChicagoBlues · 2024-10-05T13:08:20-0400

Majorityof1 said:
Except for those racist tweets from when he was younger as well. Maybe he was young and dumb, but they were not a good look either. That on top of his on-ice antics, he's an easy guy to dislike.

And this is rich coming from the guy who routinely trashes the captain that brought us a cup.

GTFO of here with this shit, dude.

Xerloris · 2024-10-05T15:23:36-0400

Majorityof1 said:
Except for those racist tweets from when he was younger as well. Maybe he was young and dumb, but they were not a good look either. That on top of his on-ice antics, he's an easy guy to dislike.

And this is rich coming from the guy who routinely trashes the captain that brought us a cup.

There wasn't a single f***ing thing racist that he said. Can't f***ing stand this p***y ass weak as shit society.

Reality Czech · 2024-10-05T17:40:05-0400

Majorityof1 said:
Except for those racist tweets from when he was younger as well. Maybe he was young and dumb, but they were not a good look either. That on top of his on-ice antics, he's an easy guy to dislike.

And this is rich coming from the guy who routinely trashes the captain that brought us a cup.

You're just perpetually cranky, aren't you? Not sure I'd say I "trash" Petro, although I'm definitely a bigger fan of the guy who's proud to wear the Blue Note and stuck around rather than the greedy turncoat who bolted for a little bit more money. I'm a Blues fan, why would I support that guy anymore? Good player though and I appreciate what he did while here.

Majorityof1 · 2024-10-05T18:02:22-0400

Reality Czech said:
You're just perpetually cranky, aren't you? Not sure I'd say I "trash" Petro, although I'm definitely a bigger fan of the guy who's proud to wear the Blue Note and stuck around rather than the greedy turncoat who bolted for a little bit more money. I'm a Blues fan, why would I support that guy anymore? Good player though and I appreciate what he did while here.

"Not sure I'd say I "trash" Petro...the greedy turncoat who bolted for a little bit more money"

542365 · 2024-10-05T19:56:49-0400

Reality Czech said:
Crazy to see so many Blues fans dislike the goalie who brought us the Cup but here we are. Despite his "antics" on the ice, he seems like a pretty levelheaded, humble guy off the ice and I've heard many praise him as a teammate. I'd much rather have Binner at $6 million than Swayman at $8 million or more. He's a proud Blue and will likely retire holding quite a few franchise goalie records.

I don’t like his antics at all, but if he plays like he did last year I’ll be glad he’s on the team. If he turns back into a pumpkin then he’s just a douchebag who provides mediocre goaltending for a big salary. Not much to like there.

BadgersandBlues · 2024-10-05T20:35:25-0400

Someone is going to die if they keep allowing Montreal to play Ottawa this pre-season lol.

Davimir Tarablad · 2024-10-06T01:09:10-0400

BadgersandBlues said:
Someone is going to die if they keep allowing Montreal to play Ottawa this pre-season lol.

Bit like the Blues/Caps preseason games in 2017/2018 with WIlson running amok

Reality Czech · 2024-10-06T04:59:06-0400

542365 said:
I don’t like his antics at all, but if he plays like he did last year I’ll be glad he’s on the team. If he turns back into a pumpkin then he’s just a douchebag who provides mediocre goaltending for a big salary. Not much to like there.

There's plenty to like if you focus on the overall body of work and how he carries himself the majority of the time. If you wanna focus on a handful of incidents and some not-even-that-offensive tweets from a decade ago then yeah I guess. Binner is not a "douchebag," grow up.

I like the fact that he played a huge role in our first ever Stanley Cup, and seems proud and grateful to wear the Blue Note. There were actually people who wanted to keep Husso over him, unbelievably. Glad we didn't.

tfriede2 · 2024-10-06T09:44:42-0400

BadgersandBlues said:
Someone is going to die if they keep allowing Montreal to play Ottawa this pre-season lol.

? What happened?

542365 · 2024-10-06T10:19:01-0400

Reality Czech said:
There's plenty to like if you focus on the overall body of work and how he carries himself the majority of the time. If you wanna focus on a handful of incidents and some not-even-that-offensive tweets from a decade ago then yeah I guess. Binner is not a "douchebag," grow up.

I like the fact that he played a huge role in our first ever Stanley Cup, and seems proud and grateful to wear the Blue Note. There were actually people who wanted to keep Husso over him, unbelievably. Glad we didn't.

I don't even know what tweets you're talking about, just the childish on-ice temper tantrums he throws regularly when he's playing like shit. That didn't happen much last year because he played really well. I'd love for that to continue. If it doesn't, you can be sure those same childish, embarrassing stunts will come back and he'll just be a mediocre goalie making a ton of money and embarrassing himself and the team regularly. Plenty of guys in the league can give you mediocre goaltending without all the extra bullshit.

Reality Czech · 2024-10-06T10:51:15-0400

542365 said:
I don't even know what tweets you're talking about, just the childish on-ice temper tantrums he throws regularly when he's playing like shit. That didn't happen much last year because he played really well. I'd love for that to continue. If it doesn't, you can be sure those same childish, embarrassing stunts will come back and he'll just be a mediocre goalie making a ton of money and embarrassing himself and the team regularly. Plenty of guys in the league can give you mediocre goaltending without all the extra bullshit.

I guess 5-10 times over the last 4-5 years qualifies as "reguarly?" I bet most goalies lose their temper from time to time, but it doesn't make them a "douchebag" as you said. Regardless, your anti-Binner bias is well-known and clearly ain't gonna change at this point. Hope he can prove you wrong again this year.

PocketNines · 2024-10-06T11:09:44-0400

"Get rid of Binnington because he's a headcase" is an example of the goalie being superior to the fans he plays for. The only Cup ever, in a few weeks the top goalie in franchise history, but the hater's differentiation is this is the guy who they deem unreliable mentally. It's so unbelievably pitiful a job at appreciating what the goals are that it deserves to root for sports the remainder of a life and never win

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