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Blues fire Craig Berube, name Drew Bannister (upd: no longer interim) head coach

They should institute a coaches waiver wire for contract termination. Just like a player, a coach goes on waivers and any team can pick them up with their current contract and the coach has to go there. Their old team gets out of the contract.

Really, anything that might make Mike Sullivan also lose his job is what I’m looking for here.
 
FriendlyGhost92 said:
It's kinda funny that Walman and Fabbri both scored last night when you consider they were acquired for Nick Leddy and Jacob De La Rose lol.
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Fabbri was coming off 2 ACLs (on top of one in juniors) and had no spot on the roster. His value was minimal. DLR was lousy there, lousy here. Fabbri can score 60 goals this season, I still won't have a problem with that trade. It was a lottery ticket deal for the Red Wings, good for him and them that they got a great prize for it.

Walman didn't do for St. Louis what he's doing for Detroit, and I didn't think he ever would (he'd top out as a 5/6 guy) so in isolation I don't have a problem with it. The problem I have is with that entire trade: it was all unnecessary. It added an older guy who was a marginal upgrade but trending downward, and then resulted in the loss of a forward who wanted to be here and who was clearly a key guy in the locker room - and the Blues haven't been the same since. Deal Husso? OK. Deal Sundqvist? Guy was coming off an ACL, still really rehabbing it, Armstrong pulled the well, he's not really played well, we can't have a guy making $2.75M (a contract Armstrong signed off on) on the 4th line excuse. Then throwing Walman in on top just depleted young talent for aging talent, and at a much higher price tag.
 
Ted Hoffman said:
Fabbri was coming off 2 ACLs (on top of one in juniors) and had no spot on the roster. His value was minimal. DLR was lousy there, lousy here. Fabbri can score 60 goals this season, I still won't have a problem with that trade. It was a lottery ticket deal for the Red Wings, good for him and them that they got a great prize for it.

Walman didn't do for St. Louis what he's doing for Detroit, and I didn't think he ever would (he'd top out as a 5/6 guy) so in isolation I don't have a problem with it. The problem I have is with that entire trade: it was all unnecessary. It added an older guy who was a marginal upgrade but trending downward, and then resulted in the loss of a forward who wanted to be here and who was clearly a key guy in the locker room - and the Blues haven't been the same since. Deal Husso? OK. Deal Sundqvist? Guy was coming off an ACL, still really rehabbing it, Armstrong pulled the well, he's not really played well, we can't have a guy making $2.75M (a contract Armstrong signed off on) on the 4th line excuse. Then throwing Walman in on top just depleted young talent for aging talent, and at a much higher price tag.
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Ehh, I can still fault them for the Fabbri trade. You can get away with something like that if you have to get rid of him. But they didn't really have to get rid of him. They just abruptly traded an injury laden guy with a boatload of potential for a fringe NHL plug.

Walman I don't think anybody expected. I think that's more a credit to Detroit's pro scouting than anything. They found a guy who was undervalued who they felt would thrive in their system, and they were right. Their pro scouting is kinda underrated.
 
FriendlyGhost92 said:
Ehh, I can still fault them for the Fabbri trade. You can get away with something like that if you have to get rid of him. But they didn't really have to get rid of him. They just abruptly traded an injury laden guy with a boatload of potential for a fringe NHL plug.
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Fabbri was an extra for most of the Cup run. 10 games, 1 goal and pretty ineffective when he did play. He got bumped by Sammy Blais for the WCF, then got bumped by Zach Sanford for the Finals. He was ineffective that regular season, and the following season he didn't have a spot in the top-6, wasn't suited to play the 3rd line, and definitely wasn't playing the 4th line that was lockdown solid. He had no spot on the roster.

Trading him was a favor to him, if anything. Got 9 goals in 16 games so far. Great, happy for him. Call me if he gets to 30 at this pace, and I'll still tell you "zero regrets about moving him because he was going to be in the press box for us."
 
Who would've ever imagined that taking three other team's problems to fill holes was a bad idea....

lol @ all of those no trade clauses - Armstrong is a bum
 
I'm a big Berube fan, how could you not be after he helps win the first cup in franchise history.

But when your powerplay scores just 7 times in 83 attempts, then it's time for a coach to pack his shit and gtfo. Its f***ing embarrasing.
 
STLegend said:
I'm a big Berube fan, how could you not be after he helps win the first cup in franchise history.

But when your powerplay scores just 7 times in 83 attempts, then it's time for a coach to pack his shit and gtfo. Its f***ing embarrasing.
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Doesn't Ott run the power play?
 
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