Half-Assed GDT: Blues Vs Jackets

[Snubbed4Vezina]

Tucker doesn't have the foot speed or the defensive abilities to make up for his foot speed. And he's completely useless offensively.

Tucker wasn't even willing to do the one thing that we should be able to count on him for and that's stand up for Bolduc after watching him get punched in the face 3x.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Looks like Harrington got injured. Very possible he has to start the season on the IR if it's serious

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Tucker doesn't have the foot speed or the defensive abilities to make up for his foot speed. And he's completely useless offensively.

But he scored the first goal of the 23-24 season.

 

[Reality Czech]

The biggest question I have in my mind is Who will center the 3rd line to start the season?
I am having a hard time believing that Faksa isn't 4C. RT is 1C, Buch seems to be the 2C, blank spot and Faksa 4C.

It might end up being Texier or Holloway. Or an outside shot at Schenn to the delight of many on this forum.

 

[Beauterham]

It might end up being Texier or Holloway. Or an outside shot at Schenn to the delight of many on this forum.

Blues apparantly have been trying out Texier at center during camp so that's something we might see at one of the next pre season games.

 

[PerryTurnbullfan]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1839120818493616564

Can we please please please be done with the Tucker experiment


Victory+ is absolutely amazing. The only issue i had was in the first 3 minutes before puckdrop when the stream froze and glitched out for 5 seconds.

Time to move on, along with hockey Smurf

 

[blueper]

Blues apparantly have been trying out Texier at center during camp so that's something we might see at one of the next pre season game

Yesterday at practice they had Texier on Faksa's wing with Joseph. They had moved Holloway onto the wing with McGing at C and Saad at the other wing.
I took it as a good sign that they moved Holloway off of Faksa's wing and had him with Saad for at least one practice.

 

[Xerloris]

Are we sure we want to sign Alexandrov? We have 2 NHL centers on the roster and he isn't close to earning a spot. I'd rather have Walker in there.

I would prefer Kariya come out of retirement to play C for us than to ever see Alexandrov again.

As for Victory+. I am unable to watch it even though I live in the Blues viewing area because I use Starlink and the ground station it uses is based in Chicago so the internet thinks I'm in Chicago.

 

[Beauterham]

Yesterday at practice they had Texier on Faksa's wing with Joseph. They had moved Holloway onto the wing with McGing at C and Saad at the other wing.
I took it as a good sign that they moved Holloway off of Faksa's wing and had him with Saad for at least one practice.

Looked it up where I read it. Apparantly it was from a piece from Korac:

The Blues had Texier on a wing when camp opened with Zach Dean and Alexey Toropchenko but on Monday, he was centering Brandon Saad and Jakub Stancl, a project that sounds familiar, kind of the one they're experimenting with another multi-faceted skater, Pavel Buchnevich.

"I think that's a conversation that we could probably have," Bannister said of Texier playing center. "I don't want to jump the gun too early and say it is something we're looking at but it certainly is an option and something that I want to make sure he's comfortable with too if we decide to do that."

Seems like it is still an option, but they're still trying different things out, so who knows.

 

[blueper]

Looked it up where I read it. Apparantly it was from a piece from Korac:

The Blues had Texier on a wing when camp opened with Zach Dean and Alexey Toropchenko but on Monday, he was centering Brandon Saad and Jakub Stancl, a project that sounds familiar, kind of the one they're experimenting with another multi-faceted skater, Pavel Buchnevich.

"I think that's a conversation that we could probably have," Bannister said of Texier playing center. "I don't want to jump the gun too early and say it is something we're looking at but it certainly is an option and something that I want to make sure he's comfortable with too if we decide to do that."

Seems like it is still an option, but they're still trying different things out, so who knows.

I agree. They are trying things out. This morning they had Holloway take some reps at center in a drill. He was between Saad and Lafrierre.
I think everyone knows that there is no obvious choice for 3C on this roster. So, yeah, they will definitely be trying a bunch of combos.
I don't think we can read too much from what they are doing in practice.
Dvorsky centered Bolduc and Kapenen, but like I said I don't think any of this means much yet.

 

[SirPaste]

Can we talk about how easy and nice the victory plus app is??? I was able to pair it up with my tv and watch it on TV instead of phone and it was great quality. I really hope thee Blues sign a deal with them. View attachment 909792

I wasn't able to mirror from my phone to the TV which was frustrating

 

[Frenzy31]

Looks like Harrington got injured. Very possible he has to start the season on the IR if it's serious

Harrington, Peca, Bitten have been sent down.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Harrington, Peca, Bitten have been sent down.

I didn't realize he was signed to an AHL only contract for some reason.

 

[TheDizee]

This squad of Blues players show very low effort, same bunch of p***yes that don’t stand up for teammates that we’ve seen for years now…

Ughhh what a complete waste of time

To be expected, they have not rid themselves of the cancers that plague the locker room still.

I would not put my health on the line either for some of those jokers if I was on the team.