Speculation: How does the 2024-2025 Season End for the St. Louis Blues?

[Stealth JD]

Annual prognostication time.

Winner gets bragging rights and a heap of praise from the Dizee.

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[ChicagoBlues]

Stanley Cup Champions!!

 

[AyeBah]

First round exit

 

[Majorityof1]

That 16th pick is ours once again!!!

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

I’m expecting an injury riddled debacle.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

I’m expecting an injury riddled debacle.

Don’t you have some sick hillbillies to take care of?

 

[TheDizee]

Top 5 pick. Bannister will be fired and Julien will be our coach.

 

[BlueSeal]

Same as last season.

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

Will always vote for the Cup.

Realistically, I think we squeeze a WC spot and are a 1st round out.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Will always vote for the Cup.

Realistically, I think we squeeze a WC spot and are a 1st round out.

Me too

 

[HighNote]

50/50 we make the playoffs, if we miss it won't be by a ton. If we make it, I'm guessing we're out in the 1st round, but depending on our opponent, I could see a 1st round "upset." We make it no further than the 2nd round, though. So I'm kinda between options 2 and 3

I'll be on the optimistic side and say 1st round exit.

 

[Thallis]

7th in the central

 

[Snubbed4Vezina]

They'll be an improved team and more fun to watch but improvement won't give enough of a points boost to overcome some of last season's 'luck factors.' The Blues narrowly miss the playoffs. They'll be back the following postseason.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

They'll be an improved team and more fun to watch but improvement won't give enough of a points boost to overcome some of last season's 'luck factors.' The Blues narrowly miss the playoffs. They'll be back the following postseason.

This is where I am too. Utah will be much improved and Minny if they have better injury luck could pass us too.

 

[BadgersandBlues]

I think we're the Washington of the West this year. We sneak in as the last spot and get our doors blown off in R1.

 

[TK 421]

I feel like I truly have no idea how this season is going to go due to the new pieces and having Claude Julien as an assistant and what effect that could have. Now to be clear I don't like this roster overall but I like it better than last years and I'm feeling pretty good about our defense which is a nice change of pace from my normal routine of looking at the defense personnel and muttering obscenities when I get to names I don't like.

If I were forced to make a projection I'd say they'll make the PO's and get destroyed round 1 just to personally spite me out of a lottery pick. Hoping for a clear miss instead to get in range of drafting one more high end player.

 

[kimzey59]

PO's/Out in Round 2.
I see us finding an identity as a fairly Elite defensive team over the course of the year and sliding into the PO's as a 7/8 seed.
I think that's a very good recipe to pull off a 1st round upset(I think there's a good chance we end up against Edmonton and give them fits with our defense), but the lack of offense will bite us in round two.

 

[Xerloris]

Top 5 pick. Bannister will be fired and Julien will be our coach.

From what I have seen from Bannister so far I think that's a likely outcome.

 

[joe galiba]

clearly, it ends after the last game

 

[PocketNines]

Miss. they are a 9-12 conf team still with a few nice pieces. but waiting

 

[Blanick]

Honestly I really don't care how the season ends. I am just going to enjoy the ride this year. The next cup window comes from the next batch of core prospects coming in the 2-4 years. For me its mostly about evaluating the pieces we have, both players who have been here awhile and new players and finding out who we want here longer term to be a part of that core.

 

[Robb_K]

Will always vote for the Cup.

Realistically, I think we squeeze a WC spot and are a 1st round out.

Unfortunately, THIS, or just missing the last Wild Card spot are the 2 most likely results, unless 3 or 4 of our young players unexpectedly have breakout seasons, which are much, much above where we expected them to be in terms of achievement. In which case, The Blues would win their first series, and lose their 2nd, in a competitive series.