Find every time we've ever talked about trying to catch up to a team and/or hold off some team. There's scores of them across the years. Hell, 2018 was replete with them down the stretch when we were talking about holding off Colorado. We start talking games in hand, someone wants to treat them as full wins and make conclusions accordingly and we don't discuss the possibility that we might piss those away.
Any interest in adding a magic number column? It’s a lot simpler since there aren’t cross-divisional wildcards to deal with.
You have a tendency lately to sound grumpy over hypothetical arguments no one is actually making here and now. Criticism of ROR’s captaincy, full crediting games in hand, etc. I’m sure people have said all manner of dumb stuff over the years, but why pre-emptively bitch about it? And if it’s just one bozo saying it, maybe easier to ignore him. There are enough dumb things actually being posted that it’s impossible to keep up with it, and even less rewarding to try.
I have a tendency to notice how Blues Nation works, how things have gone around here for the better part of 19 years, and the (lack of) logic that occasionally gets used in dropping hot takes.
I'd put us at 35-40%. Optimistically we need 21 points in 19 games to get to 59, and even then we're going to have to be clear outright because we currently trail Arizona and Los Angeles on regulation wins. (If we're tied with San Jose, we're tied on RW but up on ROW. For now.) We need all 6 points against Anaheim (2 games) and Arizona (1 game) and then to go .500 on point percentage against the top-3 to get there, and that still leaves Los Angeles to end the season which could be for a playoff spot.
We won't get to see the Blues icing a team with all the main guys in the lineup. It's still possible for us to see a full roster minus Sundqvist, depending on if Parayko can get back to 100% before the end of the year and nobody else gets hurt. But the team isn't the same without Sundqvist, he's too important to the team. This is why I say we won't get to see the team at its full potential.
I'm not comparing this year to any other year, I'm just saying that it's disappointing that we won't get to see this team fully healthy. I think it had a lot of potential, but we will never know, as I doubt we bring back the same team next year.
Are you really trying to compare the level of injuries they sustained in '18-'19 to the same level they suffered this season?!
Seems like no real prize for winning lottery but if we end up picking in top 5 should get really good player.
We're destined to pick 1st overall in a year with no real slam dunk player at the top, just like getting EJ in '06
‘really good’ is probably a stretch if we’re thinking guaranteed, but we would be guaranteed an okay player with some good intangibles.
Owen Power is essentially EJ, but obviously people think he will turn out better. I’m skeptical. Seems at best an Aaron Ekblad type. Not the year you want to draft 1OA.
