OT: Should Doug Armstrong get fired?

[HighNote]

Doug Armstrong: 'Quite honestly, I'd do it to my mother if she was managing the Oilers'

General manager said offer sheets were not done out of spite, to make St. Louis Blues better, that he'd do it to anyone running a team to do his job right

sports.yahoo.com

So to recap you could put, a 3rd for Holloway and a 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and Paul Fischer for Broberg

Fair enough. Still doesn't change the fact that it's a fantastic move. Instead of it being highway robbery it's "just" a great trade.

No - but what is this obsession with Scott Perunovich????

Trade Joseph, send Kessel to Springfield - and keep playing Perunovich?

It's insane. The guy is too small and soft for the NHL. How much longer is this disaster going to continue.

He's been pretty good in my viewing, better than POJ and Kessel. If Kessel wants more ice time, then he needs to play better. He's been outplayed by Perunovich, it's as simple as that. And I'm not saying that Perunovich has been amazing or anything, but he's looked less out of place than Kessel on that 3rd pairing.

So I guess to answer your question, he'll be getting ice time for as long as someone else in the system can't outplay him. That or we trade Perunovich.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

James Madison was explicit when he wrote the Constitution.

Thou shalt praise Lord Army lest thou burn in a fiery hell.

I think it's the 4th Commandment.

Murica!

 

[TheDizee]

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Eh, too stubborn to understand you ship has sailed away.

Its hard to build team when your team dont have identity and players to whom trust. We are missing key players where to build team.

Previous team which won Cup was build around Pietro. He was our background. Players like Binny, (Allen )Tarasenko, Schwartz, Paraykon, Jbo were corner Stones. Then you bring playerd like ROR, Maroon, Bozak and Perron.

You dont first players like Faulk, Krug, Leddy, Fowler. You wait what shit will stick.

Even dumb like me can see why we add dmen like crazy. Once you delete your franchise player none of new toys won't fill that hole you created.



Sum up. We just dont have any other path than blow up. Army is just giving team CRP and our team is under DNR.

We are bleeding picks left and right and I hate to see Army eventually blow prospects.

This path what Army is doing will cripple us and Steen will lose flexibility to make adjustment if needed. (Type of deal like ROR etc)

He has built and paid for a rotten and IMO soft as shit core. This core outside of Thomas are complementary pieces who are overpaid. Kyrou and Buch are not elite or gamebreaker players yet they are paid like one now. Almost everyone on this roster is underproducing for the contracts they are on and when you have so many of these sort of contracts chewing up cap space, you see the result. This team is boring as shit half the time, which is why they are a .500 team.

And the worst part of all is his refusal to commit to the future so we are stuck spinning our wheels for a 3rd year in a row. They can try to delay it all they want but without hardworking elite talent, this franchise is going to be the new Minnesota Wild and stuck in mediocrity forever. Even the old rosters had to bottom out, they picked Pietrangelo 4th.

I truly think he lost his mind after Jbo had his health scare. It has been nothing but trainwreck decisions ever since.

 

[Xerloris]

Kyrou and Buch are not elite or gamebreaker players yet they are paid like one now.

You seem to be stuck in 2010, they are not paid like Elite game breakers. Did you honestly just say the reason they are a 500 team is because they are boring?

 

[TheDizee]

You seem to be stuck in 2010, they are not paid like Elite game breakers. Did you honestly just say the reason they are a 500 team is because they are boring?

A team that gets 15 shots a game and gives up 30+ is not going to be a winning team.

 

[HighNote]

A team that gets 15 shots a game and gives up 30+ is not going to be a winning team.

We average 26.1 shots a game and average 28.6 shots against per game.

 

[Xerloris]

A team that gets 15 shots a game and gives up 30+ is not going to be a winning team.

It has nothing to do with being boring, it has to do with sucking.

 

[Mike Liut]

I love Army

 

[finnishflash13]

He has built and paid for a rotten and IMO soft as shit core. This core outside of Thomas are complementary pieces who are overpaid. Kyrou and Buch are not elite or gamebreaker players yet they are paid like one now. Almost everyone on this roster is underproducing for the contracts they are on and when you have so many of these sort of contracts chewing up cap space, you see the result. This team is boring as shit half the time, which is why they are a .500 team.

And the worst part of all is his refusal to commit to the future so we are stuck spinning our wheels for a 3rd year in a row. They can try to delay it all they want but without hardworking elite talent, this franchise is going to be the new Minnesota Wild and stuck in mediocrity forever. Even the old rosters had to bottom out, they picked Pietrangelo 4th.

I truly think he lost his mind after Jbo had his health scare. It has been nothing but trainwreck decisions ever since.

and what team has a roster of players that all play up to their contracts?

A team that gets 15 shots a game and gives up 30+ is not going to be a winning team.

the 30+ shots against a night also ignores (conveniently of course) that the blues' defensive structure leads to high shot volume from the outside...

 

[Ranksu]

He has built and paid for a rotten and IMO soft as shit core. This core outside of Thomas are complementary pieces who are overpaid. Kyrou and Buch are not elite or gamebreaker players yet they are paid like one now. Almost everyone on this roster is underproducing for the contracts they are on and when you have so many of these sort of contracts chewing up cap space, you see the result. This team is boring as shit half the time, which is why they are a .500 team.

And the worst part of all is his refusal to commit to the future so we are stuck spinning our wheels for a 3rd year in a row. They can try to delay it all they want but without hardworking elite talent, this franchise is going to be the new Minnesota Wild and stuck in mediocrity forever. Even the old rosters had to bottom out, they picked Pietrangelo 4th.

I truly think he lost his mind after Jbo had his health scare. It has been nothing but trainwreck decisions ever since.

He has built and paid for a rotten and IMO soft as shit core. This core outside of Thomas are complementary pieces who are overpaid. Kyrou and Buch are not elite or gamebreaker players yet they are paid like one now. Almost everyone on this roster is underproducing for the contracts they are on and when you have so many of these sort of contracts chewing up cap space, you see the result. This team is boring as shit half the time, which is why they are a .500 team.

And the worst part of all is his refusal to commit to the future so we are stuck spinning our wheels for a 3rd year in a row. They can try to delay it all they want but without hardworking elite talent, this franchise is going to be the new Minnesota Wild and stuck in mediocrity forever. Even the old rosters had to bottom out, they picked Pietrangelo 4th.

I truly think he lost his mind after Jbo had his health scare. It has been nothing but trainwreck decisions ever since.

Have to say Jbo was big part of our d-core.

Gunnar - Pietro
Jbo - Parayko
Edmundson/Dunn - Bortuzzo

 

[joe galiba]

Have to say Jbo was big part of our d-core.

Gunnar - Pietro
Jbo - Parayko
Edmundson/Dunn - Bortuzzo

that top 4 was paper soft according to some definitions, and yet they were really good and won a cup together
huh, who would have thought?

 

[HighNote]

that top 4 was paper soft according to some definitions, and yet they were really good and won a cup together
huh, who would have thought?

It's "kitten soft.™" Get it right.

 

[LetsGoBooze]

Honestly was surprised Captain creampuff was strong enough to lift the Cup over his head.

 

[Celtic Note]

Honestly was surprised Captain creampuff was strong enough to lift the Cup over his head.

And twice to boot

 

[Ranksu]

that top 4 was paper soft according to some definitions, and yet they were really good and won a cup together
huh, who would have thought?

Best shutdown d-pairs easily for that year in NHL.

Soft? They were intelligent dmens. Superb at d-zone and enough so they did produce offensively too.

Rarher have d-core where opponent cant score than nasty d-core which opens up like crazy.

Edmundson and Bortuzzo werent softiest players.