Vote: How do you feel about how the Blues handled Petro?
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I was surprised Army offered 8 and 64 to Petro. I really am. The intangibles of remaining a Blue was priceless and can’t be quantified in the contract.
I really think these top name free agents tend to let all the attention go to their head and common sense/values get thrown out the door.
Petro got a great offer but he didn’t jump on it. Army recognized that and made his own move.
We had the best Petro could offer as a player all these years, to buy the last 50% of his career at a high price/term doesn’t make sense. The Angels learned that with Pujols and the Leafs will learn that with Tavares.
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Just a thought, but you have to ignore what you know happened to be able to really answer it.
If we hadn't traded Chris Pronger in 2005 and we were signing him to a new contract (which he needed), would you have been comfortable with 8 years? Would you have been comfortable with even 5?
If we hadn't traded Chris Pronger in 2005 and we were signing him to a new contract (which he needed), would you have been comfortable with 8 years? Would you have been comfortable with even 5?
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That irrelevant to the question I asked and doesn't answer it.
TheDizee
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Pronger is a HOF dman who won league MVP.
Petro has not even finished top 3 in norris considerations.
do not compare the two.
Petro has not even finished top 3 in norris considerations.
do not compare the two.
I know I've said I'm done talking about Pietrangelo but sometimes I can't help myself. Now that I've had 3 or so weeks to process everything. I just shake my head. In my computer room I have a lot of pictures and memorabilia of everything that interests me, I also have a space on the wall with Blues Stanley cup pictures and Blues memorabilia that I've found and collected over the years. I have 2 pictures that I'm fond of and meaningful to me one of them is Petro hoisting the cup which is a now a famous and historical photo and the other is the on ice team picture with the cup. When I walk into the room and see those 2 pictures especially the one of Petro I just shake my head in disgust that the Blues arguably made their most biggest blunder in franchise history. Yes you can tell me to move on, And yes I have moved on but there's still times where I get just absolutely disgusted that they allowed it to happen, This is my honest feelings, If you don't like it, Well then I don't know what to say. The Blues made a terrible terrible decision and it's going to cost them.
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Yes they happened and I'll cherish them forever but you missed the point of my post.
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What Petro seemed to value most was the thing the Blues are most reluctant in the league to offer, and I am sure that became readily apparent to both sides well before any of us were willing to accept it. I don’t think it’s much more complicated than that. Petro still accomplished a ton with the Blues, and within a few years any bad feelings from either party, or fans, will soften.
The Blues may be carried into offering NMC kicking and screaming, but it obviously wasn’t going to be without a fight. If it was that important to Petro, I can’t fault him for that. The Blues as a matter of fact were offering him the most net $’s at the end of it all, so I am not going to harbor any ill will to anyone, or play out counterfactuals for how a deal might have gotten done, when I believe they both tried pretty exhaustively to find that middle ground.
The Blues may be carried into offering NMC kicking and screaming, but it obviously wasn’t going to be without a fight. If it was that important to Petro, I can’t fault him for that. The Blues as a matter of fact were offering him the most net $’s at the end of it all, so I am not going to harbor any ill will to anyone, or play out counterfactuals for how a deal might have gotten done, when I believe they both tried pretty exhaustively to find that middle ground.
I wonder how much money Blues will lose noting he was franchise first captain who bring Stanley Cup in the town? There is lot of by-products what Pietro has and would sell. I doubt Krug + Faulk product sell will cut lost of what Pietro would have bring to Blues and city and after his retirement, raise his jersey up, build statue. Franchise legend. All wasted and I'm shamed.
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Petro being captain meant nothing. Anyone who watches this team knows damn well the real leader was ROR.
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Thallis
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Considering Pietro has been referred to by his teammates as a coach on the ice, I don't think you have any idea as to what the situation is.
I’m as upset as most Petro fans that we let him go, but do you really think this sort of thing wasn’t in their calculations?
I mean, the various ownerships of this franchise have questionable history but this one seems to have its head screwed on properly.
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You mean the 1st round loss and the miss the playoffs year? Ya man Petro was such a f***ing leader.
What was he called while Benn was riding him like a bitch?
Lol.
Still going on about that, It was in the past, Just f***ing let it go already.
Thallis
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