Let's Go Blues

I read somewhere that we cannot lure him over until after the Worlds I think. Basically, there is some sort of rule that would prevent him from playing in the NHL before next season from what I remember reading. It would be nice to get him in the fold and give him a couple months to acclimate to Ame...

Three games seems reasonable. It was a bad hit, but Stewart had no prior issues and Kronwall did lean into him before the push. Stewart has been MIA for weeks anyway, so we should be able to play through it just fine.

Trading Nikitin makes sense with Cole's ascension, but acquiring another defenseman doesn't help the crowding any...?

A trade is imminent according to Rutherford on Twitter. There were rumblings about a trade involving Columbus earlier.

Very excited for the season. Let's get this started the right way with a win.

If we can weather these injuries and still be above .500 we should be able to go on another run when we get healthy again, even if that isn't until January.

By Wednesday night we'll know what our chances are. With games against New Jersey, Nashville, and Detroit we can either put ourselves within a game of the playoffs this week or take ourselves out of the conversation. This is our first of three remaining against Nashville, so we can really make up gr...

Frustrating but not insurmountable loss. How many points will the 8th seed in the West have this year? I think 92 is the magic number this year. We have 14 games remaining (8 home, 6 away) and sit at 73 points today. We would need to go something like 9-4-1 or 8-2-3 in our remaining games to make it...

I'm on board with no touch icing. Good reasoning on the time aspect, I hadn't considered that side of it. I also support getting rid of the trapezoid, it has always seemed very odd and arbitrary to me. I agree with the notion that an athletic goalie should be able to play the puck anywhere they'd li...

Interesting...

The move doesn't make sense by itself at face value, so I'm hoping that it is a precursor to something else happening...

I'm not surprised, the hit was pretty late and vicious. I liked the hit because that's why Cam's on the team. I'll trade the win against Washington for a 5 game suspension for Cam every day and twice on Sunday.

Well, we enter the Olympic break on a three game winning streak and just three games out of the playoffs. I understand the desire to position for next year, but I want to go for it this year still. It's not like Paul Kariya would net much in a trade to actually help the team next year. Let's make th...

I'm with you. My pet peeve is when people don't consider OT losses as losses and call a team that is 10-10-4 or whatever a .500 team. They aren't. Agreed. It's like saying that because it took you longer to lose it's not a loss :roll: An OT loss is not a loss, it's an OTL. There is a separate stat ...

Despite all of our struggles, we are sitting 4 points out of the playoffs with 30 games to play. This team has been inconsistent, but if we can just get a small streak going we'll suddenly find ourselves in the playoffs. Is this the ideal route into the playoffs? Of course not, but maybe we can peak...

The defense isn't what worries me. I actually like the play of our defense under Payne, it's the offense that worries me still. We need more consistent scoring on this team and we lack a true shooter since Boyes seems to have forgotten how to find the net. We need 2-3 guys who can find the net if we...

I would be shocked if the league penalized Oshie further, considering the referees on the ice did not even feel that he did it. I don't see how they can suspend or fine him after the fact on something that was clearly just two guys going for the puck.

Can I get a picture of Backes bleeding while laughing at the Wild player? Love it. That was a great moment. I don't think Backes even knew he was bleeding yet, but he did a nice job jumping in to protect Oshie from the onslaught of Wild players after the whistle. I really wish Backes was the captai...

I remember the same thing happening during the summer when the Cardinals were in Philly. A fan was shining a laser pointer at the Cardinals batters when they were at the plate. Very annoying, but also very difficult for security to find unless the referees decides to stop the game until the person c...

The taxes these guys pay in the US is probably pushing 50% with all the different state and federal taxes. I would imagine that it would be appealing to return home AND make more money. I don't know why they would stay if they can make more money and be closer to their families. The NHL could be in ...

I don't know if the call was made out of vengeance, but it was bad enough to suspend the ref for stupidity either way.