Brewer Will Keep the 'C'

[Walt]

i would've like to see it go to McDonald, This is a good man - a leader.

[STLADOGG]

-17 last year.......lowest on team....no leadership........piece of shit........(Frank)

[WaukeeBlues]

why? seriously, why?
Why am I a fan of this god damn team?
I want to fracking stab myself.

[Nyghtewynd]

Every Brewer Counts! (TM)

[DaDitka]

Blues Name Captains, Alternates
Brewer remains captain, alternates are Backes, Jackman, Johnson, Steen
Friday, 09.10.2010 / 11:30 AM / News
St. Louis Blues

Brewer ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Blues Head Coach Davis Payne announced Friday morning that Eric Brewer will continue serving as captain for the 2010-11 season.

He also named David Backes, Barret Jackman, Alex Steen and Erik Johnson as team alternate captains.

The announcement was made Friday morning at the Ice Zone at St. Louis Mills, the team's official practice facility.

Check back soon for comments from Payne

4 'A's?

[STLBLUESFAN11]

Blues Name Captains, Alternates
Brewer remains captain, alternates are Backes, Jackman, Johnson, Steen
Friday, 09.10.2010 / 11:30 AM / News
St. Louis Blues

Brewer ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Blues Head Coach Davis Payne announced Friday morning that Eric Brewer will continue serving as captain for the 2010-11 season.

He also named David Backes, Barret Jackman, Alex Steen and Erik Johnson as team alternate captains.

The announcement was made Friday morning at the Ice Zone at St. Louis Mills, the team's official practice facility.

Check back soon for comments from Payne

4 'A's?

i like the idea of johnson backes and steen but not jackman. i dont really know why they will have 4 A's?

[SteveO]

Are they even allowed to dress 4 alternates? Maybe they're rotating 3 among those 4?

[strocklen083]

Are they even allowed to dress 4 alternates? Maybe they're rotating 3 among those 4?

Yeah, he's a strong captain alright. So good he needs four A's.

[STLADOGG]

Are they even allowed to dress 4 alternates? Maybe they're rotating 3 among those 4?

Yeah, he's a strong captain alright. So good he needs four A's.

nice.....but I would pick McDonald before some of these guys.

[fargoblues]

?

[philco_3]

Gonna need 4 A's when the C goes down for the season.

[STLADOGG]

http://blues.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=5 ... twt-090710

Payne said that the season will feature a home and road set of assistants. Backes will be paired with Johnson, while Steen will be paired with Jackman.

2 Assistants at home
2 Assistants away

[Krigloch the Furious]

If Brewer goes down this year...
please oh please oh please!!!

[cprice12]

http://blues.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=5 ... twt-090710

Payne said that the season will feature a home and road set of assistants. Backes will be paired with Johnson, while Steen will be paired with Jackman.

2 Assistants at home
2 Assistants away

A lot of teams do this. Some have three alternates...some have four.

[stlbluz]

I wonder what grades the rest of the team got?

[STLADOGG]

Weren't we trying to shop Brewer this off-season?........

[Winning Unlimited]

I wonder what grades the rest of the team got?

Brewer's C is generous.

[joosforjihad]

So is it alternate or assistant captain? I always thought the "A" stood for alternate as in the alternates deal with the refs when the captain is on the bench (hopefully often). JR repeatedly says "assistant" in his articles. Anyone here know for sure? This has been bugging me for awhile.

[cprice12]

So is it alternate or assistant captain? I always thought the "A" stood for alternate as in the alternates deal with the refs when the captain is on the bench (hopefully often). JR repeatedly says "assistant" in his articles. Anyone here know for sure? This has been bugging me for awhile.

It's officially "alternate". A lot of people use "assistant", but technically, that is wrong.

[dmiles2186]

Oh Jackman....thanks to resorting to the tired 'put down' that has been used over and over and over. Apparently everyone that posts anything on the internet is living in their mom's basement. Ya know, 'cause none of us have our own jobs, apartments, houses, bungalows, shanties, etc. We're just lonely losers who rip off someone else's internet and have the gall to care about a team so much that we post our thoughts on the team that we love on the internet. It's not like I'm sitting here, in my house, where I work from home, reading this and rolling my eyes. I'm confined to a dark, damp corner of my mom's basement, surrounded by cobwebs and one flickering light bulb as I work on my Windows 95 powered pc on dial up internet. But hey, 'tis neither here nor there.

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/p ... ede4a.html

"It was big for management (to do that), but everybody in this dressing room knows that Brew's our captain and nobody's ever questioned that," Jackman said. "I don't care what five or 10 people do sitting in their mom's basement, or blogging about who does what, they've never been in this room and they'll never know how much Brew means to this team."