Source of Offense

[cprice12]

From JR's Morning Skate...

SOURCE OF OFFENSE
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/p ... 2bc8b.html

The Blues finished 17th in the NHL with 218 goals last season. They are losing 31 goals this season with the departures of Keith Tkachuk and Paul Kariya. Does the club have enough offense to get back into the playoffs?
"I believe so; we all believe so," Payne said. "These guys are going to be able to run without tight reins. The leash is going to be there. (But) we don't expect them to all of the sudden fall once and we're going to tie a noose around their neck. We feel offensively that we had some guys have some success in the latter stages of last year, and we had some guys who still had to get over some humps, and we feel that the summer has brought that.
"Patrik Berglund, for an example, bigger, faster, stronger getting into training camp, he's a guy that based on the numbers last year we should see improvement from. A guy like Brad Boyes, David Backes . . . there's room there. With guys like Paul and (Tkachuk) gone, an opportunity has opened up. And so there's opportunity for ice time. It's going to go to the guys that earn that opportunity the right way . . . everything that's done with a team-drive attitude.
"If we go through the process correctly, the right guys are going to get the right opportunities and we'll score our goals. If you want to put a number on it, we were 24 goals off the Western Conference playoff average. You look at the names I mentioned in particular, if they get back on track, 24 goals is not a huge gap to come up with."

[gaijin]

Great. Let's get back to average. That's a good goal to shoot for.

[DaDitka]

It's 24 goals PLUS THE 31 THAT WALKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That's what everyone is missing. We are going to ask the same guys to score 55 more goals simply because we 'loosened the reins'.

The sad part is these guys know how much BS it is when they say it, yet stupid fans are still buying it.

[DaDitka]

Nice to see are 'sharp' media types in town calling them out on this.

My above post should have been an instant response by ANY reporter.

[thedoc]

DaDitka is right you need more goals and someone to replace the goals you lost. My god I am going to have to listen to him tell me he is right all weekend. Thanks St. Louis Media.

[kodos]

Halak will make up the difference.

The difference between last place in the league and 4th or 5th from the bottom.

BELIEVE!

[Winning Unlimited]

[glen a richter]

The Doc is right about DaDitka being right.