Fabbri out for the season

[KrustyKevo]

welp

https://www.nhl.com/news/robby-fabbri-o ... -286471120

[Toasted Oates]

And they called up Agostino and......Paajarvi!

Get to sellin', Doug.

[Krigloch the Furious]

Who comes up?
Nevermind.
Seasons over anyways

Sent from my R2 unit

[gaijin]

Sucks, definitely. I've had to recover from two ACL surgeries. The physical therapy ain't fun...

[theohall]

......Paajarvi!

Let's call up the guy no one in the NHL will claim off of waivers, even given multiple opportunities to claim him. Brilliant!!!

[Kerfuffle]

Armstrong needs to make a move to replace Fabbri - he better be working the phones. It would be a fireable offense in my opinion if he just sat idly by and did nothing. Season is not over - if history has taught us anything about the NHL the name of the game is just to make the playoffs and then the real season starts.

[gaijin]

Armstrong needs to make a move to replace Fabbri - he better be working the phones. It would be a fireable offense in my opinion if he just sat idly by and did nothing. Season is not over - if history has taught us anything about the NHL the name of the game is just to make the playoffs and then the real season starts.

And if history has taught us anything about the Blues, making the playoffs doesn't mean squat except hitting the golf course two weeks later than other teams.

Does anyone really think this team is a contender as-is? I think Kerfuffle is [at least partially] right. Army has only two choices: either work something to improve the team RIGHT NOW to make a stretch run, or sell at the deadline to better equip us for next year.

Honestly, I say sell.

[WaukeeBlues]

I was afraid coming on here that I'd be in the minority but yea I'm actually on the "sell" wagon too. I agree.

I was leaning that way even before this news broke and now with one of the few legitimate scorers this team has now out for the stretch run? Yea, sorry, Blues might make the playoffs but this team isn't a cup contender. No way.

It was a rough transition year losing some very big personalities in the locker room but also on the ice. Everyone from coach on down had to work around losing key pieces and its never easy to do that. Reload for next season is where I'm at. Any buying at the deadline would be a putrid waste in my opinion. Hopefully the Blues swing one way or the other so at least it's not a hard decision for Armstrong to make, whichever it is. I'm gonna assume and guess it'll be more losses than wins by then.

Trade Shatty, get the best possible return you can, entertain offers, keep that first round pick for 2017.

Fun fact: All 30 NHL teams have their first rounder so far this season. Nobody has traded theirs. Let's go get another one

[theohall]

I want to be in the "sell" camp, but also want Yeo gone at the end of this season. If the Blues sell, the Armstrong has a built-in excuse to keep Yeo around thus "justifying" his hiring of Yeo. Even though this will mean at least another year of inconsistency night to night until Stillman grows a pair, accepts how much Armstrong screwed up this off-season with the coaching decisions, and cleans house. Yeo staying will equal another craptacularly inconsistent season in 2017-18.

If the Blues buy a little via Shattenkirk to improve the team, Yeo won't have the excuse and something can be done in the off-season to fix that major issue.

That being said, I do want to be in the sell camp to improve the talent level. Just don't know how to both sell and get Yeo fired at the same time, though.

[WaukeeBlues]

I want to be in the "sell" camp, but also want Yeo gone at the end of this season. If the Blues sell, the Armstrong has a built-in excuse to keep Yeo around thus "justifying" his hiring of Yeo. Even though this will mean at least another year of inconsistency night to night until Stillman grows a pair, accepts how much Armstrong screwed up this off-season with the coaching decisions, and cleans house. Yeo staying will equal another craptacularly inconsistent season in 2017-18.

If the Blues buy a little via Shattenkirk to improve the team, Yeo won't have the excuse and something can be done in the off-season to fix that major issue.

That being said, I do want to be in the sell camp to improve the talent level. Just don't know how to both sell and get Yeo fired at the same time, though.

He ain't getting fired. He's getting at least a whole year with this team before something like that happens. Or at least a start to next season.

[theohall]

So count on the continued inconsistency we've seen this season for another entire season.

[gaijin]

So count on the continued inconsistency we've seen this season for another entire season.

Not necessarily. I fully expect that if we remain a .500 team the rest of this season and miss the playoffs, Yeo keeps his job because the situation in which he was placed wasn't [entirely] his fault, and management feels he should have a shot at starting from scratch and seeing what he can do with a clean slate.

That said, if we are still a .500 team by the time the All-Star break rolls around next season, I bet Yeo is gone. Armstrong doesn't have the loyalty to him like he did to Hitch. And if Hitch didn't survive it, Yeo sure won't.

[theohall]

Yeo being on this staff the entire season makes him part of the problem, too. If there isn't improvement between now and the end of the season, it's disingenuous to not consider firing him and his friend, Rick Wilson. Whose been behind the bench with Hithcock all year?? It sure as heck wasn't Steve Thomas, and now Steve Thomas is still behind the bench, because Wilson and Yeo couldn't coach the forwards without him. That's a problem. The biggest differences I've seen this year from last year is the Blues defense hasn't been near as good - which are the guys Yeo and Wilson can supposedly coach - and the wingers have not been as responsible defensively.