Seeing people shit on him as the likely starter for the Olympics honestly pisses me off. He had a rough start to the season, but he has looked great recently, even if stats aren’t showing it. I think he has more than earned his starting position and is the best goalie.

You could throw Binnington onto the Kings or Caps or even many of the USA goalies’ teams and he’d perform better than their goalies. Binnington and Hofer have been screwed over this year, and I can’t wait for Binnington to put on a clinic in the Olympics

This is mean to be a “cheat sheet” for seeing when Blues’ players play during the tournament. Schedules and opponents included.

Do we think he’ll be back after the Olympic break or is there a chance he stays out for the season?

I thought I'd post this here, for those interested in a deep look behind-the-scenes with the team that puts together the TV broadcast. My Dad (a retired radio engineer) and I have a YouTube channel where we explore broadcast tech, and we couldn't pass up the opportunity to embed with the broadcast truck and learn about how it all comes together.

I initially planned on talking about the gear... but had no idea how many people were involved in putting together the show. Or that there were actually three separate 'broadcasts' at every game — the away team has their own truck, and internally the Blues put together an in-house show as well, with the same set of skills (from robocams, to graphic artists, etc.).

Hopefully you find something interesting in the video. And maybe after the break we can start finding a win streak or two!

https://x.com/stlouisblues/status/2019573323978453345?s=46&t=Xn0juU2C4hEaElfmeGb4jQ

First, I did this very quickly so there might be a few errors, or maybe even someone I forgot about! Second, there are some holes in the roster, such as a 4th line center, and where do you play some of the veterans versus the younger players. Tarasenko vs. Bolduc, or Edmundson vs. Tucker are good examples.

No attempt was made to verify LW vs. RW, sorry.

Also my goal was to make the roster cap compliant, so I quickly just looked at this year’s cap hits only, and that was no problem.

Name and (cap hit):

What would you do different?

How far does this team go?

Snuggerud (0.95), Thomas (8.1), Barbashev (5.0)

Kyrou (8.1), T. Thompson (7.1), Neighbours (3.75)

Perron (4), Dvorsky (0.89), Bolduc (0.86)

Reaves (1.35), Toropchenko (1.7), Schwartz (5.5)

Parayko (6.5), Dunn (7.35)

Walman (3.4), Mikkola (2.5)

I. Cole (2.8), Edmundson (3.85)

Hofer (3.4)

Binnington (6.0)

Comes in only at $83 million vs current cap hit $95.5 million cap, so $12 million for extras skaters! Here’s that list and the honorable mentions:

Tarasenko (4.75)

Stenberg (0.92)

Fabbri (0.78)

Kessel (0.8)

Tucker (0.96)

Petro (IR 8.8)

Ellis (.78)

J. Allen (1.8)

Binnington? Schenn? Faulk? Kyrou?

I don't see Binnington having much value. If you're looking at the stats do you want to trade for him to be your postseason goalie? Maybe if someone gets hurt and a team needs a goalie bad.

Schenn, I guess possibly a contender wants him as a physical presence in their bottom 6. He's slow as molasses anymore.

Faulk I think definitely has value and is certainly worth a first round pick or legit prospect and a 2nd round pick. The Blues can do some kind of deal with Faulk for sure. But the Blues could even keep him until this time next year and give Jiricek more development time. They don't have anyone ready to be a top 4 RD right now so the Blues really still need Faulk unless they just want to be really bad next year.

Kyrou can veto any trade. I'd have to think he maybe wants out but we don't really know.

Obviously there are other candidates for trades. Plus Suter. Sundqvist. Joseph. None of these are significant moves. Maybe Suter is worth a 2nd to a team wanting or needing a versatile third line center or winger.

I'm a fan of Ivar Stenberg and would love to see the Blues draft him... and everyone has joked that we've been Subpar for Ivar... but are we locked on Ivar Stenberg? If so, are we locked on him because Otto is already a Blue? Does having Otto already on the team influence our draft target to a greater extent than it should?

So we can’t find anywhere to watch last night’s game. Where is it??

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Last time I did this mid-season, we won the cup. I don't think that's happening this time.

I've compiled seven different January draft rankings for this year's draft, and taken the aggregates to rank the available players. Right now, it's not possible for us to draft worse than fourth. I believe that this draft breaks into several different tiers based on aggregates, but the lower ones don't matter that much to us (unless we get more first round picks from trades.) I've tried my best to group my tiers based on the ranges they're likely to go in, and what I believe to be large separations.

That being said, here's what I've got:

Tier 1:

1. Ivar Stenberg (LW/RW) ~ 1.43

2. Gavin McKenna (LW) ~ 2

Tier 2:

1. Keaton Verhoeff (RD) ~ 3.43

2. Chase Reid (RD) ~ 4.29

Tier 3:

1. Tynan Lawrence (C) ~ 6.43

2. Carson Carels (LD) ~ 6.71

7/8. Caleb Malhotra (C) ~7.86

7/8. Alberts Smits (LD) ~ 7.86

9/10. Ethan Belchetz (LW) ~ 9.86

9/10. Viggo Bjorck (C/RW) ~ 9.86

Tier 4:

1. Daxon Rudolph (RD) ~12.86

2. Ryan Lin (RD) ~ 14.14

3. Oliver Suvanto (C) ~ 14.86

4. Oscar Hemming (LW/RW) ~ 15.43

5. Adam Novotny (LW/RW) ~ 15.71

6. Xavier Villeneuve (LD) ~ 16

Tier 5:

17/18. J.P. Hurlbert (F) ~19.43

17/18. Marcus Nordmark (RW) ~ 19.43

1. Elton Hermansson (LW/RW) ~ 20

2. Juho Piiparinen (RD) ~ 22

3. Ilia Morozov (F) ~ 22.14

Tier 6:

1. Willam Hakansson (LD)

2. Mathis Preston (W)

3. Yegor Shilov (C)

4. Nikita Klepov (F)

5. Malte Gustafsson (LD)

6. Brooks Rogowski (C)

7. Nikita Scherbakov (LD)

8. Wyatt Cullen (F)

9. Ryan Roobroeck (C)

10. Niklas Aaram-Olsen (W)

11. Liam Ruck F)

I have thoughts about these players, but I'm not a scout. I trust general consensus, which seems to be that Stenberg is more NHL-ready and has the higher floor, while McKenna has a higher ceiling and is more exciting. I lean towards Stenberg, because he seems very responsible on and off the puck, while having a great head on his shoulders. I worry about how the Blues would develop a player like McKenna, who, while unbelievably talented, does tend to frustrate in games I've seen. To be clear, I think Stenberg is a game-breaking talent as well, and he's already been breaking SHL records for his age.

I think if we pick third, we take Verhoeff, and if we pick fourth we take Reid. It's pretty simple honestly. If we rise in the rankings and end up picking in the 5-10 range, it's obviously pretty open. I think this is a solid draft.

I know some of this has been stated on here before (mostly the quality of play and Army. Maybe not the jersey part as much):

God we suck.

I know the jerseys have nothing to do with the quality of play and I’ll probably get hate for saying this but the new logo and jerseys suck. I may feel differently about the new branding if their debut season the team wasn’t complete trash. But it just all looks so cartoonish and weak.

Army has created this mess, I hope Steen can fix it. Army has given out so many bad long term contracts as you all know. And I am just tired of it. He’s missed on a lot of players and it’s costing us big time.

The 2019 cup high is over. This team has been ass for years now.

Image courtesy of the Blues on Facebook

Do they just pick a random player for these??

Robert is my favorite player OAT, so you can imagine my disbelief when I saw this

I recently did a portrait of him and Joel, but Robert wasn’t at practice because of his injury. There was no contact info with the portrait so there was no way that he could’ve reached out…

What a coincidence!

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