St. Louis Blues 2010 Regular Season Thread

[TheoSqua]

Yeah i'm not really sure what the Blues should do. They have limited resources and there's not that many appealing trade prospects out there.

Even looking at next season, here's our cap prospects:

4.2 - McDonald
4.0 - Boyes
3.5 - Steen
2.5 - Perron
1.5 - McClement
2.0 - Oshie
1.5 - Berglund
1.0 - Sobotka
0.8 - Tarasenko
21m (21.5m this year)

3.5 - Jackman
0.8 - Pietrangelo
2.6 - Johnson
2.2 - Colaicovo
2.6 - Polak
1.0 - Nikitin
12.7m (15.3m)

3.5 - Halak
0.8 - Bishop
4.3m (4.15m)

38m (42.25m - Jay McKee's 1.333m comes off the books)

So that leaves about 4.5m to replace add more talent while replacing/resigning Brewer/Conklin. Even if the Blues tap into their 12-15m of unusedcap space (let's say they half their cap space and give Army another 7m to work with) I don't know how much they can get done with 11.5m

The top free agents, like Brad Richards, will cost 8-9m a season. It seems with the money available the team won't be going towards spending money to get supplemental talent like Chicago did, they'll just have to hope someone breaks out and they get a couple lucky signings.


Edit: I didn't evne have Backes and his 4.5m on the list for next year. So basically payroll will have to be raised just to keep the level of talent the team has right now.

[MrCrowesGarden]

With EJ's own goal and the improved play of #4, I think Johnson is the new whipping boy for the Blues.

[longhornbaseball]

How much better would we be with this guy:

[TheoSqua]

How much better would we be with this guy:

I still think EJ was the correct choice.

[longhornbaseball]

I still think EJ was the correct choice.

I do too, and IIRC people who didn't like the pick wanted Kessel, not Toews. But hindsight is 20/20 and Toews would look really good between Oshie and Perron.

[MrCrowesGarden]

[MrCrowesGarden]

Backes goes to Team Staal in the 2nd to last round.

[Leroy]

What does that mean?

[MrCrowesGarden]

What does that mean?

Instead of doing East vs. West or North America vs. The World, they chose captains for the two All-Star teams, who then did schoolyard pick 'em to decide their squads. They had a few rules in plays before hand (all goalies and d-men had to be picked by a certain round), but that was about it.

Eric Staal chose Backes for his team in the 2nd to last round (4th to last pick). Phil Kessel of the Maple Leafs was the last choice, but he got $20,000 donated to the charity of his choice and a new Honda for it.

Game is this Sunday, 3 PM Central.

[Leroy]

Ah, I thought it meant he got picked in something like the rule five draft, and was confused.