St. Louis Blues 2010 Regular Season Thread

[Lesson]

Strachan cleared waivers, BTW. He is now with Peoria.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Nashville makes a good-sized move today... acquiring Mike Fisher from Ottawa for a 1st and a conditional pick (2nd if the Predators make it out of the 1st round of the playoffs, 3rd if they don't).

Fisher's a good two-way player, but not a star. I'd think it's in the Blues best interest to start selling now. Boyes, Brewer, Cola, Jackman... they all should have value that's at least close to Fisher's.

They shouldn't be selling, yet. They need to see how the next two weeks or so play out. If they lose a lot of those games, then they should sell. If they're at the brink of being the 8th seed, they need to buy. Brewer wouldn't want to be traded after just having a baby(he has a NTC). I think there's a good chance Cola is gone within the next two weeks.

It's not so much the point differential as it is the number of teams ahead of us. Not only do we have to play great, we need a good number of them to play awful. I don't see it happening.

[Lesson]

Nashville makes a good-sized move today... acquiring Mike Fisher from Ottawa for a 1st and a conditional pick (2nd if the Predators make it out of the 1st round of the playoffs, 3rd if they don't).

Fisher's a good two-way player, but not a star. I'd think it's in the Blues best interest to start selling now. Boyes, Brewer, Cola, Jackman... they all should have value that's at least close to Fisher's.

They shouldn't be selling, yet. They need to see how the next two weeks or so play out. If they lose a lot of those games, then they should sell. If they're at the brink of being the 8th seed, they need to buy. Brewer wouldn't want to be traded after just having a baby(he has a NTC). I think there's a good chance Cola is gone within the next two weeks.

It's not so much the point differential as it is the number of teams ahead of us. Not only do we have to play great, we need a good number of them to play awful. I don't see it happening.

The Blues have at least one game on hand on every team ahead of them for the 8th spot(except the Wild) and have 4 on hand to the Flames. It's possible.

[longhornbaseball]

To finish with 94 points they need 38 points. They have 10 games before the trade deadline, so 20 possible points. If they get 14 points, I think they should be buyers. Anything less and they'll have to play like at least a 102+ point team for the rest of the season. Possible, but unlikely. According to JR, Perron is working out but still has symptoms. I doubt he comes back this year. That would be another reason to be sellers.

[JackofDiamonds]

To finish with 94 points they need 38 points. They have 10 games before the trade deadline, so 20 possible points. If they get 14 points, I think they should be buyers. Anything less and they'll have to play like at least a 102+ point team for the rest of the season. Possible, but unlikely. According to JR, Perron is working out but still has symptoms. I doubt he comes back this year. That would be another reason to be sellers.

This season is such a wash though, it's tough to be a seller in a season where you're held back mostly because of injuries. Unless we're getting talent that will be ready to perform next season, I'd hate to double back on the "rebuilding" effort because of one injury riddled season. The Blues were too fun to watch in November to bail on now.

Those 10 games are even more important because 7-10 of them are against Western Conference teams between 7-15th place. A 7-1-2 run (loss in regulation to Vancouver, tie Minnesota and Vancouver) before the break could easily put the Blues back in the fold.

[Lesson]

[expletive]

[slide_into_first]

Then they blew the lead in the [expletive] shootout

[longhornbaseball]

Such a horrible, horrible loss. Watching Oshie and Boyes in the shootout is the most pleasurable thing about this team. I wish someone else could score.

[JackofDiamonds]

They lost the game 5 times last night... dropped 4 1-goal leads and blew the shootout. Can't give up points to Minnesota, they need to win in regulation tonight.

[MrCrowesGarden]

They lost the game 5 times last night... dropped 4 1-goal leads and blew the shootout. Can't give up points to Minnesota, they need to win in regulation tonight.

About that...

Sell time.