St. Louis Blues 2010 Regular Season Thread

[MrCrowesGarden]

How many "A"s can we hand out? I thought it was only two (maybe three if you don't have a definite captain).

[longhornbaseball]

They had four to start this year. Steen, Backes, Jackman, and Johnson. They alternated home and away games.

[TheoSqua]

You can have a Captain and Two As on the ice, or 3 As and no Captain.

Since there's no Captain and the Blues alternate As between home and away they could technically have Six Alternates.

[Lesson]

It looks like the Checketts era is over:

Blues chairman Dave Checketts has decided to put the team up for sale, the Post-Dispatch has learned.

Checketts has been seeking investors to replace the roughly 70 percent of the franchise owned by TowerBrook Capital Partners. He said he lined up financing but has been unable to negotiate a deal for a purchase with TowerBrook.

"The bottom line is I've been unable to make a deal with them. As a result, I've got to turn from being a buyer to a seller," Checketts said late Wednesday afternoon.

So Checketts will step out of the way and put his personal share of the team on the market with the hope of expediting a sale.

Checketts had hoped to remain in charge of the Blues and run the franchise after securing investors to take Towerbrook's 70 percent. But that proved to be unrealistic.

So Checketts, in effect, has conceded that it's best for him to move out of the way to increase the likelihood of attracting new owners that will buy and operate the team.

Checketts has enlisted Game Plan LLC to help him find a buyer.

The goal, Checketts said, is to find a buyer for 100 percent of the team. And that includes his 20 percent share, Towerbrook's 70 percent as well as the 10 percent owned by Tom Stillman and other minority investors.

"I'm very proud of what we accomplished here," Checketts said. "The Scottrade Center is filled for every game. Blues fans love their team. We have some terrific young players in place. We have an outstanding management team to take the franchise forward.

"But I can no longer be a buyer. For I have to tell the world 'Folks, it's for sale.' And they ought to come in and look at it, because it is a respectable and healthy NHL team and in a great city. What I want to do now, what I have to do, is to make sure to find someone with the same passion and commitment that I do."

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/p ... 78c22.html

Do you think JD comes back?

[in5in06]

Enterprise Rent-A-Blues? I can hear Andy Taylor on the phone right now with his accountant.

[TheoSqua]

I really hope we get a filthy rich fanboy owner who feels it necessary to spend to the cap every year.

[JackofDiamonds]

I really hope we get a filthy rich fanboy owner who feels it necessary to spend to the cap every year.

Jon Hamm + Albert Pujols + Kroenke's.

[jeffbgoofy]

Oshie suspended two games for unexcused absence.

[cards2468]

Oshie suspended two games for unexcused absence.

I have tickets to Friday's game. Good thing he'll be back by then.

[JackofDiamonds]

Oshie suspended two games for unexcused absence.

He better hope that North Dakota doesn't win again.