St. Louis Blues 2010 Offseason Thread

[TheoSqua]

Blues keep up the busy day... getting TJ Hensick from the Avalanche for Julian Talbot.

Well guess we know who is going to replace Lars Eller

[longhornbaseball]

Halak has the same agent as Perron. Be nice to sign both long term.

[JackofDiamonds]

I don't know much about Hensick. Details?

[MrCrowesGarden]

I don't know much about Hensick. Details?

Great player in college, hasn't translated to the NHL. Still some promise though, which is why I think the deal works out well for the Blues. Talbot's a good AHL player, but I don't see him being much of anything in the NHL.

[fanforever]

http://www.foxsportsmidwest.com/common/ ... hedule.pdf

http://www.foxsportsmidwest.com/06/22/1 ... eedID=3612

ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis Blues and the National Hockey League have released the 2010-11 regular season schedule.

The Blues will open the regular season with consecutive home games on Saturday, Oct. 9 vs. the defending Eastern Conference Champion Philadelphia Flyers and Monday, Oct. 11 vs. the Anaheim Ducks before embarking on a three-game road trip starting on Oct. 14 in Nashville. The Blues will have a fan friendly schedule for the upcoming season that consists of 20 home games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

“Once again we have filled our home schedule to include plenty of weekend games with many great match-ups at Scottrade Center this season,” said CEO of St. Louis Blues Enterprises, Peter McLoughlin.

St. Louis will play six games (three home and three away) against each of its four fellow members of the Central Division in the Western Conference: Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Detroit Red Wings, and Nashville Predators and will play four games (two home and two away) against each of its remaining Western Conference opponents.

Six of the eight Eastern Conference 2009-10 playoff teams will visit Scottrade Center this season. Sidney Crosby and the 2009 Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins travel to St. Louis on Saturday, Oct. 23 while 2008 and 2009 MVP Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals come to town on Wednesday, Dec. 1.

In addition, the Blues will host the Carolina Hurricanes, Montreal Canadiens, New Jersey Devils and Ottawa Senators and the three teams from the East that the Blues will play a home-and-home set against include the Atlanta Thrashers, New York Rangers and Washington.

Among the other highlights on the 2010-11 schedule:

* - St. Louis will have six Friday, 12 Saturday and two Sunday home games.
* - The Blues host a five-game holiday homestand from Dec. 23-Jan. 2 including a game against the 2010 Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks.
* - St. Louis will play 10 home games in the month of December, the most home games they have played in any month in franchise history.
* - The Blues will host Anaheim on Monday, Oct. 11 at 1:00 p.m. (Columbus Day) and Chicago on Monday, Feb. 21 at 1:00 p.m. (Presidents Day).

[Secret Weapon]

I don't like how they try to squeeze all the games into the weekends to boost attendance, it screws up the flow. Last year, it seemed like there were a ton of back to back games following a long stretch of off days. And now in just checking the first month of next season, they play an away game at Chicago on Monday, have 3 days off, then have back to back games against Chicago and Pitt on Fri/Sat. Kinda dumb.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Blues draft Jaden Schwartz with the 14th overall pick. I really like this pick a lot. Got to watch him a lot in Kearney (home of his USHL team, the Tri-City Storm and my current place of residence). He has such an easy scoring touch.

[Rieges]

Crowes, I know nothing about these NHL prospects beyond the prospect lists I find online. Any insight on why the Blues liked Schwartz more than Bjugstad?

[Popeye_Card]

I like the move of unloading Rundblad for the 16th pick. Basically a "do-over", as Rundblad was trending a bit the wrong way.

I like both picks. Both scorers, which is what we need more than anything.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Crowes, I know nothing about these NHL prospects beyond the prospect lists I find online. Any insight on why the Blues liked Schwartz more than Bjugstad?

That I couldn't tell you. Schwartz was just one of the few players I've seen in person. I know the USHL isn't the top of the heap, but it's still a very good league, and Schwartz just ran laps around everybody else in all the games I made it to. He had more points this past season since Thomas Vanek, who of course is a quality guy now in the NHL.