St. Louis Blues 2010 Regular Season Thread

[longhornbaseball]

Its time for Boyes, McDonald, and Steen to justify their contracts. No Perron and no Oshie = boring.

[thrill]

It hurts our lovely, lovely defensive stats, but I'd prefer our monumentally bad performances all happen in one game.

[thrill]

Oh by the way, super happy that all of my favorite guys are falling like flys right before they come to Phoenix.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Backes signs five-year extension. Terms not disclosed at this point.

[thrill]

Good news: Oshie's ankle surgery successful.
Bad news: He may not be back this season.

[TheoSqua]

Backes signs five-year extension. Terms not disclosed at this point.

if the contract is reasonable, this is good news.

EDIT: looks like the deal is 5 years and 22.5mil.

4.5m a year is a good bit, but definitely manageable.

[Leroy]

Good news: Oshie's ankle surgery successful.
Bad news: He may not be back this season.

This makes me sad.

[JackofDiamonds]

*pukesinmouth*

[JCShutout]

Backes signs five-year extension. Terms not disclosed at this point.

if the contract is reasonable, this is good news.

EDIT: looks like the deal is 5 years and 22.5mil.

4.5m a year is a good bit, but definitely manageable.

That worries me a bit. Backes is good, but he needs to be 25-30 goal Backes to deserve that. I was hoping for closer to 3.5 per year, so he would be a steal in his good years, and only marginally overpaid in his 15 goal years.

Does this mean that Osh and Perron eventually get 5-6m per?

[TheoSqua]

Backes signs five-year extension. Terms not disclosed at this point.

if the contract is reasonable, this is good news.

EDIT: looks like the deal is 5 years and 22.5mil.

4.5m a year is a good bit, but definitely manageable.

That worries me a bit. Backes is good, but he needs to be 25-30 goal Backes to deserve that. I was hoping for closer to 3.5 per year, so he would be a steal in his good years, and only marginally overpaid in his 15 goal years.

Does this mean that Osh and Perron eventually get 5-6m per?

Yeah, Bobby Ryan signed for 5 years and 25.5m, so Backes gets 3m less overall than a guy who's scored the same number of goals in half the games.

I'm hoping that his 4.5m per year could develop into a internal contract block like Getzlaf's did in Anahiem. Bobby Ryan wasn't getting more than Getzlaf/Perry. If Backes' contract sets a precedent that allows the team to sign Oshie and Perron long term for the same cap hit i'd be pretty happy with that.

The team really has a good setup cap wise right now. Oshie and Berglund are RFAs and will likely sign around what Perron did: 2 years and 4-5mil. Once those contracts are over and Peitrangelo/Johnson/Oshie/Perron are all due big raises the contracts of Boyes/McDonald/Brewer/Jackman will all be off the books.