St. Louis Blues 2010 Regular Season Thread

[MrCrowesGarden]

My proposal for Steen's nickname:

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[TheoSqua]

I ♥ Steen.

Yeah. What a great trade.

[slide_into_first]

Anaheim and San Jose look like they will fall in the standings but I hate the Blues never having breathing room.

[longhornbaseball]

Yeah. What a great trade.

They should have signed Stempniak in the off season. It would have been a total coup.

Anaheim and San Jose look like they will fall in the standings but I hate the Blues never having breathing room.

The West is just sick. There will probably be 11-12 teams with a legitimate shot at the playoffs. There won't be breathing room for the rest of the year. They're playing alright. If they can hold out until Oshie comes back in March, hopefully they'll be able to put a run together.

[TimeForGuinness]

Any word on the concussion twins?

[TheoSqua]

I was really impressed with Brewer's shots last night. He's not going to fool anyone into thinking he's Al MacInnis, but he's got a decent shot. (Yeah JC, i'm repeating what I said on LGB...) But it's fairly accurate and is a decent right-handed shot.

If he can keep an accurate shot from the perimeter like that that defenses have to account for, it may open up the middle of the ice a bit more. Currently it seems like our wingers always get mauled going in with the puck, and it's because defenses don't really have to account for our defenceman chipping in much. The last few weeks i've noticed players like Brewer and Jackman, normally stay at home guys, trying to chip in a bit. If they can, that's a huge boost for our offense. Even better, it means we don't have to watch Boyes make shots that miss the net by eight feet every game.

[longhornbaseball]

Any word on the concussion twins?

Not really but JD said this:

“It felt good to get some good news, and we look at our injured people, Pietrangelo is upper body, he’s day to day. Roman Polak is making real good progress, we’re excited about that. Oshie’s on track; it’s going to be a long time yet. And the two concussions are two concussions and I don’t want to get into that because when you work with concussions what happens is when the players get over it, they walk in and tell you they feel good. So then you go from there.”

Perron hasn't updated his twitter since November 28th which isn't a good sign because he used to tweet everyday. I remember hearing he was having trouble driving, watching TV, and using a computer so it appears he's still having issues. I haven't heard anything on McDonald. At this point I just hope these guys aren't damaged beyond this year. For their sake and the fact that they are extremely important to how the franchise performs over the next 2-3 years.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Time to make Fat Joe pay tonight. Who's gonna be the one to do it? Cam, Winchester?

[TimeForGuinness]

Any word on the concussion twins?

Not really but JD said this:

“It felt good to get some good news, and we look at our injured people, Pietrangelo is upper body, he’s day to day. Roman Polak is making real good progress, we’re excited about that. Oshie’s on track; it’s going to be a long time yet. And the two concussions are two concussions and I don’t want to get into that because when you work with concussions what happens is when the players get over it, they walk in and tell you they feel good. So then you go from there.”

Perron hasn't updated his twitter since November 28th which isn't a good sign because he used to tweet everyday. I remember hearing he was having trouble driving, watching TV, and using a computer so it appears he's still having issues. I haven't heard anything on McDonald. At this point I just hope these guys aren't damaged beyond this year. For their sake and the fact that they are extremely important to how the franchise performs over the next 2-3 years.

The longer we don't hear any information about Perron, the more I'm worried that he may be done.

Reminds me of the kid out of Kansas that was playing for SLU last year (Jeff Reed?)...one concussion that basically ruined his life. Had to leave school and go back home.

[thrill]

http://theshinguardian.com/2010/12/07/i ... ad-part-i/
This is a really scary, sad interview with St Louis soccer legend Taylor Twellman about how concussions derailed his life. Not just his career, his life.

If DP is dealing with quality of life issues like this, it's sad to say but he needs to do the hard thing and put his future as a person ahead of his future as a player. It's a devastating injury that needs to be taken seriously.