St. Louis Blues 2010 Regular Season Thread

[Swatcat27]

Im pretty pissed about Dish and FSN not working out their [expletive]... this is getting lame & old. I had to pick a higher package with Dish just to get FSN and now all my Blues, Mizzou & Cards games will be not available. Im switching to Direct Tv next week. Clowns.

[robbotis]

Im pretty pissed about Dish and FSN not working out their [expletive]... this is getting lame & old. I had to pick a higher package with Dish just to get FSN and now all my Blues, Mizzou & Cards games will be not available. Im switching to Direct Tv next week. Clowns.

Me too.
On a nice note, The Star Tribune's preview had the Blues winning the Central, and 3rd in the West.

[Popeye_Card]

1st in the Central? Ahead of both Chicago and Detroit?

I'd love to see it, but I don't think that's very realistic. I thought they knew something about hockey in Minnesota?

[robbotis]

1st in the Central? Ahead of both Chicago and Detroit?

I'd love to see it, but I don't think that's very realistic. I thought they knew something about hockey in Minnesota?

Yeah, they had Minnesota at 12 in the West. I find it hard to see a team that is worse than the Wild.

[BigDCardlvr]

Blues looked good that first period, they looked fast.

[Lesson]

The Blues win!

[st.lewis11]

I'm feeling pretty good about the team. I think Steener-JayMac are excellent third liners, and that Crombeen is more of a 4th line guy. A guy like Backes might just be the answer there.

Sure, we have the same problem as before, no top scorer to rely on, but I also think a 6-8 playoff spot is possible with the depth we have.

I don't think we need a "top scorer" so much as we need the top 6 to provide 20+. Oshie, Backes, Boyes, and Berglund need to pick it up. Backes doesn't need 35, Boyes doesn't need 40, but we need to score by committee and everyone needs to contribute. I am really happy with having Steen (30 goals this year?) and JayMac on the third line, I think we can score deeper than most teams. Steen/JayMac/Backes would be a ridiculous 3rd line, but there's not a chance that Backes isn't with one of Perron/Oshie/MacDonald/Berglund.

Great assessment, Jack.
Darn good to see us win the opener!

[longhornbaseball]

Berglund was invisible. He's been so disappointing. They got sloppy at times but they outplayed the Flyers.

[fanforever]

Penalty fest (25 penalties called total) boring game where the Flyers looked disinterested from the start. Congrats to the St. Louis Blues for the win

[JackofDiamonds]

Early season = penalty fest. The refs get an offseason memo to cut down the tripping, hooking, and holding and they enforce it like crazy for a month. That was a FAST game though, sloppy fast, but fast none the less.

The puck was awfully bouncy too, you have to wonder how frozen they were and if they'll fix that before the next game.

Berglund... he had balls when he was a rookie, but he's been playing too conservatively since. Guy, you're bigger than everyone else out there. Go hard on that beast with some swagger for God? Amirite Hawksworth?