St. Louis Blues 2010 Regular Season Thread

[JackofDiamonds]

They were better in the 3rd. Pietrangelo is their best defenseman and I don't think its really close. He makes 2-3 passes per game that make you say wow. Johnson needs to show a little more offensively, but I think he's been lockdown in the defensive zone this year. Boyes was nowhere, and if Backes didn't play with Perron and Oshie I don't think you'd notice him, either. Winchester got his ass kicked by Mayers tonight. At least he tried, I guess.

I don't know, Backes was the 3rd star for a reason. San Jose is a BIG team, Bergie and Backes had a role (which I think they excelled at) to simply win battles and create space for the Oshies, Perrons, Steens, and what-have-yous. I am more impressed with the fact that the Blues limited the NHL's shots per game leading team (38+) to 25 shots. If the Blues lead the league wire to wire in shots against, we're going to be looking at a top 4 seed. I am going to the Blues/Bruins game on Saturday, which should be an absolute barn-burner, and I'll give some more thoughts.

1) Jell-O wants the puck. Give him the puck. Can't you hear him banging his stick? Why won't you give him the puck?
2) Erik Johnson might not be putting up the points yet, but he's made a big step up this year defensively.
3) We miss Coco for the power play.
4) I heart Steen. The guy is EVERYWHERE.
5) Boom Shak Halaka!

[lukethedrifter]

Will the lack of scoring hurt them in the long run or can they make this formula hold up?


Probably around 20th in scoring. N/m I just checked, 17th and middle of the pack at 2.7ish per.

[MrCrowesGarden]

They were better in the 3rd. Pietrangelo is their best defenseman and I don't think its really close. He makes 2-3 passes per game that make you say wow. Johnson needs to show a little more offensively, but I think he's been lockdown in the defensive zone this year. Boyes was nowhere, and if Backes didn't play with Perron and Oshie I don't think you'd notice him, either. Winchester got his ass kicked by Mayers tonight. At least he tried, I guess.

Disagree here. Both got some good punches in. I think Winchester got a few more of the big ones though.

[robbotis]

You have to be impressed w/ the Blues thus far.
Pietrangelo, Johnson, Oshie, and Perron have grown to good, if not great players.
Halak is freaking amazing.
The team has a near franchise best record, and some of it's best offensive players(McDonald, Boyes, Backes) have done jack. Those guys get rollin, watch out!

[lukethedrifter]

have done jack.

Ah, a variation on the old could care less argument.

[TheoSqua]

The first period was fairly even. The Sharks are a very good team, you can't expect to completely outplay them. The Blues just had younger faster players, you could really tell towards the end of the third period that the Sharks were just tired compared to the Blues.

Starting in the second period you could see that the Blues were outplaying the Sharks bottom 3 lines, the only time it became a fairly even game was with the Sharks first line out there. Once they started to tire it was all over.

I really hate to throw out names like this, but Halak really reminds me of Dominik Hasek. He's a smaller guy who has phenomenal fundamentals and positioning and is just crazy flexible. His style is very similar to Hasek.

Also Berglund/Backes won that game last night. The Sharks could hardly get the puck out of their zone (actual shots recorded were much closer than it seemed), and lost almost every puck battle in the corners. Berglund/Backes were big reasons for that. Perron did a great job of antagonizing their team. It's pretty hilarious to watch.

[Secret Weapon]

The team has a near franchise best record, and some of it's best offensive players(McDonald, Boyes, Backes) have done jack. Those guys get rollin, watch out!

When's the last time you felt this good about a Blues team?

[lukethedrifter]

The team has a near franchise best record, and some of it's best offensive players(McDonald, Boyes, Backes) have done jack. Those guys get rollin, watch out!

When's the last time you felt this good about a Blues team?

Why did you go and do that?

http://gatewayredbirds.com/forum/viewto ... +last+time

[Swingingbunt]

When's the last time you felt this good about a Blues team?

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[Secret Weapon]

The team has a near franchise best record, and some of it's best offensive players(McDonald, Boyes, Backes) have done jack. Those guys get rollin, watch out!

When's the last time you felt this good about a Blues team?

Why did you go and do that?

http://gatewayredbirds.com/forum/viewto ... +last+time

Ha I know, it just seems like the exact same thing we were saying at the beginning of the Cardinals season. We were winning lots of games, the offense wasn't clicking, but when they do, watch out! Turns out the Cardinals offense never clicked, hopefully it turns out differently for the Blues, it's gonna be hard to get a shutout every game (or maybe not with Halak)