Dallas Drake Put On Waivers

by Brad Lee on Jun 25, 2007 4:02 PM CDT

Bye bye Dally

By Brad Lee

According to Stltoday.com, Blues captain Dallas Drake has most likely played his last game with the Blues after being informed Sunday that he's been put on waivers. While Dally has only topped 40 points once in six seasons with the Blues (during his first with the team back in 2000-01), he's been a good soldier for the team. And while some of us openly campaigned for him to retire at the end of this season, it's sad to see it end like this. According to his agent, Drake hopes to play for another team next season. We find that hard to believe, but whatever. Good luck to him and his family.

Â UPDATE!
According to the Post-Dispatch, Drake cleared waivers and the team plans to buy out his contract.

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Here is my best Dallas Drake story. His kids were enrolled at a local elementary school a few years ago and he dropped a pair of tickets off at the office. A friend of my wife and her boyfriend got them from her mother who worked at the school. We attended the game and met up with them after the first period. Sat next to them even.

Apparently during starting lineup introductions when they got to Drake, the boyfriend repeated something out loud about Drake’s kids being a handful at the school. The woman standing next to him says, “Well I should know. They’re my kids.” Apparently Drake had dropped off two of his own tickets which were right next to his wife. Oops.

Epilogue: Drake stopped by the school a short time later to see what the issues were at school (just what a good captain would do) and the boyfriend vowed to never again badmouth the donor of his free tickets.

by Brad Lee on Jun 25, 2007 4:10 PM CDT reply actions

this is a zero sum game. and i recoomened drake retire (which he will not) along with rucinsky.

if he is NOT claimed…

the bliues save NO cap money

the blues pay 2/3rd of his 1.1 contract, saving the owner .37 million while leaving a roster spot open that can not be filled for .37 million by anyone, not even soupy.

by Childhood Trauma on Jun 25, 2007 6:58 PM CDT reply actions