How Much Do The Blues Suck?

if my brutally fast 10 seconds of math is right, unless we are over .500 we will not make last years ugly record.

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ok ok I stole that one from Naked Gun.

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childhood and anybody else there that hasn’t read the stats correctly b/c the stats make a misguided attempt

1)LAST YEAR WE WERE MORE THAN A GAME UNDER .500
2) THIS YEAR WE ARE WAY UNDER .500
3)IT GOES WINS—-LOSSES IN REGULATION—-LOSSES IN OVERIMTE OR SHOOTOUT BUT THEY ARE STILL LOSSES!!!!
4)OVERTIME AND SHOOTOUT LOSSES ARE STILL LOSSES!!!
5)OVERTIME AND SHOOTOUT LOSSES ARE STILL LOSSES!!!
6)…
7)…
8) so in other words with the games remaining we’d have to pretty much win every game to be above .500

9) KEEP ON LOSING SO WE CAN GET STEVE STAMKOS
10) I’D LOVE TO SEE MURRAY NEXT YEAR TRY AND NOT PLAY BERGLUND, STAMKOS, OR OSHIE OR PERRON

Chris: If anyone can do it, it’s The Goblin!

chris d. just practically dared coach murray.

now he HAS to do it.

umm last year 81 points, 1/2 game below .500. (2 points per game, .500 would be 82 points)

this year 66 point in 65 games, 17 games to go

81-66= 15 points

15 points needed out of 17 games, so actually we can go a game under .500 and tie last year. 7-8-1 = tied with last year!

I believe this is another great representation of this season. I believe the person pictured is Bryce Salvador. Lucky bastard!!!

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Can they really suck this bad?

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It’s worse than when the ice dancers like Janney and Turgeon played here:

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You little son of a bitch puck! Why you don’t you just go home? That’s your HOME! Are you too good for your home? ANSWER ME! SUCK MY WHITE ASS PUCK!

Can’t possibly suck as much as this band must!

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Marcus, they look like a prison roadside crew that happened to find a guitar.

Classy!

Has anyone noticed that the Blues Calendar handed out at the season opener had Doug Weight last month and Bryce Salvador this month? Those two players have sold their souls to the devil in order to jinx the Blues so they would never score again. It is almost working since we have scored 4 goals in the last 6 games. Doesn’t seem to far fetched with the ridiculous amount of scoring chances we have had and how we can’t get a bounce to go our way.

We need to sacrifice a chicken, does anyone have a chicken they don’t mind donating to the Blues?

We can’t just go around sacrificing chickens in the dressing room. How aboot a bucket of KFC?

well its official kevin slaten in the rant just pronounced the blues have given up on the season, on andy murray, and on offense.

Trauma, there’s your first mistake: listening to the queen Kevin Slaten.

Bad finish = good draft pick, and you know how your GT Prospect Department feels about good draft picks…

I doubt the Blues will get Stamkos, however… think Kyle Beach or Zach Bogosian.

And you guys may think OT losses and SO losses are still losses… but as long as the Blues get a point for them, as far as I’m concerned, they’re ties.

What the hell was wrong with a good, old-fashioned tie anyway?

Thanks, Gary.

B.

What’s the difference between a cactus and Wrigley Field?

With a cactus, all the pricks are on the outside…

Cubs Suck,

B.

not necessarily the listing to the queen. i’ve not been the words greatest murray fan. now sportcaters are activily telling this city players have “quit on andy murray” which i haven’t even claimed. if that seed hold, there is no greater negative than to say it.

will be interesting to see if anything comes of this, obviously the blues aren’t run or even concerned by slaton, but will the fans turn on murray?

Murray deserves 3 full seasons before the claws come out. If remarkable improvement (which, in my opinion, would mean a great deal than we’ve seen thus far) isn’t seen, then I think talking about change would be appropriate.

These are the current active players that I would estimate to be “Murray’s guys” by way of contract signings and acquisitions during his reign:

Kariya
Boyes
McDonald
Backes
Mayers
Perron
Stastny
Stempniak
Tkachuk

Brewer
Jackman
Johnson

…which, to me, leaves a full foward line, half of a defensive corps, and an overhauled goaltending system to go.

I love Manny, but I’m 50/50 on whether he’ll be around long enough to see this team go deep.

Agreed on Manny. That’s why it’s so important for us to have a good backup. Someone who’s actually able to step up when the time comes. I thought Ears could be that guy. Not that I’ve given up on him, yet, but man… has he ever sucked…

Marcus: Ears is still young, and wet behind them. Some goalies don’t mature until their late 20’s, and by the time the Blues reach that decision point, they’ll know which of Bishop/Berra/Schwarz/Ears is a viable plan A.

Adam: We also have to take into account JD’s boys, which would be the farm system. I think they’ve pretty much cut the deadwood at the AHL level. My guess is that unless they are able to sign an impact forward, the full forward line is gonna be 2/3 kids, 1 reliable vet.

We’re the suckiest sucks that ever sucked.

My low expectations created an upper limit to my dismay, but losing still annoys me.
A bottom three finish is still possible and then we can sacrifice the chicken to clinch the draft lotto.

my comp shut down before i could respond.

a win is a win. a loss is a loss but it only sucks half as much when you go past regulation. gp and wins is what gives u a winning pct.

but when you are looking to see how good a team is check out how many more wins they have then losses. look at the standings it is pretty shocking but makes more sense than saying that this team was above .500 for the past few months.

dude get rid of murray and tkachoke. tkachoke has played for three blues’ coaches. one of them really sucked. another it’s hard to completely tell since he has only coached talent laden teams. and the current one well he’s got a pattern for sucking. 599 games coached. only 270 wins. which is a 45.07 winning pct.

let’s also talk about the fact none of his teams have advanced beyond the second round of the playoffs when they made them.

so the claws coming out, mine came out early november when i noticed a few things.

82 points is not 0.500 hockey, because not all games are worth 2 points. Unfortunately, because of the screwy system the NHL has set up, some games are worth 3 points, but you don’t know how many until the end of the season. Since roughly half of the conference makes the playoffs, you can consider making the playoffs to be playing 0.500 hockey. Last year that took (IIRC) 95 points, 13 points over the supposed 0.500 mark. It will be about the same this year, give or take a point. The correct way to determine what 0.500 is to total up all the points earned by all the teams and divide by 60 (30 teams, then divide total points in half).

Or you could just say that 82 points is 0.500 and 0.500 is still a sucky team.

As much as it pains me to admit, I think the Blues have a problem with leadership and team chemistry, that goes back at least into the coach Q era. Changing the coach is not going to get us there. How many players are left from that era? Tkachuk, Mayers, Jackman. Anyone else? I forget. Since everyone else is gone and the team still has a chemistry problem, one of those three must be the locker room cancer.

well gt my scouting says it all depends on where the blues draft and who drafts before them. if they get the #1 overall it’s stamkos, a no doubter. no if they fall to say sixth or seventh then it gets dicey depending on who;s before them. one player i really like in this draft is colin wilson. the performance he had in worlds this year was amazing. he made van reimsdyk look even better. colin has a sweet, sweet set of hands and great speed. he has put up decent numbers at boston u. despite his very young age at the college level. he can play in all situations. he’s also got that aspect of being a winner. he has those intangibles and this is another reason i’m loving this kid. he’s got some of the best hands since patrick kane. i actually like his hands more than stamkos. stamkos just has a deadly nose for the net which the blues sorely lack.

while kyle beach has good size and skill he has a hard time in the dzone and often takes stupid penalties. this demeanor you will find causes him to go lower in the draft. the only thing that brings him right back up is his size and postion and the fact he puts up decent numbers in the western league a notoriously tough league to play in.

but there is yet one player i may covet over even the oft spoken of stamkos and that is…drum roll please….bogosian. close tie pietrangelo. but shhh…don’t say it too loud. i covet bogosian the most due to his extraordinary offesive skills for a defensemen. u too can see what i mean and check him out, as rick meagher might say, by looking him up on youtube.

gt every year i go through a list of undrafted players in the canadian major juniors that shocks me b/c they performed and produced but were passed up by the potential. sometimes i wonder, besides the really slow ones and sometimes even them, why more of them never see the light of day.

best case scenerio, some how the blues pull bogo and wilson out of this draft.

in other interesting news…how in the hell did the blues not pick up huet for a second rounder? we have extras this year. manny’s slated for knee surgery the kind where some people have trouble walking the rest of their life afterwards and he’s a goalie. hmmm…interesting. maybe then perron would feel stronger with another frenchman around? (note:huet was born in france).