If you want to know how good Andy Murray is, just ask him

by Chris Gift on Aug 31, 2008 9:40 PM CDT

By Chris Gift

Okay, fellers and fellerettes, enough with saving a Sunday night sports show, dressing up Jay McKee like Marilyn Monroe, or finding out from each other how we became crack-addicted Blues fans.

The season is right around the corner, and it is time to start looking to what the Boy(e)s of Winter have to offer this season.

Once again, the Blues will be coached by Andy Murray, and in a recent column on espn.com, columnist Terry Frei (I wonder what it is like to be a columnist for a site that nobody goes to...oh wait) ranked the NHL coaches.

Some were easy to rank highly. He had Nashville's Barry Trotz, Minnesota's Jacques Lemaire, Buffalo's Lindy Ruff, and Detroit's Mike Babcock ranked in "The Elite..."- the first three were ranked there for annually making chicken salad out of chicken shit, the latter was there for staying the hell out of the way and winning a Stanley Cup.

Then there was "The Proven" category. That category consisted of Randy Carlyle (Anaheim), Ken Hitchcock (Columbus), Peter Laviolette (Carolina), Craig MacTavish (Edmonton), Murray, Tom Renney (New York Rangers), Michel Therrien (Pittsburgh), and the newly hired Ron Wilson (Toronto, late of San Jose).

For those of you that hate Mike Keenan like the rest of us, he fell in the bottom category, "The Suspect."

While each coach had a comment (that wasn't nearly as entertaining as if we'd have written it) what Frei said about Murray kind of makes one wonder if maybe Murray has all of us, including Louie, Jeffio, Angella, and Blues upper management just a tad on the brainwashed side.

Frei said about Murray: If you don't believe he's one of the best coaches in the league after his work in Los Angeles and then with the Blues, just ask him.

Okay, what the hell is that supposed to mean?

Does it mean that Murray is a self-centered, egotistical prick that never admits to being wrong?

Does it mean it is a "my way or the highway (but you'll have to detour to 170 to get around the construction" way of coaching with him?

In the name of Brian Noonan, I realize that certain coaches have certain players that they can count on, but the cryptic "If you don't believe he's one of the best...just ask him," makes you wonder.

One of the beefs (beeves?) with Keenan was that when the team won it was "we" and when the team lost it was "them." Is this what we're headed towards with Murray? Is it a "look how great I am, except when John Davidson and Larry Pleau's players underperform" type of situation?

This is a coach that hasn't led a team to the playoffs in his last five seasons behind the bench (four full seasons, one partial season taking over for Mike Kitchen). If Frei's "he'll tell you," is accurate, what is he telling us?

The last time the Blues made the playoffs, Joel Quenneville started the season behind the bench. That same Quenneville that made the playoffs two out of three years in Colorado, and is 155 games over .500 for his career.

Funny, I've never heard a "just ask him," for the Jack Adams Award winner (just ask Murray how many of those he has won) who was immensely popular with the fans here in St. Louis and won quite a bit while he was here too.

By the way, he's looking for a job. I wonder if we can ask Murray how good Quenneville is if they decide to go in a different direction.

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i read that a long time ago. was a bit surprised andy was that high, was thinking about mentioing it somewhere but didn’t

consider this. If Andy Murray wasn’t convinced he was a great coach and able to convince others, where would he be?

so it dosn’t surprise me

Andy repeatedly talks about his last kigs year (when they were out of the playoffs and failed to make it after andy was fired) as if he was set to magically take that crappy kings team to the finals! i know ANDY believes it, even if I don’t.

by Childhood Trauma on Sep 1, 2008 10:10 AM CDT reply actions

3 weeks till the first home preseason game!

by LosBri on Sep 2, 2008 10:50 AM CDT reply actions

LosBri said: “3 weeks till the first home preseason game!”

And we’re getting negative already. Positive. Think positive. (I know, positive isn’t as funny.)

by Mr. Particle on Sep 2, 2008 7:31 PM CDT reply actions

i have to say as unpositive as this entire off-season/end of last season has been, for no apparentl reason i just got a pick you own 10 game for the lower bowl section 102. so i’m positive i’m an idiot.

i did kinda front load the games so more than half happen early and we can’t possibly be buried by then, can we?

no one has done a blues preview yet :) i suspect everyone’s would be close to what i had last season.

and again…

last off season- massive buzz. as an obvious and visual hockey fan, complete strangers would ask me about the upcoming season and were looking forward to it.

this season no one is, and most of the casual fans who had interest now say stuff like “i’m giving this tema one more season….”

our only true positive is the cards and rams now suck. seems like that is how 80% of you became fans to start with.

recxruit disgruntled cards and rams fans!!!!!!!!

by Childhood Trauma on Sep 3, 2008 8:13 AM CDT reply actions

ps.

wtf?!?!?

http://blues.nhl.com/fanzone/fan_sites.htm

and we are number 2 (or three depending on who you read it). who did what to whom?!?!

by Childhood Trauma on Sep 3, 2008 10:02 AM CDT reply actions

I like how they have “Please e-mail us and let us know if links are out of date or inappropriate behavior is displayed on any of these sites,” in there about the fan sites. Ours would never do anything inappropriate.

Fuck Detroit.

by Gift on Sep 3, 2008 11:10 AM CDT reply actions

TRAGIC STORY OF ABUSE OF POWER!!1

well maybe not, maybe just jeffio will be sad. talked to my “ticket guy” and saw my seets, we talked about towel boy abit, and he mentioned that the clud right over there (pointing) isnt too far and will be open to all and open after the game.

then i said, why?

then he said well, 14th and clark is going to be private and available to only the first 4 rows of ticket holders as a benifit.

and i said before, during and after the game?

and he says “I think so”

wow. no more 14th and clark meetings! although im close enough to the allowed in to spit on them (and isnt that the point?) maybe i can sneak a ticket our of one. but the rest of you? ha!

by Childhood Trauma on Sep 3, 2008 12:30 PM CDT reply actions

Ok, who’s wearing an “Andy, how good are you?” t-shirt to the upcoming FanFest? Season Ticket Holders get to “meet and greet” after the scrimmage or whatever they called it if I’m remembering right.

by Mr. Particle on Sep 3, 2008 6:46 PM CDT reply actions

(In a news conference setting)
“Chris Gift, Columnist, St. Louis Game Time… A question for Coach Murray: Recently in an espn.com article, Terry Frei said that if we didn’t believe how good of a coach you were, both in Los Angeles and here to just ask you. With that being said, how good of a coach are you?”

by Chris Gift on Sep 3, 2008 7:06 PM CDT reply actions

If I had just one chance to ask Andy Murray a question it would be “why do you want so much to kill Spiderman?”

by Pagan on Sep 3, 2008 11:23 PM CDT reply actions

Gifter, I’m flabbergasted that you didn’t see fit to attach some kind of snarky comment to that photo of AM. That open-mouthed, fish-on-a-hook look just screams for the patented Game Time touch…

by Brian Weidler on Sep 4, 2008 8:56 AM CDT reply actions

Wordpress was being bitchy, I had something on there with Weight, Walt and Guerin and Murry saying “You are not just a part of our future, you ARE our future. I promise we’ll never trade any of you.”

There’s only one AM in my mind, and that he lives in his mom’s basement in North County.

by Gift on Sep 4, 2008 12:08 PM CDT reply actions

reading last post
“I had something on there with Weight, Walt and Guerin…..”

that reminds me, I need to update that ‘Jay and the Americans’ pic I made seeings how we don’t have Weight anymore….

by Dooks on Sep 5, 2008 6:27 PM CDT reply actions

and here’s the updated version:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/DookieRulz/jayandtheamericans.jpg
I used Janssen because his head is big enough to hide Weight’s melon. also, I almost forgot to change Jay’s number to 18

by Dooks on Sep 5, 2008 7:30 PM CDT reply actions