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The Scheme

I admit, I stole this from a poster at Hockeybuzz.com, but I found it pretty freaking hilarious.

i'm amazed that more people around here haven't picked up on "the scheme" that the blues have been running since murray got here. we picked up on that name - "the scheme" - because murray's mantra when he got here was that everyone has the same scheme. it was amusing. but now, the scheme has become something else.

the blues will play hard, hard enough to suck you in and make you think they can win. then, they will find a way to lose a little more than half of their games. they will hover high enough to make you think that maybe they can squeak into a playoff position, but also low enough to plummet to the bottom at any moment.

there can be only one explanation for this - it is by design. murray's secret job has been to get the blues a top-4 pick every year. this year his target is tavares. but he also has the tough job of making the blues appear competitive enough to hold a fan base, and to give JD a leg to stand on when he talks up the team (plausible deniability). this also explains making a 50% defenseman captain. this explains scolding polak when he scores a goal. this explains last season's limiting of perron. it explains everything that's going on with this team. the veterans are "in on it", as evidenced by legace's sporadic play, KT's sometimes hard/sometimes coasting play, brewer's ridiculous passes to the other team, etc. the vets have found a way to make the scheme happen. even in games where it seemed like there was no way we could lose, they have found a way.

our discovery of "the scheme" led to the abandoning of the "the code" commercials. it was too close.

the scheme hates winning cultures.

the scheme hates creative players and benches them for embarrassing the vets.

the scheme is the enemy of points.

however...

the scheme will pay off in a couple years. murray will have done his job, and we will have a team loaded with high picks and talent. two decades from now, we will all look back on the scheme era with amusing and appreciative hindsight, and the understanding that murray's scheme was truly brilliant.

now that i have exposed the scheme in public, please make note - if anything should happen to me, you know why.

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