Well done, I said asshat when I read the headline and saw the picture. After the last line I got to laugh out loud in a room ful of people where it isn’t ok to laugh aloud.

I saw this kid play against Chicago his first year. He looked athletic and raw, but he looked like he could live up to his billing. Four years later, he’s a bust. Cash was also a consensus (and not just by the Blues) future #1 goaltender. Five years later, he’s still doing the same things wrong.

The question: is it something that the organization is doing which is causing highly-rated goaltenders to fail to reach their potential, or is it just that we’ve had bad luck with getting big talent, but uncoachable head cases (See Johnson, Brent).

By Answer_Man

I think you’re right about it being the organization. The club has never developed a franchise goaltender, and we’d probably have a Cup somewhere in there during the Pronger/MacInnis Era if that weren’t the case. Mike Liut and CuJo are the closest the Blues have come, but you could argue neither was ‘developed’ here.

Davidson seems to be on the right track now with the kids – perhaps Bishop will be handled better.

04 was a terrible draft year for the blues all around, the lone exception being Roman Polak at 180th overall. That’s looking like a steal, but not really as much of a steal a Franzen at 97th.

As far as goalies and the St. Louis Blues orginization go, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, spend the money, get someone thats already moderately established on someone else’s time (offer to harding, trade for vokoun) because we, like most teams, just can’t seem to get it right. Now the Florida Panthers, it’s like goddamn goalie country down there for some reason, who the hell knows why.