Blues Dip Into KHL Again, Sign Kyle Wellwood

cam janssen hasnt put up a point since 2008-09, but he’s way better than wellwood. totally.

wellwood isn’t an all-star, but he can play a little bit. hes a bottom-6 forward who is better than most of the blues bottom-6 forwards. Porter, Cracknell/Hensick and Janssen have combined for three measly assists in 61 games. THREE POINTS. Wellwood is better than that, even at his fattest.

Or else he just doesn’t like borscht. Which is understandable.

you gotta figure, the guy could be homesick, not getting enough ice time, etc. plus, he wants to play in the NHL which means something.

I don’t remember Wellwood much so i can’t complain till i see what he brings to the table now… I have a feeling that between Payne and Mellanby they arn’t gonna let him get too out of hand and they’ll make him work…

just like on Yahoo and other sites, the TSN comments sections are to be avoided like the plague.

Well, he’s definitely hungry…

suppsed to say: but keep in mind that the blues have had ONE guy who scored more than 71 points

He was playing on a top PP unit with Sundin, Tucker, McCabe, and Kaberle. He racked up a tonne of points that way.

Who is available right now? we may be the cap space and all that jazz but there isn’t anyone to go out and get… who are you willing to give up that would bring in a “star” forward or a points-per-game player?

Right now, none of that is Logical to me… They got who they got now lets see what happens…

Norm is a solid source

…TSN’s Bob McKenzie, and the “omniscient” Andy Strickland.

McKenzie’s a solid source, but I wouldn’t trust Strickland if he told me that fish swim in the ocean.

I’ll say it again… Whalewood is the last thing the Blues need, in my humble opinion.

Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, diced, capped… screw that. You’ll be able to get your hashbrowns “Wellwood’d,” which probably includes ham, sausage, steak, eggs, and bacon with them thar fried potatoes.

If he can handle fat jokes and food jokes, he can handle zombies.

A man who can handle zombies can deal with anything that comes his way, especially in hockey.

Well, as long as he doesn’t get a taste for zombie, I’d say he’s fine.

I don’t think there’s really anyone else out there that fits our needs.

Your needs have to be pretty big for Wellwood to fit them.

…and you and your brother gonna throw down as well?

:-D

’Welly’s fat’ jokes are about as appropriate as calling the sedins sisters who can’t take a hit (watch them along the boards sometime…) or Crosby a floater or Kovalchuk worth his contract price. He has awesome playmaking skills and sees the game incredibly well…if nothing else you will get a really intelligent player, and when Wellwood wants to bring it, you’ll watch in awe. His biggest problem is that he doesn’t have a ‘Win at all costs’ attitude and can be guilty of laying back and floating for a few games here and there. As Dan said, he always brought it in the playoffs, and regardless of some of the jabs we’ve all thrown at him he was a very popular guy amongst the fan base. I don’t think there’s a Vancouver fan around who isn’t glad to see him make it back to the NHL. Would we want him instead of any of our current line up? No…but Vancouver’s current line up is clicking extremely well right now. Wellwood’s no ass kicking grinder, but he can make a pretty play and if u aren’t paying several million for him he’s a good skill player to have around.

I’d agree that the fat jokes have taken on a life of their own that’s out of proportion with anything he actually deserved. But for the record, this:

I know he was just one, but the media there jumped all over the guy because he gained a few pounds while his foot was broken. Gaining a few pounds with a cast on in the summer is not the end of the world.

… isn’t accurate. At least in Toronto, there were several cases where the team didn’t feel like he was putting enough effort into conditioning. That included the offseason before his foot injury, when he was given a program to follow and (according to a family member) instead spent most of his summer on the couch. By the time he’d hurt his foot and the infamous pool pictures showed up, it was just the last straw.

He also made some comments after leaving the Leafs that suggested that he didn’t think he held any responsibility for his departure, which was the point where any remaining fans in Toronto turned on him.

He’s a talented guy and I sincerely hope that the lightbulb goes off for him at some point, and maybe the failed KHL experience helps that happen. He’s definitely worth the risk for a team like the Blues. I wish him all the best for the future, but just know that the criticism he’s received up to this point in his career has been well earned.

People jumped on Wellwood because he AND his dad both said he did sweet fuck all during the off-season to train for the next season. As a result, after his first season was ended by groin injuries, his second year was as well.

After he was picked up by the Canucks, he had a crazy, unsustainable run shooting percentage-wise. This led Canucks fans to guffaw loudly about pulling one over on the Leafs. Too bad he didn’t keep it up and ended up on their third line which prompted Canucks fans to change their story to ’Wellwood’s a checking centre!’ except Welly was playing super soft minutes because the minute he played tough ones he was buried.

Wellwood also does not have ‘magic mittens’. Just look at his assist totals outside of one good year and you can tell that.

And his magic motivation? He actually was waived by the Canucks there and no one picked him up. Then he couldn’t stick there or PHX or Russia. You guys are not getting anything.