Comments on: St. Louis Blues Mid-Season Report

By: tlwj

tlwj — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:02:58 +0000

when I last looked it was blues 4-4-1-1 and wings 6-3-1-0 or something like that as of today it is wings 6-3-1-0 and blues 2-5-3-0 which is better for the wings, but if you look at most the leage a lot of the league isn't hot (3, 4, or 5wins), you can say all you want about 3 games of healthy going 3-0 but the blues went 9 games unbeaten with many key players out.

I will agree Jackman and McInnis being out will hurt a lot, but McInnis may be back, doubtful, but possible. As I said your team is going to have to watch for injuries being an older team, and as the play gets rougher as the playoffs near I would expect to see more and more of your players out. Also Hatcher hasnt' done much for you guys, I know he has to adjust but he just doesn't seem to fit with your team very well, just pray you stay with Cujo.

By: DirtySanchez

DirtySanchez — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:55:52 +0000

Why do people keep calling you mullet?

By: Datsyukfan1307

Datsyukfan1307 — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:50:55 +0000

Are you serious? Not playing much better? Are you kidding me? The Blues are like 2-6-1-2 or something like that (Not exactly sure), and the Wings are 8-2-0-0 in their last 10. Also, the Wings are just now starting to get healthy (McCarty and Thomas coming back soon, Hatcher back in the beginning of March. Screw Hasek.). We have only seen a healthy team from the Wings in their first 3 games in which they went 3-0-0-0 aganst Ottawa, Vancouver, and LA. Pencil in Thomas who was on a role when he went down and you have got ONE DANGEROUS TEAM. Now I know that the Blues are a VERRY good team, but their Injuries (Jackman, Mccinnis) are to guys that play a HUGE role on their team, and they’re out for the rest of the season.

By: tlwj

tlwj — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:17:04 +0000

Datsyukfan1307 I have news for you detriot isn't playing that much better, and yeah we may be getting at our busier part of the year but we are also getting to where we are playing the easier teams and where we actually play at home instead of on the road all the time.

I look for the wings to fall back in to the Hasek is god phase and phase out and depending on how long they try to ride Hasek instead of Cujo miss home-ice advantage.

Plus the wings are going to be hurting in the playoffs and towards the end of the season because the play will get much tighter and harder and for a very old team that relies on the open ice for it's fancy passing they will probably exit first round again due to injuries.

By: Donovan

Donovan — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:02:11 +0000

Well, Jackman’s done for the year. Too bad. I was really hoping the Blues would win the Central. Now they may be looking for a d-man.

By: Datsyukfan1307

Datsyukfan1307 — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:30:35 +0000

Its not called the Presidents cup!! Trophy!! Catch and surpass the wings?? Yeah, right. Not the Way the Blues and Wings are playing right now. The Blues are getting into a point in their schedule that the Wings have been at for a while now and just pretty much ended. Playing back to back and three and four nights. Good luck…

By: The_Conductor

The_Conductor — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:29:49 +0000

Pronger A+. With the absence of MacInnis he has stepped up for the job.

Rumor has it that St.Louis wants more scoring, and are said to be looking at Scott Young again from Dallas, or someone just like him.

By: tlwj

tlwj — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:43:45 +0000

Great Job. however I don't know if I would agree with you on the injuries part, we've had a lot of injuries, and demitra, tkachuk, and weight have all missed time from injuries, I completely agree with johnson, as soon as I see a game where he starts I prepare for a loss as well as all blues fans I think, Divis would be a much better choice.

I think mgmt started testing that when osgood was out and they choose divis to start instead of johnson. I don't know what johnson needs but I've read multiple reports of his antics last year and he just about tore the team apart. Bad news too, they just released today Jackman is going to be out probably the rest of the season and with McInnis already out it will hurt, but we've had a lot of D step up in the abscense.

Also you forgot Bryce Salvador I would give him a B probably, he has done the hitting we really need while still playing smart with the puck, just needs to work on his passing game a little.