Per Andy Strickland - Sam Bennett Blues Target

[Aesa]

Army has always had a boner for this guy.
Not a fan.
Sammy B was -17 last year on Florida. -21 career.
12yrs 3 seasons with more then 20 goals. 2 seasons with more then 150 hits. Neighbours with 3 yrs in, has 1 less 20 goal season and one less 150 hit season. Almost the same guy. But 6yrs older and dirty.

I rather wait on the prospect (you know. This years Plan 4)
Then bring in another guy closing in on 30.

But like Bozac, and Krug, if Army likes him. He will be took to the wood shed, getting him.

The reason why we overpaid for Bozak was because he was literally our only option for 2C at the time. By most accounts they all thought the ROR deal wasn't happening anymore and the Blues still needed another Top 6 center. When the ROR deal came back we suddenly had a surplus down the middle, which proved to be huge.

I don't agree with either assertion.
We had youth options. Barb's could of easily filled that role. But Army only saw a grinder.

Also It was at the end of free agency, with no one calling him.
5mil was offered.

He saw a grinder and went out and got a 1st for him?

Barbs wanted out and that was that.

It was more that Barbs knew the money he wanted and he wasn't going to be able to get it here.

No offense intended Jack but isn’t that just another way of saying he wanted out?

[TheJackBurton]

Army has always had a boner for this guy.
Not a fan.
Sammy B was -17 last year on Florida. -21 career.
12yrs 3 seasons with more then 20 goals. 2 seasons with more then 150 hits. Neighbours with 3 yrs in, has 1 less 20 goal season and one less 150 hit season. Almost the same guy. But 6yrs older and dirty.

I rather wait on the prospect (you know. This years Plan 4)
Then bring in another guy closing in on 30.

But like Bozac, and Krug, if Army likes him. He will be took to the wood shed, getting him.

The reason why we overpaid for Bozak was because he was literally our only option for 2C at the time. By most accounts they all thought the ROR deal wasn't happening anymore and the Blues still needed another Top 6 center. When the ROR deal came back we suddenly had a surplus down the middle, which proved to be huge.

I don't agree with either assertion.
We had youth options. Barb's could of easily filled that role. But Army only saw a grinder.

Also It was at the end of free agency, with no one calling him.
5mil was offered.

He saw a grinder and went out and got a 1st for him?

Barbs wanted out and that was that.

It was more that Barbs knew the money he wanted and he wasn't going to be able to get it here.

No offense intended Jack but isn’t that just another way of saying he wanted out?

Yeah probably, but I always take "wanted out" to mean he hated here and had no intentions of re-signing.

That's not what it was, he didn't hate it here and likely stays if we offer the same as Vegas, but we were past a time where paying Barbs 5 million made sense for us.

It's semantics, and more my view, I definitely admit that.

Dh wasn't wrong so I didn't mean it that way.

[dhsux]

Army has always had a boner for this guy.
Not a fan.
Sammy B was -17 last year on Florida. -21 career.
12yrs 3 seasons with more then 20 goals. 2 seasons with more then 150 hits. Neighbours with 3 yrs in, has 1 less 20 goal season and one less 150 hit season. Almost the same guy. But 6yrs older and dirty.

I rather wait on the prospect (you know. This years Plan 4)
Then bring in another guy closing in on 30.

But like Bozac, and Krug, if Army likes him. He will be took to the wood shed, getting him.

The reason why we overpaid for Bozak was because he was literally our only option for 2C at the time. By most accounts they all thought the ROR deal wasn't happening anymore and the Blues still needed another Top 6 center. When the ROR deal came back we suddenly had a surplus down the middle, which proved to be huge.

I don't agree with either assertion.
We had youth options. Barb's could of easily filled that role. But Army only saw a grinder.

Also It was at the end of free agency, with no one calling him.
5mil was offered.

He saw a grinder and went out and got a 1st for him?

Barbs wanted out and that was that.

It was more that Barbs knew the money he wanted and he wasn't going to be able to get it here.

That and it was reported here on this forum from someone with ties to the Barbashevs that his wife wanted to move.

[TheJackBurton]

Army has always had a boner for this guy.
Not a fan.
Sammy B was -17 last year on Florida. -21 career.
12yrs 3 seasons with more then 20 goals. 2 seasons with more then 150 hits. Neighbours with 3 yrs in, has 1 less 20 goal season and one less 150 hit season. Almost the same guy. But 6yrs older and dirty.

I rather wait on the prospect (you know. This years Plan 4)
Then bring in another guy closing in on 30.

But like Bozac, and Krug, if Army likes him. He will be took to the wood shed, getting him.

The reason why we overpaid for Bozak was because he was literally our only option for 2C at the time. By most accounts they all thought the ROR deal wasn't happening anymore and the Blues still needed another Top 6 center. When the ROR deal came back we suddenly had a surplus down the middle, which proved to be huge.

I don't agree with either assertion.
We had youth options. Barb's could of easily filled that role. But Army only saw a grinder.

Also It was at the end of free agency, with no one calling him.
5mil was offered.

He saw a grinder and went out and got a 1st for him?

Barbs wanted out and that was that.

It was more that Barbs knew the money he wanted and he wasn't going to be able to get it here.

That and it was reported here on this forum from someone with ties to the Barbashevs that his wife wanted to move.

now that I wasn't aware of.

[dhsux]

Army has always had a boner for this guy.
Not a fan.
Sammy B was -17 last year on Florida. -21 career.
12yrs 3 seasons with more then 20 goals. 2 seasons with more then 150 hits. Neighbours with 3 yrs in, has 1 less 20 goal season and one less 150 hit season. Almost the same guy. But 6yrs older and dirty.

I rather wait on the prospect (you know. This years Plan 4)
Then bring in another guy closing in on 30.

But like Bozac, and Krug, if Army likes him. He will be took to the wood shed, getting him.

The reason why we overpaid for Bozak was because he was literally our only option for 2C at the time. By most accounts they all thought the ROR deal wasn't happening anymore and the Blues still needed another Top 6 center. When the ROR deal came back we suddenly had a surplus down the middle, which proved to be huge.

I don't agree with either assertion.
We had youth options. Barb's could of easily filled that role. But Army only saw a grinder.

Also It was at the end of free agency, with no one calling him.
5mil was offered.

He saw a grinder and went out and got a 1st for him?

Barbs wanted out and that was that.

It was more that Barbs knew the money he wanted and he wasn't going to be able to get it here.

That and it was reported here on this forum from someone with ties to the Barbashevs that his wife wanted to move.

now that I wasn't aware of.

Forget who but said she is a model or wannabe and wanted to get to brighter lights than STL.

I believed the report, she does modeling, but the story certainly not anything confirmed.

[Harry S Deals]

Army has always had a boner for this guy.
Not a fan.
Sammy B was -17 last year on Florida. -21 career.
12yrs 3 seasons with more then 20 goals. 2 seasons with more then 150 hits. Neighbours with 3 yrs in, has 1 less 20 goal season and one less 150 hit season. Almost the same guy. But 6yrs older and dirty.

I rather wait on the prospect (you know. This years Plan 4)
Then bring in another guy closing in on 30.

But like Bozac, and Krug, if Army likes him. He will be took to the wood shed, getting him.

The reason why we overpaid for Bozak was because he was literally our only option for 2C at the time. By most accounts they all thought the ROR deal wasn't happening anymore and the Blues still needed another Top 6 center. When the ROR deal came back we suddenly had a surplus down the middle, which proved to be huge.

I don't agree with either assertion.
We had youth options. Barb's could of easily filled that role. But Army only saw a grinder.

Also It was at the end of free agency, with no one calling him.
5mil was offered.

End of free agency? Bozak was signed on July 1st in 2018, the first day of free agency. They traded for ROR later the same day.

I do think Barbs had more offensive potential than the role he was given here but just as he is now, he was better on LW than C back then as well. Good player but his faceoffs and defensive metrics when playing C are not good.

Barbie had a tough playoff series....11gp 1goal -9.

23 goals, 51 pts this year thats what i expect from him 50 pts ish solid 2 way guy but not much else