Say Hello to Doug Armstrong

[son_of_foolsgold]

Our best players are nowhere near as good as the best players on the vast majority of other teams. We have 2 players in the TOP100, 75+ and those 2 players DISAPPEARED in the playoffs. This is not acceptable. This is not good for the city of St Louis.

If Army said that the team is going to play the rookies UNTIL THEY FIND THAT PLAYER, I would be behind him 100%. Conversely, I will never stop complaining while Army stays in "stay competitive" mode. They need to operate like every other NHL franchise, and be happy to get their TOP5 pick--IF THAT IS HOW THE CHIPS FALL from playing their younger players.

I would bet that the stay competitive plan comes from above versus Armstrong himself. Nevertheless, I have no way to fire Blues Management, so I will lob tomatoes at their mouthpiece, Doug Armstrong.

My message to Doug:
Staying competitive is killing the team. You know it. Everyone knows it. Resign for the good of hockey in St Louis. This would give us a chance to change direction.

Army is going to be forced to re-build now whether he likes it or not. Except now it is going to be more painful since he delayed it 3 years longer than he should have.

he traded away all the tradeable assets 3 years ago. They had 3 1st round draft picks which is a lot. They then signed 2 more in Hollywood and Broberg. They also traded for another in Dean (most likely not seeing this one). So in the last 3 years they have had 5 1st round picks and acquisition of 3 more 1st round evaluated players and another equivalent in LM. Just because this team is flailing, doesn't mean there isn't an influx of talent coming.

Not to mention the Blues had the most of any franchise participants at the World Juniors last year with 9. Their farm system is extremely robust at the moment and seemingly the players are individually progressing well. Patience is a virtue some might say.

Wrong!!! He re-signed Buchnevich where he should have traded him...he should have unloaded Parayko and Binnington 2-3 years ago....and also Schenn.

3 years ago we were a 109 point team. No reason to dismantle that team.

Not to mention we didn’t have options to trade any of those guys anyway.

Also wrong! there were plenty of teams after those players at the time....Army just refused to make the moves he needed to.

[Bacchk29]

Our best players are nowhere near as good as the best players on the vast majority of other teams. We have 2 players in the TOP100, 75+ and those 2 players DISAPPEARED in the playoffs. This is not acceptable. This is not good for the city of St Louis.

If Army said that the team is going to play the rookies UNTIL THEY FIND THAT PLAYER, I would be behind him 100%. Conversely, I will never stop complaining while Army stays in "stay competitive" mode. They need to operate like every other NHL franchise, and be happy to get their TOP5 pick--IF THAT IS HOW THE CHIPS FALL from playing their younger players.

I would bet that the stay competitive plan comes from above versus Armstrong himself. Nevertheless, I have no way to fire Blues Management, so I will lob tomatoes at their mouthpiece, Doug Armstrong.

My message to Doug:
Staying competitive is killing the team. You know it. Everyone knows it. Resign for the good of hockey in St Louis. This would give us a chance to change direction.

Army is going to be forced to re-build now whether he likes it or not. Except now it is going to be more painful since he delayed it 3 years longer than he should have.

he traded away all the tradeable assets 3 years ago. They had 3 1st round draft picks which is a lot. They then signed 2 more in Hollywood and Broberg. They also traded for another in Dean (most likely not seeing this one). So in the last 3 years they have had 5 1st round picks and acquisition of 3 more 1st round evaluated players and another equivalent in LM. Just because this team is flailing, doesn't mean there isn't an influx of talent coming.

Not to mention the Blues had the most of any franchise participants at the World Juniors last year with 9. Their farm system is extremely robust at the moment and seemingly the players are individually progressing well. Patience is a virtue some might say.

Wrong!!! He re-signed Buchnevich where he should have traded him...he should have unloaded Parayko and Binnington 2-3 years ago....and also Schenn.

3 years ago we were a 109 point team. No reason to dismantle that team.

Not to mention we didn’t have options to trade any of those guys anyway.

Also wrong! there were plenty of teams after those players at the time....Army just refused to make the moves he needed to.

Binner and Schenns M-NTC didn’t kick in til this year. Parayko doesn’t have one for 3 more years. Soooo RIGHT!!!!