Bennington

[southernblues]

He needs to sit those goals should have been stopped by him against Chicago. Plus the defense is letting to many shots through. Not enough blocked shots. Trade Binnington and Schenn and draft in the top three and get Ivar Stenberg.

[Zizzle1297]

Trade Schenn, Faulk, Kryou, Buch, and CP55. We should be able to at least get a few additional 1st rounders and other pieces. Wish we could get Ivar and a RD

[a smell of green grass]

Dear Blues Fans.

Regarding trading Buch and the others....

Do NOT expect the Quinn Hughs treatment. We won't be getting a ransom in return. Nope. Nada.

Instead, we will be getting The Kevin Hayes treatment.

To get rid of the Buch contract, we will be GIVING UP draft choices, not GETTING draft choices.

Thank Army.

[BluesDom]

Come on now. His name is Binnington.
He stunk.

Our powerplay was 0 for 5 or worse. Painful.
Need more shooting with element of surprise. Too much passing and predictable shots.

Our defensive play was weak.

Binner is having an awful year. No sugar coating it. He was not good at all. Many goals on him.
If GM is smart he will create some spots for Pekarcik, Peterson, Kaskimaki, Lindstein and start overhauling this team.
Schenn, Buch, Kyrou--not so good right now. Can you move them for future cap relief and possible help?

Team needs to play Dvorsky, Berggren and Stenberg line a whole lot more.
Kyrou, Buchnevich and Schenn had plenty of scoring chances and couldn't finish maddening.

[Cahokanut]

I don't know that I'd blame Binner for all of them. A couple of ping pongs and a couple of well placed shots is how goals are scored.

I blame management. Whose plan is to get another team to slow down and play a corner game of tie ups and grab on's.
Chicago didn't fall for it and kept skating right by Schenn, Sunny, and the defenders.

[WeWentBlues0819]

Why do so many people spell it "Bennington"? Is it some weird Mandela effect? Not trying to be a dick, I just see it misspelled that way all the time on here and on Facebook.

[Sunny's Teeth]

Ah, the irony.

[Frank Underwood]

Why do so many people spell it "Bennington"? Is it some weird Mandela effect? Not trying to be a dick, I just see it misspelled that way all the time on here and on Facebook.

I’m going to assume it’s a spellcheck thing. If I type Binnington, it doesn’t automatically change it to “Bennington”, but it does show up as a corrected spelling. Kind of weird, and like you, I see it all the time on here and I can’t believe there are a bunch of people that don’t know how to spell his name at this point.

By the way, rather than start a new thread, here is my useless theory on “Bennington”:

He has lost his fire. He was great when he first hit the NHL because he played with a massive chip on his shoulder and had something to prove. But now he has 1) money; 2) got married: and 3) had a kid. I think he has mellowed and lost his fire. As far as I know, he doesn’t participate in that intense summer hockey camp that he used to do (don't remember the name, but a bunch of NHL and minor league players play in this thing…..I’m sure others remember the story about it after we won the Cup).

I think the guy needs something major to drive him. I honestly don’t think he finds that in St. Louis at this point. I think the only thing that would get him back to peak focus and motivation would be a trade to Toronto. Toronto is a mess and hasn’t won a Cup in almost 60 years. Binnington is a hometown boy (basically) and is one of those rare guys that seems to thrive on high pressure situations. Trying to lead the Leafs to the Cup is the kind of thing that I could see snapping him out of his funk.

[DawgDad]

I don't know that I'd blame Binner for all of them. A couple of ping pongs and a couple of well placed shots is how goals are scored.

I blame management. Whose plan is to get another team to slow down and play a corner game of tie ups and grab on's.
Chicago didn't fall for it and kept skating right by Schenn, Sunny, and the defenders.

Agree that the Blues are a slow-pace team far too often. They don't have the horses to keep up with the Hawks skating-wise, and that creates a lot of the slot looks, screens, and deflections whan guys get beat in coverage. For some reason the Habs slowed down to their pace.

[skilles]

I don't know that I'd blame Binner for all of them. A couple of ping pongs and a couple of well placed shots is how goals are scored.

I blame management. Whose plan is to get another team to slow down and play a corner game of tie ups and grab on's.
Chicago didn't fall for it and kept skating right by Schenn, Sunny, and the defenders.

Agree that the Blues are a slow-pace team far too often. They don't have the horses to keep up with the Hawks skating-wise, and that creates a lot of the slot looks, screens, and deflections whan guys get beat in coverage. For some reason the Habs slowed down to their pace.

Mostly mental IMO, we absolutely have the horses to beat the brakes off the Blackhawks. They just can't click as a team this season for whatever reason.

Someone needs to find the root of that problem not just recognize the symptoms.

I personally think accountability is part of it. Hofer has been by far the better goal tender most of the season and should be the #1, benching Kyrou when he leads the team in goals while allowing Buch to be just terrible, handling Mailloux like its rec league daddy ball etc. etc.

Just not a healthy environment IMO. I think this team would take right off if you cleaned out the off ice leadership. If I feel like there is blatant favoritism and a wildly stale good ole boys club you can bet the players probably do.

Not that they have always done a bad job at everything but I feel like the whole thing needs a reset. New faces, new opinions, new voices etc.etc. Basically we need to turn some pages.

[BluesDom]

I don't know that I'd blame Binner for all of them. A couple of ping pongs and a couple of well placed shots is how goals are scored.

I blame management. Whose plan is to get another team to slow down and play a corner game of tie ups and grab on's.
Chicago didn't fall for it and kept skating right by Schenn, Sunny, and the defenders.

Jordan has to own his hockey card stats. We can admire him for his past excellence.

He has not played well this year. Last year he was rough as well. He gave up 7. Thats on him.
3.55 goals against season and much worse recently--thats on him
He has an .871 Save percentage
8 wins 11 loses 6 OT loses and 1 shutout.
Last nights debacle was an embarrassment. The whole organization looks terrible.
The cycling/possession style with no shots looked very ineffective. Chicago played an exciting brand of hockey. We sucked asz. And Binner was an absolute joke with all due respect. He sucked. The team sucked. But he really truly sucked.

[Cahokanut]

I don't know that I'd blame Binner for all of them. A couple of ping pongs and a couple of well placed shots is how goals are scored.

I blame management. Whose plan is to get another team to slow down and play a corner game of tie ups and grab on's.
Chicago didn't fall for it and kept skating right by Schenn, Sunny, and the defenders.

Agree that the Blues are a slow-pace team far too often. They don't have the horses to keep up with the Hawks skating-wise, and that creates a lot of the slot looks, screens, and deflections whan guys get beat in coverage. For some reason the Habs slowed down to their pace.

Man I just don't agree about our slow wheels. I know we have some slow guys. I think our problem is that we play to their speed. We put one of these defensive specialist on each line, demand a offensive zone set up and catalog zone time.

I also think we have the same problem we have always had.
A divided room. With coach, management and less talented defensive hard workers on one side and those that want to play faster today's hockey, on the other. With our top point producer(at the time) being benched and fourth liners working hard in his minutes. Problems escalated. I think coach can't help himself and is the problem

[BluesDom]

Lots of issues. Binnington has issues. So many want to blame the team. Its mostly on him.
Binner Last 6 1-5
vs Chigo gave up 7
vs Montreal 0
gave up 6 vs Colorado
gave up 4 vs Tampa
gave up 2 vs Rangers
gave up 7 vs Nashville
Last 6 games--26 goals 4.33 per game

Hofer: Last 6 4 -2
Gave up 3 vs Vegas
Gave up 4 vs Buffalo
Gave up 2 vs Nashville
Gave up 2 vs Florida
Gave up o vs Winnipeg
Gave up 5 vs Nashville
Last 6 games: 16 goals 2.666 per game

Its actually the goalie. Stats dont lie. Lets stop defending Binner.
I lov ethe guy--hes a legend--hes toast.
Hes the issue. He is the primary issue.

You can go back further if you want:
https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/players/2 ... /game-log/

https://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/5454/gamelog/

Binner is 6-14 in his last 20 game Hes lost it. Its not so much the team imo.