A Tale of 2 Franchises at Center

[Nublues69]

Dallas and St Louis

Dallas has is locked in at the Center position, all 4 Centers are exceptional and part of the long- and near-term future.

St Louis is missing the 2C answer for years, and nobody knows what will happen at the 3C and 4C next year, and the future is even more unknown.

Dallas had too many young talented Centers, so they got rid of their long-time solid and expensive Center, Faksa.

St Louis picks up Dallas's spillover, and Faksa is one of their key players in the playoffs.

And somehow there are still people that believe that Army is doing a good job. Amazing, really. These same people will now reply and tell me about Dvorsky..... They will COMPLETELY MISS the point that the GM's job is to make sure that you don't get into a desperate hole like this to begin with.

Yo [decelerate], S[top] T[hose] F[raudulent] U[tterances] bro, UFA and trades gonna happen also dvorsky will be here just like rob tom before him. Eat your animal crackers get some milk from your mom and just go in the basement and cry or something.

[Blue Sabbath]

Don't kill the messenger. I'm just pointing out the obvious.

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. This is what Doug Army excels at!!! The Blues will now SERIOUSLY OVERPAY to "fix" the Center problem. Another Leddy incoming.

Some franchises use the draft effectively to staff the roster. That is not the Blues way. They guarantee that the draft doesn't work for them by "staying competitve" to the last puck drop every season.

Dallas is on tonight if you want to watch what a team with Centers looks like.

Army is on over the next month if you want to watch desperation.

We needed a 2nd center last year and there were multiple on the markets that got seriously overpaid.

The Blues did not get involved in that market.

If Dougie is so desperate to overpay, as you say, why didn't he do it last year when there were multiple opportunities to do so?

He did overpay last year. He paid Buchnevich $8m for 6 years with the idea he would be the stop gap at C. No way Buch deserved $8m especially with our log jam at LW.

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[wiscrev]

Smellie says Armstrong is desperate. He's the one who is desperate. He's looking for replies: DON'TGIVE HIM ANY!

[callitwhatyouwant]

Don't kill the messenger. I'm just pointing out the obvious.

Next up...
Desperate times call for desperate measures. This is what Doug Army excels at!!! The Blues will now SERIOUSLY OVERPAY to "fix" the Center problem. Another Leddy incoming.

Some franchises use the draft effectively to staff the roster. That is not the Blues way. They guarantee that the draft doesn't work for them by "staying competitve" to the last puck drop every season.

Dallas is on tonight if you want to watch what a team with Centers looks like.

Army is on over the next month if you want to watch desperation.

We needed a 2nd center last year and there were multiple on the markets that got seriously overpaid.

The Blues did not get involved in that market.

If Dougie is so desperate to overpay, as you say, why didn't he do it last year when there were multiple opportunities to do so?

He did overpay last year. He paid Buchnevich $8m for 6 years with the idea he would be the stop gap at C. No way Buch deserved $8m especially with our log jam at LW.

He's not overpaid.

He's coming off 76-67-63 and had a down year because of attempting him at center and still did 57.

That's a .9 ppg average. That is absolutely going to cost you 8 million or more.

Sam Bennett who is rumored to get 7.5-8 is coming off the following for the same time period-49-40-41-51 that's a .65 ppg average.

add to this, buchy is making exactly what he is supposed to be making. quick search of players around his production this years

Buchy .75 ppg this season
Knies .74 ppg (going to get near 8 million this year)
Fiala .74 ppg makes 7.8m
Huberdeau .76 ppg 10.5m
Brady Tkachuk .76 ppg 8.2m


I can keep doing this. But someone please explain how Buchnevich is overpaid? was this a down year for him as a Blue? Yea, and look at al those other names of guys who dealt with being out for some games.