The BIGGEST Talent Evaluation Mistake by the Blues

[smilinjoefission]

Army has a fetish about giving away players and draft picks and some highly questionable contracts, but his drafts so far have been his strong point

[a smell of green grass]

Army has a fetish about giving away players and draft picks and some highly questionable contracts, but his drafts so far have been his strong point

I agree that Army has been pretty good at landing hidden gems in the later rounds. However, we have been needing a 2C and an elite RHD for 5+ years. Army is badly failing at drafting the most important roster positions. Also consider where the Blues would be WITHOUT Broberg and Holloway. If those offer sheets had failed, the sad results of Army's drafting would have been much more visible than it is now.

[netboy65]

Krug. I swear he got signed because of that 1 hit he did on Thomas during the run. He never lived up to that contract.

Yeah Krug likely goes down as an awful UFA signing, but those first two seasons weren't awful.

He was 32 pts in 51 games his first season and 43 in 64 his second.

I believe it was that second season in the first round of the playoffs where someone took him out at the ankle and that's what triggered and/or accelerated the arthritis in his ankle and he simply wasn't the same since.

We just simply have no idea how long he was playing with that issue and how much it hampered him. If we have a healthy Torey Krug the full 6 seasons, it likely doesn't look nearly as bad.

He'd still be a whipping boy don't get me wrong, but instead of it being a completely negative contract, maybe it's only bad by a million or so a season.

Right. It turned out that way for sure, but at the time it wasn’t the worst signing in the world. He was a 50 point defenseman and he was brought in the bolster the offensive output on the blue line.
Hindsight is always 20/20.

Oh I agree. I didn't hate the signing at all when it was announced.

I'm glad you guys liked the signing at first but I never liked it. Been against it since day 1. I don't like small defenders. I wasnt a Perunovich fan neither. 2019 the Blues had the tallest and most mobile D pairs in the league. It made them hard to play against. Boom boom was the smallest guy and he wasn't small.

I never said I LIKED it, lol. Just that I saw the logic and was ok with it.

[Red7]

Is Dogtown still around? Used to love going there in the late 80's.

ah the lady's nights on thursdays were epic

Miss The Candles. Grew up driving past them and then one night, had a few beers with my uncle there. It was one of too few times we hung out. Miss him too!

[PPG]

High Stick- you are forgetting about Vince Dunn. He is only 5'11", maybe 6'0".
And I thought Gunnarson was 6'4", but I could be wrong. And Petro is "only" 6'3"