Mailloux sucked last night

[Blues Dave]

Gosh, I hope we don't lose any more games this year.

[dhsux]

Monty on Mailloux's debut: "Good moment and moments where he needs to mature his game and just make the game a little simpler." #stlblues

You think the coach is going to say he was garbage?

He wasnt garbage that seems a little harsh to me. Yes i trust Montys opinion over every single random internet forum poster

There were very little (if any) bright spots for him last night and he was front and center for 2 of the goals against. Monty is not going to give his true opinion publicly to the media. Of course he is going to say what he said. That's not how it works and you know it.

I'm not cheering for LM to fail or anything but he was objectively horrid by all metrics last night. He was not alone but that does not change it.

Why don’t we see where we’re at by Christmas and save the hot takes?

Why can't we discuss the team? We can only talk about positive things? We have to wait until Christmas before we can say whether a player had a good game or not? I am not saying release or bench the guy but the thread is titled "Mailloux sucked last night". He did...

Number 1, "Mailloux sucked last night" is debatable.

Number two, it was ONE game and PLENTY of people sucked for real.

Number 3, being game one, being 8 games played, some of his supporters will fire back with the imaptience of the multitudes so get used to that too.

If you are going to work it one way, there's a second way that needs to be heard as well.

[2forDiving]

Monty on Mailloux's debut: "Good moment and moments where he needs to mature his game and just make the game a little simpler." #stlblues

You think the coach is going to say he was garbage?

He wasnt garbage that seems a little harsh to me. Yes i trust Montys opinion over every single random internet forum poster

There were very little (if any) bright spots for him last night and he was front and center for 2 of the goals against. Monty is not going to give his true opinion publicly to the media. Of course he is going to say what he said. That's not how it works and you know it.

I'm not cheering for LM to fail or anything but he was objectively horrid by all metrics last night. He was not alone but that does not change it.

Why don’t we see where we’re at by Christmas and save the hot takes?

Why can't we discuss the team? We can only talk about positive things? We have to wait until Christmas before we can say whether a player had a good game or not? I am not saying release or bench the guy but the thread is titled "Mailloux sucked last night". He did...

Were you this harsh to Bolduc last year when he was awful for 20 games, not 1?

[MiamiLaw]

Monty on Mailloux's debut: "Good moment and moments where he needs to mature his game and just make the game a little simpler." #stlblues

You think the coach is going to say he was garbage?

He wasnt garbage that seems a little harsh to me. Yes i trust Montys opinion over every single random internet forum poster

There were very little (if any) bright spots for him last night and he was front and center for 2 of the goals against. Monty is not going to give his true opinion publicly to the media. Of course he is going to say what he said. That's not how it works and you know it.

I'm not cheering for LM to fail or anything but he was objectively horrid by all metrics last night. He was not alone but that does not change it.

Why don’t we see where we’re at by Christmas and save the hot takes?

Why can't we discuss the team? We can only talk about positive things? We have to wait until Christmas before we can say whether a player had a good game or not? I am not saying release or bench the guy but the thread is titled "Mailloux sucked last night". He did...

Were you this harsh to Bolduc last year when he was awful for 20 games, not 1?

I definitely said he wasn’t showing much. But he didn’t have any game I can remember where he didn’t look nhl caliber, even if he had plenty where he looked unremarkable

[11WSChamps]

I wouldn't worry about the rookie who's still getting used to his surroundings I'd be more worried about the multi million dollar forwards who couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat.

[MiamiLaw]

I wouldn't worry about the rookie who's still getting used to his surroundings I'd be more worried about the multi million dollar forwards who couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat.

It should be concerning though that a team that can’t score traded a proven scorer for that rookie…

[11WSChamps]

I wouldn't worry about the rookie who's still getting used to his surroundings I'd be more worried about the multi million dollar forwards who couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat.

It should be concerning though that a team that can’t score traded a proven scorer for that rookie…

Certainly not enough to start a thread about it in a 5-0 loss.

[Johnny_Ringgo]

He is a turn over machine! Over rated and he will costs us! Faulk is awful too! Better have some offense because these 2 guys on the d stink!

[MizTruBlueLuvzU]

This trade looks awful thus far. Not because mailloux is some failure, but bolduc is going to be a consistent 30 goal scorer, you can just see it in the way he shoots the puck and his tenacity. I don't think it'll ever get to a point that blues fans think we came out on the better end of this trade. It'll be talked about like the arozorena trade the cards made.

[Bubble4427]

This trade looks awful thus far. Not because mailloux is some failure, but bolduc is going to be a consistent 30 goal scorer, you can just see it in the way he shoots the puck and his tenacity. I don't think it'll ever get to a point that blues fans think we came out on the better end of this trade. It'll be talked about like the arozorena trade the cards made.

How would you have paid Bolduc 5-6 million after this season? Simple question.
Bolduc was a 3rd line wing on this team and you can’t pay him 6 million a year and afford to pay Holloway and Broberg too. The cap isn’t going up THAT much.

[Bubble4427]

He is a turn over machine! Over rated and he will costs us! Faulk is awful too! Better have some offense because these 2 guys on the d stink!

Yet another ID….
Get a life.
Better not lose track of time, your shift at MacDonalds starts at noon.

[sdaltons]

This trade looks awful thus far. Not because mailloux is some failure, but bolduc is going to be a consistent 30 goal scorer, you can just see it in the way he shoots the puck and his tenacity. I don't think it'll ever get to a point that blues fans think we came out on the better end of this trade. It'll be talked about like the arozorena trade the cards made.

How would you have paid Bolduc 5-6 million after this season? Simple question.
Bolduc was a 3rd line wing on this team and you can’t pay him 6 million a year and afford to pay Holloway and Broberg too. The cap isn’t going up THAT much.

We also have no idea if our ownership group is going to keep wanting to spend close to the cap as it goes up.

[Harry S Deals]

This trade looks awful thus far. Not because mailloux is some failure, but bolduc is going to be a consistent 30 goal scorer, you can just see it in the way he shoots the puck and his tenacity. I don't think it'll ever get to a point that blues fans think we came out on the better end of this trade. It'll be talked about like the arozorena trade the cards made.

So if we extrapolate this out how many 30+ goal scorers are the Blues going to pay? So if Bolduc scores 30 this year whats his AAV on his contract next year? The trade came down essentially to Snuggerud vs Bolduc. Blues chose to keep Snuggerud and Neighbours over Bolduc. The Blues arent going to be able to keep all of their prospects that they are developing there are only so many spots.

Snuggerud ('27)
Neighbours ('27)
Holloway ('26)

You can debate whether the Blues should have traded Snuggerud or Neighbours and kept Bolduc but there is simply no way Id trade Neighbours right now hes a stud, team leader perhaps future captain. The Blues like Snuggerud over Bolduc, Snuggy looked pretty good vs the Jets, Bolduc...not so much. Time will tell and yes its going to take Mailloux time to develop in the NHL, pretty hard to judge a guy based on 10 NHL games. Recall after Bolduc's first 50 or so NHL games he did virtually nothing at all until Monty arrived. Bolduc did almost nothing in the AHL in 50 ish games. Let the process pan out

[Bubble4427]

This trade looks awful thus far. Not because mailloux is some failure, but bolduc is going to be a consistent 30 goal scorer, you can just see it in the way he shoots the puck and his tenacity. I don't think it'll ever get to a point that blues fans think we came out on the better end of this trade. It'll be talked about like the arozorena trade the cards made.

How would you have paid Bolduc 5-6 million after this season? Simple question.
Bolduc was a 3rd line wing on this team and you can’t pay him 6 million a year and afford to pay Holloway and Broberg too. The cap isn’t going up THAT much.

We also have no idea if our ownership group is going to keep wanting to spend close to the cap as it goes up.

Great point.
The whole Bally’s thing is an issue moving forward. Where are the Blues going to make up the lost revenue with a dwindling television contract with bankrupt Bally’s…..

Petro is gone…move on
Bolduc is gone……move on.

Some people aren’t happy unless they are bitchin’ about something I guess.

[dhsux]

I wouldn't worry about the rookie who's still getting used to his surroundings I'd be more worried about the multi million dollar forwards who couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat.

It should be concerning though that a team that can’t score traded a proven scorer for that rookie…

Since they scored 4 last night are we good now on this trade?

Can't believe you are out there with some of these comments one game in.

[Harry York 37]

Monty on Mailloux's debut: "Good moment and moments where he needs to mature his game and just make the game a little simpler." #stlblues

You think the coach is going to say he was garbage?

He wasnt garbage that seems a little harsh to me. Yes i trust Montys opinion over every single random internet forum poster

There were very little (if any) bright spots for him last night and he was front and center for 2 of the goals against. Monty is not going to give his true opinion publicly to the media. Of course he is going to say what he said. That's not how it works and you know it.

I'm not cheering for LM to fail or anything but he was objectively horrid by all metrics last night. He was not alone but that does not change it.

Why don’t we see where we’re at by Christmas and save the hot takes?

Why can't we discuss the team? We can only talk about positive things? We have to wait until Christmas before we can say whether a player had a good game or not? I am not saying release or bench the guy but the thread is titled "Mailloux sucked last night". He did...

Were you this harsh to Bolduc last year when he was awful for 20 games, not 1?

I definitely said he wasn’t showing much. But he didn’t have any game I can remember where he didn’t look nhl caliber, even if he had plenty where he looked unremarkable

Then you weren’t very observant.
Bolduc looked LOST a whole lot the first month of the season, not, the first game of the season, but the whole first month.
He had his raw skills and, for the casual observer, he might have even seemed like “ he wasn’t showing much”…
He was LOST in the transition game.
Lost.
So bad that he got benched… a lot.

The benching seemed to work and on more than one occasion, later in the season I remarked that Bolduc was the poster child for struggling rookies using their time in the press box well.

When a rookie forward is lost, it only fouls up your chances for a decent Rush, and results in a stupid turnover, usually.

When a rookie D man makes a mistake, to quote Mr. Plante,” They turn on a red light and 15,000 people stand up and yell at you”.