Doug Played Golf

[TheSolution]

Read the OP.

And not entirely true.

The Blues snuck through a crack in the system in 2019 as they went against industry trends.

They were able to blue collar their way to a Cup by the alignment of Berube with a roster and especially a goaltender who all were in the right place at right time.

The Blues were also given the blessing of the league as the market needed a boost. It paired well with the literal objective of damaging the other teams best players in a 7 game plan to brut their way from series win to series win.

They had a lot of unique emotional power with Binnington igniting things at the right time and a push from the fans in a way that all felt supernatural.

The defense was a forest of redwoods. Big, tall, mobile dmen. It ALL fit the identity of this style of being very hard to play against and mugging their way to victory. Petro was a 4th overall pick. A huge huge special special asset.

The club benefited greatly from a young and talented and underrated in the draft Thomas who’s legs were one of the single biggest reasons the team won game 7 vs Dallas.

The team DID HAVE a top 5 pick and it also benefited from sneak attacking the league with a coach that took over mid-season as the identity moved to a brand of hockey that the rest of the league had moved away from. It was a perfect alignment of things not to happen again.

Now, too many teams have built from the draft and the Blues have lost so much of the identity required to counteract the talent other franchises who’ve built from drafting in the top 5/10 for many consecutive years have.

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He didn’t play hockey

He golfed at Arizona

He’s a fraud. Always has been.

He backpeddled into a Stanley Cup Championship thanks to firing a horrific hire and lucking out to have just enough team toughness to bully their way to a Cup at a time it caught a small crack in the infrastructure of the league as everyone was shifting to a skill game. It caught the league off guard.

Berube and Binnington were in the exact spot at the exact right time.

The league turned the other cheek and gave the green light to let the Blues roll, knowing the St. Louis market needed success to continue as things were bleak for some time.

Doug bullied Petro out of town (that is the actual truth)

He traded for Faulk to fortify and then signed Krug before Petro signed with Vegas to give him the solid middle finger.

Doug wanted this to be about Doug.

Doug wanted to win because of Doug, not because of Petro or any single player.

And it cost him both in staying in the hunt for the years after the Cup and now it’s costing him years wasted on a rebuild.

Doug has destroyed this roster and success has only come circumstantially.

Kyrou contract is horrific. The handling of his trade rumors, horrific.

They are drafting the same type of B tier, A- tier offensive soft players which makes no sense.

If you aren’t drafting top 5 and getting those types of elite offensive players you need to get complete players. Snuggy is a lazy, so so player without the puck. Kyrou got a 8 year contact and his the worst player in the league without the puck.

Doug f’d this all up.

Steen is a baking soda nose puffer loser who’s been entitled as an NHL son all his life and will absolutely not do his job thoroughly. He’s here for the steak dinners and red wine and the status.

You lost me at "backpeddled." Your type shows up all the time when things go south. Not just lame, but banal and hyperbolic.

[aslord]

He didn’t play hockey

He golfed at Arizona

He’s a fraud. Always has been.

He backpeddled into a Stanley Cup Championship thanks to firing a horrific hire and lucking out to have just enough team toughness to bully their way to a Cup at a time it caught a small crack in the infrastructure of the league as everyone was shifting to a skill game. It caught the league off guard.

Berube and Binnington were in the exact spot at the exact right time.

The league turned the other cheek and gave the green light to let the Blues roll, knowing the St. Louis market needed success to continue as things were bleak for some time.

Doug bullied Petro out of town (that is the actual truth)

He traded for Faulk to fortify and then signed Krug before Petro signed with Vegas to give him the solid middle finger.

Doug wanted this to be about Doug.

Doug wanted to win because of Doug, not because of Petro or any single player.

And it cost him both in staying in the hunt for the years after the Cup and now it’s costing him years wasted on a rebuild.

Doug has destroyed this roster and success has only come circumstantially.

Kyrou contract is horrific. The handling of his trade rumors, horrific.

They are drafting the same type of B tier, A- tier offensive soft players which makes no sense.

If you aren’t drafting top 5 and getting those types of elite offensive players you need to get complete players. Snuggy is a lazy, so so player without the puck. Kyrou got a 8 year contact and his the worst player in the league without the puck.

Doug f’d this all up.

Steen is a baking soda nose puffer loser who’s been entitled as an NHL son all his life and will absolutely not do his job thoroughly. He’s here for the steak dinners and red wine and the status.

I assume you had AI write this for you, Bomac.

[MrPostman01]

It's golfers big lie we do this daylight savings, not the farmers.

Was EJ driving the cart?

[Nublues69]

Army is the Blues equivalent of Mozeliak...took a winning team and turned it mediocre just because he could. Army's not the genius he, the media, and Bluesfan thinks he is...more likely he "pulled a Homer" as the saying goes and lucked into a winning team.

I'd fire him before the season is over...no way he deserves to walk away a hero...no one walks away from this mess a hero.

yeah cause john davidson had a winning career here lol

John Davidson was the President of the St. Louis Blues for six years, from June 2006 to October 2012. He was hired to revitalize the team and was a key figure in rebuilding the franchise, though he was not the general manager.
Tenure: Davidson held the role of President of Hockey Operations for six seasons.
Hiring: He was hired on June 30, 2006, to help turn the franchise around.
Departure: He left the Blues after agreeing to a contract buyout on October 9, 2012.
Successes: During his time, the Blues made two postseason appearances, won the Central Division championship in the 2011-12 season, and the team saw a revival in the community.
Note: Doug Armstrong took over as the General Manager of the Blues in 2010 and is still in that position today.