In a Tough Spot with Mailloux

[fish]

Mails just looks like a really dumb guy

Just curious, are looks your determiner for who’s a good at playing hockey? No judgement, just curious

I mean on the ice

Ah. Haven’t seen anything to argue with that yet but I will say the guy you drool over didn’t look exactly smart when he first came up

[somni]

Mailloux is a project.

Yup - the hype from the beginning was out of control. I don't understand why Armstrong felt the need to add a project defenseman to a team he built to compete for a cup.

Agree on the hype.
IMO, Mailloux was brought in to be among the next wave of prospects. The Stenberg, Lindstein, etc.

[theograce]

Mails just looks like a really dumb guy

Just curious, are looks your determiner for who’s a good at playing hockey? No judgement, just curious

I mean on the ice

Ah. Haven’t seen anything to argue with that yet but I will say the guy you drool over didn’t look exactly smart when he first came up

At 21 years old he was playing a full season at 22 minutes. All situations. Jesus my man

[netboy65]

This isn’t a Mailloux bashing thread or am I saying he is a bust but the reality is that the Blues did not expect this kind of start from both the team and LM.

After last night the Blues season is now officially in danger of slipping away early and they can no longer afford to throw LM out there and let him “develop” or “learn”.

Sure he’s getting terrible goaltending when he’s been on the ice but the eye test doesn’t provide much of a response to his stats. I just saw the 5th goal where he was looking directly at the Caps player that batted the puck with his hand past him on a 3 on 2 rush. Wilson and Ovi stopped skating and Hofer probably assumed the play would be dead.

To dive at the puck and tap it to the Caps forward that immediately scored is one of the dumbest hockey plays you will ever see from an NHL player. If he was showing signs of what he is supposed to be good at (great offensive instincts/shot) then I say keep him up but I can’t recall ONE rush or ONE shot that looked threatening from him. Not even ONE above average outlet pass that started a 2 on 1 or hell even a 3 on 2.

I think the Blues will send him down and bring Rosen up or they will healthy scratch him for at least the next 10 games.

This is precisely what every Habs fan warned about when I asked them about Logan on their forum. 0 defensive instincts. And I completely agree if he would just show SOMETHING on offense that you could say okay, there's the potential, just have to harness it. But, nope, it's the complete opposite. You just can't keep a rookie with 0 goals and 0 assists with a -13 +/- on a last-place team when you're trying to climb out of the cellar.

Rosen or even Kessel would be a better replacement for now. My concern is this is very similar to Cardinalsesque-type stubborness in that they feel they gave up so much to get him they're going to play him no matter what, which would be idiotic.

Agree with the overall premise of your post but Kessel is hot garbage, I don’t think we need to see him again.

[TampaBlues78]

If you wanted to commit to Mailloux then Tucker is a poor choice as partner

Agreed. Tucker has had his share of questionable decisions lately.

There isn’t a player on this team except the two rookies Snuggy and Dvo that hasn’t had their share or more than their fare share of horrendous decisions this year including army and monty

[fish]

Mails just looks like a really dumb guy

Just curious, are looks your determiner for who’s a good at playing hockey? No judgement, just curious

I mean on the ice

Ah. Haven’t seen anything to argue with that yet but I will say the guy you drool over didn’t look exactly smart when he first came up

At 21 years old he was playing a full season at 22 minutes. All situations. Jesus my man

Maybe I am being unclear
at 17 games in AP did not look like the world beater defenseman that he became. I watched his first full year and he did get better but plenty of people already were calling him a bust and I preached patience. I am in no way comparing LM's ceiling to AP, just saying it is way to early to judge. In November of 2010, not too many people were predicting that AP would be the Blues absolute best player in the franchises' biggest game ever

[Mr.Snuggleupagus]

Agree with the overall premise of your post but Kessel is hot garbage, I don’t think we need to see him again.

If Kessel is "hot garbage" (+1)

What is Mailloux (-12)?