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IsDurbanodoingtime
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Re: Trouble in Toronto

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theograce wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:59 am
IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:56 am
theograce wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:28 am
IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:12 am Ryan O'reilly and Robert Thomas ( as well as Rasmus Andersson) all have more points this season than Austin Matthews. Let that sink in.
Bolduc, playing on a 3rd/4th line most of the time has more goals than any Blue

Let that sink in
I understand your need to spout and hijack threads with your same boring shtick but at least try to be correct/accurate. He scored two last night playing on the top line with Caufield and Suzuki where he has scored the majority of his goals this season after his opening game spurt. He went cold hence MSL's having to put him back with the big boys. If you actually watch the Habs, you wouldn't reactively make dumb comments. What's your own term? Keep up. Laughing.
Hijack? He’s averaging under 14 mins the entire year. You seem upset. It’s normal
Upset? Where do you get that from ? Is that what you want to elicit ? It's a internet talk forum. Unlike maybe a lot of people here, I actually appreciate your contributions as you did earlier in this thread. When you devolve a thread towards one of your redundant and boring shticks I just have the same reaction I would to any other internet spam. As with anyone else on this board, i am sure that I can be annoying as well.
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Re: Trouble in Toronto

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IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 12:34 pm
theograce wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:59 am
IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:56 am
theograce wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:28 am
IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:12 am Ryan O'reilly and Robert Thomas ( as well as Rasmus Andersson) all have more points this season than Austin Matthews. Let that sink in.
Bolduc, playing on a 3rd/4th line most of the time has more goals than any Blue

Let that sink in
I understand your need to spout and hijack threads with your same boring shtick but at least try to be correct/accurate. He scored two last night playing on the top line with Caufield and Suzuki where he has scored the majority of his goals this season after his opening game spurt. He went cold hence MSL's having to put him back with the big boys. If you actually watch the Habs, you wouldn't reactively make dumb comments. What's your own term? Keep up. Laughing.
Hijack? He’s averaging under 14 mins the entire year. You seem upset. It’s normal
Upset? Where do you get that from ? Is that what you want to elicit ? It's a internet talk forum. Unlike maybe a lot of people here, I actually appreciate your contributions as you did earlier in this thread. When you devolve a thread towards one of your redundant and boring shticks I just have the same reaction I would to any other internet spam. As with anyone else on this board, i am sure that I can be annoying as well.
Well yeah…words like spout, hijack, spurt, dumb…

Upset and triggered.

Bolduc with 3rd line minutes would be the leading scorer on the Blues. Just a simple truth guy
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Little troll girl got her feelings hurt because someone used the word "spurt".

Poor thing :cry:
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Re: Trouble in Toronto

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He went through a five game stretch when he was off the top line i.e not with Suzuki and Caufield. Hence the MSL intervention to get him going His last seven goals have been either playing with caufield and suzuki or on the pp. Hugh McGing would be our leading scorer with those linemates. Contrast him with Demidov and Kapanen who are producing more or (in the case of Kap) the same as Bolduc and do not get the benefit of playing with the big boys. It's a little affirmative action. Doesn't take away from him as a player or that he has a bright future but let's not correlate that he would be necessarily putting up those numbers here. And he is only five goals behind Matthews.
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IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:02 pm He went through a five game stretch when he was off the top line i.e not with Suzuki and Caufield. Hence the MSL intervention to get him going His last seven goals have been either playing with caufield and suzuki or on the pp. Hugh McGing would be our leading scorer with those linemates. Contrast him with Demidov and Kapanen who are producing more or (in the case of Kap) the same as Bolduc and do not get the benefit of playing with the big boys. It's a little affirmative action. Doesn't take away from him as a player or that he has a bright future but let's not correlate that he would be necessarily putting up those numbers here. And he is only five goals behind Matthews.
He’s averaging under 14 minutes and would be leading goal scorer on the blues.

What are Thomas and Buchnevich averaging?
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How many goals would Buch have playing with Caufield and Suzuki is the more salient question. Texier already has three goals in 12 games playing up and down the lineup. He isn't doing that in St.Louis if he made a return. Nor is Bolduc. Not with the current state of this team.
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IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:12 am Ryan O'reilly and Robert Thomas ( as well as Rasmus Andersson) all have more points this season than Austin Matthews. Let that sink in.
Would you flip Thomas for Matthews?
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BleedingBleu wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:18 pm
IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:12 am Ryan O'reilly and Robert Thomas ( as well as Rasmus Andersson) all have more points this season than Austin Matthews. Let that sink in.
Would you flip Thomas for Matthews?
No.....sorry.
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IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:18 pm How many goals would Buch have playing with Caufield and Suzuki is the more salient question. Texier already has three goals in 12 games playing up and down the lineup. He isn't doing that in St.Louis if he made a return. Nor is Bolduc. Not with the current state of this team.
How many goals would Bolduc have with Bucunvich’s opportunity?

All guesswork. Fact is he would be the leading scorer on the Blues averaging under 14 minutes.
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IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:12 am Ryan O'reilly and Robert Thomas ( as well as Rasmus Andersson) all have more points this season than Austin Matthews. Let that sink in.
In fairness, Matthews has a higher PPG average than ROR and The Thomas, 40 percent more goals than ROR and twice as many as The Thomas; and his +/- is six better than ROR and 9 better than The Thomas.
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IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:12 am Ryan O'reilly and Robert Thomas ( as well as Rasmus Andersson) all have more points this season than Austin Matthews. Let that sink in.
In fairness, Matthews has a higher PPG average than ROR and The Thomas, 40 percent more goals than ROR and twice as many as The Thomas; and his +/- is six better than ROR and 9 better than The Thomas.
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Re: Trouble in Toronto

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theograce wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:27 pm
IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:18 pm How many goals would Buch have playing with Caufield and Suzuki is the more salient question. Texier already has three goals in 12 games playing up and down the lineup. He isn't doing that in St.Louis if he made a return. Nor is Bolduc. Not with the current state of this team.
How many goals would Bolduc have with Bucunvich’s opportunity?

All guesswork. Fact is he would be the leading scorer on the Blues averaging under 14 minutes.
"All guesswork. Fact is" you are talking in oxymorons. Actually we have a relative controlled sample example in texier who has played for both teams this season. We are just a collectively awful offensive team.
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Re: Trouble in Toronto

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IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:53 pm
theograce wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:27 pm
IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:18 pm How many goals would Buch have playing with Caufield and Suzuki is the more salient question. Texier already has three goals in 12 games playing up and down the lineup. He isn't doing that in St.Louis if he made a return. Nor is Bolduc. Not with the current state of this team.
How many goals would Bolduc have with Bucunvich’s opportunity?

All guesswork. Fact is he would be the leading scorer on the Blues averaging under 14 minutes.
"All guesswork. Fact is" you are talking in oxymorons. Actually we have a relative controlled sample example in texier who has played for both teams this season. We are just a collectively awful offensive team.
You speculate and project and don’t like it when others do lol.

So if Bolduc was playing 18+ mins all year and getting full opportunity in MTL…how many goals do you think he’d have right now?
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Bubble4427 wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:20 pm
BleedingBleu wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:18 pm
IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:12 am Ryan O'reilly and Robert Thomas ( as well as Rasmus Andersson) all have more points this season than Austin Matthews. Let that sink in.
Would you flip Thomas for Matthews?
No.....sorry.
I’d do it in a heartbeat
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Re: Trouble in Toronto

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theograce wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:05 pm
IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:02 pm He went through a five game stretch when he was off the top line i.e not with Suzuki and Caufield. Hence the MSL intervention to get him going His last seven goals have been either playing with caufield and suzuki or on the pp. Hugh McGing would be our leading scorer with those linemates. Contrast him with Demidov and Kapanen who are producing more or (in the case of Kap) the same as Bolduc and do not get the benefit of playing with the big boys. It's a little affirmative action. Doesn't take away from him as a player or that he has a bright future but let's not correlate that he would be necessarily putting up those numbers here. And he is only five goals behind Matthews.
He’s averaging under 14 minutes and would be leading goal scorer on the blues.

What are Thomas and Buchnevich averaging?
Thomas has been averaging a new linemate a game the entire season. Sometimes fresh off the street brand new, the same as the rest of the forwards, save for maybe a couple of two game stretches.

I'm too afraid to look at his stats.
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Re: Trouble in Toronto

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netboy65 wrote: 19 Dec 2025 15:30 pm
Bubble4427 wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:20 pm
BleedingBleu wrote: 19 Dec 2025 13:18 pm
IsDurbanodoingtime wrote: 19 Dec 2025 11:12 am Ryan O'reilly and Robert Thomas ( as well as Rasmus Andersson) all have more points this season than Austin Matthews. Let that sink in.
Would you flip Thomas for Matthews?
No.....sorry.
I’d do it in a heartbeat
Not for 13.25 million a year.
I’ll take Thomas and his 8.125 for the next 6 years over that…
Just my opinion.
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