Biggest Concerns to Start the Season

[a smell of green grass]

"Negativity is needed, and I'm the one to channel it, it's valuable."

You're confusing negativity with accuracy.

Sitting too close to the Cheerleaders is bad for perspective and wisdom. It's hard to know what is really happening if all you see are the pretty things.

[a smell of green grass]

My biggest concern before the season is finishing the spreadsheet that has the grid of what day/time all the teams of all the prospects play, it's a manual grind. I'm halfway through Sarnia.

To the OP on his last comment: the reason people resent that is life provides plenty of reasons for everyone to be concerned, worried, anxious, so for you to create a whole persona out of pouring it on even more is really atrocious behavior and the reason people find it despicable is obvious.

The Blues prospects are ranked in the middle of the pack by every source that provides a ranking. What I'm telling people is no different. Do I put it in front of noses too often? Perhaps, but the sources that blow fake sunshine are also very active, and they irritate me.

Fake sunshine irritates most people dude. I am intolerant of fake sunshine just as I am of manufactured negativity. You don't need to be the cop for that there are plenty of cops for that.

YES you CAN elect to be this persona on your flimsy unreliable narrator reasoning, but you will come to learn life is finite so it's a real life crime, genuinely. That's why people invest so much energy telling you off and will continue to do so. I'm a big believer if you change, we should change in response but you have to change first, you are the main character after all. you're the decider of this.

My persona is not negative. It is the truth that few others provide.

You will find that I will be leading the charge of optimism when it is due. You just caught me at wrong time.

[STL fan in MN]

My biggest concern before the season is finishing the spreadsheet that has the grid of what day/time all the teams of all the prospects play, it's a manual grind. I'm halfway through Sarnia.

To the OP on his last comment: the reason people resent that is life provides plenty of reasons for everyone to be concerned, worried, anxious, so for you to create a whole persona out of pouring it on even more is really atrocious behavior and the reason people find it despicable is obvious.

The Blues prospects are ranked in the middle of the pack by every source that provides a ranking. What I'm telling people is no different. Do I put it in front of noses too often? Perhaps, but the sources that blow fake sunshine are also very active, and they irritate me.

Here’s a source that has them 9th:
https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/hf ... .3009801/

HF is doing a series of polls ranking prospect pools. And it’s a conglomerate of the entire HF community, not just 1 guy, so that holds a little more weight for me.

[callitwhatyouwant]

My biggest concern before the season is finishing the spreadsheet that has the grid of what day/time all the teams of all the prospects play, it's a manual grind. I'm halfway through Sarnia.

To the OP on his last comment: the reason people resent that is life provides plenty of reasons for everyone to be concerned, worried, anxious, so for you to create a whole persona out of pouring it on even more is really atrocious behavior and the reason people find it despicable is obvious.

The Blues prospects are ranked in the middle of the pack by every source that provides a ranking. What I'm telling people is no different. Do I put it in front of noses too often? Perhaps, but the sources that blow fake sunshine are also very active, and they irritate me.

Fake sunshine irritates most people dude. I am intolerant of fake sunshine just as I am of manufactured negativity. You don't need to be the cop for that there are plenty of cops for that.

YES you CAN elect to be this persona on your flimsy unreliable narrator reasoning, but you will come to learn life is finite so it's a real life crime, genuinely. That's why people invest so much energy telling you off and will continue to do so. I'm a big believer if you change, we should change in response but you have to change first, you are the main character after all. you're the decider of this.

My persona is not negative. It is the truth that few others provide.

You will find that I will be leading the charge of optimism when it is due. You just caught me at wrong time.

what about the truth behind you leaving the board if the Blues won a playoff game? Seems that truth never happened. Goblin Goo

[seattleblue]

"Negativity is needed, and I'm the one to channel it, it's valuable."

You're confusing negativity with accuracy.

Sitting too close to the Cheerleaders is bad for perspective and wisdom. It's hard to know what is really happening if all you see are the pretty things.

You really ought to invest some time in guided meditation. My previous comment about why what you're doing is a life crime holds. It may be both terrifying and freeing to discover that the universe is unfolding effortlessly on its own without your own efforts. We live in a stupid [shirt] world and you actually have the balls to wake up in the morning and think, "you know what the world needs? more negativity!" absolutely F your choice to do that

[a smell of green grass]

My biggest concern before the season is finishing the spreadsheet that has the grid of what day/time all the teams of all the prospects play, it's a manual grind. I'm halfway through Sarnia.

To the OP on his last comment: the reason people resent that is life provides plenty of reasons for everyone to be concerned, worried, anxious, so for you to create a whole persona out of pouring it on even more is really atrocious behavior and the reason people find it despicable is obvious.

The Blues prospects are ranked in the middle of the pack by every source that provides a ranking. What I'm telling people is no different. Do I put it in front of noses too often? Perhaps, but the sources that blow fake sunshine are also very active, and they irritate me.

Here’s a source that has them 9th:
https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/hf ... .3009801/

HF is doing a series of polls ranking prospect pools. And it’s a conglomerate of the entire HF community, not just 1 guy, so that holds a little more weight for me.

You are encouraged and happy to see that a team that just completed a RE-WHATEVER is ranked 9th?

Let me remind you. A RE-WHATEVER project is started when the franchise needs an extreme makeover. The cupboard is not bare possibly, but there is no chance of a Stanley Cup ever being found in there.

ASOGG MATH:
Bare Cupboard + AVERAGE New Talent = Average Results at best

[a smell of green grass]

"Negativity is needed, and I'm the one to channel it, it's valuable."

You're confusing negativity with accuracy.

Sitting too close to the Cheerleaders is bad for perspective and wisdom. It's hard to know what is really happening if all you see are the pretty things.

You really ought to invest some time in guided meditation. My previous comment about why what you're doing is a life crime holds. It may be both terrifying and freeing to discover that the universe is unfolding effortlessly on its own without your own efforts. We live in a stupid [shirt] world and you actually have the balls to wake up in the morning and think, "you know what the world needs? more negativity!" absolutely F your choice to do that

Here again you are seeing me all wrong.

I don't think that the world needs more negativity. I'm seeking extreme happiness!!!

I think that the Blues and St Louis need a TOP5 draft pick--just like almost every other NHL City. I want that extra bit of happiness in my life.

[2forDiving]

My biggest concern before the season is finishing the spreadsheet that has the grid of what day/time all the teams of all the prospects play, it's a manual grind. I'm halfway through Sarnia.

To the OP on his last comment: the reason people resent that is life provides plenty of reasons for everyone to be concerned, worried, anxious, so for you to create a whole persona out of pouring it on even more is really atrocious behavior and the reason people find it despicable is obvious.

The Blues prospects are ranked in the middle of the pack by every source that provides a ranking. What I'm telling people is no different. Do I put it in front of noses too often? Perhaps, but the sources that blow fake sunshine are also very active, and they irritate me.

Here’s a source that has them 9th:
https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/hf ... .3009801/

HF is doing a series of polls ranking prospect pools. And it’s a conglomerate of the entire HF community, not just 1 guy, so that holds a little more weight for me.

You are encouraged and happy to see that a team that just completed a RE-WHATEVER is ranked 9th?

Let me remind you. A RE-WHATEVER project is started when the franchise needs an extreme makeover. The cupboard is not bare possibly, but there is no chance of a Stanley Cup ever being found in there.

ASOGG MATH:
Bare Cupboard + AVERAGE New Talent = Average Results at best

Glad you aren’t a math teacher…..

[a smell of green grass]

what about the truth behind you leaving the board if the Blues won a playoff game? Seems that truth never happened. Goblin Goo

I've seen Schenn skate away from the war, but then he fixes that the next time that he jumps over the boards.

Same with me.

[STL fan in MN]

My biggest concern before the season is finishing the spreadsheet that has the grid of what day/time all the teams of all the prospects play, it's a manual grind. I'm halfway through Sarnia.

To the OP on his last comment: the reason people resent that is life provides plenty of reasons for everyone to be concerned, worried, anxious, so for you to create a whole persona out of pouring it on even more is really atrocious behavior and the reason people find it despicable is obvious.

The Blues prospects are ranked in the middle of the pack by every source that provides a ranking. What I'm telling people is no different. Do I put it in front of noses too often? Perhaps, but the sources that blow fake sunshine are also very active, and they irritate me.

Here’s a source that has them 9th:
https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/hf ... .3009801/

HF is doing a series of polls ranking prospect pools. And it’s a conglomerate of the entire HF community, not just 1 guy, so that holds a little more weight for me.

You are encouraged and happy to see that a team that just completed a RE-WHATEVER is ranked 9th?

Let me remind you. A RE-WHATEVER project is started when the franchise needs an extreme makeover. The cupboard is not bare possibly, but there is no chance of a Stanley Cup ever being found in there.

ASOGG MATH:
Bare Cupboard + AVERAGE New Talent = Average Results at best

What you’re describing, what you clearly want or at least wanted the Blues to do was a complete rebuild. A complete tear down to the studs rebuild like the Hawks and Sharks did. The reason why Army says “re-whatever” is because it was something much much lighter than that. Call it a retool, reconfigure, reset, recalibration, restructure, rebalance…whatever re- you want to use, it was very clearly not a full rebuild.

THAT is the crux of where you differ from the thinking of Army and Stillman. Stillman, and by extension Army, was not willing to do that. Nor was it really even all that feasible as they were “too good” with guys like Thomas, Kyrou and Binnington on the roster. They would’ve had to sell them all off to fully rip it to the studs to be bad enough to get the picks teams like Chicago and SJ got.

The Blues didn’t do that. The Blues won’t be doing that. Maybe you’ll eventually be proven right that they showed done that. But it won’t be for about 10 years before you’ll really even have that opportunity. So yeah, you making basically the same point in 5 different threads every day is beyond tiresome. We get what you’re saying. You don’t need to keep “putting it under our noses.” We either just disagree, have grown tired of the same old discussion or have accepted that we’ll just have to wait the 10ish years to see how it turns out.

[seattleblue]

"Negativity is needed, and I'm the one to channel it, it's valuable."

You're confusing negativity with accuracy.

Sitting too close to the Cheerleaders is bad for perspective and wisdom. It's hard to know what is really happening if all you see are the pretty things.

You really ought to invest some time in guided meditation. My previous comment about why what you're doing is a life crime holds. It may be both terrifying and freeing to discover that the universe is unfolding effortlessly on its own without your own efforts. We live in a stupid [shirt] world and you actually have the balls to wake up in the morning and think, "you know what the world needs? more negativity!" absolutely F your choice to do that

Here again you are seeing me all wrong.

I don't think that the world needs more negativity. I'm seeking extreme happiness!!!

I think that the Blues and St Louis need a TOP5 draft pick--just like almost every other NHL City. I want that extra bit of happiness in my life.

You literally just talked about purposefully counteracting fake sunshine with what you're doing.

I've said my piece and I'm correct about your flimsy structure that got you to your current rationalizations. On some level you know you're being an infliction on purpose. In this current inflicted world. So people show you how much they despise that

[sdaltons]

My biggest concern before the season is finishing the spreadsheet that has the grid of what day/time all the teams of all the prospects play, it's a manual grind. I'm halfway through Sarnia.

To the OP on his last comment: the reason people resent that is life provides plenty of reasons for everyone to be concerned, worried, anxious, so for you to create a whole persona out of pouring it on even more is really atrocious behavior and the reason people find it despicable is obvious.

The Blues prospects are ranked in the middle of the pack by every source that provides a ranking. What I'm telling people is no different. Do I put it in front of noses too often? Perhaps, but the sources that blow fake sunshine are also very active, and they irritate me.

Here’s a source that has them 9th:
https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/hf ... .3009801/

HF is doing a series of polls ranking prospect pools. And it’s a conglomerate of the entire HF community, not just 1 guy, so that holds a little more weight for me.

You are encouraged and happy to see that a team that just completed a RE-WHATEVER is ranked 9th?

Let me remind you. A RE-WHATEVER project is started when the franchise needs an extreme makeover. The cupboard is not bare possibly, but there is no chance of a Stanley Cup ever being found in there.

ASOGG MATH:
Bare Cupboard + AVERAGE New Talent = Average Results at best

Glad you aren’t a math teacher…..

It also thinks "almost every other NHL city" has a top 5 pick. Maybe it thinks there are only 7-8 teams?

[a smell of green grass]

My biggest concern before the season is finishing the spreadsheet that has the grid of what day/time all the teams of all the prospects play, it's a manual grind. I'm halfway through Sarnia.

To the OP on his last comment: the reason people resent that is life provides plenty of reasons for everyone to be concerned, worried, anxious, so for you to create a whole persona out of pouring it on even more is really atrocious behavior and the reason people find it despicable is obvious.

The Blues prospects are ranked in the middle of the pack by every source that provides a ranking. What I'm telling people is no different. Do I put it in front of noses too often? Perhaps, but the sources that blow fake sunshine are also very active, and they irritate me.

Here’s a source that has them 9th:
https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/hf ... .3009801/

HF is doing a series of polls ranking prospect pools. And it’s a conglomerate of the entire HF community, not just 1 guy, so that holds a little more weight for me.

You are encouraged and happy to see that a team that just completed a RE-WHATEVER is ranked 9th?

Let me remind you. A RE-WHATEVER project is started when the franchise needs an extreme makeover. The cupboard is not bare possibly, but there is no chance of a Stanley Cup ever being found in there.

ASOGG MATH:
Bare Cupboard + AVERAGE New Talent = Average Results at best

Glad you aren’t a math teacher…..

It also thinks "almost every other NHL city" has a top 5 pick. Maybe it thinks there are only 7-8 teams?

Every year, 5 cities get a TOP5 pick. Those prospects often stay with their teams for many years. At the current time, there are probably 50 TOP5 players playing for the team that drafted them.

Every playoff team this year had at least 1 TOP5 pick--EXCEPT the Blues. Florida has 2.

[Harry S Deals]

Its a very very exciting upcoming season with some of the best prospects the franchise has had blossoming and its fun to watch them grow into roles.
Kyrou
Thomas
Hofer
Tucker
Neighbours
Snuggerud
Lindtein
Kaskamaki
Dvorsky
Stenberg
Dean

along with Broberg, Holloway and Mailloux will make this a contender going forward.

You can bet there will be bumps galore along the way, news flash - these are younger players. Mailloux is going to learn the job on the fly this season hes going to F up some plays. Hes also going to finish monster checks and score some exciting goals.

Another news flash for the resident idiot - it doesnt matter where you were drafted its more important that the franchise can use your toolbox and re hone your game into an NHL player. You shouldnt need examples of this at this point but.... how many really saw Thomas (#20) as a #1 center. What about Parayko (#86) who saw this kid becoming one of the top RHD in the NHL? Kyrou (#35) after being a -50 from '22-'24 Kyrou revamped his overall game and is literally 9th in Goals Scored in his draft class with 150 goals in laughably only 416 GP.
Guess what more of this coming and some will surprise in a big way.

[LGB73]

My biggest concern before the season is finishing the spreadsheet that has the grid of what day/time all the teams of all the prospects play, it's a manual grind. I'm halfway through Sarnia.

To the OP on his last comment: the reason people resent that is life provides plenty of reasons for everyone to be concerned, worried, anxious, so for you to create a whole persona out of pouring it on even more is really atrocious behavior and the reason people find it despicable is obvious.

The Blues prospects are ranked in the middle of the pack by every source that provides a ranking. What I'm telling people is no different. Do I put it in front of noses too often? Perhaps, but the sources that blow fake sunshine are also very active, and they irritate me.

Here’s a source that has them 9th:
https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/hf ... .3009801/

HF is doing a series of polls ranking prospect pools. And it’s a conglomerate of the entire HF community, not just 1 guy, so that holds a little more weight for me.

You are encouraged and happy to see that a team that just completed a RE-WHATEVER is ranked 9th?

Let me remind you. A RE-WHATEVER project is started when the franchise needs an extreme makeover. The cupboard is not bare possibly, but there is no chance of a Stanley Cup ever being found in there.

ASOGG MATH:
Bare Cupboard + AVERAGE New Talent = Average Results at best

The re-whatever has barely started. I'll wait to judge it when Snuggerud, Dvorsky, Lindstein, Stenberg, etc all have a year or two in the NHL and not before most of them haven't even made it yet. This re-whatever really started with the 2023 draft so give it a little time why don't we. Armstrong jumped started it with the Broberg-Holloway moves but it's still needs some time to develop before we judge it.

As to this season, I'm most concerned about Snuggerud delivering consistent top 6 performance all season. Moving Bolduc puts pressure there to pan out if the team wants to build on last year. I could see it taking a step back but that's to be expected when we're transitioning to a new core that's not all NHL ready yet.

[Nublues69]

Biggest Concerns to Start the Season:

A. The Jan 2025 Blues return to start the season. See Army's gasket blow before the 4 Nations Break for the state of the team.
B. Snuggerud not ready for the NHL
C. Mailloux not ready for the NHL
D. The Blues are the Champions of the Distraction Cup, the Winter Classic. This year, the distraction is the Olympics, and Army is a ringleader.
E. Holloway/Broberg injury impact carries into the season
F. Schenn and Sunny are 1 year older
G. Other

My vote is A.

My biggest concern is what am i going to cook for the home opener for my guest... I think homemade lasagna and garlic bread would be great or maybee Just some usda prime beef burgers with fries who knows.

I hear ya. For years I've always made brats on opening day. But my life is in transition, so who knows where my grill will be. I just might need to call an audible.

Its always good to have an audible ready. Never know when they bring the kids who wont eat BBQ or your one of your bros brings a vegan...