BLAME ARMSTRONG

Team: 2024-25 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 23, 2024

Published: Feb. 29, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

This is not gonna be my best rant but I'm so sick of this dude.

A potato with a checkbook could have put together this defense:

Dunn (7.35) - Pietrangelo (8.80)
Walman (3.40) - Parayko (6.50)
Edmundson (1.75) - Bortuzzo (0.95)

Instead we have a completely useless group of bozos for the same money.

Everyone and their mother knew Schenn isn't gonna age well. Army walked away from Backes and should've done the same with Schenner. Ope now he's our captain, and he's going no where for 4 more years despite already being a liability in the top 9 and on special teams. We could've signed ROR for less money and fewer years, but he had to go super early on Schenn's 8-yr extension when the future of the team was directionless. Did the same with Parayko, who was a broken player as the ink was drying on that 8 yr deal. And now that he's seemingly playing well enough that teams would be interested, he's gonna hang onto him and try to keep winning games with the bozo brigade that surrounds #55 on the blue line.

Dude starts the retool and smartly picks up some draft picks. Then proceeds to draft high floor, low ceiling guys that will probably top out as 3rd liners and 3rd pair guys (with the exception of Dvorsky, but he's still not a home run of a prospect like you can get with a 10oa). Used the late picks on a bunch of boring guys that will never be NHLers. Whoopee I can feel the excitement brewing! I will not slander Pekarcik but every other pick was a total yawn.

Then he takes flyers on some low-risk, high-reward guys and NONE of them pan out. Vrana looked great for a flash and now he's an AHL bum, Kapanen should be there too, Hayes has 1 goal and 3 pts in his last 26 GP. 2 more years on his deal which is an overpay somehow even though he got him at half price. I haven't even heard Sammy Blais name on the broadcast in months, is he even on the team?

Says a rebuild isn't fair to fans because they don't deserve 8-10 years of losing while simultaneously anchoring the roster with immovable contracts and declining players... I have a feeling the losing is gonna happen regardless, unless he can magically make bad players disappear and star players show up without getting top 5 draft picks.

I know some Blues fans are gonna critique this by saying we have high end prospects and it's not so bad. But once you get past Dvo and Snuggerud, all I see is hopefuls and depth guys. Theo Lindstein had a great WJC but he's still tracking to be a Gunnarsson 2.0. Stenberg demoted to 2nd tier Swedish league while his countrymates taken later than him are doing better in SHL, yay! Maybe he'll be a 3rd liner in 5 years. Quinton Burns won't even get an ELC, taken one pick before Hunter Brzusteweicz who will have more pts this season than Burns will finish his whole OHL career with. Gotta have sandpaper, it's so valuable and hard to find! As he trades Bortuzzo for a 7th round pick.

The ONLY things Doug has gotten right since July 2019... Thomas extension, Buch trade, 2023 deadline. 3 out of how many decisions? Not a great %. Can't wait to see buffoonery that comes next. He keeps saying he needs to leave the organization better than it was when he started. Good luck buddy. Genuinely thanks for the 2019 Stanley Cup but it's hard to comprehend that it was the same guy pulling the strings to make that team when you see what he's done since.