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Forum: Armchair-GM14 hours ago
Thread: Been Awhile wanted to look at the potential healthy lines
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TheEarthmaster</b></div><div>I feel like someone on here said that Zach Sanford had massively overperformed his expected goals last season and wasn't that good and was already reaching about his prime on the aging curve and we shouldn't take much into account his totals from last year considering 1/4 of them came in one game that we still lost and we should trade him to whatever team is stupid enough to take that into account while his value was high at the end of last season...now who was that? We may never know</div></div>

For sure haha. I can probably find some receipts that I was on the trade-high train for Sanford too. All that time with ROR and DP really fluffed his value.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TheEarthmaster</b></div><div>Do we actually know what's going on with Kostin? Last I heard he was supposed to be in camp but then couldn't get his Visa squared away and then played horribly the first little bit in Russia and then JR had a piece where he was like "yeah the Blues just don't know with Kostin anymore". Now he's playing really well but I'm confused as to why he never came back over here. Maybe the AHL situation had something to do with it but we could use him now at the NHL level.</div></div>

Yeah once he missed camp with the visa issue I think they just decided not to move him around too much and tried to give him some consistency. He'll be back at the end of the KHL season; I don't think the FO is giving up on him, but I do think as fans we shouldn't expect the guy drafted as the no.1 european skater in 2017. I'm hoping for reliable 3rd line production and some toughness.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 12:17 am
Thread: Giving the Blues a real backup
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>aadoyle</b></div><div>i still do not understand why the blues moved Allen. I understand they wanted Hoffman but Husso had 0 NHL experience and so far has been ass for this team. Kind of knew that was gonna potentially happen.

In general the blues did fine when Tarasenko was injured last time so adding Hoffman was kind of pointless. Allen has been amazing for the Habs and I suspect if blues kept him their record would be much better.</div></div>

Hoffman really only became a thing after Steen LTIRetired. The Blues had to move Allen to free up the cap for Dunn and to keep the Petro door open. 4.35 was too much for the backup. Sucks losing Jake but I thought the move made sense. Husso has started like 2 games and aside from some jitters has been decent. If he isn’t the answer maybe they’ll find a veteran G at the deadline but they had to see what they have in Husso.
Forum: Armchair-GMWed at 3:29 pm
Thread: Is Faulk a good TWD now lol
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>yikes</b></div><div>He looked good in the Sharks series’ too.
Definitely a great start to the year for him. Filling in for AP has gone well for him but we’ll need to see it continue obvi. For now tho the Blues definitely are relying on him.

any other blues fans tho, how’s Krug been overall?</div></div>

Faulk has been carrying the defense - truly a crazy turn of events lol.

Krug has been good, not great. I haven't been worried about his play but I've only been impressed in a couple of games. His vision and his sense to keep plays alive is fantastic but he's slower on his feet than I thought he was and that keeps him from making some defensive plays / winning battles. I have a feeling he'll hit another level in the near future when he gets a little more comfortable, and if the PP starts clicking that should give him a big boost of confidence.
Forum: Armchair-GMTue at 1:22 pm
Thread: Trades
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mokumboi</b></div><div>I cannot disagree more. Not only will we not have the cap space for this, but we're not in the position to mortgage chunks of our future for 20 games of a guy who doesn't bother with defense. The only thing we need to beat Vegas and Colorado is half our team back in skates. And if we're not healthy, we're not winning the Cup anyway.</div></div>

That's a fair opinion. But IMO if they're just gonna pick guys like Jake Neighbours with their 1st rd pick, might as well take the gamble on the rental. Faulk, Krug, Schenn, ROR, Perron, etc, these guys aren't getting any younger - if they have the opportunity to add a guy like Hall (who can reach a very high level of play) I would hope they at least consider it. FWIW I don't consider Sanford a part of the future, and Alexandrov - I like him - still has a long way to go before he is helping this team. Are you anti-rental or anti-Hall, because the other name I'd really like to see on the Blues is Palmieri.
Forum: Armchair-GMMon at 5:55 pm