Puck Watching: a St. Louis Blues Podcast

Love Episode from Monday is out! Was nice to break down where the Blues currently stand and what should be the goals for the team moving forward.. maybe they should keep Robert Thomas too! Links 👇 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/puc… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2SgN7D… YouTube: youtube.com/live/4OK5IJ-u9…

@ThomasWalterMc @STLBluesMuse

@PuckWatchingSTL @STLBluesMuse U serious? 🤦🏼‍♂️

As people in my replies point out, the fact that the Blues went on a run like this mainly propped up by young players that they will have control of for a while is very good I just think the value of a top 3 pick to this franchise's future specifically is absurdly high

@PassingDrill You read my mind. So nasty 🤢

He had that one goal against Arizona in 2021 but it wasn't this.

He never did this as a Blue.

@STLNoteFan314 @STLBluesMuse Not out of top 5 convo yet but was the other suggestion just pull their best players when they were starting to heat up? It’s frustrating for sure but only so much you can do when your best players start to play at a high level and you’re knocking on WC2 door for a period

@PuckWatchingSTL @STLBluesMuse It wasn't just injuries, trading Schenn and Faulk galvanized this group. Last year there were 9 teams under .500, this year there are 4. That means you dont have to be terrible to be a bottom team. This was an opportunity, a unique scenario to draft top 5.

@STLNoteFan314 @STLBluesMuse The blues had the worst goaltending in the NHL and everyone underachieving almost the entire. Didn’t win 3 games in a row until March and a game in OT until mid January. They are not a bottom feeder team. They were gonna turn it around eventually when they got healthy again.

@PuckWatchingSTL @STLBluesMuse Pal, even an improved .600 point pace would've kept us in the bottom 4. .750 points % post olympics was crazy. We suffered through FIVE months of shit hockey, including a healthy Oct,Nov,Dec for Thomas ans Holloway. And this is our reward, no playoffs and no high pick.

@ThomasWalterMc @STLBluesMuse Didn’t know if you sit at #2 for some of the year that means you’ll always be at the spot. Like saying in 2019 that we could have done the same

@PuckWatchingSTL @STLBluesMuse We sat in the #2 spot a vast majority of the year, so technically you dont

@STLNoteFan314 @STLBluesMuse Brother, Dylan Holloway missed 3 months and Rob missed a month and a half. That matters. Better goaltending helped a lot too

@PuckWatchingSTL @STLBluesMuse Buddy, they were tied for 2nd to last place after 58 games. That top 3 pick was right there. Now we just have to hope that they get lucky with the lottery. I fucking hate the mushy middle.

@STLBluesMuse @stlsportsfan123 I mean Kyrou and Buch are who we are talking about here. No one else. I’m fully unconvinced the blues would even be bad if they traded both of them given how the top line has been and how bad those two have been

@stlsportsfan123 @PuckWatchingSTL I'm sorry, but these are good top 6 players, and aside from Thomas I don't think any of them are first liners on a cup team. The current core sadly is not good enough and lacks any star power; it's mediocre

@STLBluesMuse Totally fine to have that thought process… but Robert Thomas has to go in order for them to reach that level and not sure there is an appetite for that

@PuckWatchingSTL Going upon the fourth season of mediocrity, I think it's time they actually make a real bold change for once

I don’t really see the path for the Blues. Even winning every game most likely won’t do it due to who the kings play. Worst outcome possible last night tbh between LA and Nashville #stlblues

@turnstylerock @PassingDrill Did a very bad job of putting off the tanking lol

@PuckWatchingSTL @PassingDrill It’s been a decade cause the Hawks put off tanking for 5-6 years

@chicago_tony27 @PassingDrill Future looks better absolutely and hard not to when the last 9 years have been as bad as they are

@PuckWatchingSTL @PassingDrill Whole point of the rebuild . We all knew after that run we were going right back to the bottom, happens in a cap league . Bedard , Nazar, Lardis, Frondell , Kantserov , Knight and another top 3 comin , also 50 mil in cap space . Confident to say the future is bright

@PassingDrill You have to get rid of your best players to get access to a high lottery pick. The Blues aren’t nearly bad enough when healthy to qualify for that. They are simply proving that rn

@kenscardz_92 @PassingDrill I’ll take our guy, thank you though

@PuckWatchingSTL @PassingDrill Nazar is great. You don't know puck. He's been hurt/playing hurt most of the season

@chicago_tony27 @PassingDrill *Hypothetically and potentially*, well worth the wait.. just needed to correct that since there’s no guarantees that they’ll be a cup contender despite not making the playoffs in a decade and maybe longer

@PuckWatchingSTL @PassingDrill Blackhawks also had a decade of Stanley cups and deep playoff runs with a chunk of them being and will be hall of famers . In the next few years they will start another decade of winning and possible championships . This is well worth the wait

The blues are 4-1 against the Avalanche in the last 5 matchups and a chance to make it 5-1 tomorrow for what’s it’s worth everyone #stlblues

If they win these next 3 which will be difficult no doubt… one would think they’d be right in it with just a smidge of help

Oh yeah… maybe we don’t trade Robert Thomas. Just a thought #stlblues

It’s frustrating, sure, that they are yet again not in a position to get a top 5 pick (that can change quickly) but it is quite amazing how much better they are playing. Beating Colorado in Denver and maybe even outplaying them was inconceivable no more than a month or so ago. As it relates to playoffs, it’s going to be extremely difficult. You probably need LA to lose to Nashville tonight given their schedule moving forward and hope Nashville slips up a couple times. Sharks will have to slip up too but both Nashville and San Jose have the remaining schedules to slip up imo. Id say Blues have to win their next 3 (COL, Jets, @ CHI) to be right there after this coming weekend and you can really dig your heels in for the final stretch. They haven’t won the critical critical games yet consecutively and tomorrow Thursday and Saturday are just that. I don’t think there’s candidly any room for a regulation loss this week in order to make a real push so they will have had to win 5 in a row come Sunday morning. Not easy but not impossible! #stlblues