3 Blues’ Trade Candidates for 2021-22 Season
The St. Louis Blues have been a mostly inactive team at the trade deadline for multiple seasons now. With the amount of pressure and expectations coming into this season, we…
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Blues’ Worst Value Contracts for the 2021-22 Season
The St. Louis Blues have a problem with the term of their contracts. Between recent signings and bad value deals with three or fewer seasons left, I created a list…
Blues’ Blue Line Predictions for 2021-22
I think it’s fair to say that the St. Louis Blues‘ blue line is the biggest question mark going into the 2021-22 season because they’ve lost a fair amount of…
Revisiting Minnesota Wild Drafts – 2008
The ninth installment in this series has arrived after previously looking at how the Minnesota Wild did in their first eight drafts. If you missed any of them or want a refresher,…
Blues 2020-21 Report Card: Marco Scandella
What a difference a year makes. In February 2020, defenseman Marco Scandella was crowing about getting an opportunity to join the upstart St. Louis Blues, who had just come off…
Blues have Plenty of Options to Create Ideal Defense Pairings
Coaches at all levels of hockey will often tell you that depth is a vital key to long-term success in a hockey season. Your stars will win you a game,…
Looking at the Blues’ 2020-21 Blue Line
It is officially safe to say that the St. Louis Blues blue line is going to look different in the 2020-21 season after former captain Alex Pietrangelo signed a seven-year,…
Evaluating Blues’ 31-Man Playoff Roster
Like every team in the NHL, the St. Louis Blues will bring 31 players to the bubble in the coming days. The Blues depart for Edmonton, the hub city for…
Blues Defensive Options for 2020-21
The St. Louis Blues are defending Stanley Cup Champions and will enter the 2019-20 postseason in first place in the Western Conference. They are also built for the future, with…
Sabres’ 2019-20 Analytics Autopsy: Defencemen
Now that another Buffalo Sabres season is finished – and mercifully so – many are conducting an autopsy of the past few months; and there was more bad than good.…
Blues Scandella Extension is Costly Security Measure
The St. Louis Blues may be on pause like every other NHL team, but their general manager Doug Armstrong has been anything but stagnant. Last week, he signed three free…
Blues Sign Scandella to Four-Year, $13.1 Million Extension
The St. Louis Blues have checked a box off their offseason to-do list, inking pending restricted free agent defenseman Marco Scandella to a four-year, $13.1 million contract extension. Blues Bolster…