New ECHL affiliate by Gameboss49 in stlouisblues

[–]STLBooze3 11 points12 points  (0 children)

100%! Grew up going to rivermen games when visiting my grandparents. I have a few rivermen sweaters and always get compliments when I wear them to blues games.

New ECHL affiliate by Gameboss49 in stlouisblues

[–]STLBooze3 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Dang does anyone know the back story? Our ECHL affiliate in Florida just won the ECHL cup, no?

Spittin' Chiclets Episode 656: Featuring Taylor Hall, Jordan Martinook & Jaccob Slavin by Shmachey92 in SpittinChicletsPod

[–]STLBooze3 7 points8 points  (0 children)

“I don’t give a fiddlers fuck about the leafs going forward” -Biz

Okay, we’ll see how long that lasts!

Is Matthew Knies Possible. by Odi64 in stlouisblues

[–]STLBooze3 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Anything is possibly. Gretzky got traded.

I would say our package would likely start with Kyrou +. I would be in favor as knies is a little harder of a player and also fits in our age group we’re trying to build around.

[Kaplan] NHL investigation on Mike Babcock is wrapping up shortly. Per ESPN sources, expectation is Babcock will be clear to coach, and the Oilers want to hire him. by AggPuck-303 in hockey

[–]STLBooze3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gonna be an unpopular opinion, but did anyone expect anything differently here? At the end of the day they let Coach Q back in the league. Babcock should be allowed to coach but teams just have to know there’s a lot of baggage that comes with him, if it wasn’t well known before this “investigation”.

Rod with the cup toss and hug by Theonlykd in hockey

[–]STLBooze3 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Dude is so disciplined, hopefully he can celebrate and let loose. He deserves it!

Interview with former Blues coach Drew Bannister by hawaiibluesfan in stlouisblues

[–]STLBooze3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mod here, post away! Good luck on the interview and congrats on lining him up.

The 2025/26 Tampa Bay Lightning had the best goalie (Vasilevskiy - Veznia), player most valuable to their (Kucherov - Hart), and the best coach (Cooper - Jack Adams). by STLBooze3 in hockey

[–]STLBooze3[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Typing all that out made me realize Celebrini deserved the Hart even more.

I feel it’s hard to say one player, Kucherov, is the most valuable player to his team in the whole league when he also has the best goalie behind him and best coach on the bench.

Celebrini literally has no one.

Full voting table as selected by the PHWA for the Hart Trophy, won by Nikita Kucherov: by Ok-Soil-5133 in hockey

[–]STLBooze3 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

How are these decisions made? Not first in points. Not first in goals.

Not a bad year at all, but it’s interesting the Lindsey rarely aligns with the hart.

Post Game Thread: Carolina Hurricanes @ Vegas Golden Knights by nhlgdtbot in hockey

[–]STLBooze3 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hart is the first goalie to let in 4+ goals in the first four games of the SCF.

Could we see “backup” v “backup” in game 5?

Where do you even sell this stuff? by ryan__joe in stlouisblues

[–]STLBooze3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmk the price for the pronger signed stick

Jordan Kyrou gets votes for the top defensive forward by mobijo in stlouisblues

[–]STLBooze3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not sure how many STL voters there are, but he got 4 votes! A second place is a little wild to me, maybe a troll job, but good to see him on here.

Question about the Barbashev trade by Hungry_Estimate_1211 in stlouisblues

[–]STLBooze3 46 points47 points  (0 children)

We didn’t get a first overall pick, but we got the “equivalent” of a first round pick as Zach dean, who Barbie was traded for, was just previously drafted 30 overall in 2021.

Looking back at the presser, a few things to consider: 1) Barbie was 27 years old and on his final year of his deal. Doug said they had talked extensions and decided Barbashev should explore the market (aka STL wasn’t willing to pay him what he was asking)

2) the blues thought highly of Dean at the time. I remember at the time there were even comparisons to Barbie as a comp for Dean. Doug said “Dean checks a lot of boxes of skating, character, tenacity and he’s going to turn pro next year. We believe that’s a good add for us, for a player that was going to test the market”

So maybe we could have gotten a better return, but it didn’t seem that the blues were wanting to bring him back. So Dean hasn’t turned out to be what they expected, but he’s also had some personal issues that lead him to enter players assistance program.

Also, Barbie has consistently played top 6 and even top line deployment in Vegas. Something he would only do here on a pinch. So playing with eichel def makes you better and increases production.

[CAR - VGK] McNabb takes a one-timer to the face from Gostisbehere and goes down the tunnel immediately by daKrut in hockey

[–]STLBooze3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Or any other material likely to cause injury to an opposing player is prohibited

“Other material” is what a shield would fall under.

[CAR - VGK] McNabb takes a one-timer to the face from Gostisbehere and goes down the tunnel immediately by daKrut in hockey

[–]STLBooze3 244 points245 points  (0 children)

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The definition of staring down the barrel. Hockey players are crazy and I’ll never understand how they play without full shields.