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Re: Bill Cowley

rcbcmr wrote:I didn't know he was the first st Louis player to make the hall of fame.
Syd Howe (no relation to Gordie) was the 1st St Louis player to be inducted in the HHOF.

Re: Capgeek founder passes away

It was amazing the way that he kept everything up-to-date. Man I miss that site. R.I.P. Matthew Wuest. You left some huge shoes to fill. Just running and promoting my silly music blog, with three or four posts a week is probably a 20 hour job, when it's added all up. I cannot even fathom how much w...

Re: worst player in blues history

I still will say Ted Harris. He was like 36 when we got him near the end of his career...he's 78 now ...if he suited up and played in Saturday afternoon's game, he'd still be the same guy. I am sure he will be more than happy to take your opinion. Especially since after he left the Blues he went on...

Re: BBB - Biggest Blues Busts

I see now that I had forgotten that Jim Lorentz did play a full season for The Blues, and scored 19 goals and 40 points, and they got some value back in a trade to The Rangers, sent along with Wayne Connolly and Gene Carr (NHL overall 4th choice) for Andre Dupont, Jack Egers and Mike Murphy. So, he...

Re: BBB - Biggest Blues Busts

Yes, sorry for my mistake about Atkinson. I had mixed him up with Jim Lorentz, for whom The Blues gave up a 1st Rounder to Boston, and he never played enough in The NHL with them (3 games?) to be worth anything. What a terrible trade that was. Lorentz actually had a decent season for the Blues. He ...

Re: BBB - Biggest Blues Busts

Scott Campbell(1st Rounder), Keith Osborne(1st Rounder), Jason Marshall (1st Rounder) Mike Lowe (highly hyped "best forward in Canadian college hockey -free agent) , Fran Huck (highly-hyped free agent from Canadian Olympic team), Petr Sejna, Rich Pilon, Steve Atkinson (Blues gave up 1st Rounde...

Re: BBB - Biggest Blues Busts

I've been pleasantly surprised that we've been able to discuss "worsts" without devolving into a bathtub of digital vomit, so I thought I'd put this out here for fun. For me it's pretty easy. With the 12th overall pick in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft, The St Louis Blues select... Keith Osborn...

St Patrick's Day Massacre

If you are old enough you remember this game. One I will always remember. The Blues called up Kelly Chase specifically for this game after a penalty filled game the night before. Of course he received a 10 game suspension for leaving the bench. I guess he did his job that night, Here is video. The s...

Re: Faceoffs

Indeed. Not trivial. Not a big deal. Especially when compared to other factors. A lot of those other factors (whatever they might be) you mentioned are influenced by face offs are they not? Instead of what I would call 'raw' numbers have you actually dug into face off numbers. What about offensive ...

Re: Expansion

Very interesting. "The St. Louis Arena is owned by James Norris and Arthur Wirtz, owners of the Chicago Black Hawks. It is thought they would have no issue leasing the building to an NHL club." Didn't they force the Solomon's to purchase the Arena in order to get the deal done? I wouldn't...

Re: Best Player To Get Away?

I think a lot of people forget that the Blues, in order to afford Gretzky's salary, went to Pay Per View playoff games that year..... The Blues actually almost did pay per view the year prior with Prime Network so it was not really related to the Gretzky trade. The main reason why it was not done i...

Re: Best Player To Get Away?

The Blues should have made the finals the 1st 3 years based on how the team was built. They were competing with the other 5 expansion teams to see who would go to the finals. Happy they made it but I think it's overblown as an accomplishment. I am not going to complain because we still have a team ...

Re: Best Player To Get Away?

As an 'honorable mention' since he's not a player, what about Scotty Bowman? I wasn't around then, but it has always been very intriguing to me that the Blues started their existence both with Scotty Bowman as the coach and three straight finals appearances. The Blues should have made the finals th...

Re: Let's Talk Mike Keenan

Had no desire for Keenan coming here in the first place. He is one of several reasons I did not walk into the Kiel Center for several years after it was open. People were drooling over him at first. All one had to know was his track record. Coaches have a short shelf life but his his about as short ...

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