BluesSK wrote:He's had plenty of time and still hasn't addressed the team's continual need for scoring. He's a perpetual BS master who will say anything and not actually mean it.
Except that the Blues were #5 overall in the NHL last year in goal scoring, and #6 overall the year before. The problem isn't that we CAN'T score, it's that we DON'T in the playoffs. We were comfortable enough with the scoring that we traded TJ Oshie (A move roundly celebrated, even here, to 'shake up the team' and 'break up the boy-band') for guy we knew wouldn't score as much, but brought other things (and I'm a Brouwer fan, BTW).
I know it's frustrating, but if we had a full season of Schwartz (65 games) instead of just his 17 games so far, he'd be our #2 goal scorer behind Tarasenko and #3 in points, behind Tarasenko and Steen. He'd likely have 19 goals so far, instead of just 4 (5 as of just now, actually!). Take his extra 14 goals, and subtract Gomez, Havlat and Paajarvi entirely (4 goals total) since they wouldn't be needed, and guess what? We're in the top-10 in league-wide scoring again.
Heck, Berglund has 5 goals in 25 games. Pro-rate that to 65 games, and that's 9 more goals. That puts us back in the top 5.
(Fabbri has been doing unexpectedly well, but Jaskin has taken a step back. That kind of balances out, so I kinda consider that a wash.)
I don't think any of those is a stretch, or a statistical anomaly. Schwartz has been one of our top scorers for several years now, and even Berglund has been good for a dozen plus goals in that time, too.
Honestly, I'm not worried about the quantity of scoring, but whether we can do it in the playoffs or not.
(BTW, Schwartz' scoring tonight is throwing my numbers off a bit, but I think the general idea still holds true, within a goal or two. GO BLUES!)