Upshall in. Thompson out.

I was looking at some Blues stats and only 5 forwards are a plus this season. Schenn, Tarasenko, and Schwartz are the obvious ones. The other two Brodz(+10) and Jaskin (+8)

I think Jaskin is really carving out his role in this league. A grinding big, tough bottom 6 forward.

Glad Thompson is coming out because 4th line minutes aren't good for the kid. At this point, maybe send him back down to the AHL. As much as I love Scottie Upshall, I have a feeling the Blues will be killing off at least 1 dumb penalty by him tonight.

wannabebluesplayer wrote:Glad Thompson is coming out because 4th line minutes aren't good for the kid. At this point, maybe send him back down to the AHL. As much as I love Scottie Upshall, I have a feeling the Blues will be killing off at least 1 dumb penalty by him tonight.

Dumb penalty incoming!

Hopefully Scotty doesn't drag us down tonight.

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote:I was looking at some Blues stats and only 5 forwards are a plus this season. Schenn, Tarasenko, and Schwartz are the obvious ones. The other two Brodz(+10) and Jaskin (+8)

I think Jaskin is really carving out his role in this league. A grinding big, tough bottom 6 forward.

Jaskin has always been a plus player and his puck possession numbers have always been strong. Was always in this kids corner, thought he could be a 15 goal, 35 point, 200 hit guy. But the kid doesn't have a perimeter shot for the NHL and he struggles to score. So, in a sense I'm disappointed in him because he could of done more but yeah, his profile is definitely getting defined and he should stick around in the league for a while as a bottom 6 contributor who is fundamentally sound and brings some size with it.

I agree with your points on Jaskin. He put up big numbers in the QMJHL, but he doesn't have the quickness to be a bigger scorer in the NHL. Much like Rattie, his great hands and numbers don't translate to a lot of success at this level, because he doesn't have a lot of quickness or small-area separation. I wouldn't classify him as someone who has great vision either. So, use your strengths....

If he skates north and south (as he's done for the latter half of this year) and decides to throw his body around, he can be effective as a fourth liner.

When he starts trying to act like Schwartz, he gets himself into trouble.

Let's GO BLUES!!!! Well, at least with a late start I should be back in time to catch the game after a 5 hour round trip to Orlando and back If not, there's always KMOX radio on the Blues app!

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote:I was looking at some Blues stats and only 5 forwards are a plus this season. Schenn, Tarasenko, and Schwartz are the obvious ones. The other two Brodz(+10) and Jaskin (+8)

I think Jaskin is really carving out his role in this league. A grinding big, tough bottom 6 forward.

Blais and Soshnikov are each plus 1, granted, neither have been with the team for the whole year. Thompson's team-worst -10 isn't pretty, especially considered he's only played in half the games.

Anybody attending this one? If so, you'd better get movin'.

If an accountant by day, beer league goalie by night can shutout the Winnipeg Jets for 14 minutes, the Blues can beat the Knights!

Suban gets the start tonight against the Blues. We face another backup. Hopefully we can continue the roll, though he has been solid this year.

Berglund buries Steen's great pass!!! Blues lead 1-0!!!

Not a good Power Play by The Blues, but we've got another chance on a 2nd!

But giving up a shorty like that is a KILLER!

And we give up a shorty...

How the eff does William Karlsson have 41 goals this year?!?!

Well this one has the makings of a barn burner

Schenn ties it up at 2!!! Nice pass from Schwartz!

Not happy with The Blues breakdowns in The 1st. This should be a scoring fest. The Knights don't have a good defence. The Blues need to keep up the pressure. They should be able to pull this out if Allen doesn't implode.

Great pace to the first period. This one is going to be fun!

The PP continues to be a disaster. I don't understand how we can play so well 5 on 5 and so bad with the man advantage.

The first period has been a weakness for the Knights lately, so I expect them to come out strong in the 2nd. The Blues will really have to weather the storm.

Great to see so many Blues fans in attendance tonight. Even heard some Let's Go Blues chants get started.

LET'S GO BLUES!!!

Lot's of cleanup to do here. That first period was messy.

Puck bouncing around quite a bit.

Gotta get a ton of shots on Subban.

What has Karlsson being eating??? He's NEVER ever scored a lot of goals, in Sweden, The AHL, Ducks or Jackets. How does he go crazy and score 41 with 5 more games to add to them????? Why can't The Blues have a sleeper like that? Now we need Blais to score 41 next season!

Avs beat the Hawks 5-0. Hawks should have played the accountant.

Kings Ducks tied

Robb_K wrote:What has Karlsson being eating??? He's NEVER ever scored a lot of goals, in Sweden, The AHL, Ducks or Jackets. How does he go crazy and score 41 with 5 more games to add to them????? Why can't The Blues have a sleeper like that? Now we need Blais to score 41 next season!

The kid is a +42, he scored 6 goals last year, that my friends is the definition of "break out year".

Big PK coming up!

Big PK coming up!