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Bedard to the Blackhawks. [expletive] kill me!

In better news, the playoffs have been fun at least.

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And now Pang is defecting. UGH!!!

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Luckily the Blackhawks will be so bad over the next half decade we won't have to hear "Holy Jumpin'" often. I was pretty lukewarm on Panger. We could definitely do worse though and that scares me.

I'm really hoping the Blues just use all 3 firsts in the upcoming draft and not try to band aid fix this rapidly aging team. They have a lot of bad money spent on aging or underperforming players that I don't think there is an easy way to make this team a Stanley Cup competitor.

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We definitely need to revamp our D. Most of the bad money is stuck there.

I was watching the VGK/FLA final and letting Petro slip away while signing Faulk and then Krug was a HUGE mistake.

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Also, RE Panger, I actually really liked him on our broadcast but I can see why others might not.

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GeddyWrox wrote:
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We definitely need to revamp our D. Most of the bad money is stuck there.

I was watching the VGK/FLA final and letting Petro slip away while signing Faulk and then Krug was a HUGE mistake.
Faulk is very good, I’m not worried about him. Leddy is very solid also.

Krug is the issue.

They wouldn’t give petro the no movement clause and so he got one from Vegas (could’ve matched the money and not signed krug; the no movement clause was the issue as army has never given one and said he never will)

Funny thing is we traded for one in O’Reilly and he obv waived it to go to TOR.

We didn’t give one to krug (does have a limited no trade clause), and the awesome thing is WE CANT TRADE HIM ANYWAY TO ANYONE CAUSE NO ONE WANTS HIM!

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Yeah. True. I was really just thinking that Petro is a true #1 defenseman. Faulk is more like a really good #2. Krug is nowhere near that level.

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the crazy thing is last year faulk and krug played together on the 2nd line...

Krug was a +23 in 2022 and +11 in 2021 (now a -26 in 2023)
Faulk was a +41!! in 2022 (petro highest ever in his career was a +20) and a +11 in 2021(now faulk is a -4 in 2023)

I mean, what in the world happened?? it was the same system and same coach defensively

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Yeah, it's crazy the dropoff that occurred last season.

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Blues hire Michael Babcock as skills coach, Mike Weber as assistant
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Wed., June 14, 2023timer1 min. read
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ST. LOUIS (AP) —

The St. Louis Blues have hired Mike Babcock’s son, Michael, as a skills coach.

Babcock and former defenseman Mike Weber are joining Craig Berube’s staff, general manager Doug Armstrong announced Wednesday. Berube oversaw the search for replacements for Craig MacTavish and Mike Van Ryn, assistants who were fired after St. Louis missed the playoffs.

Babcock, 28, finished this past NHL season with the Ottawa Senators, helping the coaching staff with developing game plans, pre-scouting and on-ice skill development. Before that, he spent two years working for his father as an assistant for the men’s hockey team at the University of Saskatchewan.

His father has been linked to the head coaching job for the Columbus Blue Jackets, who may have to wait until June 30 to hire him. Mike Babcock, despite being out of the league since being fired by Toronto in 2019, is under contract with the Maple Leafs until the end of the month, with six figures still due to him.

Michael had been garnering interest around the NHL as a young assistant.

Weber, who joins Berube’s staff as an assistant coach, spent the past three seasons in that role with the American Hockey League’s Rochester Americans. The 35-year-old played 360 NHL games from 2007-16, after which he attended Blues training camp on a tryout before playing in the AHL and then Europe.
https://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2 ... stant.html

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