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Balls Just Like Pucks For Blues...

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...they still can't buy a lucky bounce. Here is what the Live Blog of the NHL Draft Lottery (no really...they had a live blog for that) looked like over at St. Louis Game Time:

And here we go.

Picking fifth: Islanders. That means Blues still alive for the top.

Picking fourth: ….the Blues. Fuck.

Well that was anti-climatic.

Tell me about it. So it is no teen phenom like Stamkos for the Blues....again. Of course I don't know why this should surprise me. After all, this is a team that most notable talent of the last 30 years was acquired as an overweight underachiever. Don't get me wrong. I love Hullie (although he is STILL in the goddam crease), but I'm ready for him to be eclipsed in the Blues pantheon.

So, what does the number four pick in this years draft mean for St. Louis? If they are picking purely on talent, and they stick to their aversion for everything Russian, it should mean a blue chip prospect...a blue chip defensive prospect. For a team that had heaps of trouble scoring this season it isn't an ideal situation, and there will be plenty of gripes from the fans whatever the Blues do. If they play it safe fans will scream about the lack of help at forward. If they take a flyer on a not-so-highly-rated forward fans will bitch about the Blues "reaching." It's a classic lose-lose situation.

If you are a Blues fan you are already familiar with those.
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Anonymous said…
The best chance of least bitching is if they take filatov and he comes over like he says he plans on doing next year, the only thing people will be able to bitch about his andy murray sitting him in the pressbox every other night (and I will be among the most vocal).

(and hull is still in the crease)
April 8, 2008 at 10:17 PM
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