The Blues Are Attempting to Retool on the Fly
Jeremy Rutherford of The Athletic was on Sirius XM NHL Community Radio Energy Play Phase with Steve Kouleas and Andrew Raycroft on Monday and was requested what’s the present route of the St. Louis Blues and do they contemplate themselves in a retool or rebuild.
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Mick Kern: “So now he’s right here, up till this level. If I mentioned to you, what’s the Blues identification? What’s their MO? I do know the identification of MO, the 2019 group. What’s the identification and MO of this group?”
Jeremy Rutherford: “So I believe, I believe the easiest way to elucidate that it’s a bit bit multifaceted and we’ve to have a look at the large image and perceive that they’re in a retool. And I believe their roster is simply in a bit little bit of flux proper now. You continue to have the Brandon Saad’s, you’ve gotten some gamers up entrance, Brayden Schenn on a long-term contract.
Are these guys going to be round in a couple of years when the Blues actually begin to really feel like they’re going to take that subsequent step? When a few of their prospects are available in and develop like Jimmy Snuggerud from Minnesota, like Dalibor Dvorsky, who’s within the minor leagues proper now, a top-10 total choose a few years in the past.
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So I believe proper now, the state that they’re in, they’re attempting to win with form of this hodgepodge roster that they’ve. So it’s arduous to me to have a look at them and say, that is their identification. I believe they wish to be arduous on the forecheck and be a bit nearer to that 2019 group than they’ve been the previous couple years. However I don’t know that they’ve the roster to do this.
They wish to be a rush group. They’ve bought a Robert Thomas and a Jordan Kyrou who’re able to that. However have they got a remainder of their roster who may be like that? So I believe on the finish of the day, for these couple years that they’re on this scenario with the retool, ready on sure guys to develop and get to the following stage and play within the NHL, I believe they’re simply going to need to be arduous to play towards. They usually haven’t been that method this season.
In order that’s the factor the place they’re going to need to get to in the event that they’re going to have success throughout this era.”
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