Post Game Thread: St Louis Blues at Buffalo Sabres – 14 Nov 2024


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STL loses, 3 – 4 OT.

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  1. I know it isn’t the most important thing this season, but I really hope Bannister is not the long term plan for this team. Feels like the attention to detail, mental lapses, absolute gaps in effort for periods at a time are serious concerns and thats not a player skill issue.

  2. Please fire Bannister so we can at least get a new look. This team is fucking embarrassing even with all the injuries.

  3. Why…on earth…did they not put on pressure on and try to regain the puck at the end of regulation to break up the power play before OT?

  4. I had started to reply to a comment about delayed penalties but realized the post game was up. Someone said they were new to hockey and wondering why they exist.

    Lets say there’s a battle on the boards and the puck squirts out, as some would say, and Team A trips Team B to prevent a breakaway….but the tripped player still manages to push the puck along and his buddies go on to take advantage of said breakaway and score. An immediate penalty would have prevented that.

    Hockey is very much a game of chance, luck and momentum. I entirely understand the delayed penalty rule based on these things. Sometimes it may be your only chance and having a penalty *in your favor* could end up being detrimental.

  5. Prospect recap time:

    – Jimmy Snuggs with two primary assists in the game’s first six minutes, including one on the PP, as #3 Minnesota win 5-3. He now has four multipoint games with at least 5 SOG in his last five games.

  6. If the blues were showing improvised habits I’d be okay with bannister, but we aren’t. There’s legit just no redeeming qualities I can see in him rn.

  7. Idk what to think.

    The team should play a bit better but this roster is ass.

    Most of these forwards are barely even third liner quality

  8. At this point my question is how are we even a 7 win team. 7-9-1 seems to be almost a miracle record right now for this squad.

  9. All of this aside. Things have sucked without Panger and I think that’s really where we’re lacking. The Blues should bring him in for their in-house streaming service I’m SURE they’re working on.

  10. Hear me out.

    I want us to lose a bit. We need change. I want someone to catch shit for all these losses. I’m not a super detailed hockey fan, but I am seeing the exact same issues over and over again. Generally boils down, in my eyes, to shitty defense, not generating offense, being too afraid to shoot, and random ass puck fumbling.

    I don’t know the solution. Firing Bannister? Maybe, it’s worth a try. We’re without the talent but these seem largely like coaching issues to me.

  11. so basically ownership wont let the team tank because they’re greedy, right? i feel like that’s the gist of it

  12. The fact that bannister let them hang back on the delayed penalty tells you everything you need to know. He’s happy with a point. Small victories? If he wasn’t furious it’s inexcusable.

  13. While we don’t have an amazing roster especially now with injuries, what I’m seeing play out on the ice is more than just a bad roster. 

    It’s a directionless team that makes careless mistakes and doesn’t appear to know where they or their teammates are supposed to be. A team that just stops playing hard inexplicably for long periods of time. The way they are losing strongly suggests to me it’s largely coaching, both in a technical sense and in a motivational sense. 

  14. This team should not be concerned about scrounging up a point. Let’s be real, this is not a playoff roster and we shouldn’t act like it is. What this team and organization SHOULD be concerned with is the NHL level development of our young talent. I would rather play smart, complete, competitive hockey and lose because of our roster than scrap a point with whatever the effort has been lately.

  15. We were a fringe playoff team before the injuries, talent was always going to be an issue. The part that pisses me off is the lack of structure and awareness this team shows. They go through stretches where they look like lost puppies just wondering around.

  16. Hope the Blues get tired of losing and bring their A game for the rest of the season; we’ve seen them at their best and the talent is there…it’s just not there every night. Big question is why???

    Like last year with Kyrou and he was surrounded by negativity…he comes out the following night and has the best game of his life shutting down the critics. He was definitely on a mission to do that. However, how come he doesn’t do that every night??? Is it that exhausting to play like that every night? Only he knows that answer, but I sure like watching him play when he’s focused and in that zone.

    I also love when Colt 55 is firing bombs into the back of the net from the slot…he’s definitely in the zone.

    Bottomline, this team needs to find a way to get in that frame of mind every single game. IMO, that’s what they are lacking…locked in and focused.

  17. I can’t with this team anymore. I’m used to up and downs but Jesus the 3rd period was a clusterfuck of missed passes, poor puck control and just overall apathy to what was at stake. Binnington left out to dry again, although he has his own issues with overcommitting to shots putting him out of position, overall poor effort for yet another loss.

  18. Whelp I called the Schenner points streak. But it’s led to losses. 3 points in 2 games. I guess it’s just back to back a streak would be 3.

  19. Blues will suck for another month or six weeks, be in position to draft a young franchise D like Schaefer, then Broberg and Thomas will help us make a late run (possibly aided by a Claude Julien new coach bump) and we will finish at 80ish points and the 11th overall pick. You know it’s going to happen just like this.

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