The Blues Are Making an attempt 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 course 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 id? What’s their MO? I do know the id of MO, the 2019 staff. What’s the id and MO of this staff?”
Jeremy Rutherford: “So I believe, I believe one of the best ways to elucidate that it’s just a little bit multifaceted and we now have to take a look at the large image and perceive that they’re in a retool. And I believe their roster is simply in just a little little bit of flux proper now. You continue to have the Brandon Saad’s, you have got some gamers up entrance, Brayden Schenn on a long-term contract.
Are these guys going to be round in just a few 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 and develop like Jimmy Snuggerud from Minnesota, like Dalibor Dvorsky, who’s within the minor leagues proper now, a top-10 general decide a few years in the past.
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So I believe proper now, the state that they’re in, they’re making an attempt to win with sort of this hodgepodge roster that they’ve. So it’s laborious to me to take a look at them and say, that is their id. I believe they wish to be laborious on the forecheck and be just a little nearer to that 2019 staff 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 staff. They’ve acquired a Robert Thomas and a Jordan Kyrou who’re able to that. However have they got a remainder of their roster who might 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 should be laborious to play in opposition to. They usually haven’t been that method this season.
In order that’s the factor the place they’re going to should get to in the event that they’re going to have success throughout this era.”
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