The 2013 NHL Trade Deadline has come and gone and the defending Eastern Conference champion New Jersey Devils basically stood pat, only acquiring former-Devil Steve Sullivan from the Phoenix Coyotes for a 7th round draft pick in 2014. Currently the Devils are clinging to a playoff spot as the regular season enters it’s final 24 ...
As the NHL trade deadline approaches (April 3) GM’s around the league are looking to bolster their teams as well as adding pieces that they hope are the missing ones in their franchise’s championship puzzle. In New Jersey it’s no different as Lou Lamoriello had already added Alexei Ponikarovsky (from Winnipeg), Andrei Loktionov (from Los ...
With T.J. Oshie expected to return to the Blues’ lineup Saturday night, a roster spot had to become available. Matt D’Agostini, a former 21 goal-scorer, was the odd man out. It was announced Friday morning that the Blues traded D’Agostini, along with a conditional seventh-round draft pick in 2015, to the New Jersey Devils in ...
After a season that saw the Blues climb to second place in the Western Conference standings, the players had to pack up and head in different directions across the world. Some skaters headed to Germany, some to Sweden and some even stayed in the regional area. Thanks to modern technology, it has become very simple ...
St. Louis Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong’s phone was busy this week. It was announced on Tuesday that the club agreed to terms with unrestricted free-agent forward Jamie Langenbrunner on a one-year, $1.25 million contract that has the potential to earn him an extra $250,000 in incentives. Langenbrunner, 36, scored 6 goals and 18 assists ...
“Go ahead and play the blues if it’ll make you happy.”— Homer Simpson At least to this point, up 3 games to 0 and poised for a sweep of their Western Conference Semifinals series, that’s exactly how the Kings are feeling at the moment. Coming to L.A. for game three, the Blues knew they had ...
It is safe to say that the St. Louis Blues were missing something in Game 2 of their best-of-7 series with the Los Angeles Kings Monday night. The Blues were on the sour end of a 4-goal first period en route to a 5-2 loss. This included a Mike Richards rebound goal just 31 seconds ...
Will is a powerful word. Replace it with can, and the entire tenor of the conversation shifts. Can Lindsay Lohan stay out jail? It’s theoretically possible. Can the Pillsbury Doughboy flip off the camera as he’s being shoved into the oven? FCC censorship standards won’t allow it, or he might. Can the Los Angeles Kings ...
When the star players start strapping the skates back on after returning from injury, the logical response on the ice is that the team will start racking up the wins. This is not the case for the St. Louis Blues. In fact, the wins were coming before the players returned from injury. On March 25, ...
Either the Blues picked the perfect time to hit a small snag or they picked the most inopportune time to not be playing like the first overall team in the NHL. How is it that it can be either extreme? It really depends on if you are a glass-full or glass-empty kind of person. The ...
