Posts About "Ryan O’Reilly"
Variety of Champs Shows There's No One Stanley Cup Blueprint
September 28th, 2019 Had the night of June 13 gone differently, maybe NHL rivals would be looking to the Boston Bruins as the model to follow to win the Stanley Cup. "We were one game away to change the narrative of how teams should be structured," Bruins defenceman Torey ...
Blues Geared up for Challenge of Being Defending Champions
September 23rd, 2019 Jordan Binnington still doesn't look nervous. For the first time in his career, he is going into a season as a starting NHL goaltender and for the defending Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues. No big deal. "It's the same game though, right?" Binningt...
5 Worst Trades of the 2018-19 Season
September 19th, 2019 Hindsight is always 20/20, but sometimes an NHL trade doesn’t pass the sniff test from the get-go. It smells so bad that you don’t even need the benefit of decent vision. It just so happens the 2018-19 season was rife with those kinds of deals. While entertaining for fans, it can be heart-wrenching for the executives who have to...
Fantasy Faceoff: O'Reilly vs. Bergeron
September 4th, 2019 When NHL Network ranked the top 20 centers in the league last month, they placed Patrice Bergeron of the Boston Bruins at number seven and Ryan O'Reilly of the St. Louis Blues at number 12. But that doesn't mean you should draft them in that order in your fantasy league. There's no doubt that Bergeron and O'Reilly are two of the...
St. Louis Blues' 3 Best Contracts
August 22nd, 2019 In a hard salary cap league, contracts are everything. A general manager who regularly overpays his players won't win many games, and likely won't have a job for long. Fortunately, while St. Louis Blues' general manager Doug Armstrong has had a number of bad contracts in his tenure (we'll touch on those in a few days), he's also...
3 Takeaways From the Blues’ Stanley Cup Victory
June 25th, 2019 The St. Louis Blues ended a season, in which they found themselves in last place in early January, by winning their first Stanley Cup in franchise history. With that sort of success, teams looking to win will naturally try to follow their lead. With that in mind, I think there are some very easy pitfalls teams will find themselves in by...
