Posts About "Scott Perunovich"
Blues Have Difficult Taxi Squad Decisions to Make
December 30th, 2020 With the hectic nature and potential volatility of the 2020-21 season fast approaching, the NHL has already instituted some key new rules to alleviate potential coronavirus effects on rosters and limit the long and short-term potential damage to team line ups. The reintroduction of the Taxi Squad to NHL rosters for the 2020-21 season...
Blues' Future Needs Both Dunn and Perunovich
July 23rd, 2020 In the National Hockey League, having too many good, young defensemen is rarely a problem. But in a salary-cap strapped league, is it possible to have too much of a good thing? St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong will have to answer that in the coming months as he evaluates the futures of Vince Dunn, a pending restricted free...
Blues' Mailbag: Scott Perunovich, Playoffs & More
June 17th, 2020 As we get closer to a hopeful return of the 2020 NHL playoffs, we have time to sit down and answer some St. Louis Blues questions from everyone around the hockey world. Prospect talk to playoff talk and a whole lot more featured in this mailbag article. What are your thoughts on Scott Perunovich? Is he ready for the big club?...
Revisiting Doug Armstrong's Drafts — 2018
May 13th, 2020 When we began this series well over a year ago, we could not have known that the draft picks we were profiling would win the franchise its first-ever Stanley Cup in 2019. But that was precisely the purpose of the series: to investigate St. Louis Blues' general manager Doug Armstrong's ability to draft a successful team. At this...
Hobey Baker Award-Winning Defencemen Ranked
April 23rd, 2020 The Hobey Baker Award has been given to the player in collegiate hockey that exemplifies excellence, both on and off the ice, since 1981. Of the 40 men who have won the award, only nine have been defencemen. While some look at that as the position is underappreciated, it only shows how valuable these players are. 9. Matt Gilroy...
Scott Perunovich's Journey to the Hobey Baker Award
April 22nd, 2020 The last couple of years have been a whirlwind for Scott Perunovich, yet the accolades have just continued to roll in. "Growing up from Pee-Wee to Bantams, people told me that I was too small, what I was doing wasn’t going to work at the next level,” Perunovich said in an interview with BTS Hockey back in 2018. “Then from...
Blues' 2019-20 NHL Award Contenders
April 16th, 2020 Several NHL awards are given to players, coaches and management for exceptional performance in a season. There are only a couple of St. Louis Blues contenders for these awards - not because there aren’t exceptional players on the roster, but because they play together as a team. The most coveted award the Blues were contending for was...
Scott Perunovich: The Blues' Next Line of Defense
April 9th, 2020 Alex Pietrangelo, Colton Parayko, Justin Faulk and Vince Dunn are just a few of the St. Louis Blues defensemen who will probably be around for the next few years, but, just last week, the team signed another young man that they hope will add his name to that list in the foreseeable future - Scott Perunovich, a two-time All-American...
College Hockey Report: Hobey Baker Award Hat Trick Finalists
April 3rd, 2020 2020 has been an odd year, to say the least. The COVID-19 pandemic has seemingly stopped the world, including all intercollegiate athletics. The virus stopped the college hockey season right as conference tournaments were getting underway. Now, for the first time since 1947, no team will be named National Champion. Related: Top 10...
Blues Have Options if Pietrangelo Goes
January 10th, 2020 This may be a hard thing for St. Louis Blues fans to even think or talk about, but it has to be discussed. What happens if captain Alex Pietrangelo departs in free agency after the 2019-20 season? Maybe Blues' general manager Doug Armstrong trading for Justin Faulk prior to this season was him planning ahead for if Pietrangelo...
Blues' Perunovich Makes Frozen Four Tournament
March 26th, 2019 On Sunday afternoon, while the eyes of the world were tuned into March Madness, a much colder college bracket became public. That bracket, of course, was the Frozen Four tournament. Technically speaking, the "Frozen Four," just like basketball's "Final Four," are the last four teams in the annual NCAA Division One Men's Ice Hockey...
Blues' Perunovich Pursues NCAA's Top Prize
November 5th, 2018 Scott Perunovich isn't a household name, even for fans of the St. Louis Blues, the team that drafted him 45th overall in this past June's NHL entry draft. Due to his minor injury at the Blues' rookie camp, as well as his absence from the prospect tournament in Traverse City, Blues' fans haven't seen much of the diminutive...
7th Annual NHL Mock Draft: 2018, Round 3
June 8th, 2018 2018 NHL Mock Draft: Round 1 2018 NHL Mock Draft: Round 2 2018 NHL Mock Draft: Round 4 2018 NHL Mock Draft: Round 5 2018 NHL Mock Draft: Round 6 2018 NHL Mock Draft: Round 7 2018 NHL Mock Draft: Team Results The depth of the 2018 draft class grew on me over the course of the season and there’s still all...
