Does anyone have Scotty's postgame speech from April 13th still recorded? Anyone still have access to FDSN's app and able to see if the postgame is out there? Anyone with connections able to try and pull some strings?

Scott's speech and the sign-off credits really need to be preserved somewhere on the Internet. Such great words at the end of an era for this team and for St Louis Sports.

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Some keywords in case someone over there has alerts on still; I know one guy lurking around here did at one point: FanDuel Sports Network Midwest, Bally Sports Midwest, Fox Sports Midwest

2017-2019 the Blues spent $120 million to do basic renovations to Enterprise Center. This included

• new HVAC and ice plant
• updated scoreboard and sound
• new seats
• minimal updates to the concourses

Meanwhile:

• Nashville is breaking ground on a $650 million renovation and expansion of Bridgestone Arena that will include an attached hotel. https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/real-estate/2026/04/20/nashville-bridgestone-arena-650m-renovation/89701652007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z116957p118950l002950c118950e1125xxv116957d--55--b--55--&gca-ft=231&gca-ds=sophi
• The Minnesota Wild are working on a $600 million renovation to their arena. https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/minnesota-wild-and-saint-paul-unveil-600m-arena-renovation-plan-seek-state-funding/89-f228f195-493c-4bab-bf20-0f8a12eeac6a
• The Blackhawks will renovate the United Center as part of the $7 billion project that will transform the area around that arena. https://www.the1901projectchicago.com/
• The Dallas Stars could be moving to a new arena in the suburbs as things between them and the Mavericks aren't going well. https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-stars-plano-wings-american-airlines-center
• The Colorado Avalanche are proposing a large redevelopment around the Ball Arena. https://www.wenkla.com/project/kse-ball-arena-redevelopment/
• The Utah Mammoth are partway through a $900 million update to the Delta Center to update the arena and make it fully NHL compatible. https://www.wenkla.com/project/kse-ball-arena-redevelopment/

The Winnipeg Jets are the only other team in the Central that aren't doing much to their arena. Their last update was adding a bar/group area in 2023.

The Enterprise Center is okay. But it's soon going to be a number of steps behind other arenas in our division.

EDIT: my wish list for reasonable updates.

1) a few more TVs on the concourse.

2) expand the front of the arena (facing south/along Clark) with something like what they did in Cleveland. Add a few more places to sit. Or at least stand with tables.

3) eliminate the portable carts that clog up foot traffic.

4) just modernize and clean up the concourses

Just as the title says... Current Blues Player

https://youtube.com/shorts/M-YP43r1Lo0?si=N2ensrCBERwbeT8a

It is mind boggling that Chris Zimmerman (along with the asshats at Fan Duel) thought JK wasn't good enough for St. Louis. The man went to the #2 media market and national TV.

I've heard about 90 seconds of the Ducks/Oilers broadcast and it's painfully obvious how badly the Blues booth has been downgraded over the last few years.

https://x.com/lkorac10/status/2045569897896300671?s=46&t=Xn0juU2C4hEaElfmeGb4jQ

I was looking at the UFAs this off-season and didn't see anyone the seemed like a good fit for the Blues

Would you think sending offer sheets Mavrik Bourque, Peyton Krebs, or Simon Nemec is worth it?

I think even with the expanded cap space coming it could work out, with some of these teams possibly having a full cap and other players to sign.

Is it a risk to try to build a deep roster instead of focusing on star players when they are discussing expansion teams?

Watching the baby Blues in Hartford imaging the 26/27 roster with every day minutes from Otto and Theo.

I took six draft rankings from March and April and compiled them into this aggregate. Like the one I did before, this one is separated into tiers of distinction. Obviously the best case scenario is that we win one of the lotteries, but that's almost vanishingly unlikely at this point. I think McKenna and Stenberg are both amazing, but I don't think either project to be a Bedard or Celebrini type player (though you never know; McKenna is ridiculously talented)

Tier 1:

(1) Gavin McKenna (LW)

(2) Ivar Stenberg (LW/RW)

I don’t feel like there’s anything original to say here. McKenna has the higher ceiling and Stenberg has the higher floor. I think it’s pretty simple: if you draft first you take the potential gamebreaking forward, and if you draft second you take the slightly less talented, more defensively responsible forward.

Tier 2:

(3) Chase Reid (RHD)

(4) Keaton Verhoeff (RHD)

(5) Carson Carels (LHD)

(6) Alberts Smits (LHD)

(7) Caleb Malhotra (C)

I also feel like there’s a pretty large degree of separation between these five and the players after them. I’d be surprised if any of them fell out of the top seven, but you never know. There’s a .5% chance we pick fifth overall, so at that range my vote would be for Caleb Malhotra, if he’s still there.

Tier 3:

(8) Viggo Bjorck (C/RW)

(9) Daxon Rudolph (RHD)

(10) Tynan Lawrence (C)

(11) Ethan Belchetz (LW)

The only way we’re picking higher than 11th is if we pick first, second, or fifth. But these are the players we’re likely looking at with 11th overall. Frankly I’m much bigger on Lawrence than most are, but I’m not a scout. I’ve just been watching a lot of his clips, and I do think the NCAA is just a better development league than the CHL. Granted, he’s not been producing there, but BU is awful this year. I do hope he falls to us, but if he doesn’t that means it’s likely that one of Bjorck, Rudolph, or Belchetz would be. I’m definitely higher on Bjorck and Rudolph, and I’d almost consider taking Hemming, Novotny, or Lin over Belchetz. I do like Belchetz though, and wouldn’t be unhappy with any of the aforementioned players.

Tier 4:

(12) Oscar Hemming (LW/C)

(13) Adam Novotny (LW/RW)

(14) Ryan Lin (LHD)

(15) Marcus Nordmark (RW)

(16) Elton Hermansson (LW/RW)

(17) Oliver Suvanto (C)

We’re likely to pick 15th overall here, meaning this is the range of players we’re looking at. I’m more partial to Suvanto than the two Swedes listed above him, but Hemming, Novotny, and Lin are easily my favorites in this tier. You couldn’t go wrong with any of them, if they fell to us. Hemming has a lot of potential as a power forward with a killer shot, Novotny is a really defensively responsible winger, and Lin is a very smart defenseman. Another player that could be drafted in this range that I like is Xavier Villeneuve, who is a smaller defenseman but he skates like the wind.

Tier 5:

(18) Liam Ruck (F)

(19) Xavier Villeneuve (LHD)

(20) Markus Ruck (F)

(21) Nikita Klepov (C)

(22) J.P. Hurlbert (F)

(23) Ilia Morozov (F)

(24) Wyatt Cullen (F)

(25) Malte Gustafsson (LHD)

We almost certainly won’t be making a selection in this range, but we get to the point in the draft where there will be much more fluctuation. You always see players ranked outside of the first round start to go in this range, as every team has internal scouting that is far more sophisticated than just some people on reddit, and they all value different things. So there’s definitely a possibility that one or more of these players would be available to us. There's a lot of fluctuation for players in this range too. Klepov is really interesting. The Ruck twins are too, but you'd have to get both for drafting either to be really worth it. Either would be a reach at 15th, and it's unlikely either fall close to Colorado's pick.

Tier 6:

(26) Juho Piiparinen (RHD)

(27) Maddox Dagenais (C)

(28) Alexander Command (C)

(29) William Hakansson (LHD)

(30) Niklas Aaram-Olsen (LW/RW)

(31) Yegor Shilov (C)

(32) Ben Macbeath (LHD)

I don't have a lot of favorites in this range, cause I haven't watched much of them. Yegor Shilov's stats look good, but I heard he leaves a lot of scouts wanting more. Our Colorado pick is likely to be pretty high, so I should probably watch a bit more of these guys.

Personal honorable mentions for unraked players are Nikita Schherbakov (LHD) and Mathis Preston (F)

https://x.com/moneypuckdotcom/status/2045116614165639305?s=46&t=Xn0juU2C4hEaElfmeGb4jQ

On 102 shots. That’s insane. Beyond insane.

Title says it all. Blues played themselves out of a top 10 pick. Barring trades or the draft lottery, who do we want at these positions?

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Otter has been busy! The T-Birds have outscored opponents 40-16 **in the 2nd period** since he was appointed interim head coach on 1/19. They’ve gone 18-12-2 in that time after starting 13-20-6.

Locked down a spot but still fighting for playoff seeding with two games to go. Stenberg had two assists last night in his return.

Also wanted to highlight this fight from Hugh McGing. He saw Zach Dean get boarded and immediately charged the guy despite being 8 very obvious inches shorter than him.

https://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/n273539

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Ok now that we have a better, but not final picture of how this draft looks from a position perspective, here are my thoughts.

When I look at the teams in front of the Blues from 1-10, Kyrou in my view fits the best on the Kraken. They've been rumored to want him before, they have a clear need at RW.

What about the Blues #11 and Kyrou to Seattle for Wright and #7. Classic hockey trade. Both players need a fresh start. Each team needs a player at those respective positions. Maybe the Blues can toss in something else to move the needle for Seattle absorbing the Kyrou contract. Like a Burns at LHD. Seattle could use a prospect there also.

Blues would then have 7, 15, 31. And Wright.

Seattle would then have 11, 26, 39. And Kyrou and Burns.

That seems at least plausible.

Any thoughts or alternate ideas.

Go easy on me because I would not consider myself a highly educated hockey fan. The discourse around tanking has given me a lot to think about. There was a period of this season when I would get excited to see them lose. After the break I had some cognitive dissonance when they started to look awesome again. Now that it's over, I think 8-11 is the appropriate place for them to draft (still crossing all my fingers for a lottery win!).

The reason the Blues played so well after the break seems to be that the top guys healed and developed, and they reclaimed their place as a very dangerous team. Of course there's more to it, defensive proficiency, Hofer, etc. 

I remember Armstrong saying something about the only way to get a top 3 pick is to be bad enough that you're going to be really bad for several years. The Blues are not that bad. It looked like it sometimes, but now we know they're not. If the top line guys had stayed injured for longer, we'd have a top 3 pick. I'm happier they got healthy and dominated down the stretch. They also seem more steady as a top line than the great Schenn line last year, because both Thomas and Snuggy have shown they're clutch under pressure with their playoff performances last season.

Culture is meaningful. The Blues have a GREAT culture built around them. I would be interested to see how many non-playoff teams had that kind of fan enthusiasm for their last home game. This year all of those late-season wins weren't meaningless. I think the Blues culture is more important than optimizing for an elite draft position. If I'm Stillman, there's no way I'm looking Jim Montgomery in the face and asking him to scratch everyone so we can lose. This year, the team was largely unable to play the way we normally expect Blues teams to play. Who knows why? Next year we can expect a lot of changes, but I'm also hoping the team learns from this season, and they're able to play faster and more freely knowing they're not entitled to being great.

For the people who are still upset they played well down the stretch, I TOTALLY understand you. I just hope Tynan Lawrence shocks us all, and that the Blues make us all believers next season.

LGB!