I've seen the words "difficult personality" thrown around with him too. Not sure how you measure personality/60 though.
- smellmyfinger

You complain about intangibles like "he isn't a hard worker" or "he doesn't put it all on the ice" to make excuses for a guy being bad. But Buffalo was forced to trade O'Reilly, apparently. For a 24th forward, a 4th liner, and a guy who isn't in the league anymore. Worked out great for them, honestly. I guess they couldn't use one of the best centers in the league who just led the Blues to a cup at all.

You complain about intangibles like "he isn't a hard worker" or "he doesn't put it all on the ice" to make excuses for a guy being bad. But Buffalo was forced to trade O'Reilly, apparently. For a 24th forward, a 4th liner, and a guy who isn't in the league anymore. Worked out great for them, honestly. I guess they couldn't use one of the best centers in the league who just led the Blues to a cup at all.
- Pomegrant

And now Conn Smythe winner

And now Conn Smythe winner
- smellmyfinger

The only right choice

And now Conn Smythe winner
- smellmyfinger

wow! Sabres did well in that trade! They got a draft pick to free up 3mil in cap space (only because one of the guys had he contract terminated for not showing up to games). Great work guys!

Nice to see Marchand cry.

Great player but a POS.

Feel for MarJo. But just a little.


I feel like we are so far away from hoisting the Cup again.

Henrik Lundqvist’s name not on the cup. Jake Allen’s about to be. Wild.

Tarasenko credited ROR for revitalizing him.

And in Buffalo, even Eichel complained that the other players didn't care enough about winning. ROR was probably the never-quit guy and the other guys threw him off the boat cuz they were annoyed.

They said they couldn't win with him... or one of the reporters reported that.

So is St. Louis' win "tainted" because of that Saints-Rams-esque noncall that led to the game winning goal in one of the games?

Or are we going to stop splitting hairs, now?

So is St. Louis' win "tainted" because of that Saints-Rams-esque noncall that led to the game winning goal in one of the games?

Or are we going to stop splitting hairs, now?
- archromat

While bad call in the end most things even out. Boston got breaks, blues got breaks....just a matter of the result but you earn what you get in most cases

It's not like Boston doesn't get away with things and are angels out there so it is a little bitter but a taste of their own medicine

So is St. Louis' win "tainted" because of that Saints-Rams-esque noncall that led to the game winning goal in one of the games?

Or are we going to stop splitting hairs, now?
- archromat

The Blues got screwed way harder on that Timo Meier hand pass in the WCF. I hate when people bring up any Cup win being tainted, unless it comes out that a team literally cheated somehow (not even sure what that would look like). Every Cup winner HAS to get at least a little lucky along the way to win the Cup. From bounces going your way, to injuries, to questionable calls going your way, it's all part of winning a Cup (in addition to, you know, playing good hockey).

Congrats to the Blues, 51 years and they finally got their first Cup.

I don't know, Buf fans told me Tage Thompson was going to be a 30 goal scorer and that they easily won the trade.
- Pomegrant

Hey man lay off tage