Looking For A Change

I think it goes without saying that the Blues fans are getting fed up with how this team has played on home ice.

How a team can be as dominant on the road sometimes, and be one pace for their best road record in team history, to go home and already have 13 losses, a total that equaled all of last season. Many questions are in need of answering.

The Blues road record is best of the NHL, their home record, the worst.

Why is the teams play so depressing at home compared to when they are playing on the road?

Why is Andy Murray still behind the bench?

Why is David Perron not playing on the power-play?

Why does Patrik Berglund averaging around 14 minutes a game while Paul Kariya is averaging 18 to 19 minutes a night?

Why is Erik Johnson sitting in the press box while Mike Weaver and Darryl Sydor continue to get ice time?

As much as I want to be able to answer these questions, I cannot. But there are a few things I can answer.

Like why did people think we should be battling for the top spot in the west this year. We are a young up and coming team. TJ Oshie just turned 23 while Berglund and David Perron are younger still. Erik Johnson, Alex Pietrangelo all yet to hit their mid 20′s. David Backes, Brad Boyes, Alex Steen, and Carlo Colaiacovo are starting to come into their prime. This team is a very young, very inexperienced team. They are going to make mistakes and they have to learn from them. But how can they?

Remember Lars Eller’s call up this season? Played two very good games. In his third game, he made a mistake, a bad turnover in the offensive zone which aloud the puck to be cleared. He sat on the bench pretty much the rest of the game. Why does this happen?

Keith Tkachuk, Andy McDonald, Paul Kariya ALL have had glaring turnovers  in almost every game this season, but are they benched? No. Why is this?

You can say it’s because Andy Murray favors the veterans and you’d likely be correct. Andy Murray has strong double standards when it comes to young players and veteran players.

Another point of this is how David Perron has struggled to hit the net on the power play and has recently been taken off of it. But yet we continue to see Brad Boyes set up on the left side of the net and fan on pucks and miss empty nets, why is this?

I’ve left you with a lot of questions and if you can answer them, by all means, please do, because all the other Blues fans and I are dying to know.

Randall Ritchey

randallritchey@gmail.com