Ever since Jakob Chychrun made it clear that he wants a chance to play for a winning team, speculation has run rampant around the St. Louis Blues. Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet touched on it during the latest 32 Thoughts podcast, noting that the Blues are “around” on Chychrun. That led to a number of other reports downplaying the link between the two teams, including Andy Strickland of Bally Sports Midwest, who tweets that there has not been “any serious dialogue” with St. Louis and Arizona regarding Chychrun.
The 24-year-old defenseman is eventually going to be moved somewhere but it doesn’t seem to be the Blues – at least right now.
- Of course, a recent injury only fed the flames. Scott Perunovich was taken out of a preseason game recently and the discussion around him is certainly not encouraging. Head coach Craig Berube told reporters including Jeremy Rutherford of The Athletic that Perunovich is still being evaluated but that he feels bad for the young defenseman, and explained that “now he has to wait.”
- In some better injury news, Alexey Toropchenko appears to be ahead of schedule in his rehab from offseason shoulder surgery. Strickland tweets out that Toropchenko is not ruling out playing on opening night and notes that it “won’t be long” until he’s in the lineup. The 23-year-old forward had two goals in 28 regular season games for the Blues last year and played in 12 playoff matches.
I’m confused about the attention Perunovich gets, He’s been around for 4 seasons, He’s small, And he’s yet to crack the lineup. That all sounds like a project not a prospect.
He didn’t even sign a contract with the Blues until March 2020, so you know, NOT four years ago. He played collegiate hockey through his junior year. He has played 19 regular season games and 7 playoff games with the Blues.
So other than basically every single thing you said being wrong, it was a great take. You should probably have just stopped after the first two words of your post.
Anybody who watched him at UMD knows why he gets the attention he gets.
Perunovich career stats and info
link to hockey-reference.com
You’ll have to excuse Wilf. He’s not the sharpest peanut in the turd.
Obviously brother Rosaire hit Wilf too many times in the head when he was growing up.
No Jeff C for you until you are willing to pay up.