It all depends on how the Blues want to develop him. He could play in the NHL in a game tonight. I'm sure they will be careful with him. See how he looks and how the team looks, consider depth on the roster etc. He's an exceptional weapon though and if he signs at the end of the season he could end up playing in the play offs a la Brett Hull or Joe Nieuwendyk did with Calgary in the late eighties. He's good enough they just half to feel what state of mind he has, any injuries on the roster and what they have.

The kid has a BIG heart. Maybe we can get his older brother also. flag this comment

Gotta sign Perron to a deal this summer to make that even be a chance... flag this comment

Lol nice.. I thank he's got a shot this days NHL has smaller players coming up faster then before we will see how good he plays starting the 26th.... flag this comment

Lol nice.. I thank he's got a shot this days NHL has smaller players coming up faster then before we will see how good he plays starting the 26th.... flag this comment

Seriously. You have to be careful with size. It's how strong is he on his skates. Is it easy or hard to knock him off the puck. How is positioning himself along the boards when he's going to take a hit.

Size I think can be summed up as it is easy as hell to knock Stewart off the puck than it is to knock Sobotka off of the puck. Skinner, Kane, St. Louis, Oshie, Mc Donald, Pavelski, Perron. These are all guys who coming into the league their size was a big question. Size including weight. It was said after the 2007 draft that both Kane and Perron would take a few years to reach the NHL while they become stronger and added some weight. A few years later the same was being said about Skinner. Strong on your skates, superior on ice vision and speed are far more important that just being big. flag this comment

glad to hear that.. that was the thing that stood out most to me watching him at the beginning of last year. completely dominate along the boards in the offensive zone. i already knew he had hands and speed, when i saw the board play i knew he was going to be an elite nhl player. haven't been able to watch a game since he's been back, and radio can't follow everything happening on the ice. was worried that if any part of his game suffered through the injury it would have been that. flag this comment

That's my point bro. Nice point Langer as well, forgot about the discussions on him coming into this season.

My point, to restate it, is I have heard size and blah blah blah for years from scouts, pundits, gms and fans. Recently we here about players won't be ready for a few years because they are too small or not strong enough. Concerning Perron it was his rookie year they said wouldn't have happened till last season or the season before. According to scouts Kane would have broken into the league in the same period. Skinner would be heading to the WJC.

SO just because is "smaller", don't think that is how he'll be judged. The questions are can he take a hit, is he going to get knocked off the puck easily, is his mind and play fast enough for the NHL, etc etc. If they were worried about his size they don't draft him in the first round. Hell Central scouting had him ranked at 28th.
He's good enough to play in the NHL the pretty much unanswerable question is he good enough to excel yet? You want a player to feel like a success, part of the team. flag this comment

Blue Clam Perron has taken his game to another level man. His patience and ability with the puck is bar none. He's clanked the pipe hard a number of times already to go with his goals and points. Almost every time he has the puck in the offensive zone he creates something even if it appeared there was nothing to be had. He is beginning to realize his abilities and to execute. He still plays tenaciously and goes to the hard areas. flag this comment

His shot is awesome. flag this comment

He did look a lot better tonight.

But over all I think we were lucky to win that game. A choke and a bunch of great saves by Elliott. We are really sloppy in our own end. Grachev started off in such a manner I was thinking he needs to get sent down. Then after he made a crappy pass he got on his horse recovered and helped create that goal by D'Ags.

But the Blues need to tighten up in their end. They need to make sure to be tenacious there as well--the forwards that is. The D isn't too bad. Certainly if they cannot score on the power play they need to be impossible to score against. There's some laziness in our end. Not always but lapses the kind that have plagued us in the past.

Perron is looking more and more shy about going into the corners to me. He's not completely gun shy but he seems to be playing a bit careful.

Good road win though. flag this comment

stewart looked good tonight and actually last game also. i saw him playing with the top line and i was questioning why, when one of the announcers said why hitch made the move. just coincidence but i thought it was kind of funny

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grachev started slow but then gained confidence it seemed throughout the game. overrall i say it good game for him. after the give away then hustling back to correct a mistake, that shows he has heart cause alot of players would have just glided back. and they credited him with 2 assists. the first one on dags i dont think he touched the puck it was the coyote player forcing the puck do to grachev's backcheck. oh well.

on perron, i've noticed that to. maybe just a little shy about the BIG hit. still gets in there but kind of plays it safe. hell, he still ends up with the puck more then half the time anyway. flag this comment

Exactly man. Just sharing my thoughts on the game. It's been an interesting year, interesting past four years. I enjoy watching these guys transforming into players of certain ilks.

Like Johnny said and we both have seen with Perron, having some avoidance but still coming up with the puck. The kid can be so amazing. Also in a game like that we learn just how good Elliott is as a goaltender. Otherwise we know Hitchcock's game plan when executed is going to help goaltenders' stats. Seeing them play a bit loose in their own end, really not well at all and the netminder comes up big anyway, we know Elliott is really good.

Also I mentioned above how John Torterlla, the Rangers coach, said the Blues aren't good in their own end. We can see it.

Also it allows me to exercise some form of objectivity.

But in the end you are right. The big thing is in the past these games got away and right now we are collecting two points and moving into fourth all alone!!!! flag this comment

definitely man. Hopefully they regroup. As Army has wanted and the vets must get into a lot of these kids minds is that this team can't get too high or too low. flag this comment