yave1964 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 The St. Louis Blues will not have their own AHL affiliate in 2017-18. Vegas will be adding the Chicago Wolves as their AHL team next season, the Blues have long used them for their farm club. Instead the Blues have worked out an agreement with the Knights where they will position four or five players with their farm club. As for the rest of the Blues prospects they will be loaned throughout the league depending upon who has a need and where they can land them. On top of that, the entire group of assistant coaches, Martin Brodeur resigned and Ty Conklin, Rick Wilson, Steve Thomas and Ray Bennett were all fired. Now I watch a lot of AHL Hockey and the Blues AHL franchise traditionally thumbs their nose at the rules about how many veterans you are permitted on your team and plays whoever the Hell they want, they always have more thirty somethings than any other team in the league but you have to have somewhere for what prospects you do have to grow. Gm Doug Armstrong assures that this is only for one year. I am not sure what is going on in St. Louis with GM Doug Armstrong. The Blues outperformed expectations in the postseason but since the end of the season he has ended their affiliation with an AHL franchise, let all of the assistant coaches go as well as two primary scouts. It is not as if Doug Armstrong is a new GM, he has been in charge of personnel since 2008 and the GM since 2013 so it is not as if he is trying to bring his own people in, these were his people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TropicalFruitGirl26 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 @yave1964 That's because the Blues will have the Sabres as their farm team next year........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notfondajane Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 On 5/23/2017 at 10:56 AM, TropicalFruitGirl26 said: @yave1964 That's because the Blues will have the Sabres as their farm team next year........ Lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notfondajane Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Maybe the Blues could put a team in Pittsburgh or Morgantown West Virginia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notfondajane Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 I thought that Vegas would put a team in Salt lake city or somewhere in Central California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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