Larry Pleau
Larry Pleau
Lawrence Winslow Pleauis a former senior vice president and General Manager of the St. Louis Blues. He is also a former NHL player and head coach...
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Scott Young is a returning veteran who knows the organization and what the coach expects, ... He adds speed and will contribute valuable time on the power play. Scott's level of performance was always very consistent during his time here in St. Louis, when he enjoyed some of his best years.
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Eric Brewer has been a premier defenseman in the NHL for the past several seasons, and we are very excited about the talents he brings to the Blues. We are also adding two skilled younger defensemen who are clearly up-and-coming players at this level.
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The World Championships is important for us, ... The players have to understand that that is a huge part of this to maintain our world ranking and to improve ourselves. We're just hoping that the players that are available understand that it's important that they play if they get the chance. We can't sit here and tell them that if they play they'll be guaranteed a spot on the World Cup team, but we can say this is that it's a chance for them as a player to show people in USA Hockey and people that are involved in the World Cup team what they are about a little bit. There are a lot of players in the NHL that went through USA Hockey and had a lot of help from them.
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I just think that as a team we got to answer the bell better,
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I don't see that there's any need to do it in February, ... You could do it in June -- what's the difference? Let the NHL get the Stanley Cup out of the way. Why do we want to announce it during the Stanley Cup? It can hold its own at the right time. Even at the draft.
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It's a decision that we have to make and we'll deal with it at the proper time.
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It's the best developmental league in the world. We have the best of both worlds now, by being able to operate in the AHL, and do it nearby in Peoria.
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That's as far as I'm going because I think it's unfair to make any kind of statement until Eric has a chance to get another opinion and sit down with all the information and then he can make an educated decision on what he'd like to do.
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These guys never quit right from Day 1. We had a lot of things that didn't go our way, but these guys never quit. They came to the rink, the coaches kept them focused, and the players kept each other focused.
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I was kind of hoping this day wouldn't happen ever,
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For a freshman in college to jump in and grab that type of playing time is really good. He started out real well up there, then he slowed down a little bit in the middle of the season, and then he ended up real strong.
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I'm not going to tell you every kid is going to play. We all know some of the young kids are going to take that next step, and it's up to them to use that.
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I think everybody in this business was probably looking at next year the cap possibly coming down or staying the same. Now all of our thought processes looking forward is definitely going to be different.
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Otherwise, we'll play our young kids that we have in Peoria (of the AHL), and we're going to play some of them anyway. There's going to be a pretty good shuttle going back and forth, it's only 2 hours.