St. Louis Blues President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Doug Armstrong announced today the team has signed forward Nikita Alexandrov to a one-year, two-way contract ($775,000 NHL / $150,000 AHL).
chontos
Considering this is a cheap, one year, two way contract, it would be weird to have a strong reaction to this. But I’ll say that I have yet to see much from Alexandrov. I hope he can be a late bloomer like Barbashev
JordanKyrouFeetPics
No downside to this. One last chance to show us any kind of spark, or time to move on.
MrTuesdayNight1
It doesn’t hurt to have Center depth in the AHL but I really don’t see it with Alexandrov. His compete level doesn’t seem very high. You’d think someone like him would be scratching and clawing for a roster spot in the NHL but he’s been largely invisible.
reenactment
From the way the blues have talked about Alexandrov in the past, this is coaches management and players, he sounds like he’s a guy that has all the tools theoretically. He just doesn’t seem to either have the IQ or compete level to be able to put it together when it matters. I played division 1 in my sport. There were a few guys on the team that as practice skills go, were better than starters. But every time they got in a real game, you never saw that same level. Not because of what the other team was doing, for some reason they couldn’t connect the dots when the lights were on. Seems like Alexandrovs current situation.
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St. Louis Blues President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Doug Armstrong announced today the team has signed forward Nikita Alexandrov to a one-year, two-way contract ($775,000 NHL / $150,000 AHL).
Considering this is a cheap, one year, two way contract, it would be weird to have a strong reaction to this. But I’ll say that I have yet to see much from Alexandrov. I hope he can be a late bloomer like Barbashev
No downside to this. One last chance to show us any kind of spark, or time to move on.
It doesn’t hurt to have Center depth in the AHL but I really don’t see it with Alexandrov. His compete level doesn’t seem very high. You’d think someone like him would be scratching and clawing for a roster spot in the NHL but he’s been largely invisible.
From the way the blues have talked about Alexandrov in the past, this is coaches management and players, he sounds like he’s a guy that has all the tools theoretically. He just doesn’t seem to either have the IQ or compete level to be able to put it together when it matters. I played division 1 in my sport. There were a few guys on the team that as practice skills go, were better than starters. But every time they got in a real game, you never saw that same level. Not because of what the other team was doing, for some reason they couldn’t connect the dots when the lights were on. Seems like Alexandrovs current situation.