Jeremy Rutherford:
A little late here . . . the Blues had a late practice today after getting back from Minnesota around 12:30 a.m. Let's get started!

Thomas: Hi JR, I asked you this question before the season started and I'm asking you again along with other viewers. I didn't get to watch the last two games of the Blues but have read some of your viewers comments. They all seem to have the same sentiments that I had at the beginning of the season about our defense. I don't like McKee, Brewer and Jackman. Keep one but not all three they make to much money with the mistakes and out of position they our making. Is there a reason why we have kept them this long plus playing. If we our rebuilding with a young club than shouldn't we be using at least more young defensemen back at the blue line(Junland)?

Thomas
also I like to make a comment on the Lee Stempniak trade I don't like it why do we need another bad defensemen we have three already. If the blues are going to sign Andy McDonald than lets do it since they (Blues) our saving money in the long run.
Thomas

Jeremy Rutherford:
The Blues signed McKee three years ago and at $4 million per year (through next season), he's going to be in the lineup. Brewer is making $4.25 million for two more years, so he's going to be in the lineup. The Blues like Jackman's play and that's why they signed him last year to a four-year deal. Right now, I've heard that Junland has just played OK in Peoria. So say what you want about McKee, Brewer and Jackman, they give the Blues a better chance than anybody else in the organization at this point.
Colaiacovo hasn't looked back. Against Minnesota, he moved the puck pretty well and he'll get more comfortable as he gets some games under his belt. He played in only nine of 20 games for Toronto before the trade.
The Blues are saving $500,000 next season after the Stempniak trade, so that alone isn't enough savings to re-sign Andy McDonald. McDonald, if he comes back strong from injury could make $4 million per year. The Blues hope to re-sign him, but they didn't make the trade to help with that signing.

Ric: First off I am not saying the Blues made a bad trade when they got Brad Boyes.

All you hear about around the St. Louis area is that the Blues ripped off the Bruins in the Boyes/Wideman trade. The funny thing is the Blues keep making trades and using draft picks trying to find that puck moving defenseman and you look at wideman as of 12/2 he has 6 goals and 7 assists.

What do they think of the trade in Boston? Also when are St. Louis fans going to realize that Blues made a good trade but were far from highway robbers?

Jeremy Rutherford: I think that's a very good point. Wideman has played very well in Boston. Even more than the points, he's playing hellacious minutes. Every time I talked to JD about Boyes last year, he mentioned "It's great, but Boston got a good player too. Wideman's playing well." The Blues needed a potential scorer and they hit the jackpot with Boyes. But they had to give up a good player, too. I don't think it was highway robbery at all.

Tim: So just curiosity, would the blues ever change their 3rd jerseys into their regular ones? There freakin awesome lookin

Jeremy Rutherford: You're not the only one who wishes that. They will wear them 15 times this year and I think they've won them three times already (2-1 in them). So you'll see them quite a few more times.

Greg S: JR,
A Blues history question for you. The Blues are famous for trading away great talent for less. What were the worst and best trades that the Blues have ever made and why?

Jeremy Rutherford: Best trade: March 1988 . . . Brett Hull and Steve Bozek from Calgary for Rob Ramage and Rick Wamsley.

Worst trade: March 1991 . . . Geoff Courtnall, Sergio Momesso, Cliff Ronning, Robert Dirk and a fifth-round pick from Vancouver for Garth Butcher and Dan Quinn.

There are plenty others!