Brenden Morrow lands with Blues

The St. Louis Blues and free agent left-winger Brenden Morrow have agreed to a one-year deal, worth $1.5 million. The deal could end up being a bargain for a player like Morrow, who had other teams wanting him. My guess is that the Blues, may have have offered less money.

Morrow, 34, was picked by the Dallas Stars in the first round of the 1997 NHL draft, he was picked 25th overall in the draft. He's been playing in the NHL since 1999-2000. All of his seasons were with the Stars, up until he was traded around the trade deadline to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Yes, Morrow's best days as a 20-30 goal scorer, could be behind him. But, he might able to add some scoring. And he'll add some leadership to the team, who was a captain on the Stars. Last season, Morrow scored 12 goals, with 13 assists. Can Morrow score 10-15 goals with the Blues? I guess we all will find out during the season, I see him scoring around there, if he can stay healthy.

He also use to kill the Blues a lot in games, when he was playing against the Blues. So having him on the team, is better than having him playing against us.

Morrow's career stats: 850 games played, 249 goals, 293 assists, 542 points, and is a plus 107. In the playoffs he's played 92 games, 19 goals, 27 assists, 46 points, and is a plus 2.

His best season in the NHL was back in 07-08, when he scored 32 goals, with 42 assists .... which were good for a total of 74 points on the season.

All in all, it seems like a good move for the Blues and for Morrow. Now it's time for Morrow to show us that it's a good move for both sides. Morrow knows Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock and GM Doug Armstrong all from the Dallas Stars. And he knows current Blues center Derek Roy, who played for the Stars some last season, before being traded to the Vancouver Canucks.

Welcome Morrow to the St. Louis Blues!

PIETRANGELO AGREES TO DEAL WITH BLUES!

The St. Louis Blues and defenseman Alex Pietrangelo have agreed to a seven-year contract. Pietrangelo ended his holdout by getting the deal signed. Pietrangelo's new contract is worth a total of $45.5 million. This season he'll make $5 million, 2014-2015 $5.5 million, 015-016 $6.5 million, $7 million until 018-019, then in his last year of his contract in 019-020 he'll make 7.5 million. He was drafted by the Blues in the 2008 NHL draft, and was picked 4th overall. He played his first full season in the NHL with the Blues in 2010-2011. During the 011-012 season, Pietrangelo became the second defenseman in Blues history to have both six game-winning goals and six power play goals in the same season, the only other defenseman to do so in Blues history was Hall Of Fame defenseman Al MacInnis.

Pietrangelo's career stats in the NHL as of right now: 224 games played, 29 goals, 92 assists, 121 points, and is a plus 25. In the playoffs, he's played in 14 games and has 1 goal, 6 assists, 7 points, and is a plus 1.

Even though he's developing into one of the league's top defenseman, last year he seemed to take a step back.  I think that could have been due to the lockout, which pretty much seemed to be the case for other NHL players. But, when the Blues traded for defenseman Jay Bouwmeester, Pietrangelo seemed to improve after the trade happened. His best season was in 011-012, when he played 81 games, scoring 12 goals, with 39 assists, and 51 points.

It's nice to see the Blues finally get Alex Pietrangelo signed, with him signed they got their offseason done. And it should be good season for the Blues starting in October. If defenseman Ryan Whitney does well in camp on his tryout, what do you do with him? Do you end up signing him and trading defenseman Ian Cole? After all you can never have too much defense. I even wonder if Whitney does well in camp, if they could talk him into signing a two-way contract, that way he could be playing at Chicago. And if any of the Blues defenseman were to get hurt, he could earn the call up.

KUDOS TO THE BLUES OWNERSHIP FOR SPENDING MONEY THE RIGHT WAY. LETS GO BLUES!