The Blues have PERFECT Move... This is Huge

The St. Louis Blues have just made the perfect move after a very interesting start to the season where the second line is playing very well. They just added some much needed depth scoring to this lineup. We're going to break down exactly what this move is, how it impacts the lineup moving forward, and a great opportunity for a young player that we've talked about before here on the channel with great upside. We're going to break that all down and much more on this episode of Blues Digest. But before we get into all of that, a quick reminder to hit that subscribe button we've noticed that a large percentage of you guys who watch these videos regularly are not subscribed to the channel so if you want to stay up to date with everything that's happening with your St. Louis Blues make sure to hit that subscribe button and Mark and I will keep you updated every single day on everything that's happening with the Blues but Mark let's get right into it so the Blues have officially called up Kaskimaki and he's a name that you've heard here before on the channel we've talked about him we you know kind of dove into who he is what he brings to the table and what a great prospect he is the last two years or so and especially during the summers but they announced today Alex Dean announced that they have recalled Kaskimaki from the AHL and he has been playing very well and not just i mean this season Mark like he's been playing well this season but take a look at the timeline right so he first gets selected by the Blues 73rd overall and you're like okay pretty high draft pick he has a good future seems like a shifty player can put up some points great he also had a small stint and we've talked about it before in the AHL or sorry in the NHL before and now they've recalled him what i think is most impressive this season Mark and we can really dive into this on what he brings to the lineup and where he can fit in is when you look at his stats and the timeline of him being in the AHL he went to the AHL two seasons ago and he put up 34 points in 63 games last season 44 points in 64 games so he took another leap so far this season i'm not going to say he's too good for the AHL but it seems like he's certainly figured it out he's a point per game player slightly above a point per game player so he earns a call up and obviously the Blues are dealing with some injuries as well they could use some more depth scoring as we've uh you know talked about as well so Mark what do you make of the call what do you make of the player talked about him before like great upside there but finally gets what could be a pretty big opportunity for himself in the NHL i mean with the Blues of course a team that's dealing with quite a few injuries again when you're looking at the forwards looking at the defense all started with Logan Mayhew but looking at Kaz Pimacki what he brings to this lineup isn't exactly what you want another player that's looking and hungry to stay into this lineup i mean looking again in the AHL a guy that's a point per game player pretty much every well pushing towards a point per game player to this point of the season seven points in the six games it's a young guy he's got a taste of the NHL and again this falls back onto what we've been preaching all offseason into this year this is the team that yes might have not had the best start but they're one of the deepest if not deepest teams around the NHL when you're looking at every single position of a fact of you have defensemen that can make the push Adam Jurczyk joined this team after the injury to Logan Mayhew you still have young guys in the AHL Otto Stenberg still down there Kaskimaki coming up this is a team that truly has talent oozing at every single position maybe not goaltending that's ready to take over a starting spot because of course Joe Hofer and Jordan Binnington are still here but this is a young guy making it and again a young guy fighting to get another contract to make a push to get into the NHL as a full-time guy you love to see and when looking at Springfield Steve Ott has done an incredible job on what he's built down there from a culture from young guys making the push and making it a seamless transition to jump from the AHL to the NHL we've seen Theo Lindstein praise Ott just last year and looking at the St. Louis Blues and with Kaskimaki 22 as threats in six games for the Thunderbirds this season leading the team with five assists and seven points two goals this is going to be a kid that again is going to impress with the call-up and Darius I don't know if you feel the same way on this but I genuinely think the farther we get into the season with all these young guys making the push into the NHL making the push to stay on this team Jim Montgomery is actually going to have quite a hard decision to make with a lot of these guys especially when you make it and you push and hopefully make it into the playoffs a really hard decision to make too because you don't want to stunt any of their development right like last year with Stenberg too but this is a guy through the first couple games of this season like you gotta give him a look right so um i'm excited to see what he's gonna be able to do does he even this is the other thing too does he even get into the lineup is it just a thing where it's like hey you're playing well we'll call you up but you'll get to you know nhl pay you'll get some experience you'll practice with us the reason why i don't think that approach makes sense is because he's playing so well you know he's always played well he's a great AHL player but he's playing so well to start this season why would you call a guy up to just you know get an NHL you know pay out for a little while and just practice with the team right like i think they're planning to use him probably in a pretty big way here to help this team so uh because he's a guy that's feeling himself and maybe he can get other guys kind of rolling as well now where does he fit into the lineup maybe a third line position right maybe a fourth line position i mean i don't think it's a tough scenario right now where i don't think you can break up that first line you have to see it through they have to continue to build you absolutely cannot break up that second line they've genuinely been playing very well for you and really your only offensive output is coming from that second line but um if you look at where he could possibly fit in maybe it's on that third line maybe you move Buchnevich around i mean Neighbours has put up some points so far this season it's interesting could he slot in on the fourth line you can see Dylan Dubé's there um you know penciled in there he's still out due to an injury but it could be maybe a fourth line position where it's like hey you know what run around a little bit try to get us a goal here right like just be that energy bug maybe that's something that they want there on the fourth line so that's going to be interesting to see how that progresses with you know what Jim Montgomery's planning to do but again i don't think it makes sense to call this guy up to to sit like he has NHL experience in the past he started the season very strong he's being called up to play i think they want him to play to bring that energy to bring a lot of hockey is mental and just feel right he's feeling good and when you're feeling good mentally you're you're in a good spot about your game so he has all those intangibles right now and he's going to bring that to the table and i think that's the biggest thing i mean looking at the team of course you want to call up your top performers give them the taste of the NHL once again you want to reward the guys but calling this guy up who's leading Springfield and that's not saying Springfield can't produce without him that's a very good young team that's going to make a push and again Steve Ott has an incredible system to work with them they're the young guys making the push and all the players i mean Adam Jurczyk at some point eventually probably has to end up going back when you get Logan Mayhew back maybe he impresses enough where you don't send him back but again there's so much talent down there and calling up Kasky and Mackey to not get him into a game doesn't make the most sense unless again you just want him to come up be around the team see the NHL life once again you have a schedule coming up again where you want to ring off some wins I mean you've had a couple big wins you had a huge statement game versus the Senators you dropped two games in a row versus the Wild and Predators now listen the Minnesota Wild we've seen their percentages power play penalty kill that felt like a game that was going to be tough but you need to get right on the back track maybe Kaskin Mackie gets in on one of the games versus the Jets the Golden Knights the Hurricanes maybe this all falls into a part of him getting a full-time spot in this team Ben we want to know your thoughts on everything to do around the Blues of course with this roster there's a lot of players bouncing in and out due to injuries Jim Montgomery has decisions to make with that top line that of course is trying to get back on the right track that second line is one of the best in the NHL we love to see that but what are you guys thoughts on the lines what would you do with the deployment going into next game do we see Joel Hofer start let us know all your thoughts down in the comments because we love reading through each and every one of them i've been your host Mark with my call co-host Darius take care of Blue Sands and we'll see you in the next one