Not to be Jimmy Downer, but my experience in football was that the team that won the Offseason Lombardi Trophy almost invariably didn't perform well once the season started. Egos, and chemistry issues often got in the way. Don't know if that will be the case in hockey. It will be interesting to see how the chemistry develops with all the new Blues, although David Perron knows many of the Blues obviously from his prior tenure. And Maroon has skated (in the offseason) and played golf with several of the Blues while spending his summers in St. Louis. And in bringing up the goaltending, I think you've hit on the biggest question mark of the season. Can Jake Allen avoid a midseason slump? And what kind of help will newly-acquired Chad Johnson provide? I'll say this about Johnson, and I mentioned it in a story after he signed with the Blues: his career numbers were better than Carter Hutton and not that far off from Allen entering last season. So he might surprise.