Bleedin' Blue
Fansided

Finding St. Louis Blues Fan’s Most-Hated Players In The Central

By Jason Martin

ST. LOUIS, MO - MAY 3: Pat Maroon #7 of the St. Louis Blues scuffles with Miro Heiskanen #4 of the Dallas Stars in Game Five of the Western Conference Second Round during the 2019 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Enterprise Center on May 3, 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MAY 3: Pat Maroon #7 of the St. Louis Blues scuffles with Miro Heiskanen #4 of the Dallas Stars in Game Five of the Western Conference Second Round during the 2019 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Enterprise Center on May 3, 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images) /
facebooktwitterreddit
Prev
3 of 7
Next
NASHVILLE, TN – NOVEMBER 10: Ryan Ellis #4 of the Nashville Predators battles for the puck against Jaden Schwartz #17 of the St. Louis Blues during an NHL game at Bridgestone Arena on November 10, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by John Russell/NHLI via Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN – NOVEMBER 10: Ryan Ellis #4 of the Nashville Predators battles for the puck against Jaden Schwartz #17 of the St. Louis Blues during an NHL game at Bridgestone Arena on November 10, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by John Russell/NHLI via Getty Images) /

Ryan Ellis

If I wrote this article last season, P.K. Subban would have run away with the nod as the Predators representative. So I thought it would only be fair to insert another defenseman as his replacement.

Teammate Roman Josi was also a candidate to headline the Predators slide, so think of Ellis and Josi as a 1A and 1B scenario.

Ellis is signed through the 2025-26 season at a rate of $6.25 million a year. I’m not sure of any player that is signed for that long, but it does mean that Blues fans will see a lot of him for many years to come.

Ellis is not as big as Byfuglien, but he plays a similar style of play. I will preface my next sentence by saying that any player who plays in the NHL has earned my respect and I am that person sure deserves to be there.

However, Ellis does not produce offensively nearly as much as the Jets star does, or even Subban for that matter.

So Blues fan’s hatred toward Ellis would be purely out of spite. The Blues and Predators rivalry is a new one. Like the Jets, the Predators have had a long history of underachieving.

As a result of this lack of performance, the Blues have not been matched up with the Predators in recent memory aside from their meeting three years ago.

The Blues will see plenty of Ellis for what seems like the rest of the 28-year-old’s career and the fisty 5’10 defensemen will get under the skin of a lot of the fans at Enterprise Center.

Home/Editorials