The Jesse Blake sports report with Jesse Blake. Welcome to the Jesse Blake sports report. Whether this is your first time here or your last time here or somewhere in between, I appreciate that you're here today so that we can discuss the St. Louis Blues and Jordan Kyru. So bear with me. I want to tell the whole story before we get to the main piece of the story, which is Jordan Kyru postgame getting very emotional talking to the media. But before we get to all of that, I want to tell the whole story. So sit down, enjoy, get comfy. Let's start from the beginning. On Tuesday, the St. Louis Blues and Doug Armstrong, specifically their general manager, fired their head coach, Craig Borubay. Now, the St. Louis Blues are not very good this year. They're actually in a decent spot in the standings. If you look at it, I'm going to pull it up right here. It's not too tough of position they are in terms of chasing a playoff spot. As I'm reading this right now with their win tonight over the Ottawa senators, the St. Louis Blues sit in the second wildcard spot. So they are in currently a playoff spot.

But on Tuesday, when they fired their head coach, Craig Borubay, they were on a four-game losing streak. And the general manager, Doug Armstrong said, I haven't seen enough. I don't like the compete level out of this team. If you take a look at the stats of the St. Louis Blues and I say they're not very good right now because of these things. They currently sit 23rd in goals four. They sit 23rd in goals against. They sit last in the league in Powerplay percentage. They sit last... No, they don't say last. They sit 20th. I was incorrect. There's a 20th in the League and the penalty kill. I think they have more shorthanded goals given up than they do have power play goals going into the game tonight. I don't know if that I've updated that stat, but they have not been good statistically and they've not been good with their compete level. I don't think St. Louis Blues fans are happy with what they've seen. Nobody in the organization is happy with the compete level. Their head coach got fired. Four game lose streak, that was it in Detroit. Ex St. Louis Blues, Jake Wallman scored during that game.

They didn't need David Perron out there, but Ryan Fabry also scored and Willy Hussow also ex-Blue got that win. So it was weird serendipity that night. All these ex-Blus caused their former head coach to get fired. That's what happens Tuesday. A lot of Blues fans coming out of that said that Craig Borubay, the guy, the head coach that led this franchise to their first ever Stanley Cup in 2019, did not deserve to be fired. That is how a lot of Blues players looked at this and they thought, they think currently, because I don't think their opinions have changed, that it's a lot of roster construction. That's the reason why these Blues currently are not very good, even though they sit second in the wildcard in the stands right now. A lot of people are blaming the general manager in Doug Armstrong. So we have that. That comes out of Tuesday night. We get to Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning, the media, they're talking to all the players. They're talking specifically to Jordan Kairu. And the gentleman who got this quote out of Kairu is Jeremy Rutherford of the athletic. Jeremy Rutherford of the athletic asked Jordan Kairu about his new coach, Drew Banister, the Saylor's Blue's HL Coach who was promoted to head coach.

Kyro on Banister taking over. This is from Jeremy Rutherford. Hey, it feels like a little bit of a fresh start thing. Yeah, we're all excited here. We want to turn the ship around right now and get our culture back a little bit and get back to how we know how to play hockey. So first things first there, Kairu being like, over the moon that Banister is now in the head coaching spot and saying, It feels a little bit of a fresh start thing. I think he's very happy to see Borubay gone. And this next quote is what spearheaded this whole controversy that happened on Wednesday. Jeremy Rutherford continued. He asked Kairu on his relationship with Craig Borubay. Kairu said, I've got no comment. He's not my coach anymore. So there it is, that comment, I've got no comment. He's not my coach anymore, leads to St. Louis Blues fans booing the hell out of Jordan Kyru tonight in St. Louis. This is audio from the opening introductions they had in St. Louis when Kyru came out.

And we're going to talk about the one of the biggest fans of the League of the League of the time, Jordan Kyru. That's brutal.

It's crazy that they did that tonight. I guess you think about, okay, the fans going into that position, all they got is that quote, They believe that Broobay didn't deserve to be fired. They're upset. They go and they brew their best player, their highest paid player in Jordan Kyro. So that happens during the game. He's also booed while he's touching the buck. While he has the buck, they're booing their own player as this team is winning. It doesn't just end with those introductions. I can't play some of the booze that happened during the game because that's copyrighted footage, but it happened during the game as well. Now we get to the main event of the evening, the last match of Russell Mania, the Championship belt moment of today. Jordan Kairu post-game, getting so emotional about the booing and just feeling it to the depths of his core. Listen to this.

What, if anything, would you want to say to the fans? I'm just sorry if it sounded in a bad way at all. Just like what I said, I'm just really trying to focus on the future here and focus on what I can do to help our team win and help get wins for the boys. How were you able to focus then tonight?

And.

You feel like you had it? It's definitely the toughest game I've probably played, to be honest. Any of your teammates or anybody from the organization talk to you about it? I mean, obviously, my teammates have my back, right? You're getting pretty emotional here. Where are the emotions coming from? I mean, it's just tough, right? I love playing here, so it's just tough to hear the fans booing me there. That's all right. They'll obviously come around. They know you want to be here to play hard and produce for them. Do you feel like it's just a bump in the road that it can be overcome and they'll love you again? Yeah, definitely. Like I said, I just want to focus on my future and focus on trying to be a more complete player and what I can do to help the team win. That's just my goal right now. Teammates have anything to say to you too? Just to back you up and give you some positive reinforcement against? Yeah. I thought we had a great game as a team today. We played well. We're playing fast, aggressive, and we all have each other's backs today.

I think we showed him that moment after the British, Nevish goal. I thought the British, Nevish quarter-batch. Robb looked like he.

Was pretty happy for you. What's that moment mean?

I mean, it's just a big game for us. It was a big goal for us there. I'm just glad I could help contribute there.

You can hear there, if you were just listening to that and not watching the video, he tears up. He tears up in that middle portion there towards the beginning of where that clip started. And it's got to be even. If anything, it's got to be an imperfect balance right now between Blues fans and Jordan and Kyro. I can't really tell you how to feel. I'm not in the business of telling fans how to feel. Fans are fanatics. That is what the word is. They are as emotional as the players. Sometimes they're usually more emotional than the players when it comes to being a fan of the team and the crest on the front of the jersey because players move teams and fans stick around through thick and thin. So when Jordan and Kyru comes out and has that emotional response to getting booed by his home crowd, it's got to be even between Blues fans and Kyro here. That dude cares. His comments were taken the wrong way, clearly. What he was trying to say about Borubay and the no comment and him being happy with Borubay being gone because that's what it was. Pregame, Jeremy Rutherford's clearly from those quotes, you can see that he was happy that he no longer had to have as his coach.

And whether you liked Borubay or not, whether you thought that it was his fault, the team was off to a slow start, Kyro's comments were not a shot at the organization or the fans or anything. They were simply about his one-to-one relationship with Borubay, and he doesn't deserve to be booed in that regard. The comments are misconstrued to the point people think he doesn't care about being a Blue. But you can by the postgame comments that this guy wears his heart on his sleeve. He cares about the St. Louis Blues. I hope St. Louis Blues fans see that. I hope the entire hockey world right now, if you're online and you see some of the reactions to the video, they're feeling for Kyru because of you don't see this out of NHL players and you don't see somebody get this emotional that publicly. I feel for him in the moment because he clearly did not think his comments were going to be taken in that way else he wouldn't have done it. If Jordan Kyru thought he was going to get booed tonight, he wouldn't have said what he said. It's not like he's standing by his comments.

He's trying to walk it back as much as possible because the way it was taken by the fans isn't what was intended. I think in this moment to see how honest he was, to see how emotional he was, how incredibly sad he was, the way the fans took the comments, there needs to be some leeway for him and there needs to be some forgiveness in that we all, if we were all like, Oh, Jordan Kyro taking shots of Borubay, we all need to take a step back and realize that that was the incorrect reaction. And that Jordan Kyru really cares about being a St. Louis Blue. But at the end of the day, I think that's what the conclusion you come to with that video there. That's the story I wanted to cover today. I don't know. He got me in my fields watching that video. And that's what I wanted to talk about tonight. One other thing I want to touch on quickly before I go here tonight is some NFL stuff. The Los Angeles Chargers got absolutely demolished tonight on Thursday Night Football, 63-21 by the Las Vegas Raiders. And Brandon Staley shouldn't have had a job by the time the fourth quarter rolled around.

The dude, his whole thing was sticking by him calling the defense. And then the defense that he was so adamant about calling gets 63 hung on their heads. And what an embarrassing tenure he's had as Las Vegas, as Los Angeles Charger head coach. And Justin Herbert's the guy who everybody says is going to be good one day and is never really good one day, but a lot of that falls onto Brandon Staley. It falls onto the receiving core that's put around Justin Herbert. And when he comes back healthy, like Easton Stick in there, he's an abomination. He's not a starting quarterback. But when Justin Herbert comes back into the League healthy next season, I hope he has a different head coach. I hope he has different weapons around him because he deserves more than what he has surrounded by him right now in Los Angeles with these chargers. They are an absolute abomination. Patrick Mahomes went off on Sunday after the Cadarius Tony was called with his foot over the line of Scrimage there, he lined up offside. Seeing Patrick Mahomes be a giant baby was not great for the Patrick Mahomes' reputation because people have been waiting.

That moment made me realize how much people have been waiting to dunk on Patrick Mahom's. It's been boiling. He has a lot of haters, and the haters finally found the thing that they can grab onto, and they came out of the woods, tenfold just running. And it's time. Let's go get them. So it was brutal of him to be that publicly upset about the call, and not upset at his teammate for lining up offside, but about the refs calling the actual rulebook for him to be that publicly upset. I commend him for being a competitor. I like to see my athletes that I cheer for super emotional because I like to see that they care as much as I want them to care. So I've always loved that about Patrick Homes in that he hates losing more than he likes winning. That attitude is the perfect attitude. But this was a bad attitude. It's he took it too far, like going up to Josh Allen and making those comments so the mics will hear it. And it was all too far and too much. I hope he realizes that he's never going to win like that.

I love seeing the emotion, but Patrick Mohomes is too big now and he has too many haters and too many people hate the Kansas City Chiefs and everything about them that he can never win. He's at the position where he can never win. Right now, We know it turned on braided. There's a long time where the New England Patriots are the most hated franchise on planet Earth, and they are the death star. Nobody likes The Patriots. But it turned with braided, and now braided, at the end of his career, he became a baby face. And to use the old wrestling term that we've been throwing out on the Steve Dago podcast a little bit this week. He turned into the guy that everybody rooted for, and people started to really like braided by the end of it. And I think his Tampa years were really good for him. And Patrick Mahomes isn't at that stage. He's at the peak of his greatness where everybody hates him right now. He's not at the MJ greatness where everybody wants to see greatness. So Patrick Moh homes with those kinds of outbursts, he can't win. I'm not a Chiefs fan, but I like seeing them compete in the playoffs every year.

I'm not a Chiefs hater like the majority of football fans are. But I didn't like that outburst from the Holmes. I like when he's at that level, but in a more competitive way and not a I'm just complaining. I'm a giant baby way. That's it for me tonight. That is it for the show. I will see you on Sunday. I don't think there's anything else. I don't think I'm trying to think. I feel like I'm forgetting something, so I'm delaying signing off because I feel like I have something to announce and to say. But oh, well, that's it. That's it for me tonight. You could have been anywhere in the world if you're supposed to be listening or watching this right now. I appreciate you. Good night from Toronto. And that is how it's done. The Jesse Blake sports report with Jesse Blake. Jesse Blake, the guy that likes to hear his name twice in one sentence. Sure, I know him. No, he doesn't have an ego at all.