Per Lou Korac of thehockeynews.com forward Alexandre Texier made the Blues regular season roster after final cuts were made, due at 4 PM CST on Monday. I admit up front I entirely do not get it -- I just really do not get it. For those of you who are smarter than me, or just think you're smarter than me, please explain it to me.

First of all, Texier did absolutely nothing with the Blues last season. So much so, it seemed like the coaching staff and the organization really had no use for him and no interest in what he could do. Texier last season played in 31 games for the Blues, scoring all of 11 points (6 G, 5 A) and was a -3 on a team that finished the regular season with a +21 in goal differential.

In those 11 games, he averaged only 12:29 minutes TOI, which is about 2 full minutes per game less than his entire career average up to this point. The Blues obviously didn't believe in him last year, so why is he now being given another opportunity over other promising young players who could bring a lot more to the table?

Again, somebody explain this to me.

Texier bounced around between several different lines last year, not sticking on any one of them for very long. According to moneypuck.com, none of the forward lines he was on logged many minutes.

The most minutes any Blues forward line featuring Texier ever logged was the Buchnevich-Thomas-Texier line for all of 32.2 minutes, and that line had 1.3 expected goals for and 1.2 expected goals against last year -- undoubtedly driven primarily by Thomas ... and to a lesser extent Casper himself Pavel Buchnevich.

I just don't see what value Texier brings to this team, in what will undoubtedly be no more than a third, and maybe fourth line, role. Will he even last the season? Will he will even last a couple of months? Almost certainly not, with much more talented and promising young players waiting their chance in the AHL behind him. But is Carbonneau, Dvorsky, et all really that much worse than Texier right now?

I sincerely doubt it. But, you do you, St. Louis Blues management.