5 Blues That Need to Step Up During Injury Wave
Though each team in the NHL deals with injuries, the Blues have been unluckier than most. Despite being the last team in the United States to place a player on …
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3 Takeaways From Blues Long Series With the Coyotes
Thanks to the oddities of a COVID-19 afflicted season, the St. Louis Blues and Arizona Coyotes just completed something unique in NHL history: a seven-game regular-season series. Between Feb. 2 …
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Best & Worst Blues’ Draft Picks Since 2010
Successful drafting makes or breaks an NHL franchise. Since Doug Armstrong took over as the St. Louis Blues general manager in 2010, they have built very successfully from within. Several …
Blues’ Faulk Off to Career Start
Many St. Louis Blues fans entered the 2020-21 season hoping for more from defenseman Justin Faulk. The lifelong Carolina Hurricane arrived in a trade shortly before the 2019-20 season, but …
Ranking the NHL’s 31 Starting Goalies – 2020-21 Season
The poet John Donne famously wrote, “no man is an island unto itself.” But he wrote that in 1623, long before the game of hockey was invented. Had he survived …
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Five NHL Records That Will Be Broken
The NHL is notorious for having many of the most unbreakable records in sports. This is due somewhat to the evolving rules, speed, and athleticism of the game, and in …
Shattenkirk Trade Was Key to Blues’ Success
The St. Louis Blues’ 2019 Stanley Cup victory seems in hindsight like the culmination of ten years of sustained success. But a closer look at the decade shows that the …
Blues Need Hoffman on Top Power Play Unit
Late in the offseason, the St. Louis Blues signed Mike Hoffman to a Professional Tryout (PTO) and then, after camp, to a one-year, $4 million contract. The goal of the …
Blues’ Winter 2021 Prospect Pyramid
If the life cycle of a franchise looks like a bell curve, the St. Louis Blues are at or near the top of theirs. They won the Stanley Cup at …
2021 WJC Final Preview
All good things must come to an end, and so too must the 2021 World Junior Championship reach its conclusion. It will do so Tuesday, with a gold medal game …
2021 WJC Semifinal Preview
We’ve reached the semifinal of the 2021 World Junior Championship, and the four teams remaining were four of the five favorites entering this year’s tournament. Finland arguably upset Sweden, who …
2020 WJC Quarterfinal Preview
We’ve reached the quarterfinal stage of the World Junior Championship and, consequently, the most loaded day of matchups. There will be four showdowns in Edmonton on Saturday, with teams vying …
