BLUE NOTES Hello! Welcome to the restart of the Blues 2024-2025 season. The gang has a new coach, Jim Montgomery. Their do-over season began Monday night in New York with a frisky 5-2 win over the Rangers in Montgomery’s first game as the new coach – a debut that was...
NHL coaches come and go so often, teams should keep a UPS truck parked outside the arena, waiting to haul the discarded gaffer to the recycling plant. There’s an old saying: coaches are hired to be fired. In the NHL, coaches are fired so they can be fired again at...
There was never a reason to worry about Craig Berube and the Blues continuing their relationship with a contract extension for the only coach to win a Stanley Cup in franchise history. This was going to happen, 100 percent. The Blues made it official Wednesday by...
BERNIE BITS I’m grouchy this morning so I need to work it out of my system … Accordingly … BERNIE HITS: 1. Mizzou’s incomprehensible second-half collapse at Mississippi State was hideous. There’s no justifiable excuse or rationalization for the Tigers...
With the presumptive addition of Mike Hoffman, the Blues have 15 forwards in the mix for playing time. That number increases to 16 when Vladimir Tarasenko (shoulder) is ready to go. The population issue isn’t a problem. For obvious reasons, this is a positive. So...
Sorry to hear that Alex Steen is retiring at age 35 because of chronic back problems — specifically degenerative herniated discs on his lumbar spine. And no wonder. It’s not that Steen was an undersized guy; at 210 pounds, he wasn’t. But he was physical, and...
