THE BERNIE BITS The Blues are full of surprises this season, often to their own detriment. But this was not the case on Saturday at Enterprise Center, when the home team recovered for a 5-3 win over Colorado after getting zapped for two goals in the game’s first...
BERNIE BITS In a Saturday showdown billed as their most important game of the season, the Blues seized a 2-0 lead at Arizona and retched it away over the final two periods, withdrawing from the competition for an incomprehensible 3-2 loss in another dismal day. After...
The Blues are batty as could be. We never know what to expect from these moody Blues, a team that goes ‘round the bend and back again. Their season is an adventurous loop-de-loop, fraught with difficulty and danger and recovery. Why do they do this? There is no...
Competing with recharged energy, showing a higher level of pride and determination, the Blues began to pick up the pieces of their season with Wednesday’s 3-1 victory over Vegas at Enterprise Center. The Note snapped out of their extensive and deflating funk,...
The Blues experienced more failure and frustration during their weekend visit to Colorado, losing back-to-back games by one goal. It was 3-2 on Friday, 2-1 on Saturday and a 48-hour dive in the division standings. The Blues are tied with San Jose for fifth place and...
The Blues are in trouble, serious trouble. And all that matters right now is finding a way out, finding their way back. A two-game weekend set at Colorado is a brutal place to start. The Avs have the NHL’s best record (14-2-3) since Feb. 26, outscoring victims 81-41....
For all of the elite hockey players who played for a beloved franchise, earning honors that included induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame, no St. Louis Blue was Bluer than Bob Plager. No St. Louis Blue was more St. Louis than Bobby Plager. No St. Louis Blue who wore...
FIVE MINUTES FOR SCRIBING There’s a quality gap in the NHL Western Division, and the Blues are on the wrong side of it. Put the Blues against lesser teams, and they do just fine. But against the good teams? It’s ugly and embarrassing. As we saw this again Monday...
As they head into Wednesday’s game at Los Angeles, the Blues are 28 games into a 56-game schedule. Which leads to the standard, halfway-mark question: how does this team improve during the unofficial second half? Most of the answers are obvious and redundant. Get...
