BERNIE BITS Good morning/afternoon. Three Things About The Blues’ Three-Game Winning Streak: 1. Ryan O’Reilly finally has a line: In the wins over San Jose, Vegas and Colorado, O’Reilly played exclusively at 5-on-5 with wingers Brandon Saad and Josh Leivo. The Blues...
BERNIE BITS 1. Let’s begin with the Blues, who pulled themselves out of the sewage-disposal tank to begin a cleanup process that produced consecutive wins over San Jose and Las Vegas over a 48-hour period. After losing eight straight in extreme, non-competitive...
BERNIE BITS 1. Checking in on the Cardinals: Is Matt Holliday set to make a high-profile return to the franchise? This isn’t a take-it-to-the-bank prediction, but I’m offering my best (and educated) guess. If Holliday is up for it — and I think he is — he’s the clear...
Monday night at Enterprise Center, the Blues paid tribute to the late horror filmmaker George Romero and his iconic “Night Of The Living Dead” cult movie. The Blues, starring in their own version of a zombie apocalypse, had their own fans fleeing into the streets to...
The Blues will lug a four-game losing streak onto the ice at Enterprise Center on Monday night, hoping to halt the recent depreciation that’s consumed the benefit of their fast start to the season. After a 3-0 new beginning that left many locals panting with...
BLUE NOTES — The NHL has finally consented and allowed the Blues to play regular-season hockey games. Two, to be exact … the fewest by a Western Conference team. Eight teams in the West already have played either four or five games. Given their laughable amount of...
BERNIE BITS Our condolences to the family, friends, former teammates, coaches, managers and everybody who knew and loved Bruce Sutter — the Hall of Fame reliever, split-finger fastball pioneer and World Series-clinching Cardinal who died Friday at the age of...
If you check out some of the season forecasts, it appears that the Blues lost the offseason and are in trouble because of it. They didn’t make big, splashy, buzzworthy moves that pundits crave. Where were the trades? Where were the mega millions additions through free...
What version of the Blues will we see tonight in Game 6? I wish I knew. But this team has been flaky and frustrating and unpredictable during its second-round series against the Colorado Avalanche. The Blues lose when we think they’ll win. They win when we think...
