During the final four days of the NHL’s annual trading-post craze, league franchises moved 59 players and a massive stack of draft choices to in completing 37 transactions. The Blues did not participate in the swap meet. Their available merchandise was defective,...
In reading some of the prognostications from NHL scriveners scattered around North America, I hadn’t realized that the Blues had either gone out of business, or relocated to Saskatoon. OK, so maybe it wasn’t that bad. But most hockey authors have dismissed the Blues...
When team captain Alex Pietrangelo left the Blues for a stratospheric free-agent deal with the Vegas Golden Knights, I didn’t participate in the blame game. My feelings could be summed up in four parts. 1. Petro was a fantastic all-purpose, indefatigable defenseman...
BERNIE BITS The Missouri Tigers have a three-game winning streak going, and they’re doing it the Stormin’ Norman way. That’s right. I’m referencing Mizzou coaching legend Norm Stewart. His teams were tough. They’d fight you for 40 minutes … or for as long as it took...
The End of an Era doesn’t have to be graceful and classy. But you hope that it can be steady. Sometimes it’s just time to move on, with a natural if disappointing transition from good to bad, with familiar-favorite players being eased out or traded to clear room for a...
The Blues are on break until returning to game action on Feb. 11. They’re having a good rest, which kind of describes the intensity of their effort in recent weeks. The Note is 23-25-3 for a points percentage (.480) that ranks 25th among the 32 NHL teams. They swerved...
In a number of ways, the unpredictable, yo-yo Blues are doing the exact opposite of what we expect them to do. They’re winning games at a rate that puts them only two points out of the second wild–card spot in the Western Conference. As of Monday morning...
Have the Blues found their game? Has it been retrieved from mediocrity? Well, they’ve made progress, having gone 4-1-1 since Dec. 12. But I still don’t trust them. And why should we? We’ve seen this act before. Winning streaks. Losing streaks. Up. Down. Hot and cold....
BLUE NOTES! LATE-NIGHT BLUES: We’ve figured out something that the Blues are really, really good at. The answer? They’re a terror in overtime this season. Their late-night mastery continued Thursday in Edmonton, when the Blues defeated the Oilers 4-3 in a shootout....
