The Blues are on the brink of elimination heading into Game 4 on Sunday afternoon. The task is daunting and overwhelming. The team needs to win four consecutive games. Based on how badly the Blues have been beaten in games one through three, the task at hand seems nearly impossible. The Blues and their fans need to keep things in perspective and remember – one game at a time. Read more.
The St. Louis Blues are one loss away from being swept out of the playoffs by the Los Angeles Kings. The Blues looked their best of the series in Game 3 but a brutal performance from Brian Elliott combined with some foolish penalties derailed the team’s hopes of jumping back into this series. The Blues now face a daunting task of trying to come back from a three games to zero hole – a feat that has only occurred three times in NHL history. Read more.
Sigh of relief. Alex Pietrangelo will play for the St. Louis Blues tonight in Game 3. Pietrangelo’s status was uncertain today until Ken Hitchcock announced to various media members that the defenseman will indeed be in the lineup in a pivotal game for the Blues. Read more.
Tonight is the most important game of the year for the St. Louis Blues and potentially their biggest game in roughly a decade. Trailing 0-2 in their second round series against the Los Angeles Kings the Blues haven’t been able to put all the pieces together to top the tenacious Kings. What must the team do in Game 3 to avoid a huge 0-3 hole? Read more.
The St. Louis Blues might be out of town for their next game but that doesn’t mean you have to stay home to watch Game 3. The Blues are hosting a watch party for Game 3 at the Kiel Club inside Peabody Opera House. Admission is free and you’ll have the chance to win some prizes while watching the Blues battle in Los Angeles. Doors open at 8:00pm, puck drops at 9:00pm. Read more.
Ken Hitchcock has officially ruled goaltender Jaroslav Halak out for the second round of the playoffs, as reported by Jeremy Rutherford. Questions arose about Halak after the Blues got battered in Game 2, but Hitchcock brushed these questions aside stating Halak is out for the series. If, and this if is growing larger by the day, the Blues advance to the third round Halak’s status might change. Read more.
Typically these game recaps run between 500 and 1,000 words. Tonight we need just one word to summarize – Dreadful. We’ve seen the Blues look sluggish out of the gate. We’ve seen them make some mental errors and look like a shy, timid team at times during the regular season. Then there’s whatever that was in tonight’s first period. The Blues were dominated in the first period. Dominated with a capital “D”. Use any cliche you like, it applies to the Blues in the first period. This first period debacle puts the Blues in one big hole as the series shifts to Los Angeles. Read more.
Matt D’Agostini will be in the lineup tonight, taking the place of Chris Stewart as the Blues try to bring the series level against the Los Angeles Kings. The news, as reported by Lou Korac, doesn’t come as much of a surprise given Stewart’s rather uninspiring effort in Game 1. If you recall, coach Ken Hitchcock used a similar tactic in the first round against San Jose, benching Stewart in favor of D’Agostini in an effort to get a spark from that portion of the lineup. Read more.
In what might be the least surprising news you’ve heard this week, Ken Hitchcock has officially been named one of the three finalists for the Jack Adams award. The award is given to the coach that has “contributed the most to his team’s success”. Hitchcock will be up against Ottawa’s Paul MacLean and New York’s John Tortorella. Read more.
