The Blues were shut out again. One 'play' that has really started by confound me is the preponderance of the home-run pass by the defense to a lone forward at the opposing blue line. Often the pass doesn't connect and it serves as a dump in to change lines and lose possession. The times that it does connect, the lone Blues forward is surrounded by four opponents with no shot of reaching the net or a good shooting position and the result is a loss of possession. I would much rather watch the defense sit behind his net and wait for the line change instead of throwing the puck away.
At the begining of the season, I thought the Blues would finish out of the playoffs by 2-4 points. The Blues will have to finish strong to get to that point. They are now 14th in the Western Conference. I view this season as a step back from last year. The team finished strong last year and started this year strong. Then they went into a nose dive. This leads me to believe that the improvement we saw wasn't real or that the Blues are now bad for different reasons. Neither option is appealling. The Blues are now looking at a top five draft pick. I am not excited by this. Eventually, you have to have a good product on the ice. The Blues, by the trade deadline next year, should have been in a position to trade picks/prospects away for developed players. I don't see that happening now and fear that the Blues might fall into a perpetual cycle of rebuilding.
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